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City walls in Shangqiu
🇨🇳 China
The city walls in Shangqiu are located in Gucheng subdistrict, Suiyang district, Shangqiu city, Henan province, People's Republic of China, and were listed in 1996 among the fourth batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level.
In the fifteenth year of the Hongzhi era of the Ming (1502) the original city wall was destroyed by flooding, and in the sixth year of the Zhengde era (1511) a city wall was rebuilt north of the original city. Today, apart from the gate towers, the city wall, the city moat and the layout of the roads within the city are all well preserved. The earthen city wall lies on the outside, is nearly circular and has a circumference of 8 kilometres; the brick city wall lies inside, is nearly rectangular and has a circumference of 4,355 metres.
Machine-translated from “归德府城墙” on the Chinese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
City walls in Shangqiu ranks #7,807 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #98 of the 119 mapped in China. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is City walls in Shangqiu?
City walls in Shangqiu stands in China, at 34.38775°, 115.61269°.
How famous is City walls in Shangqiu?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,807 of 8,134 worldwide, and #98 in China. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to City walls in Shangqiu?
City Wall of Xiangcheng, about 206 km away.
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