The Xi'an city wall is located the Xi'an central area, assumes the rectangle, the wall height 12 meters, the bottom width 18 meters, goes against the width 15 meters, the east wall length 2590 meters, the west wall length 2631.2 meters, south wall length 3441.6 meters, north wall length 3241 meters, total perimeter 11.9 kilometers.Has city gate four: East the Changle gate, Xi'an decides the gate, south the Yongning gate, the beian goes far from home, each city gate all is composed by the archer's tower and the tower over a city gate.The extant city wall constructs in the bright Hongwu seven years to 11 years (1374-1378), until now already some more than 600 years history, was our country extant most complete ancient times city wall construction.

The Xi'an city wall is the Ming Dynasty leaves the year in the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's policy