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Bois de Vincennes
Bois de Vincennes (originally Vilcena) is Paris' largest green space, a 995-hectare wooded park on the city's east, a former royal hunting forest landscaped under Napoleon III, with four lakes, the Parc Zoologique de Paris, and the Parc Floral.
Boissonna Garden
Jardin de Boissonna, Boissonna Garden: private English-style garden in Baleyssagues, Lot-et-Garonne, France, created in 1998 by Georges Beylard, labeled Jardin remarquable in 2009, with about 460 rose varieties and a tea room.
Boston Common
Boston Common is America's oldest public park, a roughly 50-acre downtown Boston green held in common since its 1634 purchase from William Blackstone, now a National Register-listed park with the Frog Pond undergoing a $23 million master-plan renovation.
Bryant Park
Bryant Park, a Midtown Manhattan public park beside the New York Public Library, was a potter's field (1823–1840), hosted the Croton Reservoir and Crystal Palace, was renamed for William Cullen Bryant in 1884, redesigned in 1934, and restored by 1992.
Buckingham Fountain
Buckingham Fountain, formally the Clarence F. Buckingham Memorial Fountain, is a 1927 Grant Park landmark in Chicago, funded by Kate Buckingham, inspired by Versailles' Latona Basin, with a 150-foot center jet and hourly light and water displays.
Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens
Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens (Jardín Japonés), a 2.5-hectare Japanese-style garden in Palermo's Parque Tres de Febrero, inaugurated 17 May 1967 for Crown Prince Akihito's visit, redesigned by Yasuo Inomata, run by the Japanese Argentine Cultural Foundation.
Buki Landscape and Temple Complex
Buki landscape and temple complex (Ландшафтно-храмовий комплекс "Буки"), a private park in Buki village, Kyiv Oblast, founded 1996 by Ivan Suslov on a former dump; temple complex by architect Yuriy Babych won the 2007 State Prize of Ukraine in Architecture.
Cactus Park Ayia Napa
Cactus Park Ayia Napa (Park of Mediterranean Plants, Cacti and Succulents) is a free municipal garden in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, created in 2015 beside the Sculpture Park, holding thousands of cacti and succulents over about 40 acres with sea views.
Centennial Olympic Park
Centennial Olympic Park is a 21-acre downtown Atlanta park built for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, funded privately, reopened in 1998, and now the heart of the city's tourism district.
Central Park
Central Park is an 843-acre public park in Manhattan, New York City, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux from their 1858 winning Greensward Plan. Built on land displaced from about 1,600 residents including Seneca Village, it now draws 42 million visits yearly and is managed by the Central Park Conservancy, founded 1980.
Champ de Mars
Champ de Mars: large Paris 7th-arrondissement park between the Eiffel Tower and École Militaire, over 24 hectares; military drill ground from 1765, Festival of the Federation 1790, massacre 1791, park by Formigé, Paris 2024 venue.
Chapultepec
Chapultepec (Bosque de Chapultepec) is a hill, forest, and castle in western Mexico City, home to the National Museum of History; its name means "on the grasshopper hill."
Chelyuskinites Park
Chelyuskinites Park (Парк Чалюскінцаў) is a 78-hectare culture-and-recreation park in Minsk, Belarus, created 1928–1932 on the Komarovsky pine forest and named in 1934 after the Chelyuskin steamship expedition; it has an amusement park, children's railway, and metro station of the same name.
Clove Garden
Clove Garden (丁香花园) is a historic 2.04-hectare garden estate at 849 Huashan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, traditionally linked to Li Hongzhang but documented as a 1938 renaming after Dingxiang cigarettes.
Company's Garden
Company's Garden, Cape Town public park and heritage garden, remaining part of the 1652 VOC vegetable garden under Jan van Riebeeck; oldest garden in South Africa, 3.2 ha, National Monument 1962.
Conservatory Garden
Conservatory Garden: Central Park's only formal garden, six acres off Fifth Avenue at 104th–106th Streets, Manhattan. Opened 1937, designed by Gilmore Clarke; French, Italianate, and English sections; restored 2022–2025.
Crape myrtle garden
Crape myrtle garden (紫薇园), a themed garden for Lagerstroemia trees, notably the 2006 1-hectare garden at China National Botanical Garden, Beijing, with 249 plants of 20+ cultivars blooming as 'Hundred-Day Red' from June to September.
Dragon Park
Dragon Park names several leisure sites: a 1.98-hectare Jiang-nan-style garden park in Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong (opened 2007); Dragon Park Halong in Vietnam; a dragon-sculpture playground in Lewisville, Texas; and a TANZA Egypt zone.
Dubai Butterfly Garden
Dubai Butterfly Garden, opened March 24, 2015 in Al Barsha South, Dubailand, is billed as the world's largest covered butterfly garden: over 15,000 butterflies of 50-plus species in ten climate-controlled domes at 24°C, beside Dubai Miracle Garden, open daily 9 AM–6 PM.
Dubai Miracle Garden (حديقة الزهور بدبي)
Dubai Miracle Garden (حديقة الزهور بدبي), opened February 14, 2013 in Dubailand, is the world's largest natural flower garden: 72,000 sqm, 150+ million flowers, seasonal October–May operation, and a record-setting floral Emirates A380.
Ekopark Holá Hora
Ekopark Holá Hora, a free-entry ecological park in Prešov, Slovakia, on Botanická street, run by Technické služby mesta Prešov; children's water world, educational programs, part of the protected area Holá hora.
Englischer Garten
The Englischer Garten, or English Garden, is a large public landscape park in Munich, Germany, created in 1789 by Elector Karl Theodor and covering 376 hectares, larger than Central Park.
Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park
Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park, also called Moricoro Park (モリコロパーク), is a 157-hectare public park in Nagakute, Aichi, Japan, on the former site of Expo 2005, opened July 2006 and housing Ghibli Park since 2022.
Feng Shan Ecology Park
Feng Shan Ecology Park (豐山生態園區), formerly Fengshan Orchard, was a 13-hectare tropical-fruit garden in Zhongpu, Chiayi County, Taiwan, known for jaboticaba and Taiwan's only rambutan farm; official tourism data now lists it as permanently closed.
Flower Land Pattaya
Flower Land Pattaya (ฟลาวเวอร์แลนด์ พัทยา) is a 40-acre flower park near Mabprachan Lake, east of Pattaya, Thailand, opened December 2018, with Himmapan, Eden, and Inthanon domes and a 360-degree saltwater aquarium; currently listed as temporarily closed.
Flower Park
Flower Park, or Riverfront Flower Park, is a 6.19-hectare themed flower garden on the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, completed January 2017 by SRFDCL; the name also refers to parks in Shahapur, Karnataka, and Singur, West Bengal.
Flowers Garden
Flowers Garden (Bagh-e Golha, باغ گلها) is a 67,000 m² municipal flower garden in Isfahan, Iran, at Bozorgmehr Square by the Zayandeh River, with about 400 plant species, a Persian carpet flower design, and a tropical greenhouse dome.
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is an 898-acre municipal park in Queens, New York City, built on an ash dump and hosting the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, the UN General Assembly (1946–1950), the Unisphere, Queens Museum, US Open tennis center, and Citi Field.
Forest Park (St. Louis)
Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri: a roughly 1,300-acre urban park opened June 24, 1876, larger than Central Park, site of the 1904 World's Fair, home to the Zoo, Art Museum, Muny, and the Glade/Steinberg renovation.
Forest Research Institute Malaysia Forest Park Selangor
Forest Research Institute Malaysia Forest Park Selangor (FRIM FPS), at Kepong 16 km northwest of Kuala Lumpur, is a 589-ha man-made tropical rainforest planted from the 1920s on tin-mining land; inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape (criterion iv) on 11 July 2025, Malaysia's sixth site.