Shanhaiguan

or Shan·hai·kuan, Shan·hai·kwan

[ shahn-hahy-gwahn ]

noun

, Pinyin.

1. a city in northeastern Hebei province, in northeast China, on the Gulf of Liaodong: strategically located at the east end of the Great Wall.

Example Sentences

There's also Shanhaiguan, where the Great Wall begins, literally, rising out of the Gulf of Bohai at a spot called Laolongtou, or "old dragon's head," after the beast carved into the section of the Wall that faces the sea.

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