Shanhaiguan

Or Shan·hai·kuan,

[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.

From Time Magazine Archive