Laykyun Sekkya
The Laykyun Sekkya Buddha is a colossal statue depicting the Buddha which is located at the Monywa town of Sagaing Region. As of 2018, it is the third-tallest statue in the world at 116 metres.Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Description: Colossal statue of the Buddha in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Lay Kyun Sat Kyar Standing Buddha” and “Laykyun Sekkya Buddha”
Laykyun Sekkya
- Categories: daibutsu and tourism
- Location: Monywa Township, Monywa, Sagaing Region, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.08023° or 22° 4′ 49″ northLongitude
95.28937° or 95° 17′ 22″ eastInception
2008Height
423 feet (129 metres)Open location code
7MJQ37JQ+3POpenStreetMap ID
node 1256618684OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata ID
Q1809404
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Laykyun Sekkya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لايكيون سيكيا”
- Asturian: “Laykyun Setkyar”
- Burmese: “လေးကျွန်းစကြာ ကမ္ဘာ့အကြီးဆုံးရပ်တော်မူရုပ်ပွားတော်ကြီး (ဗောဓိတထောင်)”
- Burmese: “လေးကျွန်းစကြာရပ်တော်မူ”
- Burmese: “လေးကျွန်းစင်္ကြာ”
- Chinese: “雷昆塞亚佛像”
- Chinese: “雷昆釋迦佛像”
- Dutch: “Laykyun Setkyar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لايكيون سيكيا”
- Estonian: “Laykyun Sekkya”
- French: “Laykyun Setkyar”
- German: “Laykyun Setkyar”
- Hindi: “लेक्यून सेक्टयार”
- Hindi: “लेक्यून सेटक्यार”
- Indonesian: “Laykyun Sekkya”
- Italian: “Laykyun Setkyar”
- Japanese: “レイチュン・セッチャー大仏”
- Japanese: “レイチュンセッチャー大仏”
- Marathi: “लेक्युन सेक्या बुद्ध”
- Portuguese: “Laykyun Setkyar”
- Rakhine: “လေးကျွန်းစင်္ကြာရပ်တော်မူ ဗုဒ္ဒရုပ်ပွားတော်မြတ်ကြီး”
- Russian: “Laykyun Setkyar”
- Russian: “Лечжун-Сасачжа”
- Sinhala: “ලේක්යුන් සෙක්යා”
- Spanish: “Laykyun Setkyar”
- Turkish: “Laykyun Setkyar”
- Vietnamese: “Laykyun Sekkya”
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