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Earth · All Worlds · Understand · 3005 BCE–1926 · 106 of 242 located marks in focus · editorial corpus · no live source connected
linear fortification system
Close ✕Great Wall of China
Not one wall but a system of walls, watchtowers, passes and garrison works built and rebuilt across northern China over many centuries, most of the surviving masonry dating from the Ming…
40.4, 116.0 · route · c. 7th century BCE – 17th century CE (construction); extant
On the world
- A place in: Wonders of the Ancient and Modern World · 12 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections
- elected by New7Wonders Foundation — Declared one of the New7Wonders at Lisbon on 7 July 2007.
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain) · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates