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What Is The Great Wall of China’s Nickname?

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The Great Wall of China is sometimes given the nickname “The Long Graveyard”, because of the amount of people who died building the wall and the myth that they were buried underneath the wall.

The full Chinese name for the Great Wall of China is 万里长城 (wàn lǐ cháng chéng), which can be translated to the nickname of ‘Infinite Great Wall’ or ‘Infinitely Long Wall’.

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