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Exning

Exning is the most westerly village in Suffolk, England, near Newmarket, known for its Roman villa, Early Iron Age enclosure ditch, Anglo-Saxon cemeteries, and links to St Etheldreda and the Newmarket horse-racing industry.

Exomvourgo

Exomvourgo (Εξώμβουργο, Xombourgo) is a 641 m granite hill in central Tinos, Cyclades, site of the ancient city of Tenos and the Venetian Castello di Santa Elena, the island's fortified capital until 1715, now a climbing and hiking destination.

Exotenhaus

Exotenhaus: German zoo term for an exotic-animal house. Best known is Karlsruhe Zoo's Exotenhaus, the 1955 Tullabad swimming pool converted in 2015 into a tropical hall with free-roaming animals; Worms has another.

Expedition Everest

Expedition Everest – Legend of the Forbidden Mountain is a Vekoma steel roller coaster at Disney's Animal Kingdom, opened April 7, 2006, themed as a Himalayan train ride with a Yeti animatronic; its just-under-200-foot mountain is Florida's tallest.

Experience Zoo iZoo

Experience Zoo iZoo (体感型動物園iZoo) is a reptile and amphibian zoo in Kawazu on Japan's Izu Peninsula, known for free-roaming giant tortoises and hands-on reptile experiences.

Explorer Village

Explorer Village (قرية المستكشف) is the drive-through safari zone of Dubai Safari Park in Al Warqa 5, Dubai, home to 63 species and the 35-minute guided Explorer Safari Tour bus past African and Asian animals; distinct from the Shearwater hotel in Victoria Falls.

Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park

Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park, also called Moricoro Park (モリコロパーク), is a 157-hectare public park in Nagakute, Aichi, Japan, on the former site of Expo 2005, opened July 2006 and housing Ghibli Park since 2022.

Extensive Brick Strewn Mound

Extensive Brick Strewn Mound, Asothar (N-UP-L73): a centrally protected archaeological mound in Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, under ASI Lucknow circle/South, associated with 10th-century Digambar Jain images.

Extensive Mound Called Garhi

Extensive mound called Garhi: protected archaeological mound at Khairai village, Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, ASI Lucknow Circle; 1885 finds of three 10th-century sikhara spirelets indicate a buried early medieval temple.

Extreme Park (экстрим парк, n13563949104)

Extreme Park (Экстрим-парк, Екстрим-парк) is a theme park in Mariupol Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, near Mariupol; OSM way 370159521, Wikidata Q4530694, coordinates 47.12243 N, 37.55819 E, with trampoline, lazy river, and drop tower attractions.

Extreme Park (экстрим парк, w370159521)

Extreme Park (экстрим парк) is a name shared by unrelated venues: a Nicosia children's theme park (founded 1998), URAM in Kazan, Yell in Armenia, Freestyle in Dzerzhinsky, Rosa Khutor, Sunway Lagoon's zone, and Cernica.

Eʾešmah

Eʾešmah (é-èš-maḫ, "Exalted House"; Akkadian bīt Ea) was the Ea temple in the Kumar district of west Babylon, one of seven temples listed in Tintir = Babylon Tablet IV; it remains unlocated archaeologically.

Fabrateria Nova amphitheater

Fabrateria Nova amphitheater: Roman amphitheater at the colony of Fabrateria Nova (La Civita, San Giovanni Incarico, Frosinone, Italy), founded 124 BC after Fregellae's destruction. Measures 70 x 57 m, two axial entrances, probably wooden seating, unusually large for the small town.

Fag el-Gamous Cemetery

Fag el-Gamous is a large Graeco-Roman cemetery in Egypt's Fayoum region, in use from about 350 BCE to 500 CE and holding an estimated 150,000 burials.

Fagaceae flora

Fagaceae flora (壳斗科植物区) is a one-hectare oak-focused living collection at the CAS Institute of Botany botanical garden, Beijing, with 1950s Three-North oak introductions, over 40 world Quercus species, and a pine-oak mixed forest landscape.

Fagasā, American Samoa

Fagasā ("Forbidden Bay" or "Sacred Bay") is a village of about 465 people on the north shore of Tutuila, American Samoa, at Fagasa Bay, with national park land leased from the village and trails from Fagasa Pass.

Fairy Lake Botanical Garden

Fairy Lake Botanical Garden (仙湖植物园, Xianhu), Shenzhen, China; a 587-hectare botanical garden in Luohu District affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2008, opened 1988, with 7,800+ cultivated species, cycad conservation, and Hongfa Temple.

Fajas de Sao Jorge Biosphere Reserve

Fajãs de São Jorge Biosphere Reserve (Reserva da Biosfera das Fajãs de São Jorge), a UNESCO MAB site designated 19 March 2016, covering all of São Jorge Island in the Azores plus marine waters to three miles, 98,114.17 ha with over seven dozen landslide and lava-flow fajãs.

Falasorma-Dui Sevi Biosphere Reserve

Falasorma-Dui Sevi Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère Falasorma-Dui Sevi), UNESCO MAB site FR 640002 in northwest Corsica, France; designated 1977, extended 1990 and 2020; 86,429 ha along the Fango valley; Corsica's only biosphere reserve.

Falerii Novi amphitheater

Falerii Novi amphitheater: Roman amphitheater outside the northeast walls of Falerii Novi, a 241 BCE colony 50 km north of Rome; dated to the Augustan age and dug in the 19th century.

Fall Creek Falls State Park

Fall Creek Falls State Park, a Tennessee resort park in Bledsoe and Van Buren counties on the Cumberland Plateau, holds the 256-foot Fall Creek Falls, the highest waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains, plus CCC/WPA-era history, 226 campsites, and a lodge.

Famenne-Ardenne UNESCO Global Geopark

Famenne-Ardenne UNESCO Global Geopark, Belgium's first geopark (designated 17 April 2018), a 915 km² area of Wallonia spanning the Famenne, Calestienne, and Ardennes, famed for karst caves and the Lesse, Lomme, and Ourthe rivers.

Famili Parc

فاميلي بارك (Famili Parc) is an amusement park in Tissemsilt, Algeria, opened December 2016 by Family Shop on 3 hectares for 700 million dinars, with 16 rides and the Zamperla Crazy Mouse coaster.

Family area

A family area is a themed zone in an amusement, theme, or water park grouping gentle rides, play, dining, and character entertainment aimed at young children and their families.

Faneuil Hall

Faneuil Hall, the "Cradle of Liberty," is Boston's 1742 market and meeting hall funded by slave trader Peter Faneuil, expanded by Bulfinch in 1806, and a National Historic Landmark.

Fanfair

Fanfair, a spelling variant of funfair, is a travelling fairground with rides, stalls, and generators; covered by UK ADIPS testing, HSE HSG175 guidance, site inspections, and US ADA exemptions for portable rides.

Fangshan UNESCO Global Geopark

Fangshan UNESCO Global Geopark (中国房山联合国教科文组织世界地质公园), a 1,045 km² geopark on the Beijing-Hebei border with 3,500-million-year rock formations, the 1929 Peking Man discovery site, and eight scenic areas.

Fantasy Jellyfish Aquarium

梦幻水母宫 (Fantasy Jellyfish Aquarium), opened May 8, 2007 at No.2 Laiyang Road, Qingdao, is mainland China's first professional jellyfish hall, part of Qingdao Underwater World, displaying 20+ species and thousands of jellyfish.

Fantasy Kids Resort

Fantasy Kids Resort (ファンタジーキッズリゾート) is a Japanese chain of membership-based indoor playgrounds for children aged 0 to 12 and their families, operated by Fantasy Resort Co., Ltd.

Fantasy Kingdom

Fantasy Kingdom (ফ্যান্টাসি কিংডম) is Bangladesh's first theme park, opened 19 February 2002 by Concord Group at Jamgora, Ashulia near Dhaka. The ~20-acre complex includes Water Kingdom, Xtreme Racing go-karts, Heritage Park, and Resort Atlantis.