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Qihuan Shanhaijian

Qihuan Shanhaijian (奇幻山海间) is a cultural-tourism resort in Chengyang, Qingdao, Shandong, themed on the Classic of Mountains and Seas; it opened in 2023 and drew about 26 million visits.

Qin Dynasty Palace

Qin Dynasty Palace (秦王宫, Qinwanggong) is a 1997 film-set replica of the Qin Xianyang Palace at Hengdian World Studios, Dongyang, Zhejiang, built for Chen Kaige's The Emperor and the Assassin; 800 mu, 27 palaces, main hall Sihai Guiyi Dian, filming site of Hero.

Qingdao Polar Ocean Park

Qingdao Polar Ocean Park (青岛海昌极地海洋公园), also Qingdao Polar Ocean World, is a 4A marine theme park in Laoshan District, Qingdao, opened July 22, 2006 by Haichang, with belugas, polar bears, walruses, penguins, and animal shows.

Qingdao Underwater World

Qingdao Underwater World (青岛海底世界), also called Qingdao Aquarium (青岛水族馆), is a marine exhibition complex on Huiquan Bay, Qingdao, built around China's first Chinese-built aquarium, opened May 8, 1932, with a 2003 underground tunnel section.

Qinghai Hoh Xil

Qinghai Hoh Xil, also known as Hoh Xil or Kekexili, is a high-altitude wilderness on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in China, a natural World Heritage Site since 2017.

Qingming Bridge & Ancient Grand Canal Blocks

Qingming Bridge & Ancient Grand Canal Blocks (清名桥历史文化街区), Wuxi's historic canal district in Liangxi District, Jiangsu; Ming-era stone arch bridge, UNESCO Grand Canal World Heritage section, birthplace of China's modern national industry and commerce.

Qingquanwan Water Park

清泉湾水上乐园 (Qingquanwan Water Park), water park in the Qingquanwan Ecological Tourism Resort, Luokeng, Qingxin District, Qingyuan, Guangdong; built by Guangdong Shiji Jiayuan Tourism Development; AAA-rated resort with mountain-spring water city, bamboo rapid rafting, and glass-channel rafting.

Qinling Zhongnanshan UNESCO Global Geopark

Qinling Zhongnanshan (秦岭终南山) is a 1,074 km² UNESCO Global Geopark on the southern margin of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, known for its orogenic belt geology and Quaternary landslides.

Qixing District Firefighting Culture Theme Park

Qixing District Firefighting Culture Theme Park (七星消防主题文化园) is a firefighting-themed cultural park in Qixing District, Guilin, Guangxi, China, near Elephant Trunk Hill at 25.26844°N, 110.29887°E, part of China's firefighting theme park program.

Qoliqoli Cokovata

Qoliqoli Cokovata, Ramsar Site no. 2331, is Fiji's second Ramsar Site, designated 16 January 2018: 134,900 ha of customary fishing grounds on Vanua Levu's north coast, part of the 260 km Great Sea Reef (Cakaulevu).

Qomolangma Biosphere Reserve

Qomolangma Biosphere Reserve (珠穆朗玛生物圈保护区), a UNESCO MAB site in Xizang, China, designated 2004; the world's highest-altitude biosphere reserve, 3,381,900 ha around Mount Everest, adjoining Nepal's Sagarmatha National Park.

Quadraro

Quadraro, Rome: area on the lower Via Latina with Roman villas (1st c. BC-4th c. AD, found 1987), funerary monuments, and the 14th-century Torre del Quadraro at Piazza dei Consoli.

Quadriburgium

Quadriburgium: Latin "square castle," a small square Late Roman fort type with four corner towers, and a Rhine fort at modern Qualburg, Germany, named by Ammianus among places Julian repaired in 359.

Quadriporticus of the theatre

Quadriporticus of the Theatres (Caserma dei Gladiatori), Pompeii VIII.7.16: a courtyard behind the Large Theatre ringed by 74 Doric Nocera-tuff columns, built as a theatre foyer and converted after the AD 62 earthquake into gladiators' barracks.

Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China

Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China, a 2021 UNESCO serial World Heritage property in Fujian honoring Zayton, the largest eastern Chinese port of the 10th-14th centuries on the Maritime Silk Roads.

Quark Archipelago

Quark Archipelago (Merenkurkun saaristo), Ramsar Site no. 6 in western Finland, designated 28 May 1974; a 63,699 ha shallow-marine archipelago in the Kvarken strait, rich in birds, with rapid land uplift and UNESCO World Heritage overlap.

Quarta Colônia UNESCO Global Geopark

Quarta Colônia UNESCO Global Geopark is a UNESCO Global Geopark in central Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, designated in 2023 and known for Triassic rocks with some of the oldest dinosaur fossils.

Quebrada de Humahuaca

Quebrada de Humahuaca, a 155-km Andean valley in Jujuy province, Argentina, along the Rio Grande and the Camino Inca; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2003, criteria (ii)(iv)(v), 10,000 years of trade-route history.

Queen Elizabeth National Park (Solomon Islands)

Queen Elizabeth National Park (Solomon Islands) is a defunct national park near Honiara, Guadalcanal, on Tandai land around Mount Austen. Established mid-1950s as a coronation tribute, reduced to 1,093 ha in 1973, now degraded and unmanaged.

Queen's Crags Roman Quarry

Queen's Crags Roman Quarry (RIB 3331) is a scheduled sandstone quarry near Housesteads on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, dated by a 1960-discovered inscription naming centurions Saturninus, Rufinus, and optio Henoenus.

Queenstown Gardens

Te Kararo Queenstown Gardens: public garden and recreation reserve on a Lake Wakatipu peninsula in Queenstown, New Zealand, established 1867, managed by QLDC, with a rose garden, ice rink, disc golf, and conifer succession plan.

Queenstown, South Africa

Queenstown, officially renamed Komani in 2016, is an Eastern Cape town founded in 1853 as a British frontier military outpost, laid out around a unique central hexagon and named after Queen Victoria.

Quezon Memorial Circle

Quezon Memorial Circle, also known as Quezon City Circle, is a 27-hectare national park in Quezon City, Philippines, dedicated to President Manuel L. Quezon and housing his remains.

Quiçama Biosphere Reserve

Quiçama Biosphere Reserve (Reserva da Biosfera Quiçama), Angola's first UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 27 September 2025 in Hangzhou; 3,316,050 ha along 206 km of Atlantic coast with eight core areas, 3,550 residents, and manatee and elephant habitat.

Quinta do Lomelino - Natural Garden

Quinta do Lomelino - Natural Garden is a botanical garden in Feteira, Faial, Azores, with over 600 subtropical and tropical plants, grown from a decades-old palm and exotic tree plantation on the Horta-airport road.

Quintiliana

Quintiliana (Fondugh el-Allus?) was a Roman/Late Antique coastal place in Africa Proconsularis (Tripolitana), listed on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Getullu and Ad Palmam and in the Ravennas Cosmographia; Barrington Atlas 35 F2.

Quintilii

Quintilii: senatorial brothers Sextus Quintilius Condianus and Valerius Maximus, consuls AD 151, killed by Commodus in 182/183; their Villa dei Quintili on the Via Appia became an imperial residence with baths, circus, theatre, and a lavish winery.

Quintilio Varo

Villa di Quintilio Varo (so-called Villa of Quintilius Varus): ruined Roman villa at Quintiliolo near Tivoli, Italy, the largest Tiburtine villa after Hadrian's, about 6 hectares, source of breccia quintilina; distinct from the Villa dei Quintili on the Via Appia.

Quinto Fiorentino

Quinto Fiorentino, hamlet of Sesto Fiorentino west of Florence at the fifth mile of the Roman road, known for the Etruscan tholos tombs La Mula and La Montagnola and the Palastreto necropolis.

Quistococha Zoo

Quistococha Zoo (Zoológico de Quistococha), an Amazonian wildlife zoo in the 369-hectare Quistococha Tourist Park on the Iquitos–Nauta road near Iquitos, Peru; created 1972, holds 72 local species, run by the Loreto regional government, undergoing remodeling through 2026.