List of walls
File:The Great Wall of China at Jinshanling.jpg
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 fortificationsEdit
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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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AfricaEdit
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Fossatum Africae
- Template:Flagicon Sungbo's Eredo, built during 800–1000 AD in Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria
AmericasEdit
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Tlaxcala, mentioned in the history of Bernal Díaz del Castillo
- Template:Flagicon Walls of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
AsiaEdit
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of China, China – part of UNESCO site 438.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Qi, the oldest of the Chinese Great Walls.
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Yan (state)
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Zhongshan (state)
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Zhao (state)
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Qin dynasty
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), the longest Great Wall in history.
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Northern Wei dynasty
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Northern Qi dynasty
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (1115–1234), built to defend against northern nomadic tribes, once spanning over 2,500 kilometers long.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Great Wall of Western Xia
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Great Wall of the Khitan Liao dynasty
- Template:Flagicon Ranikot Fort, Also called 'The Great Wall of Pakistan', second largest wall of South Asia after Kumbhalgarh fort in India
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Cheolli Jangseong, North Korea and China
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Gorgan in Iran, (World's second longest wall)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi in Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam.
- Template:Flagicon Kumbhalgarh, in Rajasthan, India
- Template:Flagicon Smbat Walls
- Sasanian defense lines
EuropeEdit
- Template:Flagicon Walls of Constantinople in Turkey
- Template:Flagicon Anastasian Wall in Turkey
- Template:Flagicon Antonine Wall in Scotland, United Kingdom – part of UNESCO site 430<ref name="UNESCO World Heritage Centre">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Template:Flagicon Aurelian Walls of Rome
- Template:Flagicon Walls of Ston in Croatia
- Template:Flagicon Danevirke, Germany
- Template:Flagicon Roman limes in Upper Germania, Lower Germania and Rhaetia, Germany – part of UNESCO site 430<ref name="UNESCO World Heritage Centre"/>
- Template:Flagicon Hadrian's Wall in England – part of UNESCO site 430<ref name="UNESCO World Heritage Centre"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Long Wall (Thracian Chersonese)
- Template:Flagicon Offa's Dyke between Mercia (England) and Powys (Wales)
- Template:Flagicon Serpent's Wall, the ancient walls in Ukraine
- Template:Flagicon Wall of Severus, between Roman Britain and [not recorded]
- Template:Flagicon Silesia Walls, Poland
- Template:Flagicon Trajan's Wall, in Dobruja, Romania
- Template:Flagicon Athanaric's Wall, Romania
- Template:Flagicon Wat's Dyke parallel, for part of the distance, to Offa's Dyke, England:Wales.
Modern defensive walls or border barriersEdit
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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).
- Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Atlantic Wall in Nazi-occupied France
- Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Berlin Wall in Berlin separating West Berlin from East Germany 1961–1989 (in concrete: 1975–1989)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Inland Customs Line 2,500 miles (4,000 km) built 1843 onward in British India
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon India–Pakistan barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Bangladesh–India border
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Sections of the Israeli West Bank barrier, West Bank<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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- Template:Flagicon Belfast Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Korean Wall (alleged by DPRK), Korean Demilitarized Zone<ref name="reut_Nort">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Ceuta border fence, in Ceuta, Autonomous city of Spain
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Melilla border fence in Melilla, Autonomous city of Spain
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon US-Mexico Border,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> including the Tortilla Wall
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Frontier Closed Area along Hong Kong-China border
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Hungary-Serbia Barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Turkey-Syria Barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Turkey-Iran Barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Slovenian border Barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Pakistan–Afghanistan barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Myanmar-Bangladesh Border Fence
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon India–Myanmar Barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Moroccan Western Sahara Wall, in Western Sahara
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Poland–Belarus barrier<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Memorial wallsEdit
- Template:Flagicon Communards' Wall in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, France
- Template:Flagicon Democracy Wall, in Beijing (1978–1979)
- Template:Flagicon Lennon Wall in Prague
- Template:Flagicon Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often called the Wall, in Washington, D.C.
- Template:Flagicon Pine Grove Cemetery, second-longest contiguous stone wall in the world, in Lynn, Massachusetts
- Template:Flagicon Lennon Wall in Hong Kong
Walls in contemporary art and sportsEdit
- 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 alsoEdit
- 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