Between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples were constructed in the Bagan plains alone. Bagan, Pagan, Myanmar. A UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Over 10,000 monuments built on this plain in two centuries. More than 2,000 survive. The panorama from Minyeingon is the best single image of what that number actually means — it stops being a statistic and becomes a landscape. © Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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