Famous Border Walls Around The World 

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11 October 2024

From the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall, here are some of the most famous border walls across the globe

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Arguably the most famous border wall, the Great Wall of China is one of the world's largest building-construction projects

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Up to one million workers reportedly died during its construction—giving the wall the nickname “longest cemetery on Earth,” per Encyclopedia Britannica

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The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 when the Soviet-aligned East German government built a series of concrete partitions separating East and West Berlin

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It stood for more than 28 years before East German authorities finally opened it on November 9, 1989

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Also known as the “Red Snake” for its distinctive red-coloured bricks, the Great Wall of Gorgon in northern Iran was built in the 5th-6th century during the Sasanian dynasty 

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The wall spans some 124 miles of modern-day Golestan province and includes nearly 40 forts

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Hadrian's Wall was built to protect northwestern Britain from barbarians

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Emperor Hadrian ordered the construction of this wall and it took about six years for 15,000 infantrymen to complete it

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The Peace Walls (or Peace Lines) were first constructed in Belfast in 1969 in order to separate Catholic neighbourhoods from those of Protestants

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In 2013 the Northern Ireland government vowed to remove all of the walls, and the first Peace Wall was torn down in 2016

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