Fortress
Pingyao City Wall
🇨🇳 China
The Pingyao City Wall is located in Pingyao county in the centre of Shanxi province and is one of the four best-preserved ancient city walls in China, the other three being the Xi'an city wall in Shaanxi, the Jingzhou city wall in Hubei and the Xingcheng city wall in Liaoning. In 1988 the Pingyao city wall was announced by the State Council of the People's Republic of China as one of the third batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level. In 1997 the ancient city of Pingyao, including the Pingyao city wall, was inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Machine-translated from “平遥城墙” on the Chinese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pingyao City Wall ranks #6,659 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #77 of the 119 mapped in China. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Pingyao City Wall?
Pingyao City Wall stands in China, at 37.21034°, 112.17523°.
How famous is Pingyao City Wall?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #6,659 of 8,134 worldwide, and #77 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 Pingyao City Wall?
Yanmen Pass, about 229 km away.
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