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

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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
 
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]

Africa

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Americas

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Asia

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Europe

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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).

Memorial walls

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Walls in contemporary art and sports

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Stonske zidine". Citywallsdubrovnik.hr (in Croatian). Društvo prijatelja dubrovačke starine. Archived from the original on 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
  2. ^ UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "The Great Wall". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Great Wall of Jin Dynasty (1115–1234): History, Structure, Relics". Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  4. ^ Chaichian, Mohammad A. (2015-03-03). Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination. Haymarket Books. ISBN 978-1-60846-422-7.
  5. ^ "Secrets of the Red Snake - The great wall of Iran revealed" (PDF). Current World Archeology. No. 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  6. ^ a b c UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Frontiers of the Roman Empire". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  7. ^ Chaichian, Mohammad A. (2015-03-03). Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination. Haymarket Books. ISBN 978-1-60846-422-7.
  8. ^ Chaichian, Mohammad A. (2015-03-03). Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination. Haymarket Books. ISBN 978-1-60846-422-7.
  9. ^ Chaichian, Mohammad A. (2015-03-03). Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination. Haymarket Books. ISBN 978-1-60846-422-7.
  10. ^ Ilan Ben Zion (September 6, 2018). "Israeli wall rising near border with Lebanon stokes tensions". AP News. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  11. ^ Jon Herskovitz (December 31, 2007). "North Korea asks South to tear down imaginary wall". Reuters. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
  12. ^ Chaichian, Mohammad A. (2015-03-03). Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination. Haymarket Books. ISBN 978-1-60846-422-7.
  13. ^ "Poland completes 186-kilometre border wall with Belarus". euronews. 2022-06-30. Retrieved 2022-09-03.