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City gate
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A city gate is a gate set within a city wall.
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The city gate was usually the place to display the local standards of weight, length and volume. This was of great importance since these varied greatly between cities before any unified metric system.
Examples of city gates include:
- Gate of China in Nanjing, China
- Gateway of India in Mumbai (Maharashtra, India)
- Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls, Israel
- Rashomon Gate, Kyoto, Japan
- Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan
- Golden Gate (Vladimir), Russia
- Seoul's city gates, including: Namdaemun and Dongdaemun, South Korea
- London's Roman and Medieval gates of the London Wall: Ludgate, Newgate, Aldersgate, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Moorgate, Aldgate, England
- The gates (known as Bars) of the York city walls, England
- Porte de Joigny and Porte de Sens in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, France
- Holstentor, in Lübeck, Germany
- Porta Nigra, in Trier, Germany
- The old gate, in Speyer, Germany
- Steintor, in Rostock, Germany
- City Gate, Valletta, Malta
- Amsterdamse Poort, a city gate of Haarlem, the Netherlands
- Waterpoort, Sneek, the Netherlands (water gate)
- Brama Portowa, Szczecin, Poland
- Brama Młyńska, Stargard Szczeciński, Poland (water gate)
- Florian Gate, Kraków, Poland
- Żuraw, Gdańsk, Poland (crane gate)
- Puerta del Sol, Madrid, Spain
- The gates of the Basel City Walls, Basel, Switzerland
- Golden Gate, Kiev, Ukraine
City Gate is an alternate name of the skyscraper in Ramat Gan, Israel officially called the Moshe Aviv Tower.
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