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The
Great Wall of China is the world's longest wall
See
List of fortifications for a list of notable fortified structures.
For
city walls in particular, see
List of cities with defensive walls .
Pre-modern fortifications
Part of the southern section of the
Chester city walls showing the base of a former drum tower and the
River Dee
The
Roman walls of Lugo are a
UNESCO World Heritage Site
The
Walls of Ston are a series of
defensive stone walls , originally more than 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) long, that surrounded and protected the city of
Ston , in
Dalmatia , part of the
Republic of Ragusa , in what is now southern
Croatia .
[1]
Africa
Americas
Asia
The Great Wall of China , China – part of UNESCO site 438,.
[2] This is mostly referred to the
Ming Great Wall , built from 1368 to 1644, measures 8,850 km long.
Great Wall of Qi , the oldest of the Chinese Great Walls.
Great Wall of
Yan (state)
Great Wall of
Zhongshan (state)
Great Wall of
Zhao (state)
Great Wall of
Qin dynasty
Great Wall of
Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), the longest Great Wall in history.
Great Wall of
Northern Wei dynasty
Great Wall of
Northern Qi dynasty
Great Wall of the Jurchen
Jin Dynasty (1115–1234), built to defend against northern nomadic tribes, once spanning over 2,500 kilometers long.
[3]
Great Wall of
Western Xia
Great Wall of the Khitan
Liao dynasty
Ranikot Fort , Also called 'The Great Wall of Pakistan', second largest wall of South Asia after Kumbhalgarh fort in India
Cheolli Jangseong ,
North Korea and China
Great Wall of Gorgan in
Iran , (World's second longest
[4] wall
[5] )
Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi in
Quảng Ngãi ,
Vietnam .
Kumbhalgarh , in
Rajasthan , India
Europe
Walls of Constantinople in Turkey
Anastasian Wall in Turkey
Antonine Wall in
Scotland , United Kingdom – part of UNESCO site 430
[6]
Aurelian Walls of Rome
Walls of Ston in
Croatia
Danevirke , Germany
Roman limes in Upper Germania, Lower Germania and Rhaetia , Germany – part of UNESCO site 430
[6]
Hadrian's Wall in England – part of UNESCO site 430
[6]
[7]
Long Wall (Thracian Chersonese)
Offa's Dyke between
Mercia (England) and
Powys (Wales)
Serpent's Wall , the ancient walls in
Ukraine
Wall of Severus , between Roman Britain and [not recorded]
Silesia Walls ,
Poland
Trajan's Wall , in
Dobruja ,
Romania
Athanaric's Wall , Romania
Wat's Dyke parallel, for part of the distance, to
Offa's Dyke , England:Wales.
Modern defensive walls or border barriers
View from the West Berlin side of
graffiti art on the
Berlin Wall in 1986. The wall's "death strip", on the east side of the wall, here follows the curve of the
Luisenstadt Canal (filled in 1932).
Atlantic Wall in
Nazi-occupied France
Berlin Wall in
Berlin separating
West Berlin from
East Germany 1961–1989 (in concrete: 1975–1989)
[8]
Inland Customs Line 2,500 miles (4,000 km) built 1843 onward in
British India
India–Pakistan barrier
Bangladesh–India border
Sections of the
Israeli West Bank barrier ,
West Bank
[9]
Sections of the
Blue Line between
Lebanon and
Israel
[10]
Belfast Peace Lines in
Belfast ,
Northern Ireland , UK
Korean Wall (alleged by
DPRK ),
Korean Demilitarized Zone
[11]
Ceuta border fence , in
Ceuta , Autonomous city of Spain
Melilla border fence in
Melilla , Autonomous city of Spain
US-Mexico Border
[12]
Frontier Closed Area along
Hong Kong -China border
Hungary-Serbia Barrier
Turkey-Syria Barrier
Turkey-Iran Barrier
Slovenian border Barrier
Pakistan–Afghanistan barrier
Myanmar-Bangladesh Border Fence
India–Myanmar Barrier
Moroccan Western Sahara Wall , in
Western Sahara
Poland–Belarus barrier
[13]
Memorial walls
Walls in contemporary art and sports
See also
References
^
"Stonske zidine" . Citywallsdubrovnik.hr (in Croatian). Društvo prijatelja dubrovačke starine. Archived from
the original on 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2009-12-06 .
^ UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
"The Great Wall" . Retrieved 6 December 2014 .
^
"Great Wall of Jin Dynasty (1115–1234): History, Structure, Relics" . Retrieved 4 January 2017 .
^ Chaichian, Mohammad A. (2015-03-03).
Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination . Haymarket Books.
ISBN
978-1-60846-422-7 .
^
http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic/esauer/pubs/iranian_walls.pdf [
bare URL PDF ]
^
a
b
c UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
"Frontiers of the Roman Empire" . Retrieved 6 December 2014 .
^ Chaichian, Mohammad A. (2015-03-03).
Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination . Haymarket Books.
ISBN
978-1-60846-422-7 .
^ Chaichian, Mohammad A. (2015-03-03).
Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination . Haymarket Books.
ISBN
978-1-60846-422-7 .
^ Chaichian, Mohammad A. (2015-03-03).
Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination . Haymarket Books.
ISBN
978-1-60846-422-7 .
^ Ilan Ben Zion (September 6, 2018).
"Israeli wall rising near border with Lebanon stokes tensions" . AP News . Retrieved 2022-12-07 .
^ Jon Herskovitz (December 31, 2007).
"North Korea asks South to tear down imaginary wall" . Reuters . Retrieved 2015-10-09 .
^ Chaichian, Mohammad A. (2015-03-03).
Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination . Haymarket Books.
ISBN
978-1-60846-422-7 .
^
"Poland completes 186-kilometre border wall with Belarus" . euronews . 2022-06-30. Retrieved 2022-09-03 .