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Jardí Botànic Marimurtra (southern europe, r8287022)

Jardí Botànic Marimurtra, also Mar i Murtra, is a botanical garden in Blanes, Costa Brava, Catalonia, founded in 1921 by Carl Faust; record 235,395 visitors in 2025, centenary year, with palms, cacti and Mediterranean collections.

Jardí botànic Pinya de Rosa

Jardí botànic Pinya de Rosa (Jardí d'Aclimatació Pinya de Rosa) is a cactus and succulent garden in Blanes, Catalonia, Spain, created by Ferran Rivière and completed in 1952.

Jardí d'en Vicent Navarro Andreu

Jardí d'en Vicent Navarro Andreu (Jardín de Don Vicent Navarro Andreu) is a memorial garden in Benicàssim, Castellón, Spain, created July 2004 to honor a house gardener of 50 years, near Capilla del Pilar and Hotel Voramar.

Jardín Botánico de Buenos Aires

The Jardín Botánico de Buenos Aires, also known as the Jardín Botánico Carlos Thays, is a botanical garden in Buenos Aires designed by Carlos Thays and inaugurated in 1898.

Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Granada

Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Granada: small historic university botanical garden in central Granada, Spain, founded 1850 under Mariano del Amo y Mora on the former Jesuit Colegio de San Pablo orchard; preserves a 14-bed Jussieu Escuela Botánica, a Ginkgo biloba of 1889, and about 150 species.

Jardín Botánico del Instituto de Biología (UNAM)

The Jardín Botánico del Instituto de Biología is the botanical garden of UNAM in Mexico City, founded in 1959, holding the country's largest living plant collection.

Jardin botanique Jean Massart - Botanische tuin Jean Massart

Jardin botanique Jean Massart (Botanische tuin Jean Massart), a 4.5-hectare ULB university botanical garden in Auderghem, Brussels, founded in 1922 by botanist Jean Massart, with about 2,000 plant species, Natura 2000 protection, and over 4,000 recorded arthropod species.

Jardín de l’Albarda

Jardín de l'Albarda (Jardí de l'Albarda) is a 50,000 m² Renaissance-style Mediterranean garden in Pedreguer, Alicante, created in 1990 by Enrique Montoliu and owned by FUNDEM, with over 700 native plant species, rose and palm collections, and sustainable low-water management.

Jardin de l'Entente

Jardin de l'Entente is a reported name for a public garden in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad; no compiled source confirms the garden, its location, or its origins.

Jardin de la Retraite

Jardin de la Retraite (Garden of Retreat) is a 4,500 m² walled botanical garden in Quimper, Brittany, with three themed exotic gardens (subtropical, palm grove, dry), opened to the public in 1979 on the site of the Dames de la Retraite convent garden.

Jardin de Tivoli, Paris

Jardin de Tivoli (Grand Tivoli) was a Directory-era Paris pleasure garden, opened 1795 on Simon-Gabriel Boutin's Folie Boutin estate at rue Saint-Lazare, offering fireworks, concerts and balloon experiments; closed 1810, built over 1826, and an inspiration for Copenhagen's Tivoli.

Jardin des plantes

The Jardin des plantes is a historic botanical garden in Paris's 5th arrondissement, founded in 1635 and serving as the heart of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.

Jardin des Vestiges

Jardin des Vestiges, now Port Antique: archaeological garden in central Marseille opened 1983, preserving remains from France's first major urban excavation (1967–1983) behind the Centre Bourse, including the Hellenistic mur de Crinas rampart and Roman port structures.

Jardin du Luxembourg

Jardin du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Gardens, a 23-hectare Senate-managed garden in Paris's 6th arrondissement created by Marie de Médicis from 1612 around the Palais du Luxembourg, with nearly 3,000 trees and the Medici Fountain.

Jardin Exotique

Jardin Exotique (Jardin Exotique de Monaco), a cliffside botanical garden of over 1,000 succulent species opened 13 February 1933 under Prince Louis II; distinct from the 1949 Jardin Exotique d'Èze; reopened 30 March 2026 after six years of works.

Jardin méditerranéen de la Paix

Jardin méditerranéen de la Paix, a 900 m2 Mediterranean peace garden in walled Quimper, Brittany, opened 12 April 2013 above the Jardin de la Retraite, planted only with Mediterranean species and marked by an Albert Camus peace plaque.

Jardin Zoologique (Algeria)

Jardin Zoologique (حديقة الحيوانات), the Algiers zoo founded in 1900 by Joseph d'Ange inside the Jardin d'Essai du Hamma; about one hectare, closed 2001, rehabilitated from 2004.

Jasper National Park

Jasper National Park, Alberta's largest Canadian Rockies national park at over 11,000 square kilometres, established 1907, a Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks UNESCO World Heritage site, recovering from the 2024 Jasper Wildfire.

Jasujeong Land

Jasujeong Land (자수정동굴나라, Amethyst Cave Land) is a cave theme park in Ulju-gun, Ulsan, South Korea, built in a former amethyst mine tunnel: 2.5 km of passages on two levels, 12-16°C year-round, walking and boat tours, and a Jurassic World dinosaur exhibit.

Jatayu Earth's Center Nature Park

Jatayu Earth's Center Nature Park (ജടായു ഭൂകേന്ദ്രം), also Jatayu Adventure Center, is a BOT tourism park at Jatayupara, Chadayamangalam, Kollam, Kerala, featuring the 200-ft Jatayu bird sculpture, cable car, and adventure activities.

Jatkara Mound

Jatkara Mound, or Bijamandal (Vaidyanath) mound, near Jatkara village southeast of Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh; ASI excavations from 1998-99 revealed the largest temple plinth at Khajuraho, 34.60 m, an incomplete late 10th-early 11th century Shiva temple.

Jayavarman VII as Buddha

Jayavarman VII as Buddha is the identification of the Cambodian king Jayavarman VII (r. 1181–1218) with the Buddha, shown in portrait statues and the face towers of the Bayon temple.

Jebel El Dair Biosphere Reserve

Jebel El Dair (Jebel Al Dair) Biosphere Reserve, North Kordofan, Sudan: UNESCO MAB site designated 2017, 637,400 ha around the Al Dair massif, third Sudanese biosphere reserve, with 112 plant species, 220 birds, and 191 wildlife species recorded.

Jebel Moneijah

Jebel Moneijah (Jebel Moneijat Musa), a 1165 m mountain near Jebel Serbal above the Feiran Oasis in southern Sinai, site of a Nabataean sanctuary with Nabataean inscriptions rich in priestly titles, later a Bedouin cult place of Moses.

Jebel Shaqadud

Jebel Shaqadud (Shaqadud Mountain) is an archaeological site complex in north-west Butana, central Sudan, 115 km north-east of Khartoum, preserving the longest continuous Holocene sequence in the eastern Sahel, from the twelfth millennium BP, with Mesolithic and Neolithic midden, cave, and rock art sites.

Jeffers Petroglyphs

The Jeffers Petroglyphs is a historic site in Cottonwood County, Minnesota, with more than 5,000 Native American carvings spanning roughly 7,000 years, managed by the Minnesota Historical Society.

Jefferson Memorial

Jefferson Memorial: neoclassical domed rotunda in Washington, D.C., honoring Thomas Jefferson. Designed by John Russell Pope, begun 1938, dedicated April 13, 1943 on Jefferson's 200th birthday; 19-foot bronze statue, Tidal Basin site aligned with the White House.

jeffin

Jeffin is a name with several unrelated uses: a casino in Doha, Qatar, a Fortnite creator account, Kansas City slang, and the name of several people.

Jeju Dinosaur Theme Park

제주공룡랜드 (Jeju Dinosaur Theme Park) is a dinosaur theme park in Aewol, Jeju City, opened 2007, with about 230 dinosaur figures, a marine museum, and a 3D theater; currently closed for remodeling.

Jeju Herb Dongsan

Jeju Herb Dongsan (제주허브동산), a themed herb garden in Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo-si, Jeju, with about 150 herb and wildflower species, a Golden Foot Bath, and a nighttime LED light display from 6 p.m.