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Great Wall of China, extensive bulwark erected in ancient China, one of the largest building-construction projects ever undertaken. The Great Wall actually consists of numerous walls—many of them parallel to each other—built over some two millennia across northern China and southern Mongolia.
The Great Wall of China (traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng, literally "ten thousand li long wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups from the ...
The Great Wall of China was built over centuries by China’s emperors to protect their territory. Today, it stretches for thousands of miles along China’s historic northern border.
Perhaps the most recognizable symbol of China and its long and vivid history, the Great Wall was originally conceived by Emperor Qin Shi Huang in the third century B.C. as a means of...
Stretching thousands of miles, the Great Wall is the longest man-made structure in the world, but that isn't its only significance. It was important in defending China from northern invasion for centuries, and has become a national symbol, and China's top tourist sight.
Over 2300 years, the Great Wall has been built and rebuilt for many purposes: border defense, signals, troop transfer, and trade. It has now become a national symbol and China’s top tourist sight.
The Great Wall of China is a barrier fortification in northern China running west-to-east 13,171 miles (21,196 km) from the Jiayuguan Pass (in the west) to the Hushan Mountains in Liaoning Province in the east, ending at the Bohai Gulf.
Stretching about 13,170 miles from east to west, the Great Wall of China is one of the greatest wonders of the world. The wall which stretches up and down across plateaus, grasslands, deserts, and mountains was listed in 1987 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Great Wall of China, Chinese Wanli Changcheng, Defensive wall, northern China. One of the largest building-construction projects ever carried out, it runs (with all its branches) about 4,500 mi (7,300 km) east to west from the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli) to a point deep in Central Asia.
Purpose: Protect the newly unified China from the nomadic Xiongnu tribes to the north. Construction Changes: Emperor Qin Shi Huang ordered the connection of the various state walls into a continuous defensive system, creating the first true “Great Wall.”