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Jiayuguan Fortress

Walls stand inside walls: an inner city, an outer city, a luocheng rampart, barbicans and a moat. The city page dates the start of the work to 1372. UNESCO's Great Wall maps name this place Jiayuguan. The city has no district or county to put beneath the prefecture, so the fortress is recorded at city level.

Jiayuguan Fortress silhouetted at dusk. Photo credit: Jiang Xibao.
Jiayuguan Fortress at dusk

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  1. Jiayuguan Fortress at dusk姜喜宝 · Rights status not determined Photo source ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.