List of walls

See List of fortifications for a list of notable fortified structures. For city walls in particular, see List of cities with defensive walls.

The Great Wall of China is the world's longest wall

Pre-modern fortifications

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

The Roman walls of Lugo are a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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.[1]

The Great Wall of China, China - part of UNESCO site 438,[2]. This is mostly referred to the Ming Great Wall, built from 1368 to 1644, measures 8,850 km long.
Great Wall of Qi, the oldest of the Chinese Great Walls.
Great Wall of Yan state
Great Wall of Zhongshan state
Great Wall of Zhao state
Walls of Kumbhalgarh in Rajasthan, India
Great Wall of Qin dynasty
Great Wall of Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), the longest Great Wall in history.
Great Wall of Northern Wei dynasty
Great Wall of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), built to defend against northern nomadic tribes, once spanning over 2,500 kilometers long.[3]
Great Wall of Western Xia
Great Wall of the Khitan Liao dynasty
Walls of Constantinople in Turkey
Anastasian Wall in Turkey
Antonine Wall in Scotland, United Kingdom - part of UNESCO site 430[4]
Aurelian Walls of Rome
Walls of Ston in Croatia
Ranikot Fort, Also called 'The Great Wall of Pakistan', second largest wall of South Asia after Kumbhalgarh fort in India
Cheolli Jangseong, North Korea and China
Danevirke, Germany
Fossatum Africae
Roman limes in Upper Germania, Lower Germania and Rhaetia, Germany - part of UNESCO site 430[4]
Great Wall of Gorgan in Iran, (World's second longest wall[5])
Hadrian's Wall in England - part of UNESCO site 430[4]
Long Wall (Thracian Chersonese)
Offa's Dyke between Mercia (England) and Powys (Wales)
Serpent's Wall, the ancient walls in Ukraine
Wall of Severus, between Roman Britain and [not recorded]
Silesia Walls, Poland
The Wall, built during 800–1000 AD in Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria
Great Wall of Tlaxcala, mentioned in the history of Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Trajan's Wall, in Dobruja, Romania
Athanaric's Wall, Romania
Wat's Dyke parallel, for part of the distance, to Offa's Dyke, England:Wales.
Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi in Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam.

Modern defensive walls or border barriers

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).

Atlantic Wall in Nazi-occupied France
Berlin Wall in Berlin separating West Berlin from East Germany 1961–1989 (in concrete: 1975–1989)
Inland Customs Line 2,500 miles (4,000 km) built 1843 onward in British India
Indian Line of Control fencing
Bangladesh–India border
Sections of the Israeli West Bank barrier, West Bank
Belfast Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Korean Wall (alleged by DPRK), Korean Demilitarized Zone[6]
Ceuta border fence, in Ceuta, Autonomous city of Spain
Melilla border fence in Melilla, Autonomous city of Spain
US-Mexico Border
Frontier Closed Area along Hong Kong-China border
Hungary-Serbia Barrier
Turkey-Syria Barrier
Turkey-Iran Barrier
Slovenian border Barrier
Myanmar-Bangladesh Border Fence
India–Myanmar Barrier
Moroccan Western Sahara Wall, in Western Sahara

Memorial walls

Communards' Wall in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, France
Democracy Wall, in Beijing (1978–1979)
Lennon Wall in Prague
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often called the Wall, in Washington, D.C.
Pine Grove Cemetery, second-longest contiguous stone wall in the world, in Lynn, Massachusetts
Lennon Wall (Hong Kong)

Walls in contemporary music, 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

References

"Stonske zidine". Citywallsdubrovnik.hr (in Croatian). Društvo prijatelja dubrovačke starine. Archived from the original on 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "The Great Wall". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
"Great Wall of Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234): History, Structure, Relics". Retrieved 4 January 2017.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Frontiers of the Roman Empire". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic/esauer/pubs/iranian_walls.pdf
Jon Herskovitz (December 31, 2007). "North Korea asks South to tear down imaginary wall". Reuters. Retrieved 2015-10-09.

External links

Article about CityWalls on Erasmuspc (bad link)

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