Urban parks, public gardens, and country parks

Monkey Park Iwatayama

Monkey Park Iwatayama (Arashiyama Monkey Park Iwatayama, 嵐山モンキーパークいわたやま) is a Kyoto park on Mount Iwata, opened 1957, where about 120 wild Japanese macaques roam free and are fed through a hut's wire fence.

Morningside Park (Manhattan)

Morningside Park, Manhattan: Olmsted and Vaux hillside park between Morningside Heights and Harlem, 110th to 123rd Streets, about 30 acres, NYC Scenic Landmark, site of the abandoned 1968 Columbia gym.

Mount Edgcumbe

Mount Edgcumbe, Rame Peninsula, Cornwall: former seat of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe, a Grade I registered 205-hectare park and garden with a 1547-1550 Tudor house, Italian, French, and English gardens, and the UK's foremost camellia collection, a country park since 1971.

Mushthaidi Garden

Mushthaidi Garden (Mushtaid Garden, მუშთაიდის ბაღი) is a historic 1830s park in Tbilisi, Georgia, founded by the Persian mujtahid Mir-Fatah-Agha, home to the world's first children's railway (1935), the State Silk Museum, and Transcaucasia's first hot-air balloon ascent (1882).

Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski

Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski, also Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau, is a 559.9 ha transboundary landscape park on the Neisse between Germany and Poland, created 1815-1844 by Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau and UNESCO-listed in 2004.

MYUDa park

MYUDa park (Парк МЮДа) was a Kremenchuk, Ukraine public park established in 1938 near the DK Kredmash and railway station; it was completely destroyed in 2006 when developer Amstor-M felled 236 trees for the Eneida complex.

Mzoli's Park

Mzoli's Park is the informal name for the gathering space around Mzoli's Place, a butchery-restaurant in Gugulethu, Cape Town, founded by Edwin "Mzoli" Ngcawuzele and drawing up to 30,000 patrons on busy weekends.

Nakatsumiya Square

Nakatsumiya Square (中津宮広場) is a public garden and viewing plaza beside the Nakatsumiya sanctuary of Enoshima Shrine on Enoshima island, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan; known for seasonal flowers, camellias and February cherry blossoms, harbor views, and as a Shonan no Hoseki illumination site.

Nara Park (奈良公園)

Nara Park (奈良公園) is a 660-hectare public park in Nara, Japan, opened in 1880, famous for about 1,687 protected wild sika deer and World Heritage temples Tōdai-ji, Kōfuku-ji, and Kasuga Taisha.

National urban park

A national urban park is a national designation for large areas of urban nature and cultural landscape within a city. The first was created in Stockholm in 1995.

Norimae Park

Norimae Park (노리매공원) is a flower-themed park in Daejeong-eup, Seogwipo-si, Jeju, opened in 2012 by Hanchang Industry chairman Kim Dong-gyu; its name joins 'play' and 'apricot', and it holds over 1,000 apricot trees and a February blossom festival.

North Saskatchewan River valley parks system

Edmonton's North Saskatchewan River valley parks system, the Ribbon of Green, is Canada's largest urban park: 160 km of pathways, 20 major parks, over 18,000 acres, shaped by the 1907 Todd plan, 1985 bylaw, and 2025 planning renewal.

Okolitsa Rural Park

Okolitsa (Сельский парк «Околица») is a rural park and open-air wooden-architecture museum in Zorkaltsevo, 17 km from Tomsk, Russia; first rural park beyond the Urals and venue of the Axe Festival since 2013.

Oriental Land (site)

Oriental Land (东方绿舟) is a large education-and-leisure park opened in 2001 near Dianshan Lake in Qingpu District, Shanghai, run by the city education commission, with a full-scale replica aircraft carrier, 16 scenic spots, and AAAA rating.

Park conservancy

A park conservancy is a private nonprofit organization that raises and spends money to operate or improve a public park it does not own, working under agreement with government.

Park Güell

Park Güell: Gaudí-designed garden complex on Barcelona's El Carmel hill, built 1900–1914 as a failed garden-city housing estate, a municipal park since 1926, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984, with 4.4 million annual visitors.

Park HaMishpacha

Park HaMishpacha (פארק המשפחה, Family Park) is an 18-dunam free-entry family park in central Karmiel, Israel, on Sderot Kakal, known for its 'A Flat for Rent' play tower, water fountains, and 2014 State Comptroller ruling ending entrance fees; other Israeli cities have parks of the same name.

Park Kultura i Otdikha

Park Kultura i Otdikha (Парк культуры и отдыха, Park of Culture and Rest) is a public park and tourist attraction in central Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia, near Tuymaada Stadium, with forest walking and running trails.

Park of the Four Elements

Парк чатырох стыхій (Park of the Four Elements) is an 18.5-hectare public park opened in 2008 in central Salihorsk, Belarus, with zones symbolizing fire, water, earth, and air, including a 740-jet fountain, sponsored by Belaruskali.

Park of the Reserve

Park of the Reserve (Parque de la Reserva), Lima: 8-hectare 1929 park by Claude Sahut honoring War of the Pacific reservists, home since 2007 to the Circuito Mágico del Agua, 13 fountains with a Guinness record and nearly 3 million 2024 visits.

Parks and open spaces in London

Parks and open spaces in London: over 3,000 publicly accessible green spaces covering 18% of the city, managed by boroughs, the Royal Parks, and the City of London, facing funding pressure and unequal access.

Parliament Square

Parliament Square, Westminster, London: garden square opposite the Palace of Westminster, laid out 1868 in Barry's scheme, redesigned 1948, with statues of Churchill, Mandela, Gandhi, and Fawcett, and special protest legislation.

Parque das Aves

Parque das Aves (Bird Park) is a private bird park and conservation center in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, founded by Dennis and Anna Croukamp in 1994 beside Iguaçu National Park; the largest bird park in Latin America, focused on Atlantic Forest species.

Parque del Buen Retiro, Madrid

Parque del Buen Retiro (El Retiro), Madrid's ~120-hectare former royal garden created for Philip IV in the 17th century, a municipal public park since 1868, home of the Crystal Palace and Alfonso XII monument, UNESCO-listed in 2021.

Pelham Bay Park

Pelham Bay Park is a public park in the northeastern Bronx on Long Island Sound, at 2,772 acres the largest municipal park in New York City.

Periurban space

Periurban space, also called peri-urban area, urban fringe, or rurban zone, is the transitional territory between city and countryside where urban and rural land uses mix. Defined variously by density thresholds (0–300 persons/km²), it is the fastest expanding land use globally and a major planning challenge.

Phoenix Park

Phoenix Park (Páirc an Fhionnuisce), also called Phoenix Park, Dublin, is a 707-hectare walled public park west of central Dublin, established in 1662 as a royal deer park.

Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de la Libération

Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de la Libération, formerly Place de Grève until 1803, is the Paris square facing the Hôtel de Ville in the 4th arrondissement, renamed for the Liberation of Paris and transformed into an urban forest inaugurated 21 June 2025.

Place de la Bastille

Place de la Bastille, Paris square at the junction of the 4th, 11th, and 12th arrondissements on the site of the Bastille fortress stormed 14 July 1789; dominated by the July Column (1831–1840) and bordered by the Opéra Bastille.