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Parks and public gardens (national, state, international, botanical, urban, and country parks)

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Free State National Botanical Garden

Free State National Botanical Garden, Bloemfontein, South Africa: SANBI-managed 70-hectare conservation garden, proclaimed 1967, opened 1969, with about 400 plant species, Grassland and Nama Karoo vegetation, and a National Monument listing.

French Park

French Park (Parcul Francez) is the largest urban green space of Ungheni, Moldova, 13.9 ha on the Prut River near the Eiffel bridge; its name origin is undocumented, and it is being regenerated since 2026.

Frogmore

Frogmore, also known as Frogmore Gardens, is a Grade I listed royal estate in Windsor Home Park, Berkshire, home to Frogmore House and royal burial sites.

Frozen Head State Park

Frozen Head State Park, also known as Frozen Head State Natural Area, is a park in the Cumberland Mountains of Morgan County, Tennessee, named for Frozen Head Mountain.

Fruit Garden

Fruit Garden (百果園/百果园) names several entities: the 6.67-hectare fruit-tree exhibition garden at Expo 2019 Beijing with 180 varieties, the Pagoda fruit retail chain founded in Shenzhen in 2002 with 4,000+ stores, and fruit parlors in Taipei and Tokyo.

FTA - Botanical garden

Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Tropical Agri-Food Systems (Botanická zahrada FTZ), Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Suchdol; founded 1968, specializes in tropical and subtropical useful plants, holds three National Collections including citrus.

Fukuoka City Botanical Gardens

Fukuoka City Botanical Garden (福岡市植物園) is a municipal botanical garden in Chuo Ward, Fukuoka, Japan, opened in 1980 on the former Hirao water purification plant site; it forms the botanical half of Fukuoka Zoo and Botanical Garden, with a 2,800 m² greenhouse and a 230-variety rose garden.

Fukuoka Municipal Zoo and Botanical Garden

Fukuoka Municipal Zoo and Botanical Garden (福岡市動植物園), a municipal zoo (opened 1953) and botanical garden (1980) sharing a hillside in Minami Park, Chuo Ward, Fukuoka, Japan; 91 animal species, about 2,600 plant kinds, 600 yen adult admission.

Fushan Botanical Garden

Fushan Botanical Garden (福山植物园) is a botanical garden in northern Taiwan run by the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, opened in 1993, with more than 700 native plant species.

Gan Hai in Petah Tikva

Gan Hai (גן החי בפתח תקווה), also called Petah Tikva Zoo, is a 12-dunam municipal zoo in Petah Tikva, Israel, opened in 1996 after the old 1954 city zoo closed; it holds 69 species, about 500 animals, a lake, monkey compound, and taxidermy museum.

Gana Florist

Gana Florist (가나식물원, Ganasingmulwon) is a small garden and recreation area in Usan-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, South Korea, at 35.1556°N 126.81683°E, near Gwangju Airport and other similarly named gardens.

Gaoligong Mountain Botanical Garden

Gaoligong Mountain Botanical Garden (高黎贡山植物园), a botanical garden in Tengchong, Baoshan, Yunnan, on Huayan Road, about 169.2 mu, plus a 98.31-million-yuan rare-endemic plant garden project with 11 specialized gardens.

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz

The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz (Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz) is an 18th-century landscape of parks and palaces in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, created by Prince Franz of Anhalt-Dessau and listed by UNESCO in 2000.

Garden of Exotic Plants

Garden of Exotic Plants (趣異植物園), a 550 m2 collection of 53 unusual plants built in 1994 within Macau's botanic garden on Coloane, featuring Kandelia obovata, Nepenthes mirabilis, and Drosera spathulata.

Garden of the Gods

Garden of the Gods is a free 1,341.3-acre city park and National Natural Landmark in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with red sandstone formations, about 4.5 to 6 million annual visitors, and a 1909 Perkins family donation requiring free public access forever.

Gardens by the Bay

Gardens by the Bay (滨海湾花园), Singapore's national garden at Marina Bay, comprises Bay South, Bay East, and Bay Central waterfront gardens. Opened 2012 after a 2006 design competition won by Grant Associates; known for Supertrees, cooled conservatories, and over 100 million visitors.

Gardens of Bomarzo

Gardens of Bomarzo, also called Sacro Bosco or Park of the Monsters (Parco dei Mostri), a 16th-century Mannerist sculpture park in Bomarzo, Lazio, Italy, built by Vicino Orsini from about 1552 with grotesque peperino sculptures.

Gardens of the Tigris Street Corniche

حدائق كورنيش شارع دجلة, gardens of the Tigris Street Corniche (كورنيش السرية والسراي) in Maysan Governorate, Iraq; first phase opened by Governor Ali Daway Lazim, built by Ufuq al-Mansour and Shamsa al-Iraq with gardens, lighting, and riverfront recreation.

Gardens of Versailles

The Gardens of Versailles, also called jardins du château de Versailles, are the French formal gardens laid out from 1661 by André Le Nôtre for Louis XIV, with the Grand Perspective, 400 statues, 14 groves, and gravity-fed fountains; free entry except on fountain-show days.

Garibaldi Provincial Park

Garibaldi Provincial Park, established 1927, is a 188,667 ha wilderness park in the Coast Mountains 64 km north of Vancouver, centered on 2,678 m Mount Garibaldi, with five Highway 99 trailheads, over 90 km of trails, and reservation-only backcountry camping.

Garner State Park

Garner State Park: Texas state park on the Frio River near Concan, Uvalde County, named for Vice President John Nance Garner; built by CCC Company 879 (1935–1941), dedicated June 1, 1941; 1,774 acres, 2.9 river miles, most-visited Texas state park.

Gas Works Park

Gas Works Park is a 20-acre Seattle park on Lake Union, created 1973–1976 by Richard Haag from a 1906–1956 coal gasification plant, a pioneering post-industrial landscape with ongoing contamination cleanup and 2026 tower safety removals.

Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve

Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska: 8.47-million-acre roadless Brooks Range unit established 1980 under ANILCA, named by Robert Marshall, least-visited U.S. national park, with six wild rivers and subsistence use.

Gateway Arch National Park

Gateway Arch National Park, formerly Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, is a 91-acre NPS unit in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, centered on Saarinen's 630-foot stainless steel Arch; redesignated a national park by Public Law 115-128 in February 2018.

Gazipur Safari Park

Gazipur Safari Park, formally Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park (বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিব সাফারি পার্ক), is a safari park in Gazipur, Bangladesh, opened 2013 on sal forest 40 km north of Dhaka, with a vehicle-only Core Safari and repeated animal welfare problems.

Genkaicho Next Generation Energy Park

Genkaicho Next Generation Energy Park (玄海町次世代エネルギーパーク), nicknamed Asupia, is a METI-certified hands-on energy education facility in Genkai Town, Saga, opened July 20, 2013, next to Kyushu Electric's Genkai Energy Park, with solar, wind, hydrogen, and biomass exhibits.

Geology of the Grand Canyon area

The geology of the Grand Canyon area exposes nearly two billion years of Earth history in the walls of the canyon cut by the Colorado River in northwestern Arizona.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver National Monument is a 240-acre National Park Service unit in southwest Missouri, preserving the Moses Carver farm where the scientist was born.

Gethsemane (גת שמנים)

Gethsemane (גת שמנים, "oil press") is the garden at the foot of Jerusalem's Mount of Olives where Jesus prayed before his arrest; eight ancient olive trees, radiocarbon-dated to medieval centuries, mark the Franciscan site.

Gibraltar Range National Park

Gibraltar Range National Park is a national park in northern New South Wales, Australia, between Glen Innes and Grafton, part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area.