Great Wall at Badaling: Then and Now

The most visited stretch of the Great Wall, rebuilt in brick and stone under the Ming in 1505 to guard the approach to Beijing from the north.

Key facts

Country today	China
Status	Standing
Date	1505
Nearest city on the map	Beijing (about 61 km)
Location	40.360° N, 116.016° E

Map showing Great Wall at Badaling in 1500 — Border map for 1500. See the world in 1500.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

Period	State
500 BC–401 BC	Zhou states
400 BC–324 BC	Proto-Thai cultures
323 BC–201 BC	Zhou states
200 BC–2 BC	Han Empire
1 BC–299	Han
300–399	Jin
400–499	Sixteen Kingdoms
500–599	Toba Wei
600–699	Sui Empire
700–999	Tang Empire
1000–1199	Liao
1200–1299	Jin Empire
1300–1399	Great Khanate
1400–1499	Ming Empire
1500–1649	Ming Chinese Empire
1650–1782	Manchu Empire
1783–1814	Qing Empire
1815–1919	Manchu Empire
1920–1937	Chinese Warlords
1938–1944	Chinese warlords
1945–today	China