Fortress
Simatai
🇨🇳 China
Simatai (Chinese: 司马台; pinyin: Sīmǎtái), a section of the Great Wall of China located in the north of Miyun District, 120 km northeast of the city center of Beijing, holds the access to Gubeikou, a strategic pass in the eastern part of the Great Wall. It was closed in June 2010 but has been reopened to tourists since 2014.
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Simatai ranks #1,357 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #32 of the 120 mapped in China. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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