Tian Tan Big Buddha

One of the major tourist places in Hong Kong is the Big Buddha. The Big Buddha or more officially called the Tian Tan Buddha 天坛大佛 was at one time largest outdoor seated Buddha in the world. That is quite a mouthful. I seems like countries are in a rush to be the best, number one in everything, sometimes it becomes silly how they add qualifiers to just to make their descriptions end with “est” like “biggest”, “tallest” and the like.
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