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Upper Solway Flats & Marshes
Upper Solway Flats & Marshes, also the Upper Solway Flats and Marshes SPA/Ramsar site (UK11079), is a cross-border intertidal wetland at the head of the Solway Firth, famed for Svalbard barnacle geese, over 130,000 wintering waterfowl, and unclaimed saltmarsh transitions.
Upper Svaneti
Upper Svaneti, a mountain region of northwest Georgia along the upper Inguri River, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996 (criteria iv, v) for medieval villages and defensive tower houses, notably Chazhashi with over 200 towers.
Uppsala University Botanical Garden
The Uppsala University Botanical Garden is Sweden's oldest botanical garden, founded in 1655, directed by Carl Linnaeus from 1741, and moved to its present 13-hectare site below Uppsala Castle in 1807.
Ur Tourist City (مدينة أور السياحية)
Ur Tourist City (مدينة أور السياحية) is Iraq's tourism development at the ancient Sumerian site of Ur in Dhi Qar Governorate, near Nasiriyah. It includes the Ur International Museum with over 3,000 artifacts, an open-air theater, and the restored Great Ziggurat, part of the Ahwar of Southern Iraq World Heritage property inscribed in 2016.
Uragh Stone Circle
Uragh Stone Circle (Ciorcal Cloch Uragh): Bronze Age five-stone circle, c. 1500 BC, on the Beara Peninsula, County Kerry, between the Cloonee and Gleninchaquin Lakes, with a 3 m standing stone beside its 2.5 m ring and a multiple-stone circle nearby.
Urba
Urba is the ancient Roman name of Orbe in Vaud, Switzerland, also recorded as Vicus Urbensis, best known for the huge Roman villa and mosaics of Boscéaz, excavated 1986-2004 by the University of Lausanne.
Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos
The Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the 70-hectare historic core of Cienfuegos, Cuba, founded in 1819 by French settlers.
Urban park systems
An urban park system is a network of parks planned and connected as one whole, a term coined by Olmsted and Vaux in 1868 for Buffalo, New York.
Urban plants
Urban plants are the trees, shrubs, herbs, and grasses that grow within cities and towns, planted or spontaneous, forming the living base of urban green infrastructure.
Urewera National Park
Urewera National Park (Te Urewera National Park) was a North Island New Zealand national park established in 1954 around Lake Waikaremoana, enlarged to 212,673 ha, and disestablished in 2014 when the Te Urewera Act granted the area legal personhood under a Tūhoe and Crown board.
Uriteo Folk Village
Uriteo Folk Village (우리터민속촌, Uriteominsokchon) is a theme park in Sinjeong-dong, Nam-gu, Ulsan, South Korea, at 9-1 Beonyeong-ro 250beon-gil, presenting traditional Korean rural life; distinct from the larger Korean Folk Village in Yongin.
Urkesh
Urkesh was a third-millennium BC Hurrian city at Tell Mozan near Qamishli in northeastern Syria, seat of Hurrian kings and home of the god Kumarbi, excavated by the Buccellatis since 1984.
Ursolis
Ursolis (Ursolae, Ursoli, Urseola), a place in Gallia Narbonensis on the Antonine Itinerary road between Valentia and Vienne, 22 and 26 miles distant; site proposed as S. Valier or Roussillon.
Urumqi Municipal Water Amusement Park
水上乐园 (سۇ ئۈستى باغچىسى), the Urumqi Municipal Water Amusement Park, is a 1,302-mu municipal park in Tianshan District, Urumqi, opened 1987 around an artificial lake, free since 2007, with rides, the 2022 欢乐世界 zoo, and giant pandas.
Ururu
УРУРУ (Ururu) is an outdoor amusement park opened 24 June 2020 in a forest at Stare Selo, 12 km from Lviv, Ukraine, on the Bukhta Vikinhiv complex: 42 attractions, 22 animatronic dinosaurs, net park, tubing, water town.
US municipal park systems
US municipal park systems are networks of city parks planned as connected landscapes and linked by parkways, beginning with Olmsted and Vaux's 1868 plan for Buffalo, New York.
Ushkura Mound
Ushkura Mound (Ushkur, Hushkapura) is a Buddhist stupa site near Baramulla, Kashmir, visited by Hiuen Tsang, attributed to Lalitaditya in Kalhana's Rajatarangini, with Gandharan-style terracotta decoration; an ASI centrally protected monument.
USS Arizona Memorial
USS Arizona Memorial, the 1962 white concrete memorial at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, spanning the sunken battleship USS Arizona and commemorating its 1,177 dead from the December 7, 1941 attack; designed by Alfred Preis, NPS-managed since 1980.
Usuerva
Usuerva (Hosuerbas) was a Gallo-Roman road station, a mutatio on the Via Aquitania in Gallia Narbonensis, 15-16 miles west of Narbonne, probably near Lézignan in the Aude, France.
Utopia Park
Utopia Park (פארק אוטופיה), or Utopia Orchid Park, is Israel's covered tropical rainforest at Kibbutz Bahan, opened 2006, with thousands of orchids, carnivorous plants, mazes, and a musical fountain; distinct from Utopia Park, Texas.
Utwe Biosphere Reserve
Utwe Biosphere Reserve, Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia; UNESCO MAB site designated 2005, one of the first two in Pacific island countries; community-managed, small (1,773 ha reported), with lagoon, reef, mangrove and forest habitats.
Uushigiin Uver
Uushigiin Uver (Уушигийн өвөр), a Bronze Age deer stone and khirgisüür complex in Bürentogtokh soum, Khövsgöl, Mongolia, 18 km west of Murun; 14 carved granite stelae, State Special Protection since 1998, UNESCO World Heritage 2023.
Uvecik Tepe
Uvecik Tepe (Üvecik Tepe, Üveciktepe) is the largest tumulus of the Troad, Turkey, nearly 25 m high, about 4 km from Troy; identified with the tomb of Festus, freedman of Emperor Caracalla, excavated by Schliemann in 1879.
Uvs Nuur Basin Biosphere Reserve
The Uvs Nuur Basin Biosphere Reserve (Mongolian: Увс нуурын хотгор) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve designated in 1997 in western Mongolia, protecting the southern Uvs Nuur Basin.
Uxelodu(nu)m
Uxelodunum, also known as Petriana, was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall at Stanwix, now in Carlisle, and the largest fort on the Wall, garrisoned by a thousand-strong cavalry regiment.
Vacone Roman villa
Vacone Roman villa (Sasso Grosso, Sabina, Rieti): late-Republican to mid-Imperial villa, 62 x 46 m, excavated since 2012 by Rutgers' Upper Sabina Tiberina Project; Augustan peristyle, cryptoportico terrace, major olive-oil plant; Horace link unproven.
Vadhavan Port
Vadhavan Port (Vadhvan) is a planned greenfield deep-draft major port at Dahanu, Palghar, Maharashtra, developed by JNPA-MMB joint venture VPPL; 20 m natural depth, Rs 76,220 crore cost, 15-23.9 million TEU capacity, cabinet-approved June 2024.
Vahdat Amusement Park
Vahdat Amusement Park (شهربازی پارک وحدت) is a free-entry, pay-per-ride theme park inside Vahdat Park, Mashhad, Iran, near the Imam Reza Shrine, with a Ferris wheel, bumper cars, small coasters, and indoor children's rides.
Vaipu Swamp Conservation Area
Vaipu Swamp Conservation Area, Samoa's third Ramsar Site (no. 2530, designated 10 November 2023), is a 278-hectare upland swamp forest in eastern Upolu, the country's largest remaining swamp forest, home to the critically endangered tooth-billed pigeon and endemic snails.
VakilAbad Zoo
VakilAbad Zoo (باغ وحش وکیل آباد), also Mashhad Zoo, is Mashhad's only zoo at the end of Vakilabad Boulevard; founded 1960 at Khajeh Rabi', moved 1980, holds 125 species including a rare tigon, and faces welfare criticism.