Walls Around The World || World's Barriers

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BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Walls around the world


Two decades since the Berlin Wall came down, BBC Mundo looks at walls and barriers around the world which are still standing - or have been put up - since 1989.

1. West Bank:
   
   Israel says the West Bank barrier is essential to protect itself from attack but to the Palestinians, it is an "apartheid wall".
   
   
2. Northern Ireland:
   
   Designed as a temporary measure to keep fighting Protestant and Catholic communities apart, many "peace walls" are stills standing.
   
   
3. Saudi Arabia:
   
   The most powerful economy in the Gulf is building one of the longest, most high-tech security fences in the world, at a cost of $3bn.
   
   
4. CEUTA AND MELILLA:
   
   Residents of Spain's north African enclaves live behind towering fences, designed to keep out would-be illegal migrants trying to reach Europe.
   
   
5. CYPRUS:
   
   Built after the 1974 war, the no-man's land between Greek and Turkish Cypriots on the island remains under UN control.
   
   
6. PAKISTAN-IRAN:
   
   Baluchistani communities are divided by Iran's barrier on its border with Pakistan, intended to keep out smugglers and migrants.
   
   
7. RIO DE JANEIRO:
   
   Brazil says the walls are to protect the forest from growing shanty towns, but critics say they are an attempt to hem in the city's poor.
   
   
8. US-MEXICO:
   
   The US spends millions of dollars on a vast fence and surveillance operation along its southern border to try to keep illegal migrants out.
   
   
9. INDIA-PAKISTAN:
   
   The mined and heavily guarded border between India and Pakistan is one of the most volatile frontier regions on the planet.
   
   
10. KOREAN BORDER:
    
    The heavily guarded "De-militarized Zone" (DMZ) between North and South Korea remains a symbol of Cold War on the peninsula.
    
    
11. WESTERN SAHARA:
    
    Morocco's wall of sand in the Sahara desert is an attempt to keep out the Sahrwari people, who also claim the territory as their own.
    
    
12. BOTSWANA-ZIMBABWE:
    
    Botswana's hopes the extensive fence will protect its valuable livestock from disease, but Zimbabwe says its real purpose is to keep people out.