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  2. Chinese city wall - Wikipedia

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    Ming dynasty wall of Pingyao. Chinese city walls (traditional Chinese: 城牆; simplified Chinese: 城墙; pinyin: chéngqiáng; "city wall") refer to defensive walls built to protect important towns and cities in pre-modern China. In addition to walls, Chinese city defenses also included fortified towers and gates, as well as moats and ...

  3. Flag of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The national flag of Pakistan, also known as the Flag of the Star and Crescent (Urdu: پرچمِ ستارہ و ہلال), is made up of a green field with a stylized tilted white crescent moon and five-pointed star at its centre, and a vertical white stripe at its hoist-end. Though the specific shade of green on the flag is mandated ...

  4. China–Pakistan relations - Wikipedia

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    20 coin with the Pakistan and China flags to commemorate the countries' lasting friendship. [119] 2022 – Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal says it doesn't want to be a "geopolitical football" in US-China strategic competition. [120] 2023 – China-Pakistan signed $3.5 billion deal to construct largest nuclear power plant of Pakistan, Chasma ...

  5. List of Chinese flags - Wikipedia

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    Flag Duration Use Description 1 July 1997 – present: Flag of Hong Kong [2]: A white, five-petal Bauhinia blakeana on a red field with 1 star on each of the petals. The Chinese name of Bauhinia × blakeana has also been frequently shortened as 紫荊/紫荆 (洋 yáng means "foreign" in Chinese, and this would be deemed inappropriate by the PRC government), although 紫荊/紫荆 refers to ...

  6. China–Pakistan border - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Pakistan Agreement. Chinese and Pakistani boundary markers. The ChinaPakistan border is 596 kilometres (370 mi) and runs west–east from the tripoint with Afghanistan to the disputed tripoint with India in the vicinity of the Siachen Glacier. [1] It traverses the Karakoram Mountains, one of the world's tallest mountain ranges.

  7. Fortifications of Xi'an - Wikipedia

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    Fortifications of Xi'anXi'an City Wall. The fortifications of Xi'an (Chinese: 西安城墙), also known as Xi'an City Wall, in Xi'an, represent one of the oldest, largest and best preserved Chinese city walls. It was built under the rule of the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang as a military defense system. It exhibits the "complete features of the ...

  8. Great Hall of the People - Wikipedia

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    The Great Hall of the People is a state building situated to the west of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. It is used for legislative and ceremonial activities by the government of the People's Republic of China. The People's Great Hall functions as the meeting place for the full sessions of China's legislature, the National People's Congress, which ...

  9. List of Pakistani flags - Wikipedia

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    The governor-general flag of Pakistan was used from 1953 until 1956. 1947–1953: Standard of the governor-general of Pakistan: The flag from 1947 to 1956, the governor-general of Pakistan used a dark blue flag bearing the royal crest (a lion standing on the Crown), beneath which was the word 'PAKISTAN' in gold majuscules.