Fortress
Zijingguan
🇨🇳 China
Zijingguan is one of the passes on the Great Wall of China. It is a famous fortified pass on the Great Wall, located between Juyongguan and Daomaguan, and together they are known as the "three inner passes".
On 20 November 1996 the State Council of China listed the Great Wall – Zijingguan among the fourth batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level. On 7 February 2001 the People's Government of Hebei province listed the Great Wall – Zijingguan among the fourth batch of cultural relic protection units of Hebei province.
Machine-translated from “紫荆关” on the Chinese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zijingguan ranks #6,042 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #72 of the 119 mapped in China. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Zijingguan?
Zijingguan stands in China, at 39.4238°, 115.17135°.
How famous is Zijingguan?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #6,042 of 8,134 worldwide, and #72 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 Zijingguan?
Wanping Fortress, about 102 km away.
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