Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

North Leigh

North Leigh, Oxfordshire village and parish, home of North Leigh Roman Villa, one of the largest Roman courtyard villas in Britain, with 60+ rooms, mosaics, hypocausts, and four bath suites.

North Palace at Deir el-Ballas

North Palace at Deir el-Ballas: large 17th Dynasty mudbrick campaign palace of Seqenenre Tao, Kamose, and Ahmose, over 200 by 350 meters, excavated by Reisner 1900-1901, distinct from the Amarna North Palace.

North Pennines AONB UNESCO Global Geopark

North Pennines AONB UNESCO Global Geopark: an upland area of County Durham, Northumberland and Cumbria, Britain's first European Geopark (2003), a UNESCO Global Geopark since 2015, and a National Landscape of nearly 2,000 square kilometers.

North Riyadh UNESCO Global Geopark

North Riyadh UNESCO Global Geopark, also sought as Thadiq Geopark, is a 3,221 km² geopark in Thadiq Governorate, Saudi Arabia, designated 17 April 2025 with Salma as the country's first two geoparks, featuring Tuwaiq Mountain tabletop escarpments and Jurassic-Cretaceous limestone.

North Saskatchewan River valley parks system

Edmonton's North Saskatchewan River valley parks system, the Ribbon of Green, is Canada's largest urban park: 160 km of pathways, 20 major parks, over 18,000 acres, shaped by the 1907 Todd plan, 1985 bylaw, and 2025 planning renewal.

North Sea Coastal Area

North Sea Coastal Area (Noordzeekustzone), Ramsar Site no. 1252, is a Dutch coastal wetland designated in 2000, about 1,445 km² of sandbanks, mudflats, salt meadows and dunes, also a Natura 2000 SAC and SPA.

North Theater (Jerash)

North Theater (Odeon) of Jerash, ancient Gerasa, Jordan: small Roman theater built as a bouleuterion around 135/140 AD, converted to an odeon by 165/166, expanded to about 1,600 seats, with Greek tribal seat inscriptions.

North Vidzeme Biosphere Reserve

North Vidzeme Biosphere Reserve (Ziemeļvidzemes biosfēras rezervāts), Latvia's only UNESCO biosphere reserve, established 1997; 475,514 ha along the Gulf of Riga, Salaca basin, raised bogs, and Baltic salmon rivers.

North West Highlands UNESCO Global Geopark

North West Highlands UNESCO Global Geopark, in Sutherland and Wester Ross, Scotland: designated 2004, Scotland's first UNESCO Geopark; ~2,000 km² of Lewisian Gneiss, Torridonian Sandstone, and the Moine Thrust, managed by a community-led charity.

North York Moors

North York Moors: upland heather moorland area in north-east Yorkshire, England, protected as a National Park since 12 February 1952. Covers 1,436 km², holds England's largest continuous tract of upland heather moorland, and is an International Dark Sky Reserve.

North-American Department

North-American Department of Batumi Botanical Garden, Georgia: a 7.8 ha phytogeographic section of North American plants, with four parts, 217 recorded species, and the Liriodendron living bridge.

North-East Tobago Biosphere Reserve

North-East Tobago Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated 28 October 2020, Trinidad and Tobago's first; about 83,488 ha including the 1776 Main Ridge Forest Reserve, 1,774 species, and 15 communities.

Northchurch

Northchurch Roman Villa, a small winged corridor Roman villa near the River Bulbourne, Hertfordshire; built mid 2nd century AD, abandoned c. 170, rebuilt after 339 with a bath suite, excavated 1973, now under houses.

Northeast Greenland National Park

Northeast Greenland National Park (Danish: Nationalparken i Nord- og Østgrønland) is the world's largest national park, a 972,000 km² protected area in northeastern Greenland, established in 1974.

Northern Weapon City

Northern Weapon City (北方兵器城) is an artillery-themed park in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, built by North Heavy Industry Group and described as North China's first military-themed tourist attraction.

Northfleet Villa

Northfleet Villa, the Northfleet Roman villa in the Ebbsfleet Valley, Kent, was a first-to-fourth-century villa complex with a detached bath-house, malting oven, and river wharf, excavated 1909-11 and 1997-2001 near Ebbsfleet International station.

Norton Camp

Norton Camp, Shropshire hillfort near Craven Arms; also Norton Fitzwarren univallate hillfort, Somerset, and Norton 1 Roman marching camp near Wroxeter. D-shaped multivallate Iron Age hillfort, about 7 ha, undated, scheduled 1934.

Nos. 1, 2 and 3

Nos. 1, 2 and 3, Laura Place, Bath: Grade I listed terrace of three symmetrical houses (1394773), built 1788-1794 by Thomas Baldwin and John Eveleigh, part of the Great Pulteney Street development.

Nosocice

Nosocice (Nosswitz), a district of Głogów, Poland, about 3 km east of the city center, known for its Przeworsk culture cemetery excavated in 1913 by Gerhard Bersu and re-studied in a 2020 monograph.

Notojima Aquarium

Notojima Aquarium (のとじま水族館), Nanao, Ishikawa; opened 1982, Ishikawa's only aquarium, about 40,000 creatures of 500 species, 1,600-ton whale shark tank, 22-meter dolphin tunnel, reopened March 2025 after the 2024 Noto earthquake.

Notre-Dame-de-Laval

Notre-Dame-de-Laval, Ermitage Notre-Dame-de-Laval at Collias, Gard, France: a pre-Roman and Gallo-Roman sanctuary recorded by Pleiades (place 148143) and today a wayside oratory near the Pont du Gard.

Nottingham Castle

Nottingham Castle, on Castle Rock in Nottingham, England: founded 1067-8 by William Peveril, a royal palace under Henry II, rebuilt as the Ducal Palace 1674-79, gutted in the 1831 Reform Bill riots, and a museum since 1878.

Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park

Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is a national park of primary rainforest in northern Republic of the Congo, created in 1993 and home to thousands of forest elephants and great apes.

Noues

Noues (Les Noues): Gallo-Roman pottery production site near La Boissière-École and La Hauteville, Yvelines, France. Workshops active 1st–3rd centuries CE; first fully excavated Gallo-Roman ceramic center (1989–1991, Bruno Dufay).

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Nourlangie Rock

Nourlangie Rock (Burrungkuy) is a large sandstone outlier in Kakadu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory, known for Aboriginal rock art galleries including depictions of Namarrkon, the Lightning Man, and early European sailing ships.

Novaesium

Novaesium, Roman military site at modern Neuss on the Lower Rhine in Germania Inferior; founded by Drusus before 16 BCE, home of the AD 43 Koenenlager legionary fortress, UNESCO World Heritage since 2021.

Novaya Beden'ga I

Novaya Beden'ga I (Новая Беденьга I) is a hillfort and settlement complex in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, excavated 2009–2012; a Migration-period iron-working site with Kiev culture, late Scythian, and Khazar-period finds.

Novodevichy Cemetery (Новодевичье кладбище)

Novodevichy Cemetery (Новодевичье кладбище), Moscow's famous cemetery beside the Novodevichy Convent, opened in 1904 on land allotted in 1898; burial place of about 26,000 Russian cultural, scientific, and political figures, UNESCO-listed since 2004.

Novohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark

Novohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark, a Hungary-Slovakia transnational geopark designated by UNESCO in 2015 and the world's first cross-border geopark (2010), spans 161,900 ha, 91 settlements, and Miocene-Pliocene volcanic and fossil sites including Ipolytarnóc.