Great Wall of China, China

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"The Great Wall of China ( Traditional Chinese : ?? ; Simplified Chinese : ?? ; pinyin : Chángchéng ; literally "long wall") or ( Traditional Chinese : ???? ; Simplified Chinese : ???? ; pinyin : Wànl? Chángchéng ; literally "The long wall of 10,000 Li (?) ¹ ") is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China ,built, rebuilt, and maintained between 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire during the rule of successive dynasties."
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"The Great Wall of China (?? Chángchéng )stretches from Liaoning Province through Hebei Province, Tianjin Municipality, Beijing Municipality, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province, and Ningxia Autonomous Region to Gansu Province within the country of China."
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"My map-reading has been good: I am on a section of the "wild wall," where nothing modern deforms the vista, not a power line or a road; there is only this ancient road of sorts, the Great Wall of China."
nationalgeographic.com

"The Great Wall of China hoax was a faked story, published in U.S. newspapers on June 25 , 1899 ,about bids by American businesses to demolish the Great Wall of China and construct a road in its place."
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"Tower on the west end of the Great Wall of China at Jia Yu Guan Pass (Photographer: Keren Su / China Span)."
lonelyplanet.com

"I stopped in Ninglu, the last village in Shanxi before the Inner Mongolian border."
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"The northwest province of Gansu spans the Qinghai-Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Loess plateaus in the upper reaches of the Yellow River."
wikitravel.org

"The Great Wall of China (?? Chángchéng )stretches from Liaoning Province through Hebei Province, Tianjin Municipality, Beijing Municipality, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province, and Ningxia Autonomous Region to Gansu Province within the country of China."
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"The Great Wall is the world's longest human-made structure ,stretching over approximately 6,400 km (4,000 miles) [3] from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia ,but stretches to over 6,700 km (4,160 miles) in total."
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"It passes through Hebei, Tientsin, Beijing, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi and Gansu."
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