Talk:Great Wall of China

China wall length is fake😡😡😡

21,196.18 km impossible woooooo I'm korea and you bad guys added korea walls to China its scam😩😩 121.167.103.250 (talk) 06:01, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

The figure is well sourced, from the highly regarded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. HiLo48 (talk) 06:50, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

The Korean walls are part of the Great Wall of China.--Jack Upland (talk) 07:53, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

A Semi- Protected edit request. On July 15 2022

I wanted to add some more information about this world heritage site. Ane I also some other amazing facts about The Great Wall Of China. I hope you can understand. Please also reply that if you are pleased with this idea. If not no problem at all. Thank you.

The Great wall of China.

It was built over a long period of time since 700 B.C. The wall is made of stone, brick, wood, tampered earth etc.The Great Wall of China is the longest man-made structure in the world. Archaeological surveys found that the entire wall with all of its branches measure out to be 21,196 km (13,171 mi). Ming walls(Wall being reconstructed during Ming dynasty) measure around 8,850 km which is made up of 6,259 km sections of actual wall, 359 km of trenches and 2,232 km of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers. Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC. These were later joined together and made bigger, stronger, and unified and are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall.Hence Great Wall is not a single wall and not a continuous wall built all at once. Qin Shi Huang,the first Emperor of China built the earliest extensive walls between 220–206 BC. Build to defend the Chinese Empire from Mongolian and Manchu enemies to the north. The Great Wall is 25 feet tall and 15-30 feet wide. That’s wide enough for two cars to drive on! The visibility of The Great Wall of China to the naked eye from the moon and from the low earth orbit is impossible as one would require spatial resolution 17,000 times better than normal (20/20) vision.Although at Earth orbit of 100 miles (160 km) to 200 miles (320 km) high, the Great Wall of China is, indeed, visible to the naked eye!!! In many locations the Wall is in disrepair and those parts might serve as a village playground or a source of stones to rebuild houses and roads. Most of the Wall is built using rammed earth, adobe and stone.Bricks were used after the Ming dynasty. There are more than 10000 watch towers and beacon towers along the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall was called “the longest cemetery on earth” because so many people died while building it. Reports say that it took away more than one million lives. More than 60 km of the wall in Gansu province may disappear in the next 20 years, due to erosion from sandstorms. 112.134.209.48 (talk) 03:52, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Length of great Wall of China

As shown in wikipedia that its length is 21196.18 km. this seems to be wrong to me.Its length is 6400 km. written in all the books.So I believe that Wikipedia should update something in this regard. V Ankit Mishra (talk) 01:50, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

The figure 21196 km is valid for the total length of all sections of the wall that have been erected during the history. It also includes sections that are more or less lost. The figure 6400 km is in the range of the length of the Ming dynasty wall, that pretty much correspond to the main part of the todays preserved sections. Best regards, --Bairuilong (talk) 03:22, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

History.com source in opening section

Source 8 is a video on history.com that, when I checked, isn't even watchable anymore. The thing it "sources" is a matter of opinion, not something provable by the video, even if the video wasn't broken.

Moreover, History.com has an earned reputation as a TV-network that has stepped away from scientific reality and is prone to overhyping the past to get viewership. We can only guess at the contents of the video, but at a runtime of 2 minutes and 14 seconds we can reasonably assume the video was as surface level as it gets. I don't doubt the video at some point said it was recognised as claimed, but that's not a source. That's just something you watched with an alleged "expert opinion" you agree with. US media uses "expert opinions" interlaced with make-believe all the time, especially History.com. Without the ability to review the video we can't tell how weak the claim is.

My previous paragraph is mostly fluff, the fact that the source is broken already means it's not up to Wikipedia's standards. We should be more vigilant about these chauvanist elements creeping into pages about old architecture, I think wikipedia contains numerous claims of "greatest architectural feat" at this point. 62.101.195.234 (talk) 07:15, 26 September 2022 (UTC)