Fortress
Jinshanling
🇨🇳 China · 16th century
Jinshanling (simplified Chinese: 金山岭; traditional Chinese: 金山嶺; pinyin: Jīnshānlǐng) is a section of the Great Wall of China located in the mountainous area in Luanping County, Chengde, Hebei Province, 125 km (78 miles) northeast of Beijing. This section of the wall is connected with the Simatai section to the east. Some distance to the west lies the Mutianyu section. Jinshanling was built from 1570 CE during the Ming dynasty.
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Jinshanling ranks #789 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #24 of the 120 mapped in China. Founded 1570, it is older than 42% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 495 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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