Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Mourne Gullion Strangford UNESCO Global Geopark

Mourne Gullion Strangford UNESCO Global Geopark, in south-east Northern Ireland (Counties Armagh and Down), designated May 2023; 1,932 km² including marine area; records 400 million years of geology, the Iapetus and North Atlantic oceans.

Mouza Chak, Chandpara Mound

Mouza Chak, Chandpara Mound, an archaeological mound in Murshidabad district, West Bengal, is protected by India as the Nil Kuthi Mound, a monument of national importance under the Archaeological Survey of India.

Moyenne Dr'a

Moyenne Dr'a (Middle Dr'a) is a Moroccan Ramsar site no. 1482, designated 15 January 2005: a 45,000 ha wetland combining the Al Mansour Ad-Dahbi dam reservoir and six Dr'a River oases, hosting ruddy shelducks, marbled teal, fennec foxes and migratory birds.

Moysiacum

Moysiacum, ancient name recorded in the Vita of Saint Desiderius, identified with Moissac on the Tarn (Tarn-et-Garonne), France; a Gallo-Roman villa landscape with the Saint-Martin baths, first named in a 680 donation.

Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan

Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group (百舌鳥・古市古墳群), a UNESCO World Heritage serial property in Osaka Prefecture inscribed 2019: 49 elite mounded tombs (kofun) of the 3rd-6th century Kofun period, including the over-500 m Daisenryo Kofun, selected from about 160,000 kofun in Japan.

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is a Fantasyland dark ride from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, a Disneyland opening-day attraction since 1955; the two-track Magic Kingdom version ran 1971 to 1998 before Winnie the Pooh replaced it.

Msletten II (fortified farm)

Msletten II (fortified farm), an ancient Roman-period fortified farm (qasr) near the Msletten "needle" tombs, Wadi Merdum, Misratah, Libya; 31.3646 N, 14.61424 E; linked to 2nd-3rd century CE burials and Qasr Bularkan.

Mt Paektu UNESCO Global Geopark

Mt Paektu UNESCO Global Geopark, designated 2025, is the first UNESCO Global Geopark in the DPRK: a 1,326 km2 volcanic area around Mount Paektu (백두산), site of the Millennium Eruption and Lake Chon caldera lake.

Mt. Siguniang UNESCO Global Geopark

Mt. Siguniang UNESCO Global Geopark (四姑娘山) is a 2,764 km² geopark in Xiaojin County, Sichuan, China, designated by UNESCO in 2026, known for Xikang-type folds, Triassic flysch, and peaks above 5,000 m.

Mtatsminda Park

Mtatsminda Park is an amusement and recreation park atop Mount Mtatsminda (Holy Mountain) above Tbilisi, Georgia, reached by a 1905 funicular, featuring a Ferris wheel, TV tower, and the nearby Mtatsminda Pantheon.

Muang Roi Et Municipal Aquatic Animals Center

Muang Roi Et Municipal Aquatic Animals Center (สถานแสดงพันธุ์สัตว์น้ำเทศบาลเมืองร้อยเอ็ด), also called Roi Et Municipal Aquarium, is a free-admission municipal freshwater aquarium beside Bueng Phalan Chai in Roi Et, Thailand, with 24 small tanks, an 8x16 m, 400-cubic-meter main tank, and a glass walk-through tunnel, opened in 2002.

Mubarak Al-Kabeer Reserve

Mubarak Al-Kabeer Reserve (محمية مبارك الكبير الطبيعية), Kuwait's largest marine protected area on northern Boubyan and Warba islands; Ramsar Site 2239 since 2015, about 509.48 km², famed for the world's largest crab plover breeding colony.

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon (Arquitectura mudéjar de Aragón), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986, extended 2001: ten Mudéjar monuments in Teruel and Zaragoza provinces fusing Islamic and Christian building traditions.

Mudeung Florist

Mudeung Florist (무등식물원, Mudeungsingmulwon) is a garden and recreation area in Usan-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, South Jeolla, South Korea, near Hwahwedanji, Gana Florist, and Gwangmyeong Florist.

Mudeungsan UNESCO Global Geopark

Mudeungsan UNESCO Global Geopark (무등산), designated 2018 in Gwangju, Damyang, and Hwasun, South Korea, protects Cretaceous Mudeungsan Tuff columnar joints up to 9 m wide, block streams, dinosaur footprints, and Hwasun Dolmen World Heritage.

Mudumalai National Park (முதுமலை தேசியப் பூங்கா)

Mudumalai National Park (முதுமலை தேசியப் பூங்கா), a 103.23 km² park in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris, forms the core of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (688.59 km², declared 2007) at the Kerala-Karnataka-Tamil Nadu tri-junction, linked to Bandipur, Wayanad and Mukurthi.

Mui Ca Mao Biosphere Reserve

Mui Ca Mao Biosphere Reserve (Khu dự trữ sinh quyển Mũi Cà Mau) is a UNESCO MAB reserve in Ca Mau Province, Vietnam, designated 2009, covering 371,506 ha with Vietnam's largest mangrove area, Ramsar site 2088, and Mui Ca Mau and U Minh Ha national parks as core zones.

Muir O' Fauld

Muir O' Fauld Roman Signal Station, also called Muir o'Fauld Watchtower, is a Roman watchtower at Trinity Gask, Perthshire, part of the Gask Ridge frontier, built under Agricola (AD 79-80) and abandoned c. AD 87-88.

Muir Woods National Monument

Muir Woods National Monument, Marin County, California: a 554-acre National Park Service unit protecting old-growth coast redwoods, proclaimed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 from land donated by William and Elizabeth Thacher Kent.

Mulpani Botanical Garden

Mulpani Botanical Garden (मूलपानी वनस्पति उद्यान), a 5.5-hectare national botanical garden at Kapurkot, Salyan, Karnali Province, Nepal, established 2056 BS at 1,420 m, conserving 547 documented plant species including 62 rare and threatened ones.

Multiple use management area

Multiple use management area: land or water managed by one authority for two or more purposes (grazing, timber, recreation, watershed protection); formerly IUCN Category VIII, now covered by categories V and VI.

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Mumbwa Caves

The Mumbwa Caves are an archaeological site in Central Province, Zambia, whose deposits span the Middle Stone Age to recent centuries and include Zambia's first excavation, in 1925.

Mummies of Guanajuato

Mummies of Guanajuato (las momias de Guanajuato): naturally mummified bodies exhumed from Guanajuato's Santa Paula cemetery from 1865 over unpaid burial taxes, displayed at the Museo de las Momias since 1971.

Mumrills

Mumrills was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall at Laurieston near Falkirk, Scotland, the largest known fort on the Wall, probably garrisoned by the cavalry regiment Ala I Tungorum.

München-Grünwald

München-Grünwald, a Bavarian municipality 14 km south of Munich on the Isar, with Bronze Age to La Tène settlement, the Römerschanze fort, Burg Grünwald, and an LMU archaeology project.

Mundomar

Mundomar is a marine and exotic animal park in Benidorm, Spain, opened 18 December 1996, known for dolphin, sea lion and parrot shows, over 80 species, Fundación Mundomar conservation work, and dolphin-assisted therapy.

Mungo National Park

Mungo National Park, in the Willandra Lakes region of south-western NSW, is a 90,256-hectare World Heritage park, home of Mungo Lady and Mungo Man, jointly managed with three Aboriginal tribal groups.

Muniellos Biosphere Reserve

Muniellos Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera de Muniellos), UNESCO MAB site in Asturias, Spain, designated 2000; holds Spain's largest oak forest, a 20-visitor-daily strict reserve, brown bears, wolves and glacial lagoons.

Munychia

Munychia (Mounichia, Munichia), hill and fortress in Piraeus near Athens, modern Kastella, 86 m high. Fortified by Hippias 510 BCE, site of Thrasybulus's 403 BCE victory over the Thirty, Macedonian garrison 322-229 BCE, sanctuary of Artemis Mounichia.