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THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA

RAFI DAFFA
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The Great Wall of China is one of historical buildings in China. It is located in Huairou
District, China. This wall was started to construction in 1474 and it was finished in 1878.
The wall was built by Zhou Dynasty and It is made of stone, soil, sand, and brick. There
are 7,000 watch towers, block houses for soldiers to send smoke signals. The wall was
built to protect the north of the empire of China from enemy attacks. The wall is about
21,196 kilometres long, 9.1 metres wide and 15 metres high. About 25% of this wall
length consists solely of natural barriers such as rivers and mountain ridges.
The Wall used to be handled by 6 eras, there was The Pre-warring states period, The Qin Dynasty, The Han
Dynasty, The Ming Dynasty, The Qing Dynasty, and Modern Times like now. The Great Wall ends in the west
at the The Fire Towerof Great Wall, in Jiayuguan and it ends in the east at Hushan Great Wall, in Dandong
of Liaoning. The Wall coverages 15 Area in China, there is Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Beijing,
Tianjin, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang. The Great
Wall of China considered as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987 and one of the Seven Wonders of the
Medieval World, also it is certainly the No. 1 iconic attraction in China.

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