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M'Zab Valley
M'Zab Valley (وادي مزاب), an oasis valley in Ghardaïa Province, Algeria, 600 km south of Algiers, holds five Ibadite fortified ksour founded 1012–1350; a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982, 665.03 ha, criteria ii, iii, v.
M1 (casino)
М1 (Casino M1, Казино М1) is a large casino complex opened in 2018 in Dubrovienski district, Viciebsk region, Belarus, on the M1 highway near the Russian border; the largest casino in Belarus, serving mostly Russian clients. Not the Soviet M-1 computer or Hungary's M1 TV channel.
Ma On Shan Country Park
Ma On Shan Country Park: 2,880-hectare Hong Kong country park designated 1979 in the Eastern New Territories, named after the 702 m Ma On Shan peak, with MacLehose and Wilson Trail sections and a former iron mine.
Maa Sharda Mandir, Maihar
Maa Sharda Mandir (माँ शारदा मंदिर), also called Sharda Devi temple, is a Hindu shrine on Trikuta hill at Maihar, Madhya Pradesh, about 600 ft up, reached by roughly 1,000 stairs or the Damodar Ropeway, managed by a state committee.
Maasai Mara
Maasai Mara National Reserve (MMNR), Kenya, established 1948, managed by Narok County; northern stage of the Great Wildebeest Migration in the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, with community conservancies, visitor pressure, and habitat degradation challenges.
Mabu Folk Village
Mabu Folk Village (마부민속촌, Mabuminsokchon) is a theme park in Angi-dong, Andong, North Gyeongsang, South Korea, at 36.5761°N, 128.71806°E, distinct from Andong's Hahoe and Andong folk villages.
MacArthur Park
MacArthur Park, formerly Westlake Park, is a roughly 40-acre Los Angeles park in Westlake, renamed for General Douglas MacArthur in 1942, bisected by Wilshire Boulevard in 1934, and known for its lake, protest history, and recent stormwater and reconnect projects.
Macellum (Pompeii)
Macellum of Pompeii (VII.9), the city's principal food market at the north-east corner of the Civil Forum, a tuff quadriporticus selling meat and fish, with an imperial-cult hall, tholus, excavated 1818–1822.
Macellum of Puteoli
Macellum of Puteoli (Temple of Serapis, Tempio di Serapide): Roman food market in Pozzuoli, Italy, built late Flavian and restored under Septimius Severus; famous for mollusc-bored columns recording Campi Flegrei bradyseism.
Machida Squirrel Garden
Machida Squirrel Garden (町田リス園) is a Tokyo animal park opened in 1988 where 200+ free-roaming Formosan squirrels are hand-fed sunflower seeds; it doubles as a nonprofit employment support facility staffed by 20 workers with disabilities.
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu (Machupicchu), a 15th-century Inca llaqta at 2,430 m in Peru, UNESCO mixed World Heritage site since 1983, presented to the world by Hiram Bingham in 1911, now capped at 4,500-5,600 daily visitors.
Macizo del Cajas Biosphere Reserve
Macizo del Cajas Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador, UNESCO MAB site designated 28 May 2013; first biosphere reserve in Ecuador's western Andes, spanning páramo to Gulf of Guayaquil mangroves across roughly 976,600 ha.
Macôt-La-Plagne
Macôt-La-Plagne, former commune in Savoie's Tarentaise, now part of La Plagne Tarentaise; home of the silver-lead mine worked from Roman times to 1973 and six La Plagne ski sites.
Macquarie University
Macquarie University: public university founded 1964 as Sydney's third metropolitan university, named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie; main Wallumattagal Campus at Macquarie Park with 40,000+ students.
Madara
Madara is a village and archaeological reserve in Shumen District, north-eastern Bulgaria, home of the Madara Rider early medieval rock relief, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, distinct from the Pleiades star cluster and other namesakes.
Madara Rider
Madara Rider (Madarski konnik, Мадарски конник), an early 8th-century Bulgarian rock relief of a horseman spearing a lion on a 100-m cliff near Madara, with Greek inscriptions of khans Tervel, Kormisos and Omurtag; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.
Maddle Farm
Maddle Farm, Lambourn, West Berkshire: a modest Romano-British villa and scheduled monument on the Berkshire Downs, nameplace of the 1980s Maddle Farm Project, a 48.25 square kilometre surface survey with the Knighton Bushes settlement.
Madeira Botanical Garden Engineer Rui Vieira
Madeira Botanical Garden – Eng. Rui Vieira (Jardim Botânico da Madeira), public botanical garden in Funchal created 30 April 1960, named for first director Rui Manuel da Silva Vieira; 8 ha, over 2,000 exotic plants, endemic-species conservation.
Madeira Thematic Park
Madeira Thematic Park (Parque Temático da Madeira) is a 7-hectare cultural park in Santana, Madeira, opened October 2004 and run by SDNM S.A., showcasing traditional houses, crafts, and island history.
Maderas del Carmen Biosphere Reserve
Maderas del Carmen Biosphere Reserve (APFF Maderas del Carmen), a 208,381-hectare UNESCO MAB reserve in Coahuila, Mexico, decreed in 1994, designated by UNESCO in 2006, protecting Sierra del Carmen desert-mountain ecosystems and a binational Big Bend corridor.
Madidi National Park
Madidi National Park (Parque Nacional y ANMI Madidi) is a 1,895,750-hectare Bolivian protected area created in 1995 in northwest La Paz department, spanning Andes-to-Amazon elevations and ranking among the world's most biodiverse parks, with community ecotourism at Chalalán.
Madonie UNESCO Global Geopark
Madonie UNESCO Global Geopark, Sicily, Italy: designated 2015, first Italian geopark in the European Geoparks Network, 40+ geosites, 21 municipalities, green card 2025 confirming membership until 2029.
Madre de las Aguas Biosphere Reserve
Madre de las Aguas Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Madre de las Aguas) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve covering the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic, designated in 2024 as the country's second.
Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley (Vall del Madriu-Perafita-Claror), Andorran glacial valley in the eastern Pyrenees, UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape since 2004. 4,247 ha, roadless, communal land system since the 13th century, Madriu Forge, FHASA dams.
Madurodam
Madurodam, in The Hague, Netherlands, is a 1:25-scale miniature attraction park opened 2 July 1952 as a memorial to war hero George Maduro, with 430 miniatures, seven indoor attractions, and revenue donated to children's charities.
Maen Castle
Maen Castle, also known as Mayon Castle, is an early Iron Age cliff castle on Mayon Cliff near Sennen in West Penwith, Cornwall, protected by a stone rampart and ditch.
Maes Knoll Camp (United Kingdom)
Maes Knoll Camp is a scheduled Iron Age univallate hillfort at Dundry, south of Bristol, Somerset, with the Tump bank and its western terminus of West Wansdyke.
Maesbury Castle
Maesbury Castle: small multivallate Iron Age hillfort on the southern Mendip Hills, Somerset, near Shepton Mallet; two ramparts enclosing 2.8 ha, scheduled monument 1015494; distinct from Maesbury, Shropshire.
Maeshowe
Maeshowe (Maes Howe) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave in Stenness, Orkney, c. 3000–2800 BCE, aligned on midwinter sunset and bearing the world's largest known grouping of 12th-century Norse runic graffiti.
Maestro cafe
Maestro cafe: name shared by unrelated venues, including MAESTRO CAFE in Preveza, Greece (4.8/5, 122 reviews), Maestro Cafe Montreal (French, St-Viateur O), and a closed Baghdad coffee shop; also an Italian cream liqueur brand.