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Mount Kenya-Lewa Biosphere Reserve
Mount Kenya-Lewa Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated 1978 in central Kenya, covers 568,553 ha around 5,199 m Mount Kenya, the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, and Ngare Ndare Forest Reserve.
Mount Kinka Squirrel Village
Mount Kinka Squirrel Village (ぎふ金華山リス村) is a 1965 walk-in squirrel enclosure atop Mt. Kinka in Gifu, Japan, Japan's first squirrel village, where visitors hand-feed about 40 free-roaming Taiwanese squirrels for 200 yen.
Mount Kulal Biosphere Reserve
Mount Kulal Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and Biosphere reserve (nominated 1978) in Marsabit County, northern Kenya: an extinct volcano with mist forest, endemic Kulal white-eye and chameleon, community-managed, Melina Mercouri Prize 2025.
Mount Kunlun UNESCO Global Geopark
Mount Kunlun UNESCO Global Geopark, China, designated 2015 (GGN records 2014), a geopark in the glaciated Kunlun Mountains of the northern Tibetan Plateau, known for the Kunlun and Xidatan faults, glacial research, and geotourism.
Mount Mazama
Mount Mazama was a 3,700 m Cascade stratovolcano complex in southern Oregon that collapsed 7,700 years ago in a ~50 km³ rhyodacite eruption, forming Crater Lake caldera, the deepest lake in the United States.
Mount Mulanje Biosphere Reserve
Mount Mulanje Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2000 in southern Malawi near Mozambique, covers 85,894 ha around the Mulanje Massif (Sapitwa Peak 3,002 m), home of the critically endangered Mulanje cedar and a 2025 World Heritage cultural landscape.
Mount Mulanje Cultural Landscape
Mount Mulanje Cultural Landscape, UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2025 in southern Malawi (dossier 1201rev), 89,549.18 ha, criteria (iii) and (vi); sacred associative landscape of Yao, Mang'anja, and Lhomwe peoples around Mulanje Mountain, Malawi's third World Heritage site.
Mount Myohyang Biosphere Reserve
Mount Myohyang Biosphere Reserve (묘향산생물권보전지역), a UNESCO MAB reserve in DPRK designated May 2009, 96.82 km2, on a sacred granite mountain with Pohyon Temple and Tangun legends, also a Key Biodiversity Area and 2026 mixed World Heritage tentative site.
Mount Nemrut
Mount Nemrut (Nemrut Dağ), a 2,150 m peak in Adıyaman, Turkey, bears the hierothesion-tomb of Antiochos I of Commagene: a 50 m tumulus, colossal Greek-Iranian syncretistic statues, and the Lion Horoscope of 62 BCE.
Mount Odaigahara, Mount Omine and Osugidani Biosphere Reserve
Mount Odaigahara, Mount Omine and Osugidani Biosphere Reserve (大台ヶ原・大峯山・大杉谷ユネスコエコパーク), a UNESCO MAB reserve in Japan's Kii Peninsula, designated 1980, 118,331 ha across Nara and Mie prefectures, with Shugendo heritage and World Heritage Omine range.
Mount Paektu Biosphere Reserve
Mount Paektu Biosphere Reserve (Paekdu), the DPRK's first UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 1989; 132,000 ha volcanic plateau on the Chinese border adjoining Changbaishan, with Lake Chon, tiger habitat, and 1,261 seed plant species.
Mount Parnon – Cape Maleas Biosphere Reserve
Mount Parnon – Cape Maleas Biosphere Reserve, Greece's fourth UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 27 September 2025 in Hangzhou; 516,412 ha in the southeastern Peloponnese, 23% marine, 89,467 residents, over 800 plant species and Europe's only natural cedar stands.
Mount Philo State Park
Mount Philo State Park in Charlotte, Vermont, established 1924 from Frances Humphreys' donation, is Vermont's first state park: a 968-foot summit with CCC-built road and lodge, Lake Champlain and Adirondack views, and a 10-site campground.
Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System
Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System (青城山—都江堰), a 2000 UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sichuan: a 256 BC dam-less irrigation system by Li Bing still watering 668,700 hectares, and the birthplace of Taoism with eleven temples.
Mount Rainier
Mount Rainier, also called Tahoma by area tribes, is an active Cascade stratovolcano in Washington and the centerpiece of the fifth US national park (1899), the most heavily glaciated peak in the contiguous United States with 28 named glaciers and major lahar hazards.
Mount Rainier National Park
Mount Rainier National Park, established March 2, 1899, is Washington's fifth U.S. national park, centered on the 14,410-ft active stratovolcano Mount Rainier (Tahoma), the most glaciated peak in the contiguous United States with 26 major glaciers.
Mount Redoubt
Mount Redoubt (Redoubt Volcano) is a 10,197-ft active stratovolcano in Lake Clark National Park, 170 km southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Its 1989-90 and 2009 eruptions disrupted Cook Inlet oil operations and Anchorage aviation, including a 1989 four-engine 747 failure.
Mount Royal Cemetery
Mount Royal Cemetery is a 67-hectare non-profit cemetery on Mount Royal in Montréal, opened in 1852, with nearly 200,000 burials and National Historic Site status.
Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Black Hills, South Dakota; also Six Grandfathers to the Lakota. Presidential sculpture carved 1927-1941 by Gutzon Borglum; four 60-foot busts; sacred Lakota land and Land Back controversy.
Mount Scenery National Park
Mount Scenery National Park, Saba, Dutch Caribbean: protected area established 2018 covering 26% of the island around Mount Scenery, the 887 m highest point of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, managed by the Saba Conservation Foundation.
Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
Mount Sinai Memorial Park, 5950 Forest Lawn Drive, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles: Jewish cemetery founded by Forest Lawn in 1953, exclusively Jewish from 1959, owned by Sinai Temple since 1967; notable burials include Bob Saget and Don Rickles.
Mount Sorak Biosphere Reserve
Mount Sorak (Seoraksan, 설악산) Biosphere Reserve, South Korea's first UNESCO MAB site (1982), covers Seoraksan National Park in the Taebaek range, with Daecheongbong at 1,708 m, 1,292 plant species, and a transition area expanded to 51%.
Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument: 110,000-acre Forest Service monument in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington, created by Public Law 97-243 in 1982 around the 1980 eruption zone for research, recreation, and education.
Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney, highest peak of the contiguous United States at 14,505 ft (4,421 m), a Sierra Nevada granite summit on the Sequoia National Park and Inyo National Forest boundary, named in 1864 and climbed via the permit-limited Mt. Whitney Trail from Whitney Portal.
Mount Wutai (五台山)
Mount Wutai (五台山, Wutai Shan), the five-terrace mountain in Shanxi, is one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains and the global center of Manjusri worship, with Tang-era Foguang Temple and UNESCO listing in 2009.
Mount Wuyi (site)
Mount Wuyi (武夷山), a UNESCO mixed World Heritage site in Fujian, China, inscribed 1999 under criteria iii, vi, vii, x: vast subtropical forest, Nine-Bend Stream Danxia gorges, Chengcun Han city ruins, boat coffins, and the cradle of Neo-Confucianism under Zhu Xi.
Mountain and Sea Fantasy Valley
山海奇幻谷 (Mountain and Sea Fantasy Valley), a 69-hectare outdoor theme park in Jinshitan National Tourist Resort, Dalian, Liaoning; opened trial operation May 2024; four theme zones, nearly 20 rides, deer interaction, luge, water slide, night lantern events.
Mountain Railways of India
Mountain Railways of India is a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (1999, 2005, 2008) uniting the Darjeeling Himalayan, Nilgiri Mountain, and Kalka Shimla railways, three operational 19th-century hill railways recognized under criteria (ii) and (iv).
Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde
Chengde Mountain Resort (避暑山庄) and its Outlying Temples: Qing dynasty summer palace complex in Hebei, built 1703–1792, largest imperial palace-garden and temple complex in China, UNESCO listed 1994.
Mountainous Urals Biosphere Reserve
Mountainous Urals Biosphere Reserve (Горный Урал), a UNESCO MAB site in the Southern Urals of Russia designated in 2018, covering 173,578 ha with 12,000 residents, Taganay National Park, and a mining-to-tourism transition objective.