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Bison compound
Pokazowa Zagroda Żubrów (European Bison Show Farm), Pszczyna, Poland: bison display and breeding compound in the historic Pszczyna Park, opened 1 June 2008, keeping the Pszczyna (PL) lowland bison subline on almost 10 hectares.
Black Park
Black Park (Black Park Country Park) is a 217-hectare country park at Wexham, south Buckinghamshire, near Slough, designated in 1970; known for heathland SSSI, Black Park Lake, Go Ape, and Pinewood Studios filming.
Bois de Boulogne
Bois de Boulogne: 846-hectare public woodland in Paris's 16th arrondissement, former royal hunting ground (forêt de Rouvray), redesigned from 1852 under Napoleon III by Hittorff, Alphand, and Haussmann, with lakes, Bagatelle, and the Jardin d'Acclimatation.
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."
Chatelherault Country Park
Chatelherault Country Park, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire: 500-acre park around William Adam's 1732 hunting lodge for the 5th Duke of Hamilton, opened 1987, with Cadzow Oaks, Avon Gorge, and Cadzow Castle.
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.
Children's Park
Дзіцячы парк (children's park): a public park designed primarily for children's play and recreation. Chief example, the Central Children's Park named after Maxim Gorky in Minsk, founded 1805, made a children's park in 1960, 28 ha, 54 m Ferris wheel.
Chinese Garden (Russia)
Chinese gardens in Russia: the Friendship Garden in Saint Petersburg (2003, Shanghai's gift, copy of Yu Yuan) and Huamin Park in Moscow (2019, largest Chinese landscape park outside China), plus historic chinoiserie gardens.
Cleveland Metroparks
Cleveland Metroparks is a park district in Northeast Ohio, established in 1917 as Ohio's first countywide park district, managing over 25,000 acres across 18 reservations, a zoo, and nine golf courses.
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.
Coombe Abbey
Coombe Abbey (Combe Abbey), a Cistercian monastery founded in 1150 near Coventry, dissolved 1539, later the Craven family seat with Capability Brown parkland; now a Grade I listed hotel in a Grade II registered country park.
Cosmeston Lakes Country Park
Cosmeston Lakes Country Park: country park and Local Nature Reserve near Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, on former limestone quarries; SSSI lakes with rare starry stonewort, Medieval Village, and the 2025 Aqua Park pilot paused for 2026.
Country parks in England
Country parks in England are countryside areas at the edge of urban areas, provided by local authorities under the Countryside Act 1968 for public enjoyment.
Country parks in Northern Ireland
Country parks in Northern Ireland are recreation-led countryside sites run by district councils or the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, informally named because the region has no legal country park designation.
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.
Dance floor
Танцювальний майданчик (dance floor) is an open-air park dancing area of Soviet-era Ukrainian parks of culture and rest, exemplified by Lviv's 'Клітка' and Kyiv's 'Жаба', with live music, paid entry, and many surviving as rentable municipal property.
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.