List of walls



See List of fortifications for a list of notable fortified structures. For city walls in particular, see List of cities with defensive walls.

Africa

 * 🇩🇿🇹🇳 Fossatum Africae
 * 🇳🇬 Sungbo's Eredo, built during 800–1000 AD in Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria

Americas

 * 🇲🇽 Great Wall of Tlaxcala, mentioned in the history of Bernal Díaz del Castillo
 * 🇵🇷 Walls of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Asia

 * 🇨🇳 The Great Wall of China, China – part of UNESCO site 438,. This is mostly referred to the Ming Great Wall, built from 1368 to 1644, measures 8,850 km long.
 * 🇨🇳 Great Wall of Qi, the oldest of the Chinese Great Walls.
 * 🇨🇳 Great Wall of Yan (state)
 * 🇨🇳 Great Wall of Zhongshan (state)
 * 🇨🇳 Great Wall of Zhao (state)
 * 🇨🇳 Great Wall of Qin dynasty
 * 🇨🇳 Great Wall of Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), the longest Great Wall in history.
 * 🇨🇳 Great Wall of Northern Wei dynasty
 * 🇨🇳 Great Wall of Northern Qi dynasty
 * 🇨🇳 Great Wall of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (1115–1234), built to defend against northern nomadic tribes, once spanning over 2,500 kilometers long.
 * 🇨🇳🇲🇳 Great Wall of Western Xia
 * 🇨🇳🇲🇳 Great Wall of the Khitan Liao dynasty
 * 🇵🇰 Ranikot Fort, Also called 'The Great Wall of Pakistan', second largest wall of South Asia after Kumbhalgarh fort in India
 * 🇰🇵🇨🇳 Cheolli Jangseong, North Korea and China
 * 🇮🇷 Great Wall of Gorgan in Iran, (World's second longest wall )
 * Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi in Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam.
 * 🇮🇳 Kumbhalgarh, in Rajasthan, India

Europe

 * 🇹🇷 Walls of Constantinople in Turkey
 * 🇹🇷 Anastasian Wall in Turkey
 * Antonine Wall in Scotland, United Kingdom – part of UNESCO site 430
 * 🇮🇹 Aurelian Walls of Rome
 * 🇭🇷 Walls of Ston in Croatia
 * 🇩🇪 Danevirke, Germany
 * 🇩🇪 Roman limes in Upper Germania, Lower Germania and Rhaetia, Germany – part of UNESCO site 430
 * Hadrian's Wall in England – part of UNESCO site 430
 * 🇹🇷 Long Wall (Thracian Chersonese)
 * Offa's Dyke between Mercia (England) and Powys (Wales)
 * 🇺🇦 Serpent's Wall, the ancient walls in Ukraine
 * Wall of Severus, between Roman Britain and [not recorded]
 * 🇵🇱 Silesia Walls, Poland
 * 🇷🇴 Trajan's Wall, in Dobruja, Romania
 * 🇷🇴 Athanaric's Wall, Romania
 * Wat's Dyke parallel, for part of the distance, to Offa's Dyke, England:Wales.

Modern defensive walls or border barriers

 * Atlantic Wall in Nazi-occupied France
 * Berlin Wall in Berlin separating West Berlin from East Germany 1961–1989 (in concrete: 1975–1989)
 * 🇮🇳 Inland Customs Line 2,500 miles (4,000 km) built 1843 onward in British India
 * 🇮🇳🇵🇰 India–Pakistan barrier
 * 🇮🇳🇧🇩 Bangladesh–India border
 * 🇮🇱 Sections of the Israeli West Bank barrier, West Bank
 * 🇮🇱🇱🇧 Sections of the Blue Line between Lebanon and Israel
 * Belfast Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
 * 🇰🇵🇰🇷 Korean Wall (alleged by DPRK), Korean Demilitarized Zone
 * 🇲🇦 Ceuta border fence, in Ceuta, Autonomous city of Spain
 * 🇲🇦 Melilla border fence in Melilla, Autonomous city of Spain
 * 🇲🇽🇺🇸 US-Mexico Border
 * 🇭🇰🇨🇳 Frontier Closed Area along Hong Kong-China border
 * 🇭🇺🇷🇸 Hungary-Serbia Barrier
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey-Syria Barrier
 * 🇹🇷🇮🇷 Turkey-Iran Barrier
 * 🇸🇮🇭🇷 Slovenian border Barrier
 * 🇵🇰🇦🇫 Pakistan–Afghanistan barrier
 * 🇲🇲🇧🇩 Myanmar-Bangladesh Border Fence
 * 🇲🇲🇮🇳 India–Myanmar Barrier
 * 🇲🇦 Moroccan Western Sahara Wall, in Western Sahara
 * 🇵🇱🇧🇾 Poland–Belarus barrier

Memorial walls

 * 🇫🇷 Communards' Wall in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, France
 * 🇨🇳 Democracy Wall, in Beijing (1978–1979)
 * 🇨🇿 Lennon Wall in Prague
 * 🇺🇸 Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often called the Wall, in Washington, D.C.
 * 🇺🇸 Pine Grove Cemetery, second-longest contiguous stone wall in the world, in Lynn, Massachusetts
 * Lennon Wall in Hong Kong

Walls in contemporary art and sports

 * Die Gelbe Wand, Westfalenstadion in Dortmund
 * Green Monster, Fenway Park, Boston
 * Tsoi Wall in Arbat Street, Moscow
 * The Wall in SoHo, New York City
 * The Wall In Concert (theatrical) – While based on a figment of a main character's imagination, the concerts in the tour for the Pink Floyd album The Wall featured a real wall of giant cardboard bricks between the band and the audience which was constructed, completed, spoliated and finally destroyed during the course of each show.