Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Taq-i Girra

Taq-i Girra (Taq-e Girra), ancient stone tower hall with archway before the Patagh pass on the Khorasan highway between Qasr-e Shirin and Kermanshah, Iran; Parthian or Sasanian royal 'Thron-Iwan' with possible royal statue.

Tara River Basin Biosphere Reserve

Tara River Basin Biosphere Reserve (Sliv rijeke Tare): UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in Montenegro, designated 1976, 182,889 ha, 433–2,522 m elevation, enclosing Durmitor National Park and the 80 km, 1,300 m deep Tara Canyon.

Tarakulwa Mound

Tarakulwa Mound, also Tarkulwa Dih, is a centrally protected ASI monument in Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh, a very high mound identified as the probable remains of a Buddhist stupa (N-UP-S42, Sarnath circle).

Târgovishte

Târgovishte (Търговище) is a city in northeastern Bulgaria and the administrative center of Targovishte Province, known in the Ottoman period as Eski Djuma for its great international fair.

Taroko National Park (太鲁阁国家公园)

Taroko National Park (太魯閣國家公園), Taiwan national park established November 28, 1986; 92,000 hectares across Hualien, Taichung, Nantou; marble Taroko Gorge carved by the Liwu River; largely closed and phased-reopening after the April 3, 2024 earthquake.

Tarpan-like horses

Тарпанападобныя коні (tarpan-like horses) are Konik Polski domestic horses bred in 1920s Poland to resemble the extinct tarpan; 151 were returned to Belarus's Naliboki Forest from the Netherlands in 2019 for ecosystem grazing.

Tarrant Hinton

Tarrant Hinton (Barton Field), Dorset: multi-period site with Bronze Age beaker graves, Iron Age settlement, and a 4th-century Roman courtyard villa with bath house, excavated 1845 and 1968-1984 by the Wimborne Archaeological Group; scheduled monument 1002424.

Tartas-1

Tartas-1 (Тартас-1) is a large multi-period flat-grave necropolis in the Baraba forest-steppe, Novosibirsk Region, Russia, excavated 2003–2023; over 800 burials, chiefly Andronovo (Fedorovo) and Late Krotovo Bronze Age cultures, with Neolithic layers and paleogenetic studies.

Tarxien (Malta)

The Tarxien Temples are a complex of four megalithic temples in Tarxien, southeastern Malta, built between 3600 and 2500 BC, the largest of the island's temple complexes.

Tashkent Land

Tashkent Land (Tashkentland, Toshkentlend) is a children's amusement park opened in the late 1990s in the Uzexpocentre complex, Yunusabad district, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, near the TV tower; known for a 24 m Ferris wheel, Bumerang coaster, and later closures.

Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity and Tradition in Central Asia

Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity and Tradition in Central Asia: UNESCO World Heritage serial property of ten 1960s-1990s Soviet modernist buildings in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, inscribed 2026, criterion (iv), after the 1966 earthquake reconstruction.

Tasman National Park

Tasman National Park, a national park in south-eastern Tasmania proclaimed in 1999, protects the Tasman and Forestier peninsulas, Australia's highest sea cliffs (300 m), the Three Capes Track, and a third of Tasmania's plant species.

Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA): 1,584,233 ha World Heritage site in southwest Tasmania, inscribed 1982, meeting 7 of 10 criteria, saved from the Franklin dam in 1983.

Tassiesholm

Tassiesholm is the name William Roy gave in 1793 to a Roman military complex at Milton, about three miles south of Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Tassili n'Ajjer

Tassili n'Ajjer is a vast sandstone plateau in south-east Algeria near the borders of Libya, Niger, and Mali, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982.

Tatoi Palace (Ανάκτορο Τατοΐου)

Tatoi Palace (Ανάκτορο Τατοΐου), former Greek royal summer residence 35 km north of Athens, bought by George I in 1872; palace built 1884-1889, left in 1967, state-owned since 2003, now a €70 million restoration with three museums opening 2026.

Tatton Park

Tatton Park is a historic country estate at Knutsford in Cheshire, England, with a mansion, gardens, and a deer park; the Egerton family owned it for nearly 400 years until 1958.

Tatton Park Gardens

Tatton Park Gardens: 50 acres of historic gardens at Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire, created by the Egerton family with designers Repton, Wyatt, and Paxton; noted Japanese Garden (1910), maze, arboretum; National Trust since 1958.

Tavşan Tepe Tümülüsü

Tavşan Tepe Tümülüsü (Tavşan Tepe Tumulus) is a Hellenistic burial mound at Pergamon, Bergama, Turkey, about 100 m in radius, the third largest Bergama tumulus, and UNESCO World Heritage component 1457-006; distinct from the Kırklareli namesake and Tavşantepe 2.

Tavvavuoma

Tavvavuoma (also Taavavuoma) is a 28,920 ha palsa mire and peat plateau complex in Norrbotten, northern Sweden, Ramsar Site no. 33 since 1974, with near-0°C permafrost, thermokarst lakes, and about 400 breeding bird pairs per km².

Tawa Reservoir

Tawa Reservoir, Ramsar Site no. 2547 in Narmadapuram district, Madhya Pradesh, India; a 20,050 ha man-made wetland on the Tawa and Denwa rivers within Satpura Tiger Reserve, designated 8 January 2024, supporting 57 fish species and over 280 migratory birds.

Taxarias

Taxarias is the Barrington Atlas name for an ancient Roman villa at Castanède, commune of Montalzat, Tarn-et-Garonne, France, in Gallia Aquitania; the name is attested AD 300-640 and mapped at 44.195486 N, 1.489513 E.

Tayrona National Natural Park

Tayrona National Natural Park (Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona), declared 1964 in Magdalena, Colombia: 19,309 ha of Caribbean coast and Sierra Nevada foothills, dry forest, corals, four indigenous peoples' sacred territory, and Colombia's most visited national park.

Taza Zoo

Taza Zoo (حديقة الحيوانات تازة, Parc zoologique de Taza) is a 24-hectare zoo near El Aouana, Jijel Province, Algeria, opened in July 2006, holding about 240 animals of 50 species and drawing over 850,000 visitors in 2014; not to be confused with Tazekka National Park in Morocco.

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Tazumal

Tazumal is a Maya archaeological site and national park in Chalchuapa, Santa Ana, western El Salvador, 80 kilometers west of San Salvador, its most visited archaeological park, abandoned around 1200 AD.

Tchervenata sténa Biosphere Reserve

Tchervenata sténa (Chervenata Stena, Червената стена) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Bulgaria's Central Rhodopes, designated 1977, extended 2017 to 65,409 ha, with 15 EU habitat types and eight Red Data Book mammals.

Tchicapika-Owando

Tchicapika-Owando, also written Tchikapika-Owando, is a Ramsar Site of about 970,000 hectares in the Cuvette department of the Republic of the Congo, designated in 2015 and sheltering forest elephants and critically endangered western gorillas.

Te Anau Bird Sanctuary

Punanga Manu o Te Anau/Te Anau Bird Sanctuary, a free DOC-run wildlife sanctuary on Lake Te Anau, Fiordland, New Zealand, known for takahē; under reduced operations and management transition since 2025.

Te Henua Enata – The Marquesas Islands (protected area)

Te Henua Enata – The Marquesas Islands: mixed serial UNESCO World Heritage property (inscribed 2024, France/French Polynesia) of seven components, 345,749 ha, honoring Ènata chiefdom culture and exceptional Pacific marine and terrestrial biodiversity.