5 Famous Border Walls

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Great Wall of China

Great Wall of China

Large crowd celebrates on and around the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate

A long Peace Wall in Belfast, Northern Ireland, covered with colorful political murals and graffiti, with trees lining the sidewalk and a wire fence on top of the wall.

Stone Hadrian's Wall stretches across rolling green fields with a cluster of trees in the background along the border of Scotland and England.

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Great Wall of China

Great Wall of China

Great Wall of China.

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Great Wall of China

Great Wall of China

Great Wall of China, near Beijing.

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Large crowd celebrates on and around the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate

Berlin Wall opening

People from East and West Berlin gathering at the Berlin Wall on November 10, 1989,...

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A long Peace Wall in Belfast, Northern Ireland, covered with colorful political murals and graffiti, with trees lining the sidewalk and a wire fence on top of the wall.

A “peace wall” in Belfast

Peace Walls were a reaction by the British government to sectarian rioting violence...

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Stone Hadrian's Wall stretches across rolling green fields with a cluster of trees in the background along the border of Scotland and England.

Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall, near the Scottish border in northern England.

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