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See List of fortifications for a list of notable fortified structures. For city walls in particular, see List of cities with defensive walls.
Pre-modern fortifications
Africa
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Fossatum Africae
- Template:Flagicon Sungbo's Eredo, built during 800–1000 AD in Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria
Americas
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Tlaxcala, mentioned in the history of Bernal Díaz del Castillo
- Template:Flagicon Walls of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Asia
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of China, China – part of UNESCO site 438.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> This is mostly used to refer to the Ming Great Wall, built from 1368 to 1644, measures 8,850 km long.
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Qi, the oldest of the Chinese Great Walls.
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Yan (state)
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Zhongshan (state)
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Zhao (state)
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Qin dynasty
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), the longest Great Wall in history.
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Northern Wei dynasty
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Northern Qi dynasty
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (1115–1234), built to defend against northern nomadic tribes, once spanning over 2,500 kilometers long.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Great Wall of Western Xia
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Great Wall of the Khitan Liao dynasty
- Template:Flagicon Ranikot Fort, Also called 'The Great Wall of Pakistan', second largest wall of South Asia after Kumbhalgarh fort in India
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Cheolli Jangseong, North Korea and China
- Template:Flagicon Great Wall of Gorgan in Iran, (World's second longest wall)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi in Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam.
- Template:Flagicon Kumbhalgarh, in Rajasthan, India
- Template:Flagicon Smbat Walls
- Sasanian defense lines
Europe
- Template:Flagicon Walls of Constantinople in Turkey
- Template:Flagicon Anastasian Wall in Turkey
- Template:Flagicon Antonine Wall in Scotland, United Kingdom – part of UNESCO site 430<ref name="UNESCO World Heritage Centre">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Aurelian Walls of Rome
- Template:Flagicon Walls of Ston in Croatia
- Template:Flagicon Danevirke, Germany
- Template:Flagicon Roman limes in Upper Germania, Lower Germania and Rhaetia, Germany – part of UNESCO site 430<ref name="UNESCO World Heritage Centre"/>
- Template:Flagicon Hadrian's Wall in England – part of UNESCO site 430<ref name="UNESCO World Heritage Centre"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Long Wall (Thracian Chersonese)
- Template:Flagicon Offa's Dyke between Mercia (England) and Powys (Wales)
- Template:Flagicon Serpent's Wall, the ancient walls in Ukraine
- Template:Flagicon Wall of Severus, between Roman Britain and [not recorded]
- Template:Flagicon Silesia Walls, Poland
- Template:Flagicon Trajan's Wall, in Dobruja, Romania
- Template:Flagicon Athanaric's Wall, Romania
- Template:Flagicon Wat's Dyke parallel, for part of the distance, to Offa's Dyke, England:Wales.
Modern defensive walls or border barriers
- Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Atlantic Wall in Nazi-occupied France
- Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Berlin Wall in Berlin separating West Berlin from East Germany 1961–1989 (in concrete: 1975–1989)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Inland Customs Line 2,500 miles (4,000 km) built 1843 onward in British India
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon India–Pakistan barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Bangladesh–India border
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Sections of the Israeli West Bank barrier, West Bank<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Sections of the Blue Line between Lebanon and Israel<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Belfast Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Korean Wall (alleged by DPRK), Korean Demilitarized Zone<ref name="reut_Nort">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Ceuta border fence, in Ceuta, Autonomous city of Spain
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Melilla border fence in Melilla, Autonomous city of Spain
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon US-Mexico Border,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> including the Tortilla Wall
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Frontier Closed Area along Hong Kong-China border
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Hungary-Serbia Barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Turkey-Syria Barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Turkey-Iran Barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Slovenian border Barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Pakistan–Afghanistan barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Myanmar-Bangladesh Border Fence
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon India–Myanmar Barrier
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Poland–Belarus barrier<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Flag iconTemplate:Flag icon Moroccan Western Sahara Wall
Memorial walls
- Template:Flagicon Communards' Wall in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, France
- Template:Flagicon Democracy Wall, in Beijing (1978–1979)
- Template:Flagicon Lennon Wall in Prague
- Template:Flagicon Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often called the Wall, in Washington, D.C.
- Template:Flagicon Pine Grove Cemetery, second-longest contiguous stone wall in the world, in Lynn, Massachusetts
- Template:Flagicon 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 ConcertTemplate:Broken anchor (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.
See also
- Gum Wall
- Separation barrier
- List of cities with defensive walls
- List of town walls in England and Wales
- List of fortifications
- Great Wall (astronomy)
- List of Egyptian castles, forts, fortifications and city walls