{"id":7314,"date":"2018-10-12T16:37:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T11:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/?p=7314"},"modified":"2018-10-12T16:41:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T11:11:53","slug":"ranikot-fort-jamshoro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/?p=7314","title":{"rendered":"Ranikot Fort, Jamshoro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ranikot Fort\u00a0also known as Dewar-e-Sindh (Great Wall of Sindh), with a circumference of about 26\u00a0km or 16 miles, is\u00a0reputed to be the largest unexplored fort in the world.\u00a0Its wall is 2<sup>nd<\/sup> largest wall after Great Wall of China and made of gypsum and lime cut\u00a0sandstone, with an average height of 6 meters.\u00a0Since 1993, it has been on the list of tentative\u00a0UNESCO World Heritage Sites.\u00a0It is located in the\u00a0Kirthar Range, about 30\u00a0km southwest of Sann, in\u00a0Jamshoro District,\u00a0Sindh,\u00a0Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Ranikot is the most talismanic wonder of\u00a0Sindh. Visible from five kilometers away its massive undulating walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, are built with dressed sandstone and reinforced with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified through the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ranikot Fort\u00a0also known as Dewar-e-Sindh (Great Wall of Sindh), with a circumference of about 26\u00a0km or 16 miles, is\u00a0reputed to be the largest unexplored fort in the world.\u00a0Its wall is 2nd largest wall after Great Wall of China and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10944,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions\/10944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}