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Study: Just how great is the Great Wall?

A massive geological survey by the Chinese government is expected to answer a 500-year-old question -- the exact length of the Great Wall of China.

China's Administration of Cultural Heritage and its Bureau of Surveying and Mapping are organizing a scientific survey to discover everything they can about the Great Wall, the Xinhua state news agency reports.
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