Discover 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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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