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Voudeni Cemetery
Voudeni Cemetery is a Mycenaean chamber tomb cemetery in Achaea, western Greece, about 7 km northeast of Patras, with more than 80 tombs used from about 1450 to 1050 BCE.
Vouni
Vouni (Vouni Palace, Ανάκτορο του Βουνιού) is a fortified 5th-century BC palace on a hill near Soloi in northwest Cyprus, excavated 1928-29 by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition, with the Vouni Treasure of coins and Achaemenid jewelry.
Voxnadalen Biosphere Reserve
Voxnadalen Biosphere Reserve (Biosfärområde Voxnadalen), a UNESCO MAB site in Hälsingland, Sweden, designated June 2019; 342,000 ha along the Voxnan River catchment across Ovanåker, Ljusdal, Bollnäs, and Rättvik municipalities.
Voyageurs National Park
Voyageurs National Park is a 340-square-mile national park in northern Minnesota on the Canadian border, named for the canoe paddlers of the fur trade, established in 1975.
Vrangstrup
Vrangstrup: a Late Roman Iron Age burial ground between Hammel and Randers, Jutland (six graves found 1938), and a Zealand village and Romanesque parish church near Ringsted in Næstved Kommune.
Vulkan (casino)
Казино Вулкан (Vulkan/Volcano) is a gambling brand from 1990s Russian slot halls (Ritzio, Oleg Boyko); trademarks held by Dareos Ltd, with dozens of online offshoots like Vulkan Vegas under Curaçao/Anjouan licenses plus a licensed Ukrainian Vulkan Casino.
Vulkaneifel UNESCO Global Geopark
Vulkaneifel UNESCO Global Geopark (Natur- und Geopark Vulkaneifel), a German geopark in the Rhenish Slate Mountains designated by UNESCO in 2015, known for over 350 eruption centres, maar volcanoes, ongoing uplift of about 1 mm per year, and the Vulkaneifel Akademie education program.
Vungovicus
Vungovicus (Uongo, Vungum, Vongisus) was a Roman road station in Gaul, identified with Voncq in the French Ardennes on the Reims-Trier road; attested in the Antonine Itinerary around AD 300 and recorded in Pleiades as place 109445.
Vyšehrad
Vyšehrad (Czech "Upper Castle") is a Prague fortress complex, national cultural monument, and UNESCO-listed site: a 10th-century hill fort, royal castle of Vratislav II, Baroque fortress (1653–1727), and cemetery of famous Czechs.
W National Park
W National Park is a transboundary park in West Africa, named for the W-shaped bend of the Niger River, where Niger, Burkina Faso, and Benin meet.
W Region Biosphere Reserve (Benin)
The W Region Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in northeast Benin, designated in 2002, forming the Beninese part of the W–Arly–Pendjari complex shared with Burkina Faso and Niger.
W Region Biosphere Reserve (Burkina Faso)
W Region Biosphere Reserve, Burkina Faso, UNESCO MAB site designated 2002, 744,366 ha, part of the W-Arly-Pendjari transboundary complex with Benin and Niger, first transboundary biosphere reserve in Africa.
W Region Biosphere Reserve (Niger)
W Region Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère transfrontière du W) is Niger's UNESCO MAB site around W National Park; designated 2002 as Africa's first transboundary biosphere reserve with Benin and Burkina Faso, covering 728,000 ha in Niger and holding the last Nigerien giraffes.
W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
W-Arly-Pendjari Complex (WAP), transboundary protected area in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger; UNESCO World Heritage site (1996, extended 2017), 1,714,831 ha, largest West African elephant population, threatened since 2017 by jihadist armed groups.
Wachau Cultural Landscape
Wachau Cultural Landscape: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2000, criteria ii and iv) covering the Danube valley between Melk and Krems, Lower Austria, about 36 km long, with medieval vine terraces, Melk and Göttweig abbeys, and 18,462 ha inscribed area.
Waco Mammoth National Monument
Waco Mammoth National Monument, also known as the Waco Mammoth Site, is a national monument in Waco, Texas, preserving in situ fossils of a Pleistocene Columbian mammoth nursery herd.
Wadden Sea and Hallig Islands of Schleswig-Holstein Biosphere Reserve
UNESCO biosphere reserve (1990, extended 2004/2005 and 2023) on the Schleswig-Holstein North Sea coast, Germany, covering 444,935 ha of tidal flats, salt marshes and the five inhabited, dike-less Hallig islands Gröde, Hooge, Langeneß, Nordstrandischmoor, and Oland.
Waddensea of Lower Saxony Biosphere Reserve
Waddensea of Lower Saxony Biosphere Reserve (Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer), UNESCO MAB site since 1992 covering 240,000 ha of Germany's Lower Saxony coast; national park since 1986, World Heritage since 2009, extended 2023.
Waddon Hill
Waddon Hill in Stoke Abbott, Dorset, England, is the site of a mid first-century Roman fort, one of the few known from the conquest of Durotrigian territory.
Wadi El Rayan Protected Area
Wadi El Rayan Protected Area (محمية وادي الريان), also called Wadi Rayan, is a 1,759 km² Egyptian protected area in Fayoum Governorate, declared 1989, with two man-made drainage lakes, Egypt's waterfall area, and the Wadi El-Hitan whale-fossil World Heritage Site.
Wadi Haggag
Wadi Haggag (Arabic: وادي حجّاج, "Valley of the Pilgrims") is a valley in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, known for about 400 rock graffiti left by travelers from the 2nd century onward.
Wadi Rum Protected Area (protected area)
Wadi Rum Protected Area (WRPA, محمية وادي رم), Jordan's largest protected area at 74,000 ha in the southern Hisma desert; UNESCO mixed World Heritage site since 2011 with 25,000 petroglyphs, 20,000 inscriptions, and 12,000 years of occupation.
Wadi-us-Salaam (وادي السلام)
Wadi-us-Salaam (وادي السلام), the Valley of Peace, is the world's largest cemetery, adjoining Imam Ali's shrine in Najaf, Iraq, with an estimated 5-6 million graves, about 50,000 burials yearly, and 1,400 years of continuous use.
Wairarapa Moana Wetland
Wairarapa Moana Wetland, also called the Wairarapa Moana Wetlands, is a 10,547-hectare Ramsar wetland complex (site 2432, designated 2020) around Lakes Wairarapa and Onoke in New Zealand's southern North Island.
Waitākere Ranges
Waitākere Ranges: forested Auckland hills to 450 m, heart of the 27,720 ha heritage area and 17,000 ha regional park, Auckland's water catchment since 1902, protected under the 2008 Act and closed to most walkers since 2018 for kauri dieback.
Waitaki Whitestone UNESCO Global Geopark
Waitaki Whitestone UNESCO Global Geopark, New Zealand's first and only UNESCO Global Geopark, endorsed May 2023; 7,214 km² in the Waitaki District, South Island, with over 40 geosites including the Moeraki Boulders.
Wakatobi Biosphere Reserve
The Wakatobi Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere reserve covering 1,390,000 hectares of islands and waters off southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, designated in 2012.
Wakayama Castle Park Zoo
Wakayama Castle Park Zoo (和歌山城公園動物園, Wakayama-jō Kōen Dōbutsuen) is a free-admission municipal zoo inside the grounds of Wakayama Castle in Wakayama City, Japan, opened in 1915 and among Japan's oldest zoos.
Walesby
Walesby, a village in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, is the site of a Roman villa at Walesby Top, excavated in 1861, with hypocaust, 2nd-4th century finds, a chi-rho lead tank, and a nearby Roman pottery kiln.
Walheim
Walheim, Baden-Württemberg: Roman site on the Neckar limes with two cohort forts (cohors I asturum equitata, 2.1 ha) and a 4-ha civilian trade settlement; Museum Römerhaus preserves a 48 x 14 m trade-house ruin of about 160 AD.