List of walls

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 Roman walls of Lugo are a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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The Walls of Ston are a series of defensive stone walls, originally more than Template:Convert long, that surrounded and protected the city of Ston, in Dalmatia, part of the Republic of Ragusa, in what is now southern Croatia.<ref name=citywallsdubrovnik>Template:Cite web</ref>

Africa

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Template:Flagicon Sungbo's Eredo, built during 800–1000 AD in Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria

Americas

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

Asia

Template:Flagicon Great Wall of China, China – part of UNESCO site 438.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> This is mostly used to refer to the Ming Great Wall, built from 1368 to 1644, measures 8,850 km long.
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>Template:Cite web</ref>
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Western Xia
Template:Flagicon Template: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:Flagicon Template: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

Europe

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">Template:Cite web</ref>
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 barriers

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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:Flagicon Template:Flagicon India–Pakistan barrier
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Bangladesh–India border
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Sections of the Israeli West Bank barrier, West Bank<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Sections of the Blue Line between Lebanon and Israel<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Template:Flagicon Belfast Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Korean Wall (alleged by DPRK), Korean Demilitarized Zone<ref name="reut_Nort">Template:Cite web</ref>
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Ceuta border fence, in Ceuta, Autonomous city of Spain
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Melilla border fence in Melilla, Autonomous city of Spain
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon US-Mexico Border,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> including the Tortilla Wall
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Frontier Closed Area along Hong Kong-China border
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Hungary-Serbia Barrier
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Turkey-Syria Barrier
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Turkey-Iran Barrier
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Slovenian border Barrier
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Pakistan–Afghanistan barrier
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Myanmar-Bangladesh Border Fence
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon India–Myanmar Barrier
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Moroccan Western Sahara Wall, in Western Sahara
Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Poland–Belarus barrier<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Memorial walls

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 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.

References

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