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Small Wild Goose Pagoda

People's Republic of China

The 186th tallest tower in the world

m

The Small or Little Wild Goose Pagoda (Xiǎoyàn tǎ) is one of two significant Buddhist pagodas in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, the site of the old Han and Tang capital Chang'an. The other notable pagoda is the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, originally built in 652 and restored in 704. This pagoda, along with the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda and other sites along the Silk Road, was inscribed in 2014 on the UNESCO World Heritage List as the Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor World Heritage Site.

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

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