An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning 'knight', deriving from equus, meaning 'horse'. A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue. A full-sized equestrian statue is a difficult and expensive object for any culture to produce, and figures have typically been portraits of rulers or, in the Renaissance and more recently, military.

Standing some 40 metres tall, by far the largest equestrian statue today is the equestrian statue of Genghis Khan in Tsonjin Boldog, near Ulan Bator in Mongolia. Ten metres of this are on account of an attractive museum that the statue is built on top of. The statue is so large that I took an elevator up through the hind legs and tail of the horse. A short walk through the chest brought me to a deck on the neck of the horse, from where I enjoyed a panoramic view of the surrounding landscape. With this enormous monument, Mongolia leaves no doubt about the roots of Genghis Khan, claimed also by Inner Mongolia in China. The plan is to surround the statue with an army of 10,000 equestrian warriors.

It was designed by sculptor D. Erdenebileg and architect J. Enkhjargal and erected and opened in 2008 to honor the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Mongol Empire.

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