List of walls

See List of fortifications for a list of notable fortified structures. For city walls in particular, see List of cities with defensive walls.

Pre-modern fortifications

Africa

• Fossatum Africae
• Sungbo's Eredo, built during 800–1000 AD in Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria

Americas

• Great Wall of Tlaxcala, mentioned in the history of Bernal Díaz del Castillo
• Walls of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Asia

• Great Wall of China, China – part of UNESCO site 438. This is mostly used to refer to the Ming Great Wall, built from 1368 to 1644, measures 8,850 km long.
• Great Wall of Qi, the oldest of the Chinese Great Walls.
• Great Wall of Yan (state)
• Great Wall of Zhongshan (state)
• Great Wall of Zhao (state)
• Great Wall of Qin dynasty
• Great Wall of Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), the longest Great Wall in history.
• Great Wall of Northern Wei dynasty
• Great Wall of Northern Qi dynasty
• Great Wall of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (1115–1234), built to defend against northern nomadic tribes, once spanning over 2,500 kilometers long.
• Great Wall of Western Xia
• Great Wall of the Khitan Liao dynasty
• Ranikot Fort, Also called 'The Great Wall of Pakistan', second largest wall of South Asia after Kumbhalgarh fort in India
• Cheolli Jangseong, North Korea and China
• Great Wall of Gorgan in Iran, (World's second longest wall)
• Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi in Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam.
• Kumbhalgarh, in Rajasthan, India
• Smbat Walls
• Sasanian defense lines

Europe

• Walls of Constantinople in Turkey
• Anastasian Wall in Turkey
• Antonine Wall in Scotland, United Kingdom – part of UNESCO site 430
• Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Walls of Ston in Croatia
• Danevirke, Germany
• Roman limes in Upper Germania, Lower Germania and Rhaetia, Germany – part of UNESCO site 430
• Hadrian's Wall in England – part of UNESCO site 430
• Long Wall (Thracian Chersonese)
• Offa's Dyke between Mercia (England) and Powys (Wales)
• Serpent's Wall, the ancient walls in Ukraine
• Wall of Severus, between Roman Britain and [not recorded]
• Silesia Walls, Poland
• Trajan's Wall, in Dobruja, Romania
• Athanaric's Wall, Romania
• Wat's Dyke parallel, for part of the distance, to Offa's Dyke, England:Wales.

Modern defensive walls or border barriers

• Atlantic Wall in Nazi-occupied France
• Berlin Wall in Berlin separating West Berlin from East Germany 1961–1989 (in concrete: 1975–1989)
• Inland Customs Line 2,500 miles (4,000 km) built 1843 onward in British India
• India–Pakistan barrier
• Bangladesh–India border
• Sections of the Israeli West Bank barrier, West Bank
• Sections of the Blue Line between Lebanon and Israel
• Belfast Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
• Korean Wall (alleged by DPRK), Korean Demilitarized Zone
• Ceuta border fence, in Ceuta, Autonomous city of Spain
• Melilla border fence in Melilla, Autonomous city of Spain
• US-Mexico Border, including the Tortilla Wall
• Frontier Closed Area along Hong Kong-China border
• Hungary-Serbia Barrier
• Turkey-Syria Barrier
• Turkey-Iran Barrier
• Slovenian border Barrier
• Pakistan–Afghanistan barrier
• Myanmar-Bangladesh Border Fence
• India–Myanmar Barrier
• Poland–Belarus barrier
• Moroccan Western Sahara Wall

Memorial walls

• Communards' Wall in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, France
• Democracy Wall, in Beijing (1978–1979)
• Lennon Wall in Prague
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often called the Wall, in Washington, D.C.
• Pine Grove Cemetery, second-longest contiguous stone wall in the world, in Lynn, Massachusetts
• Lennon Wall in Hong Kong

Walls in contemporary art and sports

• Die Gelbe Wand, Westfalenstadion in Dortmund
• Green Monster, Fenway Park, Boston
• Tsoi Wall in Arbat Street, Moscow
• The Wall in SoHo, New York City
• The Wall In Concert (theatrical) – While based on a figment of a main character's imagination, the concerts in the tour for the Pink Floyd album The Wall featured a real wall of giant cardboard bricks between the band and the audience which was constructed, completed, spoliated and finally destroyed during the course of each show.

See also

• Gum Wall
• Separation barrier
• List of cities with defensive walls
• List of town walls in England and Wales
• List of fortifications
• Great Wall (astronomy)
• List of Egyptian castles, forts, fortifications and city walls

References