10 Video Game Locations You Didn't Know Actually Exist

9. Da-Chao Statue (Final Fantasy VII)/ Leshan Buddha (Sichaun, China)

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Square-Enix/By Ariel Steiner [CC BY-SA 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], from Wikimedia Commons

Standing some 71 metres tall, the Leshan Giant Buddha, built around the turn of the 9th century, is by far the world's largest Buddha hewn from stone. It's all a bit much, really.

Final Fantasy VII's Wutai - effectively an amalgamation of Japan and China - features its own giant statue based on the big Buddha of Sichaun, that of Da-Chao. Only he's dabbing, for some reason.

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