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The Great Wall of China at Jinshanling
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

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Part of the southern section of the Chester city walls showing the base of a former drum tower and the River Dee
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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.

Africa

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

Americas

Asia

  • China The Great Wall of China, China – part of UNESCO site 438,. This is mostly referred to the Ming Great Wall, built from 1368 to 1644, measures 8,850 km long.
  • China Great Wall of Qi, the oldest of the Chinese Great Walls.
  • China Great Wall of Yan (state)
  • China Great Wall of Zhongshan (state)
  • China Great Wall of Zhao (state)
  • China Great Wall of Qin dynasty
  • China Great Wall of Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), the longest Great Wall in history.
  • China Great Wall of Northern Wei dynasty
  • China Great Wall of Northern Qi dynasty
  • China Great Wall of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (1115–1234), built to defend against northern nomadic tribes, once spanning over 2,500 kilometers long.
  • ChinaMongolia Great Wall of Western Xia
  • ChinaMongolia Great Wall of the Khitan Liao dynasty
  • Pakistan Ranikot Fort, Also called 'The Great Wall of Pakistan', second largest wall of South Asia after Kumbhalgarh fort in India
  • North KoreaChina Cheolli Jangseong, North Korea and China
  • Iran Great Wall of Gorgan in Iran, (World's second longest wall)
  • Vietnam Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi in Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam.
  • India Kumbhalgarh, in Rajasthan, India

Europe

Modern defensive walls or border barriers

Berlinermauer
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).

Memorial walls

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

  • Gum Wall
  • Separation barrier
  • List of cities with defensive walls
  • List of town walls in England and Wales
  • List of fortifications
  • Great Wall (astronomy)
  • List of Egyptian castles, forts, fortifications and city walls
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