Gigantic ring of 2025 World Expo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 28, 2025, shows the 2025 World Exposition's iconic Grand Ring, just completed on an artificial island in the western Japan city of Osaka, which was recognized in March as the world's largest wooden structure by Guinness World Records.

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