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Follow @TIMENewsfeed. Experts once believed that the Great Wall of China only stood 5,500 miles long, but a new archaeological survey done by Chinaâs State Administration of Cultural Heritage says the Great Wall is more than double than that length. The report, released early June, estimates that the Great Wall extends 13,170 miles long and across 15 provinces.
The Great Wall stretches from Dandong in the east, to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia.A comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that the Ming walls measure 8,850 km (5,500 mi).n Chinese histories, the term Long Wall(s) (é·å, changcheng) appears in Sima Qian 's Records of the Grand Historian, where it referred to both the separate great walls built between and north of the Warring States and to the more unified construction of the First Emperor.