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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.

Fulham Palace

Fulham Palace, London SW6: historic residence of the Bishops of London from AD 704 until 1973, Grade I listed, Scheduled Ancient Monument, 13-acre botanic garden, now a free museum run by Fulham Palace Trust.

Fun City Park

Fun City Park, Aden theme park in Yemen's Crater district (Q2HW+74P), distinct from namesake Fun City parks in Sana'a, Melbourne, and the Gulf; open daily 15:30-23:00, phone +967 2 254 200, rated 3.9/5 from 764 reviews.

Fun Dunya

Fun Dunya (فن دنیا) is a chain of family amusement parks in Pakistan, with locations in Gujranwala, Faisalabad, and Lahore offering rides for all ages.

Fun Works

Fun Works (فن وركس) is a family entertainment center brand of Landmark Leisure, Landmark Group's entertainment division, founded 1999, with 80+ locations in the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and India for children 1-12; distinct from a Texas trucking firm, a Cypriot company, and other namesakes.

Fun World \ Sumqayıt

Fun World (Sumqayıt) is an entertainment center at 71 Z. Hajiyev street near Heydər Əliyev Park, opened 26 December 2015 as the city's first, reopened in 2021 with over 100 attractions, phones 050/077 378 10 10.

Fundus (Dic)itanus

Fundus (Dic)itanus, also Fundus Dicitanus, is an ancient Roman villa-estate in northern Tunisia, Barrington Atlas 33 F1, identified with Henchir-Sidi Salah, attested 30 BC to AD 640.

Fundy Biosphere Reserve

Fundy Biosphere Reserve (Fundy Biosphere Region), a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site in New Brunswick designated in 2007, covering over 442,000 hectares from St. Martins to Sackville and inland to Moncton, with Fundy National Park as core area.

Funeral practices and burial customs in the Philippines

Filipino funeral practices and burial customs: precolonial jar, boat, and hanging-coffin burials, Catholic wakes with abuloy contributions, Muslim quick burial, costs from P20,000 packages to P1.5 million, and RA 12309 free funeral services.

Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)

Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front), or Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale, is a 139-part transnational UNESCO World Heritage property in Belgium and France, inscribed in 2023 under criteria (iii), (iv), and (vi).

Funerary chapel of Shepenupet II, Nitocris I and Mehytenweskhet

Stone tomb chapel at Medinet Habu, Thebes, for God's Wives Shepenupet II and Nitocris I and queen Mehytenweskhet; three burial chambers under the floor, reliefs, sarcophagi later found at Deir el-Medina.

Funerary monuments in piazza del Corso (Nocera Inferiore)

Funerary monuments in piazza del Corso (Monumenti funerari di piazza del Corso), Nocera Inferiore, Italy: Roman tombs and a stretch of the Nuceria-Stabia road, in use from the late 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD, reopened to visitors in 2017.

Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sardinia – The domus de janas

Domus de janas ("fairy houses") are Sardinia's Neolithic rock-cut chamber tombs, 5th–3rd millennium BCE; a serial UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 12 July 2025 under criterion (iii), with about 3,500 hypogea island-wide.

Funiushan UNESCO Global Geopark

Funiushan UNESCO Global Geopark (伏牛山), Henan, China: a geopark in the Qinling Orogenic Belt, designated 2015, known for Cretaceous dinosaur-egg fossils at Sanlimiao, Xixia County, and Jiguan Cave.

FunTura (India)

Funtura (ഫൺടൂര) is Lulu International Shopping Malls' indoor family entertainment center brand in India, with venues in Thiruvananthapuram (85,000 sq ft, Roll Glider, bowling, coaster) and Bengaluru (70,000+ sq ft).

Furfane

Furfane (Furfanae) was a Roman road station in Apulia, Italy, shown on the Peutinger map 18 miles west of Herdonia, near modern Cerignola, on the Via Appia/Via Traiana route; identification with S. Marco is conjectural.

Fury 325

Fury 325 is a Bolliger & Mabillard giga coaster at Carowinds near Charlotte, opened March 28, 2015. 325 feet tall, 95 mph, 6,602-foot track; nine-time Golden Ticket Best Steel Coaster winner.

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.

Gabaland Entertainment

Gabaland (Qəbələnd Əyləncə Mərkəzi) is Azerbaijan's largest amusement park, a 16-hectare complex in Gabala opened in 2016, offering roller coasters, water slides, go-karts, ice skating, and family attractions.

Gabr-i Mader-i Soleiman

Gabr-i Mader-i Soleiman, 'tomb of the mother of Solomon', the Islamic-era local name for the gabled stone tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae, Fars, Iran; identified as his tomb in the 19th century after centuries of Solomonic veneration.

Gabrias

Gabrias: an ancient place in Lozere, France, recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer (BAtlas 17 A4) as a temple or sanctuary site occupied around 30 BC to AD 300; also a modern commune near Mende, and a variant spelling of the fabulist Babrias.

Gabris

Gabris (Gabrae), a road station of the Bituriges Cubi on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Avaricum and Tasciaca in Aquitania, generally identified with Chabris or Gièvres in modern France.

Gadebridge

Gadebridge Park Roman villa, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire: Romano-British villa occupied from about AD 75, excavated 1963-68 by David Neal, with England's largest known villa swimming pool, demolished around AD 353.

Gadot Zoo

Gadot Zoo (פינת חי גדות) is a small free-admission petting zoo at Kibbutz Gadot on the Korazim Plateau, Northern District, Israel, open daily from morning to dark, near Jacob's Ford and Gadot Lookout.

Gaganae

Gaganae (Tabula Peutingeriana: Gaganis; Ravenna Cosmography: Gazanam) was a Roman road station on the Tibiscum–Tsierna road in western Dacia, identified with Armeniş, Romania, though Mommsen proposed Slatina.

Gagron Fort (गागरोन का किला)

Gagron Fort (गागरोन का किला), a hill and water fort in Jhalawar, Rajasthan, at the Ahu–Kali Sindh river confluence; one of six UNESCO Hill Forts of Rajasthan inscribed in 2013, with 14 recorded attacks.

Gaimanova Mogila

Gaimanova Mogila (Гайманова Могила), a 4th-century BC Scythian royal kurgan near Balky, Zaporizhzhia oblast, Ukraine, excavated 1969–70 by Bidzilia; famous for the gilded silver Gaimanova bowl in Kyiv's Museum of Historical Treasures.

Galava

Galava is the traditional Roman name of the fort at Ambleside, Cumbria, at the head of Lake Windermere; a turf fort of about AD 90 was replaced by a Hadrianic stone fort holding 500 soldiers, occupied into the 4th century, though some scholars now favor the name Clanoventa.

Galaxy Macau Casino

Galaxy Macau Casino (澳門銀河) is the casino of the Galaxy Macau integrated resort on Macau's Cotai Strip, run by Galaxy Entertainment Group's Galaxy Casino, S.A., with roughly 650-700 tables, 1,200-1,500 slots, and a concession running to 2032.

Galaxy park

Galaxy park (جالاكسي بارك) is a Jordanian chain of indoor mall-based amusement and arcade parks run by the Jordanian Company for Entertainment Centers since 2014, with six branches in Amman, Zarqa, and Irbid; distinct from the Seoul Galaxy Robot Park and the Studio 100 TV series.