1. The Longest Wall in the World - The Great Wall of China The Great Wall, also known as the Great Wall of Ten Thousand Miles, is an ancient Chinese military defense structure, consisting of a tall, strong and continuous wall with a large number of cities, barriers, pavilions and markers. The construction of the Great Wall has a long history, dating back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, when the First Emperor of Qin unified the Six Kingdoms and vigorously repaired the Great Wall, resulting in the spectacular sight of the Great Wall of 10,000 miles. The Ming Dynasty was the last dynasty to repair the Great Wall, and most of the Great Wall we see now was built and perfected at this time. The Great Wall is mainly located in 15 provinces, cities and autonomous regions of China, and the Great Wall of the Qin and Han dynasties and early periods exceeds 10,000 km, while the total length of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty is 8,851.8 km. The existing Great Wall cultural relics proper include Great Wall walls, trenches, boundary trenches, monolithic buildings, customs forts, related facilities and other kinds of remains, totaling more than 43,000 places. The Great Wall is listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units and world cultural heritage.
2. The world's largest surviving ancient architectural complex - the Forbidden City in Beijing The Forbidden City in Beijing is a royal palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City, covering an area of about 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of about 150,000 square meters, with more than 70 large and small palaces and more than 9,000 houses. The Forbidden City is 961 meters long from north to south, 753 meters wide from east to west, surrounded by 10-meter-high walls on all sides, and a 52-meter-wide moat outside the city, and is one of the largest and best-preserved wooden structures of ancient architecture existing in the world, a national 5A tourist attraction, listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and listed as a world cultural heritage in 1987.
3. The highest palace in the world - Potala Palace Potala Palace is located in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet Autonomous Region of China, on Mount Maburi, at an altitude of 3,700 meters, and is the highest altitude in the world, with palaces, castles and monasteries in one magnificent building, and is also the largest and most complete ancient palace fortress complex in Tibet. After years of evolution, it has been the ruling center of Tibetan politics and religion, known as the "Pearl of the Roof of the World", and is a holy place in the hearts of pilgrims. The main building of the Potala Palace is the White Palace and the Red Palace, with a unique Tibetan style, more than 200 meters high, the appearance of 13 floors, the actual only 9 floors, the whole building seems to be integrated with the hillock, majestic. It has a rich collection of cultural relics and artifacts and is listed as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council of the People's Republic of China and a World Heritage Site.
4. The highest mountain in the world - Mount Everest Himalayas: This is known as the forbidden area for human beings, and is the mountain range with the most peaks in the world. Mount Everest, 8848.86 meters above sea level, is the main peak in the Himalayas, but also the highest mountain on earth, until now, is still in the process of rising, rising 7 cm every 100 years.
5. The World's First Grand Canyon - Yarlung Tsangpo River Grand Canyon Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon is the largest, deepest and most spectacular canyon in the world. The total length of 504.6 kilometers, the deepest 6009 meters, the average depth of 2268 meters, is undoubtedly the world's first Grand Canyon. In the core uninhabited river section of the Yarlung Tsangpo River Grand Canyon there are rare four major waterfall groups, and many areas are still untouched. One of them is the Yarlung Zangbo River, which has a beautiful and dream-like environment and is the highest river in the world in terms of altitude.
6. Qinghai-Tibet Plateau The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is an inland plateau in Asia, the largest in China and the highest in the world, known as the "roof of the world", "the third pole" and "the closest place to heaven". The plateau is about 2,800 kilometers long from east to west and 300 to 1,500 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of about 2.5 million square kilometers, generally between 3,000 and 5,000 meters above sea level, with an average altitude of 4,000 meters above sea level, and is the birthplace of many large rivers in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
