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Hong Kong Zoological & Botanical Garden

Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens (香港動植物公園), also called Bing Tau Fa Yuen, is Hong Kong's oldest park, opened 1871 in Central; a free 5.6-hectare zoo and botanical garden with about 236 animals and over 1,000 plant species.

Horkaha Park

Horkaha Park (Maksim Gorky Central Children's Park, Парк Горкага) is Minsk's oldest park, founded 1805 as the Governor's Garden, 28 ha on the Svislach River, with a 54 m Ferris wheel and planetarium.

Hsinchu Zoo

Hsinchu Zoo (新竹市立動物園) is a 2.7-hectare public zoo in Hsinchu Park, Taiwan, founded 1936 and the oldest zoo at its original site; rebuilt cage-free, reopened 2019.

Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park, London: a 350-acre Royal Park in Westminster, acquired by Henry VIII in 1536, opened to the public in 1637, home to the Serpentine, Speaker's Corner, the 1851 Great Exhibition site and major events like Winter Wonderland.

Hyde Park, Sydney

Hyde Park, Sydney: Australia's oldest public parkland, named by Governor Macquarie on 6 October 1810 on land reserved as a common in 1792. A 16-hectare CBD park divided by Park Street, home to the Anzac Memorial, Archibald Fountain, and Emden Gun, reshaped after City Circle railway excavation and Norman Weekes's 1926 design.

Ice Age Park

Ice Age Park, also called Eiszeitpark Petersfels, is an archaeobotanical park east of Engen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, built in 2003 around the Paleolithic Petersfels cave.

Jallo Park

Jallo Park (جلو پارک), also Jallo Wildlife Park, is a 461-acre public recreation and wildlife breeding park east of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, established 1978 on a 1922 reserve forest, with free entry, a botanical garden, and a bird hatchery.

Jardin de l'Entente

Jardin de l'Entente is a reported name for a public garden in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad; no compiled source confirms the garden, its location, or its origins.

Jardin du Luxembourg

Jardin du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Gardens, a 23-hectare Senate-managed garden in Paris's 6th arrondissement created by Marie de Médicis from 1612 around the Palais du Luxembourg, with nearly 3,000 trees and the Medici Fountain.

Jardin méditerranéen de la Paix

Jardin méditerranéen de la Paix, a 900 m2 Mediterranean peace garden in walled Quimper, Brittany, opened 12 April 2013 above the Jardin de la Retraite, planted only with Mediterranean species and marked by an Albert Camus peace plaque.

Jeju Herb Dongsan

Jeju Herb Dongsan (제주허브동산), a themed herb garden in Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo-si, Jeju, with about 150 herb and wildflower species, a Golden Foot Bath, and a nighttime LED light display from 6 p.m.

Jeju Stone Park

Seolmundae-Halmang Park, officially Jeju Stone Park (제주돌문화공원), is a 3.3 km² museum and ecological park in Jocheon, Jeju, opened 2006 and themed on the giant creator goddess Seolmundae Halmang and the Five Hundred Generals, with a dedicated exhibition hall opened June 2025.

Kamegaoka Square

Kamegaoka Square (亀ヶ岡広場) is a public plaza near the summit of Enoshima island, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan, with Sagami Bay views, a wood deck, restaurant, kiosk, and access via the Enoshima Escar.

Kamolot park

Kamolot park (Kamolot bogʻi), public parks in Uzbekistan named after the Kamolot youth movement; chiefly a culture and recreation park in Davlatobod district, Namangan (rebuilt 2025-2026 as Yoshlar bogʻi, 7.8 billion soum) and a theme park in Andijan, temporarily closed, rated 4.3.

Kensington Gardens

Kensington Gardens, a Grade I registered Royal Park of about 112 ha west of Hyde Park, London, created in 1689 for Kensington Palace and reshaped by Charles Bridgeman, home to the Serpentine, Albert Memorial, Peter Pan statue, and Diana Memorial Playground.

Kings Park, Western Australia

Kings Park (Kaarta Koomba), Perth, Western Australia: 400-hectare inner-city park and Western Australian Botanic Garden on Mount Eliza, larger than Central Park, 5.41 million visitors (2023-24), $1.7 billion 30-year value.

Kodomonokuni

Kodomonokuni (こどもの国, Children's Land) is a 100-hectare children's park in Aoba-ku, Yokohama, opened May 5, 1965 to commemorate the 1959 Akihito-Michiko wedding, on a former army ammunition depot site.

Koishikawa Kōrakuen

Koishikawa Kōrakuen (小石川後楽園) is a strolling pond garden in Bunkyō, Tokyo, begun in 1629 by Tokugawa Yorifusa and completed around 1669 under his son Mitsukuni.

Kowloon Walled City Park (九龙寨城公园)

Kowloon Walled City Park (九龍寨城公園), a 31,000 sq m Jiangnan-style garden in Kowloon City, Hong Kong, opened 22 December 1995 on the demolished Walled City site, preserving the declared-monument Yamen and South Gate relics.

Kushiro City Tanchozuru Nature Park

Kushiro City Tanchozuru Nature Park (釧路市丹頂鶴自然公園), Japan's first crane park, opened 1958 in Kushiro, Hokkaido, to protect and breed the red-crowned crane; achieved the world's first artificial hatching in 1970.

Liberty Park

Liberty Park, Salt Lake City's oldest and second-largest urban park, a roughly 100-acre Utah park dedicated 1882, home to Tracy Aviary and the historic Chase Home, Mill, and Well; distinct from parks of the same name in Spokane, Memphis, and Summit County, Ohio.

Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park is Chicago's largest park, a 1,188.62-acre lakefront park from Streeterville to Edgewater, former city cemetery turned park in 1865, home to Lincoln Park Zoo, Conservatory, and Chicago History Museum.

Lincoln Park Zoo

Lincoln Park Zoo is a 49-acre zoo in Chicago's Lincoln Park, founded in 1868 and open free of charge every day of the year, with nearly 200 species.

Lincoln's Inn Fields

Lincoln's Inn Fields, formerly Fickett's, Purse, and Cup Fields, is London's largest garden square, a Grade II registered park in Holborn, Camden, laid out formally in 1735 and opened to the public by the LCC in 1894.

LiuDui Hakka Cultural Park

Liudui Hakka Cultural Park (六堆客家文化园区) is a free, 30-hectare national Hakka culture park in Neipu, Pingtung County, Taiwan, opened October 22, 2011, with umbrella-shaped solar buildings, tobacco and rice exhibitions, and children's museums.

Lodi Gardens

Lodi Gardens (Lodhi Garden), New Delhi: 90-acre park inaugurated 1936 as Lady Willingdon Park, renamed after 1947; holds Sayyid and Lodi tombs including Muhammad Shah's 1444 tomb and Sikandar Lodi's tomb; redesigned 1968 by Joseph Allen Stein.

MacArthur Park

MacArthur Park, formerly Westlake Park, is a roughly 40-acre Los Angeles park in Westlake, renamed for General Douglas MacArthur in 1942, bisected by Wilshire Boulevard in 1934, and known for its lake, protest history, and recent stormwater and reconnect projects.

Madurodam

Madurodam, in The Hague, Netherlands, is a 1:25-scale miniature attraction park opened 2 July 1952 as a memorial to war hero George Maduro, with 430 miniatures, seven indoor attractions, and revenue donated to children's charities.

Mankus Eco Park

Mankus Eco Park (Մանկուս Էկո Պարկ) is a family eco-resort in Dzoraghbyur, Kotayk, Armenia, run by Mankus Eco LLC since 2020, offering glamping and cottages, horse riding, archery, and an Armenian-European restaurant.

Manlong Guiyu (Hangzhou Children's Park)

Manlong Guiyu (满陇桂雨), also Hangzhou Children's Park, is a West Lake New Top 10 scenic site on Hupao Road with 3,000+ osmanthus trees of 80+ varieties and Hangzhou's earliest-blooming 'star osmanthus' tree.