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Harbin Ice and Snow World

Harbin Ice and Snow World (哈尔滨冰雪大世界), founded 1999 on Sun Island, Harbin, is the world's largest annual ice-and-snow theme park; its 26th edition drew a record 3.56 million visits over 68 days.

Harbin Polarland

Harbin Polarland (哈尔滨极地公园), also known as Harbin Polar Land, is a polar-animal theme park and aquarium on Sun Island in Harbin, China, opened in 2006.

Harbin Theme Park

Harbin Theme Park: chiefly Harbin Cultural Park (哈尔滨文化公园, formerly Harbin Amusement Park), a 22.8 ha park founded 1958 with a 110 m Ferris wheel; also covers Harbin Ice and Snow World, the world's largest ice-and-snow park.

Harbin Zoo

Harbin Zoo was the city zoo of Harbin, China, founded in 1954, renamed in 1964, and closed in 2003 when its animals moved to a new forest site.

Harding Icefield

Harding Icefield, Alaska icefield in the Kenai Mountains, heart of Kenai Fjords National Park; ~700 sq mi with 38 outflowing glaciers including Exit and Aialik, thinning since the 1950s.

Harenatium

Harenatium, also Arenacum or Arenatio, a Roman fort and settlement on the Lower German limes between Nijmegen and Xanten, 1st-3rd century AD, probably at Rindern near Kleve; winter camp of legio X Gemina in AD 70, later a Rhine cavalry base.

Haripur Mound

Haripur Mound (Haripurgarh), Mayurbhanj district, Odisha: ASI-protected ruins of the ancient fort and 60-foot Mud Fort mound, Bhanja dynasty capital from the 14th to 17th century, with Rasikaraya, Radhamohana, and Jagannatha temples. Distinct from Haripur village in Khordha.

Harmozike

Harmozike (Ἁρμοζική), also Armazi, Armazistsikhe, Hermastus, was the royal citadel of Caucasian Iberia on Bagineti hill at Mtskheta, Georgia, captured by Pompey in 65 BC and fortified with Roman help under Vespasian.

Harpelev

Harpelev, a village near Næstved on southern Sjælland, Denmark, is a small Late Roman Iron Age cemetery of four graves excavated 1962–63 and published by Ulla Lund Hansen in 1976, dated C1b (AD 210/220–250/60), whose publication introduced a new Zealand pottery chronology.

Harpole Roman villa (United Kingdom)

Harpole Roman villa, Northamptonshire: 2nd-4th century Romano-British villa sites near Harpole west of Northampton, found 1846 with a mosaic, excavated 1966 and at Panattoni Park (2022), including a Scheduled Monument at Road Hill Farm.

Harrah's Las Vegas

Harrah's Las Vegas, a Caesars Entertainment hotel and casino at 3475 S Las Vegas Blvd on the center Strip; opened 1973 as the Holiday Casino, renamed Harrah's in 1992; 2,542 rooms, 87,000 sq ft casino, sold to VICI Properties in 2017.

Harrat Uwayrid Biosphere Reserve

Harrat Uwayrid Biosphere Reserve (حرّة عويرض), a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere reserve in AlUla, northwestern Saudi Arabia, designated 2022; largest of AlUla's five nature reserves, home to the Arabian leopard, Bedouin and Hadar communities, and an 8.2–0.3 Ma basalt volcanic field.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler

Harrison Ruffin Tyler (1928-2025), last living grandson of President John Tyler; ChemTreat co-founder; restored Sherwood Forest Plantation and Fort Pocahontas; gave $5 million to William & Mary.

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey is a robotic-arm dark ride inside Hogwarts castle in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, opened 2010 at Universal's Islands of Adventure and later at Hollywood and Osaka, winning repeated Best Dark Ride awards.

Hărţăgani

Hărţăgani (Hercegány) is a village in Băița commune, Hunedoara County, Romania, in the Metaliferi Mountains' Golden Quadrilateral, with Roman gold mines on Măgura Băii (RAN 88154.02–06), an Antoninus Pius coin, and Neolithic to Bronze Age settlement traces.

Harz - Braunschweiger Land - Ostfalen UNESCO Global Geopark

Harz – Braunschweiger Land – Ostfalen UNESCO Global Geopark: Germany's largest geopark, over 9,650 km² across three federal states; founded 2002, UNESCO title 2015, over 1,000 years of mining history.

Hassleben

Hassleben (Haßleben), Sömmerda district, Thuringia, Germany: village with rich Roman Iron Age Germanic princely graves, type site of the Haßleben-Leuna group; Grave 8 (1912) held four aurei and Roman imports.

Hasta

Hasta (Asta): name of two Roman road stations on the Tabula Peutingeriana, one on the Via Aurelia at Alberese in Etruria and one on the Ligurian coast near Voltri west of Genoa; also the ancient name of Asti.

Hasunuma Seaside Park Kodomo-no-Hiroba

Hasunuma Seaside Park Kodomo-no-Hiroba (蓮沼海浜公園 こどものひろば) is the children's ride area of a Chiba prefectural park in Sanmu, Japan, featuring Japan's longest 2.1 km miniature train, go-karts, and novelty bicycles, with free entry and paid attractions.

Haţeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark

Hațeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark (Geoparcul Țara Hațegului), Romania's first geopark, in Hunedoara County; managed by the University of Bucharest, GGN member since 2005, UNESCO Global Geopark since 2015, known for dwarf dinosaur fossils of the former Hațeg Island.

Hathi Kund Mound

Hathi Kund (हाथी कुंड) is a small 16th-century religious tank inside Chittorgarh Fort, Rajasthan, near the Kalika Mata temple road, abandoned and under ASI Jodhpur Circle conservation, distinct from the Bhuila namesake tank and Mathura's Hathi Tila mound.

Hathili Mound

Hathili Mound, also called the Asokanath Mahadeva mound, is a centrally protected ASI monument (N-UP-S62) at Hathili village, Gonda district, Uttar Pradesh: a brick-covered mound with ruins of a Shiva temple, notified in 1920 under the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act.

Hatley Park National Historic Site

Hatley Park National Historic Site, Colwood, British Columbia: 228.84-hectare Edwardian estate with Hatley Castle (1908-09, Samuel Maclure), built for James Dunsmuir, later Royal Roads Military College and Royal Roads University.

Hatra

Hatra (Al-Hadr), ancient fortified caravan city in northern Iraq, 110 km southwest of Mosul; capital of the first Arab Kingdom under Parthian influence, repelled Trajan (116 CE) and Septimius Severus, destroyed by the Sasanians in 240/241 CE, UNESCO World Heritage site since 1985, in danger since 2015.

Hatria (Picenum)

Hatria, later Hadria (Greek Adria), ancient Picenum city at modern Atri, Italy; Latin colony from about 289 BC, HAT bronze coinage, loyal Latin colony in the Second Punic War, wine amphorae, family origin of Emperor Hadrian.

Hattusa

Hattusa (Ḫattuša, Hattuşa), Hittite capital c. 1650–1180 BC at Boğazkale, Çorum, Turkey; UNESCO World Heritage 1986, 8 km walls, 30,000 cuneiform tablets, Yazılıkaya sanctuary, destroyed c. 1190 BC.

Hatvan

Hatvan, town in Heves County, Hungary, on the Zagyva river; namesake of the Bronze Age Hatvan culture, Ottoman sanjak center from 1544, railway junction from 1867, and home of the Grassalkovich palace and Hunting Museum.

Haughey's Fort

Haughey's Fort is a Late Bronze Age hillfort near Armagh, Northern Ireland, occupied from about 1170 to 770 BC and part of the Navan complex of prehistoric monuments.

Haut Niger Biosphere Reserve

Haut Niger Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de Biosphère du Haut Niger), a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2002 in Guinea around Haut Niger National Park; 776,550 ha of Niger-basin dry forest, savanna, and gallery forest protecting chimpanzees, manatees, and lions.

Haute-Provence UNESCO Global Geopark

Haute-Provence UNESCO Global Geopark (Géoparc mondial UNESCO de Haute-Provence), first geopark created in 2000 at Digne-les-Bains, France; UNESCO-listed 2015; home of the Ammonite Slab and GGN headquarters.