Replicas of the Statue of Liberty around the world – in pictures
This month sees the 130th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, which was dedicated on 28 October 1886. Designed by Frédéric Bartholdi, it has become a universal symbol of freedom and democracy, and spawned hundreds of copies around the world – with varying degrees of accuracy
Main image: Statue of Liberty Photograph: Michele Falzone/Getty ImagesFri 28 Oct 2016 12.00 BST Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 14.36 GMT
A 1972 version by Salvador Dali holds two torches aloft, at the Vascoeuil Castle in France Photograph: Alamy
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterLas Vegas has a version in front of a Manhattan skyline at the New York-New York hotel Photograph: Alamy
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA replica stands at the roadside at the Bahria Town private development in Rawalpindi, Pakistan Photograph: Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA copy can also be found in the car park behind the Brooklyn Museum Photograph: Simon Leigh
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterThe statue at Legoland Billund in Denmark is constructed entirely from Lego bricks Photograph: Alamy
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterThis version stands in Visnes, Norway, where it is claimed that the copper for the statue in New York harbor was mined Photograph: Sjoehest/Wikipedia
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA less than perfect version can be found in the small village of Arraba in Israel Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterIn Taipei, Taiwan, a replica sits outside a shopping mall Photograph: Alamy
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA mixed media replica rests on an old bridge piling in the middle of the Susquehanna river in Dauphin, Pennsylvania. This replaces a version that appeared in 1986 but was destroyed by bad weather in the 1990s Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterThis version on the island of Odaiba in Japan is backlit with a view of Tokyo Photograph: Alamy
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOn a highway in north-west Kansas sits this lonely replica Photograph: Alamy
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA statue in a theme park in Lower Saxony, Germany, is flanked by a model steamboat Photograph: Alamy
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAnother statue can be found in Paris, France, seen here in the flooded Seine river Photograph: Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images
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