GREAT WALL OF CHINA

GREAT WALL OF CHINA     
ASIA -  CHINA - GREAT WALL OF CHINA

• UNESCO World Heritage Site

• The Great Wall is  the longest manmade structure  in the world.
• Size 8,851.8 km (5,500.3 mile)
•  Other dimensions Actual wall: 6,259.6 km (3,889.5 mi)Trenches: 359.7 km (223.5 mi)Natural barriers: 2,232.5 km (1,387.2 mi)
• The wall  built to protect the people and territories south of the wall from a continued threat of invasion by the northern nomadic tribe.
• The wall  passes 156 counties in ten cities or provinces including Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai.
• The first emperor of china qin shi huang was build firstthe wall between 220-206bc. Some part wall of that time remains.
•  Ming Dynasty (1368-1644),  was substantially repaired the wall on more than twenty occasions
• Ming Dynasty was rebuilt, maintained, enhanced of the existing wall.
•  The Ming Dynasty Great Wall is composed of 723 beacon towers, 7,062 lookout towers, 3,357 wall platforms and 1,026 other ruins.
•  most visited sections of the wall Badaling, Mutianyu, Simatai and Jinshanling. 
• Time zone- China Standard Time (UTC+8) 
•  Drives- on the right, except for Hong Kong & Maca Calling code +86 
•  Currency- Renminbi (yuan) (¥) (CNY)
• Official language- Modern Standard Mandarin(or Putonghua)
  
  

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