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Xiamen Botanical Garden
Xiamen Botanical Garden (厦门园林植物园), also called Wanshi Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden on Wanshi Mountain on Xiamen Island, Fujian, China, first built in 1960 and home to more than 8,600 plant taxa.
Xianghai
Xianghai (向海) National Nature Reserve, a 1,055 km² Ramsar wetland in Tongyu county, Jilin, China, in the Horqin Grassland; protects red-crowned cranes and Mongolian elm woodlands, with major water replenishment and a 2016–2023 public trusteeship restoration.
Xiangyang Wildlife World
Xiangyang Wildlife World (襄阳野生动物世界) is a 3A-level wildlife theme park in Nanzhang County, Xiangyang, Hubei, China, holding more than 70 species and 4,000 animals, with a 600-meter drive-through carnivore zone.
Xiangyang Zoo
Xiangyang Zoo (襄阳动物园), founded 1979, moved 2002 into Xiangyang Park by the First Hanjiang Bridge in Xiangcheng District, Hubei; a small city zoo now included in the 2026 ancient-city redevelopment project.
Xiao Niao Le Yuan
小鸟乐园 names a small zoo in Zhuhai, Guangdong, and a Japanese bird-watching simulation game (鳥パラダイス); it is distinct from 小鸟天堂 in Jiangmen and 长隆飞鸟乐园 in Guangzhou.
Xiaomeisha Ocean World
Xiaomeisha Ocean World (深圳小梅沙海洋世界, Xiaomeisha Sea World) is an ocean theme park at Xiaomeisha beach, Yantian District, Shenzhen. Opened 1999, rebuilt after 2019 closure, reopened October 1, 2024 with an animatronic whale shark and Blue Grotto cylindrical tank.
Xiaoyeliu
Xiaoyeliu (小野柳, Little Yehliu, formerly Jialulan) is a coastal geopark in Fugang, Taitung, Taiwan, part of East Coast Fugong Geopark (2020). Its overturned Fugang sandstone turbidites, an exotic block in the Lichi melange, form turtle, tofu, and mushroom rocks.
Xicalango
Xicalango, also spelled Xicalanco and known to the Maya as Zactam, was a major pre-Hispanic trade port on the Laguna de Términos coast of Mexico.
Xilin Gol Biosphere Reserve
Xilin Gol Biosphere Reserve (锡林郭勒), a UNESCO MAB reserve in Inner Mongolia, China, designated 1987; 1,078,600 ha of temperate steppe, China's only grassland biosphere reserve and first grassland nature reserve.
Xingkai Lake Biosphere Reserve
Xingkai Lake Biosphere Reserve (兴凯湖) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve designated in 2007 in Mishan, Heilongjiang, China, protecting wetlands on the Russian border that host millions of migratory birds.
Xingtai Zoo
Xingtai Zoo (邢台市动物园) in Xiangdu District, Xingtai, Hebei, China, is a free-admission municipal zoo formed from People's Park's animals, relocated in 2006, renamed in 2008, holding over 60 species.
Xingu (protected area)
Xingu protected areas: the Xingu Indigenous Park (Parque Indígena do Xingu, created 1961) and the Terra do Meio mosaic in Mato Grosso and Pará, Brazil, forming a 28-million-hectare Amazon forest corridor threatened by deforestation and illegal gold mining.
Xingyi UNESCO Global Geopark
Xingyi UNESCO Global Geopark (兴义世界地质公园), designated 2024 in Guizhou, China, spans 145,600 ha of cone karst with over 20,000 Wanfenglin peaks and the late Ladinian Xingyi fauna of marine reptiles and fishes.
Xinjiang Tianshan
Xinjiang Tianshan (新疆天山), a serial natural World Heritage Site inscribed in 2013 in China: four components (Tomur, Kalajun-Kuerdening, Bayinbukuke, Bogda) totaling 606,833 ha along 1,760 km of the eastern Tianshan, criteria (vii) and (ix).
Xinjiang Tianshan Safari Park
Xinjiang Tianshan Safari Park (新疆天山野生动物园), also Bogda South-Foothill Wildlife Park, a 75 km² safari park in Dabancheng District, Urumqi; opened 2005, China's largest by area, AAAA-rated, with rescue center and 170+ species.
Xiriualtique - Jiquilisco Biosphere Reserve
Xiriualtique-Jiquilisco Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Xirihualtique-Jiquilisco), El Salvador's largest UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 2007; 101,607 ha of Pacific-coast mangroves, forests, and the Bahía de Jiquilisco Ramsar site (2005).
Xishuangbanna Biosphere Reserve
Xishuangbanna Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site since 1993 in southern Yunnan, China, protects China's largest tropical forest across five sub-reserves, 242,528 ha, holding over 90% of China's wild Asian elephants amid rubber-driven deforestation.
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG, 西双版纳热带植物园), CAS, founded 1959 by Cai Xitao at Menglun, Yunnan; a 1,125-ha tropical garden and research institute with 39 collections, 14,000+ species, herbarium, and field stations.
Xitang Ancient Town
Xitang Ancient Town (西塘古镇), a Ming-Qing canal town in Jiashan County, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, on China's UNESCO Tentative List; known for the 1.3 km Misty Rain Corridor, 122 lanes, nine waterways, and 27 bridges.
Xixia Imperial Tombs (China)
The Xixia Imperial Tombs (西夏陵), also called the Western Xia Imperial Tombs, are a burial ground of the Xixia Dynasty at the base of the Helan Mountains near Yinchuan, Ningxia, China.
Xizhou Ancient Town
喜洲古镇 (Xizhou Ancient Town), a historic Bai ethnic town in northern Dali City, Yunnan, between Cangshan and Erhai Lake, known for Ming-Qing-Republican 'three houses and a screen wall' courtyards, a 2001 national heritage listing, and about 3 million visitors in 2025.
Xplore Trampoline and Amusement Park
Xplore Trampoline and Amusement Park (एक्सप्लोर ट्रांपोलिन एंड एम्यूजमेंट पार्क), or Xplore Game Zone, is a 40,000 sq ft indoor trampoline, bowling, arcade, and VR venue in Hingna, Nagpur, Maharashtra; trampoline ₹700/hour, open 11:30 AM–10 PM daily.
Xurés Biosphere Reserve
Gerês-Xurés Transboundary Biosphere Reserve (Reserva da Biosfera Transfronteiriça Gerês-Xurés), UNESCO-designated 27 May 2009 across Galicia, Spain and northern Portugal; 258,913.71 ha around Peneda-Gerês and Baixa Limia-Serra do Xurés parks; first transboundary reserve involving Portugal.
Xylokastro (Palairos)
Xylokastro (Palairos), also known as Kastri, is an ancient fort on a spur of Mt. Plakoto above the chapel of Agios Athanasios in Palairos, Aetolia-Acarnania, part of the fortified landscape of the ancient city of Palairos in western Acarnania.
Yabotí Biosphere Reserve
Yabotí Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biósfera Yabotí), a UNESCO MAB site in Misiones, Argentina, designated 1995, protecting Paraná Forest, Moconá Falls, Esmeralda core area, Mbya Guaraní communities, and jaguar habitat.
Yad Vashem (יד ושם)
Yad Vashem (יד ושם), Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, established by Knesset law in 1953; documents the six million victims, runs the Shoah Victims' Names database, and awards the Righteous Among the Nations title.
Yading Biosphere Reserve
Yading Biosphere Reserve (Tibetan Nyiden, ཉི་དེན་) is a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site in Ganzi, Sichuan, China, designated 2003; 145,750 ha of Tibetan Plateau mountains with three sacred peaks, Kangba-Tibetan residents, and matsutake and caterpillar fungus livelihoods.
Yagiyama Benyland
Yagiyama Benyland (八木山ベニーランド) is Sendai's hilltop amusement park, opened April 14, 1968 as the first in the Tohoku region, with about 30 attractions, four roller coasters, and a theme song unchanged since opening.
Yakushi Triad of Yakushi-ji
The Yakushi Triad of Yakushi-ji (薬師三尊像) is a set of three gilt-bronze Buddhist statues, all National Treasures, enshrined as the principal object of worship at Yakushi-ji temple in Nara, Japan.
Yakushima and Kuchinoerabu Jima Biosphere Reserve
Yakushima and Kuchinoerabu Jima Biosphere Reserve (屋久島・口永良部島ユネスコエコパーク), a UNESCO MAB reserve in Kagoshima, Japan; Yakushima designated 1980, extended with volcanic Kuchinoerabu-jima in 2016, overlapping Yakushima National Park and the 1993 Yakushima World Heritage site.