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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

Fossatum Africae
Sungbo's Eredo, built during 800–1000 AD in Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria

Americas

Great Wall of Tlaxcala, mentioned in the history of Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Walls of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Asia

The Great Wall of China, China – part of UNESCO site 438,.^[2] This is mostly used to refer 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

Communards' Wall in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, France
Democracy Wall, in Beijing (1978–1979)
Lennon Wall in Prague
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often called the Wall, in Washington, D.C.
Pine Grove Cemetery, second-longest contiguous stone wall in the world, in Lynn, Massachusetts
Lennon Wall in Hong Kong

Walls in contemporary art and sports

Die Gelbe Wand, Westfalenstadion in Dortmund
Green Monster, Fenway Park, Boston
Tsoi Wall in Arbat Street, Moscow
The Wall in SoHo, New York City
The Wall In Concert (theatrical) – While based on a figment of a main character's imagination, the concerts in the tour for the Pink Floyd album The Wall featured a real wall of giant cardboard bricks between the band and the audience which was constructed, completed, spoliated and finally destroyed during the course of each show.

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.
^ "Secrets of the Red Snake - The great wall of Iran revealed" (PDF). Current World Archeology. No. 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
^ ^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.

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