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This is a list of the most famous statues worldwide, past and present.== Australia ==

Dog on the Tuckerbox, five miles from Gundagai

    List of statues
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        Brazil
            Newfoundland
            Ontario
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            Egypt
            Lebanon
        France
        Greece
        Italy
        Mexico
        Russia
        Sweden
            England
        United States, including territories
            Alabama
            Arkansas
            New York
            Pennsylvania
            Washington, DC
            Oldest
            Tallest
            Highest placement
            Largest stone sculpture by volume
            Largest metal sculpture
            Largest stone sculpture

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Belgium

Manneken Pis in Brussels

Brazil

Newfoundland

Ontario

Saskatchewan

Statue of Queen Elizabeth II riding Burmese

Statue of Sir John A. MacDonald (Regina)

Egypt

Lebanon

France

The Vimy Memorial, honouring Canada's role there in the First World War

The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin in Calais

The Thinker by Auguste Rodin in Paris

The Lion of Belfort by Frédéric Bartholdi in Belfort

Venus de Milo, ancient Greek statue in the Louvre

Winged Victory of Samothrace, ancient Greek statue also in the Louvre

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Greece

Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. (destroyed by fire in 462 during the fall of Constantinople)

Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. (destroyed by earthquake in 224 BC, and the remains sold for scrap in 656)

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Italy

Colossus of Barletta, a statue of a Byzantine emperor

Bacchus (Michelangelo)

David (Michelangelo)

The Deposition (Michelangelo)

Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius

Ecstasy of St Theresa

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Mexico

El Angel de la Independencia, Mexico City

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Russia

Bronze Horseman and other equestrian monuments to Russian tsars

Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in Moscow

Labourer and kolkhoz woman in Moscow

List of statues of Lenin

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Sweden

The Branting Monument in Stockholm.

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England

Nelson's Column.

The Angel of the North.

King George VI memorial.

Duke of York Column

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United States, including territories

Madonna of the Trail

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Alabama

Vulcan statue, Birmingham, Alabama World's tallest cast iron statue

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Arkansas

Christ of the Ozarks statue, Eureka Springs, Arkansas

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New York

Statue of Liberty, New York

For a full list for New York City, see Statues and Sculptures in New York City

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Pennsylvania

Rocky statue, Philadelphia

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Washington, DC

USMC War Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Statue of Abraham Lincoln, inside the Lincoln Memorial

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Oldest

Venus of Willendorf

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Tallest

Ushiku Daibutsu Amida Buddha in Japan - 120 meters, 1995

Zurab Tsereteli's Columbus in Puerto Rico - 100 meters, 1994

Zurab Tsereteli's Peter the Great in downtown Moscow - 96 meters, 1996

Evgeny Vuchetich's Mother Motherland on Mamayev Kurgan - 82 meters, 1967

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Highest placement

Christ the Redeemer

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Largest stone sculpture by volume

Great Sphinx of Giza

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Largest metal sculpture

At 54m, the Angel of the North has the largest single dimension. In term of height only, the Statue of Liberty is the largest.

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Largest stone sculpture

God of Longevity in the Meng Shan mountains near Pingyl, Shandong, China

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