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    The Great Wall of China spans over 13,000 miles across northern China and has been constructed over hundreds of years, beginning around the 7th century BC. It is the longest human-made structure in existence. At its peak, over 1 million laborers worked on the wall, which averages 20-30 feet in height and thickness. Though a third of the original structure is now gone, it remains one of the most visited sites in China, attracting over 50 million visitors annually.

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    The Great Wall of China spans over 13,000 miles across northern China and has been constructed over hundreds of years, beginning around the 7th century BC. It is the longest human-made structure in existence. At its peak, over 1 million laborers worked on the wall, which averages 20-30 feet in height and thickness. Though a third of the original structure is now gone, it remains one of the most visited sites in China, attracting over 50 million visitors annually.

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    The Great Wall of China spans over 13,000 miles across northern China and has been constructed over hundreds of years, beginning around the 7th century BC. It is the longest human-made structure in existence. At its peak, over 1 million laborers worked on the wall, which averages 20-30 feet in height and thickness. Though a third of the original structure is now gone, it remains one of the most visited sites in China, attracting over 50 million visitors annually.

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    The Great Wall of China

    BY AADHI 8B
    What is The Great Wall of China
     The Great Wall of China is the collective name
    of a series of fortification systems generally
    built across the historical northern borders of
    China to protect and consolidate territories of
    Chinese states and empires against various
    nomadic groups of the steppe and their
    polities. It’s one of the big bridges in the
    world. It takes 3 days for a person to climb
    this bridge
     1. With a total length of 21,196.18 km (13,170.70 miles), equal to half the length of the Equator, the Great Wall of
    China is the longest feat of human engineering.

     2. In the main today’s wall comprises relics from the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), measuring 8,851.8 km (5,500
    miles).

     3. The average height of the walls is 6 to 7 meters (20 to 23 feet), and the highest is 14 meters (46 feet ).

     4. The altitudes of the walls vary – the highest point is the Huanglouyuan in the northwest suburb of Beijing, with an
    elevation of 1,439.3 meters (4,722 feet), while the lowest point is at Laolongtou in Hebei, just above the sea level.

     5. The average width is 6.5 meters (21.3 feet).

     6. The Great Wall is about 2,700 years old.

     7. More than 1,000, 000 laborers were recruited for the construction of this huge project.

     8. Location: It spans across 15 regions in north China: Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Tianjin,
    Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, and Xinjiang.

     9. 1/3 of the walls have disappeared.

     10. As a must-see in China, it attracts 50 million visitors every year, and had been visited by more than 460 state
    heads and VIPs from around the world.
     The Great Wall of China became a UNESCO
    World Heritage Site in December 1987.
     The wall is the longest man made structure in

    the world, with a total length of about


    13170.7 mi or 21196.18 km.
     Made over the course of hundreds of years,

    the wall was built by over 6 different Chinese


    dynasties, and is over 2,300 years old.

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