Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Mana Pools National Park

Mana Pools National Park, a 2,196 km² park in northern Zimbabwe on the Zambezi River, named from Shona 'mana' (four) for its four pools; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984 with Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas, famed for dry-season elephant gatherings and walking safaris.

Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas

Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas: 676,600-ha UNESCO World Heritage Site (1984, criteria vii, ix, x) on Zimbabwe's Zambezi floodplain, a Ramsar site and Important Bird Area famed for dry-season elephant and buffalo concentrations.

Mananara Nord Biosphere Reserve

Mananara Nord Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de Biosphère de Mananara Nord), Madagascar's first UNESCO biosphere reserve, decreed 1989 and designated 1990; 140,000 ha of lowland rainforest and coral-reef marine park on the northeast coast near Antongil Bay.

Manantiales Serranos UNESCO Global Geopark

Manantiales Serranos UNESCO Global Geopark, in Lavalleja, Uruguay, designated 15 April 2026 as the country's second Global Geopark after Grutas del Palacio; 201,000 ha including Santa Lucía River headwaters.

Manas National Park

Manas National Park, Assam, India: Himalayan-foothill protected area, UNESCO World Heritage Site (1985), Tiger Reserve, and Biosphere Reserve; lost rhinos to 1990s unrest, recovered them via Indian Rhino Vision 2020.

Mănăstirea Halmyris

Mănăstirea Halmyris (Halmyris Monastery) is a Romanian Orthodox monastery at Murighiol, Tulcea County, beside the Roman-Byzantine fortress of Halmyris/Salmorus, the easternmost Danube fort, holding the relics of martyrs Epictetus and Astion, killed 290.

Manatee pavilion

Manatee Pavilion (マナティー館) is a free manatee exhibit at Ocean Expo Park, Okinawa, near Churaumi Aquarium, holding Mexican-donated West Indian manatees, first Japanese breeding (YUMA, 2001), and Japan's only visitor manatee-feeding program.

Mancha Húmeda Biosphere Reserve

The Mancha Húmeda Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, designated in 1980 and expanded in 2014, protecting wetlands including Tablas de Daimiel National Park.

Manchester Digital Campus

Manchester Digital Campus (MDC) is a planned UK Civil Service campus in Ancoats, Manchester, on the former Central Retail Park: about 8,800 digital-focused civil servants, 900,000 sq ft across two buildings, operational target 2032, Treasury-approved business case March 2026.

Mandra (Despotiko)

Mandra (Μάνδρα) is the archaeological site of the Archaic sanctuary of Apollo on Despotiko, an uninhabited Cycladic islet near Antiparos; excavated since 1997/2001 by Yannos Kourayos, with a 1600 m² temenos, five-room Building A, and a 650-object deposit.

Mandra di Mezzo

Mandra di Mezzo is a locality in the Belice valley of western Sicily, near ancient Entella, known as the findspot of an archaic Greek inscription to Heracles.

Mandraka Reptile Farm

Mandraka Reptile Farm, also Peyrieras Reptile Reserve or Madagascar Exotic, is a small private reserve at Marozevo, 75 km east of Antananarivo on RN2, founded by André Peyriéras to breed chameleons, distinct from Mandraka Park and the ESSA Mandraka site.

Mané-Vechen, Plouhinec

Mané-Véchen (Plouhinec, Morbihan) is a Gallo-Roman maritime villa of the late 2nd century AD on the ria d'Étel, with U-shaped plan, rich painted and stucco decor, coin hoards, fire around 282, reoccupied to about 320, classified Monument historique in 2010.

Mangai Mars Camp

Mangai Mars Camp (茫崖火星营地), also called Lenghu Mars Camp, is a Mars-themed science-education camp and capsule hotel in the Qaidam Basin near Lenghu, Qinghai, China.

Manganello Sanctuary

Manganello Sanctuary (santuario del Manganello): small Etruscan sacred area at Cerveteri (Caere) near the Manganello city gate, discovered by Raniero Mengarelli in 1932, excavated by CNR-ISPC since 2007, with a sacred well and painted plaques.

Mangathevanpatti Mound

Mangathevanpatti Mound, Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu: site of two ancient Jain temples preserved to plinth level, with Adinatha and Yakshi images, protected as two ASI centrally protected monuments (survey 282-A and 282-C).

Mangyshlak Experimental Botanical Garden

Mangyshlak Experimental Botanical Garden (Маңғышлақ тәжірибелік-ботаникалық бағы) in Aktau, Kazakhstan, founded 1972; the only Western Kazakhstan scientific garden mobilizing plant gene pools in extra-arid desert conditions, 39 ha, 1,270 taxa.

Manicouagan Uapishka Biosphere Reserve

Manicouagan Uapishka Biosphere Reserve (Région de biosphère Manicouagan-Uapishka), a 54,800 km² UNESCO MAB site in Quebec designated 2007, second largest in Canada, spanning the Manicouagan crater, Groulx Mountains, and Pessamit Innu Nitassinan.

Manika

Manika (Μάνικα) is an Early Helladic settlement and cemetery on a promontory near Chalcis, Euboea, Greece, occupied roughly 2800–1900 BC. One of the largest Bronze Age settlements in Greece, with a vast rock-cut tomb cemetery; distinct from Indian forts named Manikgad or Manikdurg.

Manila North Cemetery

Manila North Cemetery (Cementerio del Norte de Manila) is a 54-hectare public cemetery in Manila, established in 1904, holding an estimated one million dead and three Philippine presidents.

Mankus Eco Park

Mankus Eco Park (Մանկուս Էկո Պարկ) is a family eco-resort in Dzoraghbyur, Kotayk, Armenia, run by Mankus Eco LLC since 2020, offering glamping and cottages, horse riding, archery, and an Armenian-European restaurant.

Manlong Guiyu (Hangzhou Children's Park)

Manlong Guiyu (满陇桂雨), also Hangzhou Children's Park, is a West Lake New Top 10 scenic site on Hupao Road with 3,000+ osmanthus trees of 80+ varieties and Hangzhou's earliest-blooming 'star osmanthus' tree.

Mannaricium

Mannaricium (Mannaricum), Roman auxiliary cavalry fort on the Lower Germanic limes near Maurik, Netherlands, named in the Itinerarium Antonini; garrisoned by cohors II Thracum and II Hispanorum equitata, abandoned c. 275, reused c. 330.

Mannersdorf an der March

Mannersdorf an der March, a wine village in Angern an der March municipality, Gänserndorf district, Lower Austria: 129 loess wine cellars, the 1638 Rochuskapelle, Hallstatt and Germanic graves, St. Agatha parish.

Manor House Roman villa

Manor House Roman villa (Farningham Roman Villa II), a winged-corridor Roman villa in Farningham, Kent, excavated in 1948 by G. W. Meates; occupied from about AD 80 into the 4th century, with a separate bath house, now backfilled and invisible.

Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park (Central African Republic)

Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park, a 17,400 km² UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Central African Republic, inscribed 1988 and in Danger since 1997 after poaching and grazing collapsed its wildlife; WCS manages it since 2018.

Mansfield Woodhouse

Mansfield Woodhouse is a town in Nottinghamshire, England, immediately north of Mansfield, with medieval street patterns and a scheduled Roman villa excavated in 1786 and the 1930s.

Mantua and Sabbioneta

Mantua and Sabbioneta: serial UNESCO World Heritage site (2008, criteria ii, iii) in Lombardy, Italy, pairing Gonzaga-ruled Renaissance cities: transformed Mantua and the ideal grid city Sabbioneta built by Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna, 1556-1591.

Manú National Park

Manú National Park (Parque Nacional del Manu), Peru: a 1,716,295-ha Andes-to-Amazon World Heritage park created in 1973, protecting the whole Manu River basin with over 200 mammal and 800 bird species and indigenous residents including groups in voluntary isolation.