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Natural area
A natural area is a tract of land or water that retains or recovers natural character without being undisturbed, or that possesses uncommon features of scientific or educational value.
Natural Bridge State Resort Park
Natural Bridge State Resort Park, one of Kentucky's four original state parks, is a forested park in Powell County whose centerpiece is a 78-foot natural sandstone arch.
Natural Bridges National Monument
Natural Bridges National Monument: Utah's first national monument (1908), protecting three large stream-eroded sandstone bridges, Sipapu, Kachina, and Owachomo, plus Ancestral Puebloan sites; first International Dark Sky Park (2007).
Natural burial
Natural burial, also called green or woodland burial, is body disposition without embalming, vaults, or non-biodegradable caskets in habitat-preserving grounds. Originated by Ken West at Carlisle, UK, in 1993; LCAs show lower climate impact than cremation.
Natural heritage
Natural heritage is the portion of the natural environment considered valuable enough to conserve and pass on to future generations, defined by Article 2 of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention.
Natural monument
Natural monument: IUCN protected area Category III, conserving a specific feature such as a cave, waterfall, crater, or ancient grove; also a legal designation in Mexico, Costa Rica, and US national monuments.
Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve
Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve (заповедник «Остров Врангеля»), a Russian Arctic UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 2004: Wrangel and Herald islands, unglaciated, 417 vascular plants, 100,000 walrus, polar bear dens, 1976 zapovednik.
Nature reserve
A nature reserve, also known as a wildlife sanctuary or wildlife preserve, is a protected area of land or water managed to conserve wildlife and habitats, with Yellowstone designated in 1872 as an early landmark.
Naturschutz-Tierpark Görlitz
Naturschutz-Tierpark Görlitz-Zgorzelec is a small conservation-focused zoo in Görlitz, Saxony, Germany. Member of EAZA, WAZA, VDZ; ranked 2nd in Germany's 2025 zoo visitor ranking; building a new Tibetan bear enclosure.
Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark
Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark (Geopark Naturtejo), Portugal's first geopark, designated in 2006; a ~5,000 km² territory across seven municipalities in central Portugal with 176 geosites, 17 geomonuments, and geotourism and education programs.
Naustathmos
Naustathmos (ναύσταθμος, "naval station"): Greek term for a ship station, and name of several ancient places, chiefly Ras al-Hillal in Cyrenaica, Libya, with a Justinianic Byzantine church, and a Pontic Black Sea station east of the Halys.
Naval Port of Karlskrona
Naval Port of Karlskrona (Örlogsstaden Karlskrona), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998: a planned 1680 Swedish naval city by Erik Dahlbergh, with active naval base, shipyard, and fortifications.
Naval Station Norfolk
Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Virginia, is the world's largest naval base and primary Atlantic Fleet homeport. Established 1917 on the 1907 Jamestown Exposition site; about 6,200 acres, 13 piers, roughly 67,000 personnel.
Navatejera
The Roman villa of Navatejera is a Roman archaeological site in Villaquilambre, about 3 km north of León, Spain, occupied until the 5th century and protected since 1888.
Naveil Roman Villa
Naveil Roman Villa: a Roman villa reported in the French commune of Naveil near Vendôme (Loir-et-Cher), recorded in Pleiades (140456), Barrington Atlas 14 G1 25, and CAG 41 no. 188; no ancient name recorded.
Naveta des Tudons
Naveta des Tudons: Menorca's most famous prehistoric collective tomb, an inverted-boat-shaped cyclopean ossuary in use about 1200–750 BC, holding remains of about 100 people, near Ciutadella.
Navio
Navio was a Roman auxiliary fort at Brough, Derbyshire, built c. AD 80, reoccupied AD 154-158, abandoned after AD 350; its vicus, Batham Gate road, and Peak District lead-industry role distinguish it.
Navish
Navish: an ancient place in the Barrington Atlas (92 F2) and Pleiades gazetteer (ID 903087), a temple-type site in western Iran dated AD 300-640; also a Kitchawank place name meaning "grassy plains" and a Sanskrit given name.
Navy Pier
Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot pier on Lake Michigan in Chicago, opened 1916 as Municipal Pier No. 2 from Burnham's Plan of Chicago, renamed 1927, a WWII Navy training site, University of Illinois campus 1946-1965, and reopened as an entertainment destination in 1995.
Nea Moni
Nea Moni (Νέα Μονή, "New Monastery") is an 11th-century Byzantine monastery on Chios, Greece, founded by Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos, with Constantinopolitan gold-ground mosaics; UNESCO World Heritage since 1990.
Neagra
Neagra (Nyágra, Schwarzenthal, Feketevölgy; renamed 1968) is a gold-washing locality in Poiana Vadului commune, Alba County, Romania, in the Metaliferi Mountains near Câmpeni, recorded as an uncertain, unresearched alluvial gold site.
Neak Pean
Neak Pean is a late 12th-century Buddhist island temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built by Jayavarman VII on an artificial island and named for its coiled naga sculptures.
Neapolis of Syracuse
Neapolis of Syracuse: the youngest of the five ancient districts of Syracuse, Sicily, now its main archaeological park, holding the Greek theatre, the 196 m Altar of Hieron II, a Roman amphitheatre, and the latomie quarries.
Nebelivka
Nebelivka is a 238-ha Trypillia BII megasite in Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine, occupied ca. 3970–3770 BC, with 1,445 structures, a 2012 temple mega-structure, and evidence for low-density, possibly seasonal occupation.
Necropoli de La Petrina
Necropoli de La Petrina, also called La Petrina necropolis, is the principal Faliscan cemetery of ancient Narce at Mazzano Romano, Italy, used from the 8th to the 3rd centuries B.C., excavated 1890–1894, with finds in Villa Giulia and Philadelphia.
Necropoli del Fusco
Necropoli del Fusco, the main ancient Greek necropolis of Syracuse, Sicily, in Contrada Fusco near Ortigia; used from the late 8th to 3rd century BCE, key for proto-Corinthian pottery chronology and Orsi's excavations.
Necropoli di San Placido
Necropoli di San Placido (San Placido necropolis) is a Roman necropolis in Messina, Sicily, with over 200 tombs from the Augustan period to the 2nd-3rd century AD, excavated by Paolo Orsi in 1914 during construction of the Palazzo della Prefettura.
Necropoli Fondo Scataglini
Necropoli Fondo Scataglini, Tarquinia: Hellenistic-Roman sector (late 4th century BC to 1st century AD) of the Monterozzi necropolis, with 175 rock-cut tombs on a disused Etruscan quarry, excavated by the Lerici Foundation.
Necropolis
Necropolis (Greek nekros + polis, city of the dead): a large ancient burial ground, usually extramural, of an old city. Covers terminology, archaeological use, and examples such as Cerveteri, Tarquinia, Memphis, and Cairo's City of the Dead.
Necropolis at Archontiko
Necropolis at Archontiko (Pella, Macedonia): group of Iron Age to Hellenistic cemeteries around a settlement mound 5 km NW of Pella, possibly ancient Tyrissa; its West Necropolis holds over 1,000 excavated graves with gold-masked 6th-century BC elite burials.