Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Lake Nakuwa Wetland System

Lake Nakuwa Wetland System, Ramsar site 1635 in eastern Uganda's Kyoga basin, is a permanent papyrus swamp with satellite lakes; Uganda's largest Ramsar site at 417,254 ha, designated 2006.

Lake Natron Basin, a 224,781-ha Ramsar site (no. 1080) in Tanzania's Gregory Rift designated 4 July 2001, is the only regular East African breeding site of the Lesser Flamingo, hosting about 75% of the global population, and is threatened by recurring soda ash mining and Ewaso Ngiro dam proposals.

Lake Ngardok Nature Reserve

Lake Ngardok Nature Reserve (Melekeok State, Babeldaob, Palau) protects Lake Ngardok, Micronesia's largest natural freshwater lake. Established 1997, Ramsar site since 2002, first Palau PAN site in 2008, with crocodiles, endemic birds, and a ForestGEO forest plot.

Lake Niassa and its Coastal Zone

Lake Niassa and its Coastal Zone (Lago Niassa e Zona Costeira) is Mozambique's Ramsar Site no. 1964, designated 2011, 1,363,700 ha in Niassa Province, protecting the Mozambican part of Africa's third largest lake with about 90% endemic fish species.

Lake Opeta Wetland System

Lake Opeta Wetland System, a Ugandan Ramsar site (no. 1636, 2006, 68,912 ha) and Important Bird Area in Nakapiripirit, Sironko, Katakwi, and Kumi districts; refuge for Fox's weaver, shoebill, and fish extinct in Lakes Victoria and Kyoga.

Lake Oromeeh Biosphere Reserve

Lake Oromeeh Biosphere Reserve, the UNESCO designation (1976) of Lake Urmia (دریاچه ارومیه) in northwestern Iran: a hypersaline lake, Ramsar site, and national park, home to Artemia urmiana, now severely dried.

Lake Pinaroo

Lake Pinaroo (Fort Grey Basin), Ramsar site 799, is a 719 ha ephemeral terminal lake in Sturt National Park, far north-west NSW, listed 17 March 1996; it fills only when Frome Swamp overflows and can hold water up to six years.

Lake Pleasant Regional Park

Lake Pleasant Regional Park is a 23,362-acre Maricopa County park near Morristown, Arizona, also called Waddell Dam reservoir country, centered on the CAP's Lake Pleasant with boating, fishing, camping, and fluctuating 3,000-10,000-acre water surface.

Lake Qarun Protected Area

Lake Qarun Protected Area (محمية قارون), Egypt's Ramsar Site 2040 (2012, 134,042 ha) in Fayoum Governorate, protects a closed saline remnant of Lake Moeris; salinization and pollution have collapsed its fishery.

Lake Shawnee Amusement Park

Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, also called Lake Shawnee Abandoned Amusement Park, was a 1926-1966 amusement park in Rock, Mercer County, West Virginia, built near the 1783 Clay massacre site and Native American graves, now a private haunted-tour destination.

Lake Turkana National Parks

Lake Turkana National Parks: serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Kenya (Sibiloi, Central Island, South Island parks; 161,485 ha), inscribed 1997, extended 2001, on the Danger List since 2018 over the Gibe III dam.

Lake Uvs and its surrounding wetlands

Lake Uvs and its surrounding wetlands is a Ramsar Site in Uvs Aimag, western Mongolia, centered on Uvs Lake, the largest saline lake in Mongolia, important for migratory waterbirds.

Lake Vänern Archipelago and Mount Kinnekulle Biosphere Reserve

Lake Vänern Archipelago and Mount Kinnekulle Biosphere Reserve (Biosfärområde Vänerskärgården med Kinnekulle), Sweden's second UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 2010; 278,600 hectares across Götene, Lidköping, and Mariestad municipalities around Lake Vänern and Mount Kinnekulle.

Lake View Cemetery (Seattle)

Lake View Cemetery (Seattle), founded 1872 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery and renamed Lake View in 1890, is a 40-acre non-profit cemetery on Capitol Hill holding Seattle pioneers, Princess Angeline, and Bruce and Brandon Lee.

Lakefield National Park

Rinyirru (Lakefield) National Park (CYPAL), formerly Lakefield National Park, is a 544,000 ha jointly managed Aboriginal-owned national park on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, known for the Normanby, Morehead and North Kennedy rivers, vast wetlands, and estuarine crocodile conservation.

Lakes of the lower Turgay and Irgiz

Lakes of the lower Turgay and Irgiz (Irgiz-Turgay Lakes), a Ramsar site (no. 108, 1976) and Key Biodiversity Area in Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan; 348,000 ha of shallow lakes on the Turgay, Irgyz, and Ulkayak rivers, a major waterbird migration and moulting site.

Lal Bagh

Lal Bagh (Lalbagh Botanical Garden), founded 1760 by Hyder Ali and expanded by Tipu Sultan, is a 240-acre botanical garden in Bengaluru with India's largest tropical plant collection, the 1889 Glass House, and twice-yearly flower shows.

Lala Bhagat Mound

Lala Bhagat Mound, Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh: 14 m ASI-protected archaeological mound with the Kukkutadwaj pillar, cock capital, and black sandstone cock statue; remains from Harappan-era pottery to the 10th-11th century AD.

Lala eskimi

Lala eskimi is a casino in Managua, Nicaragua (Colonia Mántica, Distrito II, 18a Avenida S.O.), OSM node 4868741121 at 12.14403°N, 86.28915°W, near the PGR and Casa Presidencial, on bus route 116.

Lalonquette

Lalonquette (Arribèra deus Gleisiars) is a large Gallo-Roman villa in the Gabas valley, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, occupied from the early 1st to the early 5th century, with mosaics, a livestock-based economy, excavated 1958–1972 and 2002–2005, and displayed at the Claracq-Lalonquette museum.

Lamā Cemetery

Lamā Cemetery is an ancient burial ground near Lama in southwestern Iran, used from the late second millennium BC, with 74 stone-walled graves of nomadic pastoralists.

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Lamanai

Lamanai, Maya for "submerged crocodile," is a large ancient Maya site on the New River Lagoon in northern Belize, occupied from about 1500 BC to the present.

Lambeth Palace

Lambeth Palace, the London residence and official seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury since the 13th century, is a Grade I listed Thames-side complex with Morton's Tower, a medieval chapel, and a £40m 2022–2025 refurbishment.

Lambrum

Lambrum, also Ad Lambrum or Lambro Flumen, was a Roman road station on the Ticinum-Placentia road in northern Italy, at the Lambro river crossing, 20 miles from Ticinum and 16 from Placentia per the Vicarello beakers.

Lamington National Park

Lamington National Park is a 21,176-hectare rainforest park on the McPherson Range in south-east Queensland, established in 1915 and part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area.

Lamnae/Ad Lam(i)nas

Lamnae/Ad Lam(i)nas, also written Lamnas or ad Lamnas, a Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana, 33 Roman miles from Rome near Cineto Romano, Italy, not the Pleiades star cluster.

Lamnum

Lamnum, the Tabula Peutingeriana spelling of Tamnum, a Roman road station of the Santones on the Bordeaux–Saintes road in Gaul, between Blavia and Mediolanum Santonum; proposed sites include Montendre and Talmont, Charente-Maritime.

Lampao Nature and Wildlife Study Center

Lampao Nature and Wildlife Study Center, also called Suan Sa-on or Lam Pao Wildlife Conservation Development and Promotion Station, is a 1,420-rai open wildlife and nature-education area in dry dipterocarp forest by Lam Pao Dam, Kalasin, Thailand, known for its banteng herd, nature trails, and free daily entry.

Lamu Old Town

Lamu Old Town, on Lamu Island on Kenya's northern coast, is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa, continuously inhabited over 700 years, built in coral stone and mangrove timber, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.