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Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney: opened 1816 on Gadigal land at Farm Cove, Australia's oldest scientific institution, a 74-acre free harbour-side garden with 5,000+ species, the National Herbarium of NSW, and active plant conservation science.
Royal Botanic Gardens (Trinidad and Tobago)
Royal Botanic Gardens of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain botanic garden founded 1818 by Governor Sir Ralph Woodford with superintendent David Lockhart; about 25 hectares, 700 trees, linked to Kew, origin of the National Herbarium.
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, also known as Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, is a botanic gardens organization operating gardens at Melbourne and Cranbourne, with Melbourne Gardens established in 1846.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kew Gardens) is a London botanic garden and plant science institution founded in 1759 by Princess Augusta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003, with over 50,000 living plants and the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst.
Royal Botanical Garden of Mexico
The Royal Botanical Garden of Mexico (Real Jardín Botánico de México) was a colonial scientific institution founded in Mexico City in 1788 to teach Linnaean botany.
Royal Botanical Gardens (Ontario)
The Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) is Canada's largest botanical garden, spanning Hamilton and Burlington, Ontario. Founded in 1941, it covers almost 1,100 hectares of gardens and nature sanctuaries.
Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore
Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore: royal burial ground in Windsor Home Park, consecrated 1928, next to the Royal Mausoleum of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; holds Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, and other royals.
Royal Capetian Fortresses of Languedoc
Royal Capetian Fortresses of Languedoc (Forteresses royales capétiennes du Languedoc), UNESCO serial property inscribed 26 July 2026: eight 13th–14th-century sites including Carcassonne, Montségur, Peyrepertuse, Quéribus, built by Capetian kings after the Albigensian Crusade.
Royal Castle, Warsaw
Royal Castle, Warsaw (Zamek Królewski w Warszawie): former residence of Polish kings and Sejm seat on the Vistula escarpment; destroyed 1944, rebuilt 1971-1984 by public subscription, UNESCO-listed with the Old Town since 1980.
Royal College of Physicians
Royal College of Physicians: professional body of physicians founded by Henry VIII in 1518, England's oldest medical institution; its Grade I listed 1964 Denys Lasdun headquarters stands by Regent's Park, London.
Royal Court of Tiébélé
Royal Court of Tiébélé (La Cour royale de Tiébélé), a 16th-century earthen architectural complex of the Kasena people in southern Burkina Faso; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2024 (criterion iii), 1.84 ha, with painted houses and Hague Enhanced Protection.
Royal Domain of Drottningholm
Royal Domain of Drottningholm (Drottningholms slottsområde), UNESCO World Heritage Site on Lovön island in Lake Mälar near Stockholm, inscribed 1991; Baroque palace, 1766 theatre with original machinery, Chinese Pavilion, gardens; Swedish royal family's residence since 1981.
Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens
Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Melbourne: Joseph Reed's 1879–1880 Great Hall and gardens, built for the 1880 and 1888 international exhibitions; UNESCO World Heritage listed 2004, the only surviving Palace of Industry Great Hall.
Royal Hawaiian Hotel
The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, the "Pink Palace of the Pacific," is a 1927 Spanish-Moorish luxury resort on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, built by Matson Navigation for $4 million, designed by Warren & Wetmore, and now managed by Marriott.
Royal Hill of Ambohimanga
Royal Hill of Ambohimanga (Colline royale d'Ambohimanga), a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2001 near Antananarivo, Madagascar: fortified Merina royal city, royal tombs, and sacred places, first cultural site in the country.
Royal Kurgan
Royal Kurgan (Tsarsky Kurgan, Царський курган), a 4th-century BC Bosporan royal burial mound near Kerch, Crimea: 17 m high, 80 m diameter, 37 m dromos, corbelled dome, opened by Ashik in 1837, looted in antiquity, probably Leukon I's tomb.
Royal Mausoleum (Mauna ʻAla)
Mauna ʻAla (fragrant hills), the Royal Mausoleum State Monument in Nuʻuanu, Honolulu, is the 1865 burial place of Hawaiian royalty of the Kamehameha and Kalākaua dynasties, a Gothic Revival chapel where the Hawaiian flag alone may fly.
Royal National Park
Royal National Park ("the Nasho"), near Sydney, NSW: Australia's first national park, dedicated 26 April 1879, world's second after Yellowstone; ~16,000 ha, renamed after the 1954 royal visit, National Heritage listed 2006, over 6 million visits in 2018.
Royal Palace of Caserta
The Royal Palace of Caserta (Reggia di Caserta) is a Bourbon royal residence begun in 1752 to Luigi Vanvitelli's design, completed 1845, with a 47,000 m2 palace, park, Caroline Aqueduct, and San Leucio silk complex, UNESCO-listed in 1997.
Royal Palaces of Abomey
Royal Palaces of Abomey (Palais royaux d'Abomey), earthen royal palaces in Benin built by 12 Dahomey kings 1625–1900; UNESCO World Heritage Site 1985, danger-listed 1985–2007, home to the Historical Museum of Abomey.
Royal Pond
Royal Pond is the name shared by several places, including a theme-park and entertainment venue in Khartoum, Sudan, and a reservoir in Monterey and Otis, Massachusetts.
Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty
Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty (조선왕릉), 40 UNESCO-listed tombs at 18 South Korean sites, built 1408–1966 for Joseon and Korean Empire rulers; Confucian, pungsu-sited tombs with living ancestral rites.
Royal Tombs of Vergina
The Royal Tombs of Vergina are four Macedonian royal burial chambers beneath the Great Tumulus at Vergina, ancient Aigai, excavated by Manolis Andronikos in 1977 and 1978.
ROYAN Resturant
ROYAN Resturant (مطعم رويان), also called بحيرة البجع swan lake, is a Baghdad, Iraq restaurant tagged as a casino on OpenStreetMap, open 24/7 near Al-Shaheed Monument; distinct from Bahrain's مطعم رويان company and France's Casino Barrière Royan.
Royat Roman Baths
Royat Roman Baths (thermes antiques de Royat): Gallo-Roman bathing complex in Puy-de-Dôme, France, using springs from the 1st century CE; discovered 1876, classified Monument historique 1889, one pool remains visible.
Roye
Roye, Somme, France: town near a Gallo-Roman vicus (Rodium) with two excavated villas west of the A1, showing five centuries of settlement from late Gallic enclosed farms to a villa abandoned around 410 AD.
Roztocze Biosphere Reserve
Roztocze Biosphere Reserve (Transgraniczny Rezerwat Biosfery Roztocze), a UNESCO transboundary biosphere reserve designated 19 June 2019, joining Poland's Roztocze with Ukraine's Roztochya reserve (2011) on the Polish-Ukrainian border near Zamość and Lviv.
Ruaylbari Fort
Ruaylbari Fort (রোয়াইলবাড়ী দুর্গ), also Roailbari or Royalbari Fort, is a ruined Sultanate-period military outpost on the Betai River in Kendua, Netrokona, Bangladesh; protected in 1987, excavated 1991–94 and 2016–17, linked to Nusrat Shah and Isha Khan.
Rucker Park
Rucker Park (Holcombe Rucker Park), Harlem, NYC, at 155th Street and Eighth Avenue; legendary streetball court, home of the Entertainers Basketball Classic, NBPA-refurbished Greg Marius Court, and 2025 National Commemorative Site.
Rückingen
Rückingen, in Erlensee, Hesse, Germany, site of a Roman cohort fort (Kastell Rückingen) on the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, built AD 110–125 for Cohors III Dalmatarum; UNESCO World Heritage component with preserved bathhouse walls.