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the total length of the Great Wall
According
to records put down in Chinese literature, as many as 20 principalities
and dynasties took part in reconstructing the Great Wall. If we add
the length of the wall built in each dynasty, the total comes to over
50,000 km. We find ruined sites of Great Wall in China's northwest,
northeast, various provinces of North China as well as the vast stretch
of land lying between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. In inner
Mongolia the Great Wall attains a length of 15,000 km (30,000 li) in
all.
The project
of the long wall of 10,000 li certainly entails tremendous amount of
construction work. According to a rough estimate of the bricks, stones,
cubic meters of earth used to make the wall during the Ming Dynasty,
it is said that with the material we can build a wall --one meter thick
and five meters high, to encircle the earth once and we still haven't
exhausted it yet. If the same amount of material is used to pave a highway
five meters wide and 35 cm thick, it can encircle the earth three or
four times. If we add the total length of the Great Wall built in successive
Chinese dynasties, it can encircle the earth 30 - 40 times!
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Photo of Badaling Great Wall
Photo of HuangHuaCheng Great Wall
Photo of Jinshanling Great Wall
Photo of Juyongguan Great Wall
Photo of Mutianyu Great Wall
Photo of Simatai Great Wall
Beijing Tour Routes Includes Great Wall
Beijing One Day Tour:
BD-4. Badaling Wall+Ming Tomb
BD-5. Badaling Wall+Summer Palace
BD-6. Badaling Great Wall,Tiananmen Square,Forbidden City
BD-7. Mutianyu wall+Ming Tomb
BD-8. Mutianyu Great wall, Summer Palace
BD-9. Mutianyu Great wall, Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City
BD-10. Simatai Great Wall
BD-11. Beijing Day Tour from Xingang Port
BD-14. Half Day Tour to Badaling Great Wall
Xingang Beijing Tour
BX-1. Xingang Beijing 2 days (no hotel)
BX-2. Xingang Beijing 2 days tour
BX-3. Xingang Beijing 4 days tour
BD-11. Xingang Beijing 1 day tour
Seat in Coach Beijing Tour
BST-1. Great Wall tour bus tour
Beijing Xian Tour
BJXA-3. Beijing Xian 4 days tour
BJXA-4. Beijing Xian 7 days tour
BJXA-5. Beijing Xian 9 days tour
Beijing Chengde Tour
BJCD-2. Beijing Chengde 6 days tour
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