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Daming Pagoda

People's Republic of China

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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The Great Pagoda of Liao Zhongdu, commonly known as Daming Pagoda, is the largest of the three surviving pagodas from the Liao dynasty's Middle Capital (Zhongdu), located in present-day Ningcheng County, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. Standing at 80.22 meters (263.2 ft), it ranks as the second-tallest surviving ancient pagoda in China, surpassed only by the Northern Song-era Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda in Dingzhou, Hebei, which stands approximately four meters taller. Additionally, it holds the distinction of being the largest ancient pagoda in China by volume.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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