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The longest walls in the world长城 Both ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, people who have been to the Great Wall cant hold their wonder at its majestic and grand scale, difficult engineering and significance of protection. It stands for the wisdom, willpower of the ancients. Therefore, the Great Wall is a rare treasure, also special cultural relics. Due to the long time, the Great Wall of various dynasties are most incomplete except the Great Wall built in Ming dynasty. So when people talk about the Great Wall, they generally refer to the . The total length of the Ming Great Wall is 8851.8 km 丝绸之路 Silk Road is a main road of the exchange between the eastern and western economy, politics, and culture. Its role is the original transportation of silk in ancient China silk.Therefore, it is named after the silk road, that is widely accepted. The Silk Road began in ancient China, connecting Asia, Africa and Europe’s business trade. It is divided into land Silk Road and sea Silk Road. 京杭大运河。 The beijing-hangzhou Grand Canal, has the worlds longest mileage, the largest engineering and oldest history. The canal begins in yuhang(now Hangzhou), north to Zhu county(now Beijing),across zhejiang、jiangsu、shandong、hebei four provinces and tianjin、Beijing two cities. About 1747 km. 世界高峰最多的山脉——喜马拉雅山脉。 The Himalayas is The At an altitude of the highest mountains 吐鲁番盆地。 Turpan basin is located in the eastern side of Tianshan Mountains. Turpan has the meaning of low in Uyghur .It is also the place where is the lowest and the temperature is highest in summer in China. Most of the ground is at an altitude of 500 meters, in some places is lower than 世界最大的黄土地貌——黄土高原。 loess landform 世界最高最年轻的高原——青藏高原。