Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Al Hefaiyah Reserve

Al Hefaiyah Reserve, also known as the Al Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre, is a wildlife reserve near Kalba, Sharjah, home to Arabian leopards and wolves.

Al-Hukair Time (Al Hokair Time) is a Saudi chain of family entertainment centers and commercial complexes by Al Hokair Group, with Sparky's, Snowy Forest, and Sky Zone brands, including an indoor theme park in Makkah and a Dammam REIT property.

Al Jabal Al Akhdar Biosphere Reserve

Al Jabal Al Akhdar Biosphere Reserve (محمية الجبل الأخضر), Oman's first UNESCO biosphere reserve (2025), protects the Western Hajar limestone massif from 600 to 2,980 m, with juniper forests, Arabian tahr, and terraced falaj agriculture.

Al Karmel

Al Karmel (مسبح ومنتزه الكرمل) is a swimming pool and tourist park in Beit Kahil, Hebron Governorate, West Bank, opened in 2007, with adult and children's pools, Turkish bath, sauna, games hall, and cafeteria, distinct from the village al-Karmil south of Hebron.

Al Muqran Family Park

Al Muqran Family Park (Al Mogran Family Park, منتزه المقرن العائلي) is an amusement park in Khartoum, Sudan, at the confluence of the White and Blue Niles. Opened under Nimeiri, run by the armed forces and later the Martyr Organization, closed in the 2010s, and mined during the 2023 war.

Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad

Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad (قلعة بني حمّاد), also called Beni Hammad Fort, is a ruined 11th-century fortified city in Algeria, first capital of the Hammadid emirs, founded 1007, abandoned 1090, demolished 1152, UNESCO-listed 1980.

Al Reem Biosphere Reserve

Al Reem Biosphere Reserve: Qatar's first UNESCO Man and the Biosphere reserve (designated 2007, established by Emiri Decree 7 of 2005), a 125,400 ha desert and coastal protected area in northwest Qatar with reintroduced gazelle and oryx.

Al Shallal Theme Park

Al Shallal Theme Park (ملاهي الشلال) is an amusement park on the Jeddah Corniche in Saudi Arabia, opened in 2005 and operated by the Fakieh Group.

al tahona

al tahona (الطاحونة, "the mill") is a casino and riverside restaurant in the Mosul forests area of Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, at 36.37552°N, 43.11041°E, known for masgouf grilled fish, distinct from the Baghdad Al-Tahoona Bakery.

Al Zubarah Archaeological Site

Al Zubarah Archaeological Site: abandoned walled pearling and trading town in northwest Qatar, founded by Utub merchants from Kuwait, destroyed 1811, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013, Qatar's first.

Al-Ahsa Oasis

Al-Ahsa Oasis (واحة الأحساء) in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province is a UNESCO World Heritage serial site (2018) of twelve parts with over 2.5 million date palms, the world's largest oasis, farmed from the Neolithic to today.

Al-Andalus Garden

Al-Andalus Garden (Hadiqat al-Andalus) is a 1935 heritage garden on Gezira Island, Cairo, built by Mohamed Bey Zulfikar in Andalusian and Pharaonic styles; Egypt's first registered heritage garden, restored and reopened in 2024.

Al-Baqi Cemetery

Al-Baqi Cemetery (Jannat al-Baqi, Baqi al-Gharqad) is Medina's main cemetery beside the Prophet's Mosque, holding about 10,000 Companions, the Prophet's family, and four Shia Imams; its mausoleums were demolished in 1806 and 1925.

Al-Ettifaq Club Stadium

Al-Ettifaq Club Stadium is a football stadium in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, and the home ground of Al-Ettifaq Club of the Saudi Pro League, with a capacity near 12,900.

Al-Forat Park

متنزه الفرات (Al-Forat Park, Euphrates Park): name shared by several Iraqi recreation places, notably a park and adjoining casino in Samawah, Muthanna Governorate, a free family park in Najaf/Kufa, and parks in Dhi Qar and Anbar.

Al-Hadriyah

Al-Hadriyah (الحدريه), Arabic term for a medieval sea-route stop east of al-Shihr, a Bahraini place name, Oman's coastal al-Hadriyah regions, a cool summer wind, and an Iraqi casino name.

Al-Kamsari Amusement Park

Al-Kamsari Amusement Park (حديقة الكمسري للألعاب) is an amusement park in Aden, Yemen, on the site of the 1952 Bustan al-Kamasri garden in Sheikh Othman; converted to rides in the 1980s, closed in the 2015 war, reopened 2017, with one Looping Star coaster.

Al-Karkh Amusement Park

Al-Karkh Amusement Park (مدينة العاب الكرخ) is an operating amusement park in Baghdad, Iraq, with three steel roller coasters, on the Karkh side of the Tigris.

Al-Khazneh (الخزنة)

Al-Khazneh (الخزنة), the Treasury, is Petra's monumental rock-cut tomb façade at the end of the Siq, Jordan. Long misnamed a treasury, it is a royal Nabataean tomb, probably of Aretas IV (9 BC–AD 40), carved top-down.

Al-Rehab Palace

Al-Rehab Palace, also known as Qasr al-Rihab, was a royal residence in Baghdad where King Faisal II lived until army officers massacred the royal family in 1958.

Al-Sabeen Park

Al-Sabeen Park (حديقة السبعين) is the largest public park in Sana'a, Yemen, at about 391,000 square meters, established by investor Abdulla Al-Maghshi in 1986 with Yemen's first amusement city, and a leading family recreation venue.

Al-Shihr Corniche Park

Al-Shihr Corniche Park (حديقة كورنيش الشحر) is a public waterfront park in Al-Shihr District, Hadhramaut, Yemen, part of a World Bank-funded, UNOPS-implemented three-phase corniche; phase one opened 27 December 2023 at US$560,000 over 150 by 50 meters.

Al-Zahawi

Al-Zahawi (الزهاوي) chiefly denotes Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (1863–1936), Iraqi poet, philosopher, and Ottoman deputy for Baghdad, and Baghdad's al-Zahawi Cafe, founded 1917, renamed for him in 1936; also Iraqi places and the calligrapher Khalil al-Zahawi.

Ala Nova

Ala Nova (Ala Nova, Schwechat) was a Roman cavalry fort (ala) on the Danube Limes in Pannonia Superior, Austria, occupied about 100–500 AD, with 2009/2010 excavations revealing barracks, a 140-grave cemetery, and later Avar settlement.

Alabama Memorial Preservation Act

The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act is a 2017 Alabama statute barring state and local governments from removing or altering monuments on public property, with $25,000 fines.

Alabonte

Alabonte (also Alabons, Alamonte; TP Alarante) was a Roman mansio in Vocontii territory on the Arelate–Mediolanium road between Segustero and Vapincum, identified with Le Monestier-d'Allemont, France.

Alabum

Alabum was a Roman auxiliary fort on Llanfair Hill near Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, established in the mid-1st century AD as part of the Roman advance into south Wales.

Alakol Biosphere Reserve

Alakol Biosphere Reserve (Алакөл) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in southeastern Kazakhstan, designated in 2013 around the Alakol-Sasykkol saline and freshwater lakes, a Ramsar wetland and major Eurasian waterbird migration site.

Alakol-Sasykkol Lakes System

Alakol-Sasykkol Lakes System (Ramsar site 1892, designated 25 November 2009): a 914,663-ha wetland complex in eastern Kazakhstan's Balkhash-Alakol basin, with brackish endorheic Alakol, freshwater Tentek-fed Sasykkol, 342 bird species, and Kazakhstan's largest nesting wetland-bird reserve.