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Segedunum

Segedunum, the Roman fort at Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, marked the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall. Built about AD 124–125, garrisoned by 480 infantry and 120 cavalry, occupied about 300 years to c. AD 380, now a museum and UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Segontium

Segontium (Caer aber Seint) was a Roman auxiliary fort at Caernarfon, north-west Wales, founded by Agricola in AD 77 and garrisoned until about AD 394, the longest-held Roman fort in Wales and the region's military and administrative centre.

Segosa

Segosa: Gallo-Roman road station (mutatio) on the Bordeaux–Dax Roman road at Saint-Paul-en-Born, Landes, France; listed in the Antonine Itinerary, excavated 1978–1990, occupied from the 1st century AD with pre-Roman Iron Age evidence.

Segyeggoch Florist

Segyeggoch Florist (세계꽃식물원) is a greenhouse garden and garden center in Dogo-myeon, Asan, South Chungcheong, South Korea, showing about 3,000 horticultural plant species year-round; admission is a 10,000 won plant-purchase coupon.

Seh Pa Aivan

Seh Pa Aivan is an ancient place in Iran recorded at Barrington Atlas grid 92 B3, dated tentatively to the Late Antique period, catalogued by Pleiades among temple and monument sites.

Seibuen Yuenchi

Seibuen Yuenchi (西武園ゆうえんち) is a Seibu Group amusement park in Tokorozawa, Saitama, opened in 1950 and reopened May 19, 2021 as a 1960s Showa-retro park with Godzilla The Ride.

Seimeni

Seimeni: Roman fort and walled civil settlement on a 60 ha Danube plateau in Constanța County, Romania, six Roman miles from Axiopolis, known from milestones of AD 160 and 200 and excavated only briefly in 1924.

Sejlflod

Sejlflod is an excavated Iron Age village and cemetery in Himmerland, northern Jutland, Denmark, occupied from 500 BC to about 1100 AD. Its cemetery of almost 300 oak-coffin inhumation graves from the 4th-5th centuries AD represents a whole village population and is interpreted as fused family grave clusters.

Sejrø Bugt, Nekselø Bugt and Saltbæk Vig

Sejrø Bugt, Nekselø Bugt and Saltbæk Vig (Ramsar site 157, Danish no. 18) is a 44,111 ha coastal wetland in northwestern Zealand, Denmark, designated 2 September 1977, important for moulting greylag geese, sea ducks, and rare ferns and orchids.

Selenis

Selenis: a harbor on the Libyan coast in Ptolemy's Geography (also Selinous, Selenide), and a Greek crescent-shaped child's amulet named from the moon; distinct from Selinus in Sicily and Cilicia.

Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine

Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine: 10-acre Pacific Palisades meditation sanctuary on Sunset Boulevard, founded by Paramahansa Yogananda, dedicated 1950, spring-fed Lake Santa Ynez, Gandhi ashes memorial, survived the 2025 Palisades Fire.

Selhurst Park

Selhurst Park is the London football stadium home to Crystal Palace F.C. since 1924, designed by Archibald Leitch, capacity 25,486, undergoing a Main Stand redevelopment to over 34,000 seats.

Seligenstadt

Seligenstadt, a Hessian town on the Main, grew from a Roman cohort fort (ORL 32), the northernmost fort of the Main Limes, garrisoned around 100 AD by the Cohors I Civium Romanorum equitata; later Einhard's Carolingian abbey town and a free imperial city.

SELION RISTA

SELION RISTA (セリオンリスタ) is a free glass-walled indoor park at Akita Port, opened 1995 next to Port Tower Selion; 2,304 m², themed on the Omono River and Sea of Japan, home to a famous udon vending machine.

Selous Game Reserve

Selous Game Reserve, southern Tanzania, a 50,000 sq km UNESCO World Heritage site (1982, criteria ix and x) split in 2019 when Nyerere National Park was created; on the Danger List since 2014 over poaching and the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project.

Selva El Ocote Biosphere Reserve

Selva El Ocote Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Selva El Ocote), a 101,288-hectare tropical rainforest reserve in northwestern Chiapas, Mexico, decreed in 2000, UNESCO MAB site since 2006, karst caves, La Venta canyon, jaguar and mahogany habitat.

Selvasecca di Blera

Selvasecca di Blera, an Etruscan-Roman villa site about 6 km southwest of Blera, Lazio, excavated by Eric Berggren 1965-1967; known for on-site architectural terracotta production and the disputed claim of being Italy's earliest villa.

Sembattur Mound

Sembattur Mound, a centrally protected ASI Jain site in Sembattur village, Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu, preserving a Jain mound, Mahavira and Yakshi images, five Pallava-style lion pillars, and Chola-period inscriptions.

Semiluzhensky Ostrog

Semiluzhensky Cossack ostrog (Семилуженский казачий острог): a private reconstruction of a 17th-century Cossack fort in Semiluzhki village near Tomsk, built from 2009 by Vladimir Ilyin, now an interactive open-air museum on the historic Siberian tract.

Semo Sancus, Aedes

Aedes Semo Sancus (Temple of Semo Sancus Dius Fidius), Roman temple of the oath-god on the Quirinal near the Porta Sanqualis, open to the sky, festival 5 June, with a second chapel on the Tiber island.

Semuncla

Semuncla: Roman road station in Lucania, southern Italy, on the Via Popilia between Grumentum and Nerulum, known only from Antonine Itinerary 104.7; unlocated, probably in the Upper Sinni Valley, distinct from ad Semnum of the Peutinger Table.

Sena Oura Biosphere Reserve

Sena Oura Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère de Sena Oura), Chad's first UNESCO biosphere reserve (2022), centers on Sena Oura National Park (73,520 ha) in Mayo-Kebbi Ouest, bordering Cameroon's Bouba Ndjida park, protecting Sudanian savannah with elephants, giant eland and giraffes.

Sendai Daikannon (仙台大観音)

Sendai Daikannon (仙台大観音), formally Sendai Tendo Byakue Daikannon, is a 100 m white Kannon statue at Daikanmitsuji Temple in Izumi-ku, Sendai, Japan. Completed 1991, briefly world's tallest statue, ninth tallest today, 12 interior levels, 500 yen entry.

Sendai Umino-mori Aquarium

Sendai Umino-mori Aquarium (仙台うみの杜水族館), opened July 1, 2015 in Miyagino-ku, Sendai, is the largest aquarium in Japan's Tohoku region, with about 100 tanks, a 990 m3 Sanriku Coast main tank, a 1,000-seat dolphin stadium, and penguin and Commerson's dolphin breeding.

Sendebad

Sendebad (مدينة ألعاب السندباد), Cairo's oldest amusement park, opened 1982 in New Nozha near Cairo International Airport; famous for the Worm, Carpet, and House of Horror rides; closed 2016 after its owner's death, slated for residential redevelopment.

Sensitive area

Sensitive area: a legally designated or recognized location vulnerable to environmental harm, defined in EU/UK EIA law, EU wastewater directives, and national ecologically sensitive area designations in India, Sri Lanka, and US county planning.

Sentosa Theme Park

Sentosa Theme Park refers to the theme park cluster on Sentosa, Singapore's 500-hectare resort island, chiefly Universal Studios Singapore at Resorts World Sentosa, Southeast Asia's only Universal park, opened 2010, alongside Adventure Cove Waterpark and the Singapore Oceanarium.

Seogwang Kart

Seogwang Kart (서광카트체험장) is a small family go-kart and live-fire shooting experience venue in Andeok-myeon, Seogwipo, Jeju, with a 750 m tire-barrier track, single and two-seat karts, Naver booking discounts, and mixed safety reviews.

Seomjingang Train village Dream Land

Dream Land (드림랜드) is the amusement ride area of Seomjingang Train Village, a family-oriented train theme park in Gokseong County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea.

Seopungji Folk Village

Seopungji Folk Village (서풍지민속촌, Seopungjiminsokchon) is a theme park in Jisan-dong, Suseong-gu, Daegu, South Korea, at 35.82886° N, 128.64597° E, near Joilji reservoir and Beommul Station on Daegu Metro Line 3.