It spans 6532 Km (over 3000 miles, I think) and runs through many cities. I've been there :)
2006-10-08 11:46:06
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answered by Anonymous
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the great Wall of China (Simplified chinese: ????; classic chinese: ????; Pinyin: Wànl? Chángchéng; actually "10,000 Li¹ lengthy wall") is a chinese fortification equipped from the right of the 14th century till the starting up of the seventeenth century, in the course of the Ming Dynasty, as a fashion to guard the Ming Empire from raids through Mongol, Turkic, and different nomadic tribes coming from parts in present day-day Mongolia and Manchuria. It develop into preceded through a number of walls equipped because the third century BC, the most well-loved being the great Wall equipped between 220 BC and 2 hundred BC through the first Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, which develop into placed a lot extra north than the present large Wall of China equipped in the course of the Ming Dynasty, and little continues to be. The Wall stretches over a good 6,352 km (3,948 miles), from Shanhai bypass on the Bohai Sea in the east, on the reduce between China ideal and Manchuria, to Lop Nur in the southeastern component to Xinjiang Uygur self adequate region
2016-12-04 10:18:17
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answered by ? 4
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It is not like the Berlin Wall. The Great Wall of China spans over 3,000 miles across Northern China at where the northern border was.
2006-10-08 11:41:25
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answered by travis_a_duncan 4
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(Traditional Chinese: 萬里長城, Simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng; literally "10,000 Li (里)¹ long wall") is a Chinese fortification built from the 3rd century BC until the beginning of the 17th century, in order to protect the various dynasties from raids by Hunnic, Mongol, Turkic, and other nomadic tribes coming from areas in modern-day Mongolia and Manchuria. Several walls were built since the 3rd century BC, the most famous being the Great Wall of China built between 220 BC and 200 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang (this was located much further north than the current Great Wall of China built during the Ming Dynasty, and little of it remains).
2006-10-08 11:44:42
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answered by Anonymous
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The Great Wall of China goes right across Northern China and can be seen from space.
2006-10-08 11:45:03
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answered by the_angel_and_the_vampire 3
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When it was buit, it was to protect the borders of the state. It was the frontier. There was no city around. And stretched for over a thousand miles.
2006-10-08 12:03:03
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answered by Kitiany 5
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It was built across they entire north border with Mongolia, not just a city.
2006-10-08 11:41:08
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answered by goose1077 4
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Not a city, but in the State of Confuscious.
2006-10-08 11:44:59
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answered by amuse4you 4
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dallas-shipped over by fed-ex
2006-10-08 11:48:38
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answered by Anonymous
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chin
2006-10-08 11:38:18
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answered by becky l 1
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