China’s Great Wall grows 30 percent
Wednesday, 23 Apr, 2009
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BEIJING – A two-year mapping project by the Chinese government, which used infra-red technology and GPS, found the Great Wall ran for 5,488 miles rather than 3,106.
Chinese state media reports that 70 percent of the monument is a wall, while the remainder is a combination of trenches, hills and rivers which had not been picked up by traditional mapping methods.
Ian Jarrett
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