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  1. Riyadh skyline with illuminated high-rise buildings.
    City

    Riyadh

    ZHA describes five buildings in KAPSARC’s hexagonal plan: a central court links them in temperate seasons; an underground route connects them in the hottest season.

    Explore Riyadh

    Photograph: B.alotaby · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  2. Church of the Voroneț monastery with fresco-covered outer walls and a conical-roofed tower, seen from the courtyard among conifers
    Country

    Romania

    Romania in three places: the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, the painted church at Voroneț in northern Moldavia and the fortified churches of Transylvania.

    Explore Romania

    Photograph: Gary Todd · Photo source · CC0 1.0

  3. The illuminated Colosseum in Rome at dusk
    City

    Rome

    Rome’s historic centre in context: the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Tiber, with sourced facts to connect your city photos and memories.

    Explore Rome

    Photograph: DAVID ILIFF · Photo source · CC BY-SA 2.5

  4. Roseau waterfront buildings with a green mountain ridge behind
    City

    Roseau

    A circa-1924 plan divides Roseau’s botanic garden into ornamental and economic sections; the former post office houses the museum, and New Market sits by the river.

    Explore Roseau

    Photograph: Ted Rufus Ross (RufusTeleStrat at English Wikipedia) · Photo source · CC BY 2.5

  5. Cracked blue-green ice in the foreground, with a snow-dusted, wooded rocky headland beyond it and streaked clouds above
    Country

    Russia

    Russia through three places: the neutrino telescope in Lake Baikal, the birch-bark letters of Novgorod and mammoth radiocarbon dates from Wrangel Island.

    Explore Russia

    Photograph: Sergey Pesterev · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  6. Layers of forested ridges fading into haze toward a low sun, with a dark cloud edged in orange and a patch of blue sky above
    Country

    Rwanda

    A 2018 Lake Kivu campaign measured dissolved-gas pressure at depth; a Nyungwe study tracked colobus feeding on Usnea; Akagera records rhino moves in 2017 and 2019.

    Explore Rwanda

    Photograph: Dpiskho · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  7. Saint Helier harbour, boats, quayside buildings and bay seen from above
    City

    Saint Helier

    Volunteers restored boats in Saint Helier’s Heritage Fleet. Ordnance Yard recalls the town’s cobbled streets around 1800.

    Explore Saint Helier

    Photograph: Jèrriais janne · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  8. Saint John’s rooftops and cathedral towers beneath a cloudy sky
    City

    Saint John’s

    Saint John’s pairs a museum with comparative Caribbean archaeology, a neo-Baroque cathedral with a timber interior and a quay shaped by several centuries.

    Explore Saint John’s

    Photograph: Андрей Бобровский · Photo source · CC BY 3.0

  9. A black iron cannon on a carriage on the stone paving of a fortress rampart, aimed over a low wall towards a deep blue sea, a coastal strip with scattered houses and a distant island with a conical peak
    Country

    Saint Kitts and Nevis

    A fortress on a lava dome, two volcanoes on neighbouring islands and monkeys whose DNA points to West Africa: three subjects from Saint Kitts and Nevis.

    Explore Saint Kitts and Nevis

    Photograph: Martin Falbisoner · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  10. Houses of the town of Soufrière beside the sea below forested volcanic hills, with the two pointed Piton peaks rising next to the blue Caribbean under white clouds
    Country

    Saint Lucia

    Locals often call Sulphur Springs “Soufrière volcano.” The Maria Islands list five endemic reptile species; a causeway links Pigeon Island to the mainland.

    Explore Saint Lucia

    Photograph: DavidMPyle · Photo source · CC BY 4.0

  11. Hauteville House seen from its garden: a white two-level extension with a glass roof and an outside staircase on the left, a balcony and a white spiral stair on the right, and a railed lantern above the roof, against a clear blue sky
    City

    Saint Peter Port

    A rooftop look-out rebuilt to keep out rain, a Candie greenhouse older than the gardens around it, and a small Castle Cornet plot exposed to Channel salt winds.

    Explore Saint Peter Port

    Photograph: Pymouss · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  12. Aerial view of small forested cays in the Tobago Cays, edged with pale sand and turquoise shallows, with sailing boats at anchor and a boat’s wake in deeper blue water
    Country

    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    A measured 2021 lava dome, coastal petroglyphs and the reef enclosing four Tobago Cays.

    Explore Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    Photograph: Stefan Schäfer, Lich · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  13. A two-storey cream-coloured wooden house with white lattice verandah railings and a sign reading Villa Vailima above the central entrance, with colourful shrubs along its base, forest at the right and a clear blue sky
    Country

    Samoa

    A 17.5 m crater lake on Upolu, a stone mound and surveyed settlement on Savai’i, and the 1891 move into Vailima above Apia.

    Explore Samoa

    Photograph: amanderson2 · Photo source · CC BY 2.0

  14. Front of the Teatro Nacional in San José: a sandstone-coloured façade with arched windows and a pediment topped by statues, behind an iron fence, with the Costa Rican flag at left and passers-by on the paved square
    City

    San José

    San José through three places: the Teatro Nacional’s Belgian iron and local stone, the iron school Edificio Metálico, and jade traded from the Motagua River.

    Explore San José

    Photograph: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  15. Cesta fortress stands on Monte Titano’s wooded ridge; a crenellated wall descends the slope toward a smaller tower, with hazy hills beyond.
    Country

    San Marino

    The Passo delle Streghe links Cesta and Guaita; a long wall connects Montale with both towers on Monte Titano.

    Explore San Marino

    Photograph: Terragio67 · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  16. Guaita fortress rising above the rooftops and green slopes of San Marino
    City

    San Marino

    San Marino’s gallery archive preserves 29 books made for a Reykjavík show; a historic stair route and a postal collection offer two more local details.

    Explore San Marino

    Photograph: Terragio67 · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  17. National Palace façade with its central portico beside a street in San Salvador
    City

    San Salvador

    In San Salvador, El Rosario church has a column-free concrete interior, the National Theatre opened in 1917 and the National Palace has four colour-named halls.

    Explore San Salvador

    Photograph: Jose Quintanilla · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  18. Ornamented old-city buildings and minarets in Sana’a at dusk in 2008
    City

    Sanaa

    A 2005 study describes a quarter garden watered with mosque greywater, mostly one-storey market buildings and tower houses of up to eight storeys.

    Explore Sanaa

    Photograph: Matt May · Photo source · CC BY 2.0

  19. Wooded Cerro Santa Lucía rising among apartment blocks and office towers of central Santiago, seen from above with an orange building under a dark roof on the slope
    City

    Santiago

    Santa Lucía’s circular observatory turned on iron rails above a fixed floor; a 1991 account records specimens from Gay’s collections in Santiago’s herbarium.

    Explore Santiago

    Photograph: Dario Alpern · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  20. Lago Zaramagullones at Los Tres Ojos: still green water below a pale limestone wall hung with roots and moss, with forest above and ferns in the foreground
    City

    Santo Domingo

    A 2015 geological memoir maps raised La Isabela reef levels and karst in Santo Domingo, including the collapse doline at Lago Zaramagullones.

    Explore Santo Domingo

    Photograph: Danu Widjajanto · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  21. Aerial view of São Tomé streets, trees and buildings beside Ana Chaves Bay
    City

    São Tomé

    CACAU occupies an early-twentieth-century railway building; the market’s porticoes repeat along its façade, while the fort has three sea-facing sides.

    Explore São Tomé

    Photograph: wsrolim · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  22. A white single-storey house with a long columned veranda and arched shuttered windows, behind a tall tropical plant with fan-shaped leaves, flowering shrubs and a cobbled yard under an overcast sky
    Country

    São Tomé and Príncipe

    The 1920 eclipse report describes cloud at Roça Sundy; UNESCO pages record Obô’s island endemics and Príncipe’s contrasting terrain.

    Explore São Tomé and Príncipe

    Photograph: Josep M. Gracia · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  23. Panorama of Sarajevo’s Marijin Dvor district, surrounding buildings and wooded hills beyond
    City

    Sarajevo

    Timekeeping globes at the Gazi Husrev-beg Library Museum, Baščaršija’s stone-and-copper Sebilj, and construction drawings shown at City Hall.

    Explore Sarajevo

    Photograph: BiHVolim · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  24. Tomb IGN110 at Hegra, a tall sandstone outcrop standing alone on a sandy desert floor, with a tomb facade carved into its face: stepped blocks at the top, two ledges and four pilasters above a small doorway, under a blue sky with clouds
    Country

    Saudi Arabia

    An unfinished tomb facade at Hegra, a dated account of Al-Ahsa springs and the freshwater setting behind Jubbah’s rock art.

    Explore Saudi Arabia

    Photograph: Ahmad AlHasanat · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  25. A dense flock of pelicans taking off from the water of Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary under a blue sky, with reed beds on the horizon and a few birds in flight above
    Country

    Senegal

    UNESCO’s Saloum listing counts 218 shell mounds and links their accumulation to durable islets; Djoudj’s listing records 365 bird species.

    Explore Senegal

    Photograph: Deedoo696 · Photo source · CC0 1.0

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