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  1. Grassy coast with a curving bay, boardwalk paths and a fenced area on the right, with a low flat-topped island offshore under a blue sky and rocks in the foreground
    Country

    Canada

    Canada through three places: Norse wood at L'Anse aux Meadows dated to 1021, the Bay of Fundy’s tides and the steamboat-sized locks of the Rideau Canal.

    Explore Canada

    Photograph: Photo: Gordon Leggett / Wikimedia Commons · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  2. Lake Burley Griffin, grassy shore and a hill with a tower under a cloudy sky
    City

    Canberra

    Explore Canberra’s garden map, Lake Burley Griffin’s design axes and a botanic collection linked to herbarium records.

    Explore Canberra

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

  3. A pale one-storey building with a flat roof and black rooftop tank stands above a stone retaining wall, with dark lava reaching its base.
    Country

    Cape Verde

    A Fogo building survey, a seven-island loggerhead-nest model and Pedra de Lume’s historic salt cableway on Sal.

    Explore Cape Verde

    Photograph: Zinneke · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  4. Caracas apartment buildings with green mountain slopes behind them in 2012
    City

    Caracas

    A 2009 Transport Museum account names a Maripérez–Ávila cable-car cabin and models of 1930s Caracas; science and fine-art museums preserve other records.

    Explore Caracas

    Photograph: Wilfredor · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  5. Castries harbour with cruise ships and waterfront buildings along the hillside.
    City

    Castries

    Castries pairs Dunstan St Omer’s cathedral mural with a market the tourism authority dates to 1891 and Derek Walcott Square beneath a samaan tree.

    Explore Castries

    Photograph: Matt H. Wade at Wikipedia · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  6. Several forest elephants walk across a damp, sandy clearing dotted with pools, with trees fading into the morning mist.
    Country

    Central African Republic

    At Dzanga Bai, researchers tracked forest elephants for twenty years; near Bouar, charcoal dates help place the tazunu monuments in time.

    Explore Central African Republic

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

  7. Two adjoining lakes, one green-blue and the other reddish-brown, separated by a narrow sandy strip; palms line the near shore and orange dunes extend behind them.
    Country

    Chad

    A 6,000-year Lake Yoa record, fish and crocodile observations from a 2013 survey, and satellite evidence from Lake Chad.

    Explore Chad

    Photograph: anmede · Photo source · CC BY-SA 2.0

  8. Aerial view at sunset of the four large Unit Telescope enclosures of the Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal, with brown desert hills reaching to the horizon
    Country

    Chile

    Chile’s Atacama observatories, Rapa Nui’s Orongo houses and Chiloé’s hilltop wooden churches.

    Explore Chile

    Photograph: ESO · Photo source · CC BY 4.0

  9. Armoured terracotta warriors in Pit 1, with a figure in the centre wearing a topknot and a thin moustache
    Country

    China

    The museum records fragments found at Xiyang in 1974; Pits 2 and 3 were discovered in 1976. Dujiangyan directs Minjiang through irrigation channels without dams.

    Explore China

    Photograph: Gary Todd · Photo source · CC0 1.0

  10. Rooftops, apartment blocks and wooded hills seen from the Porțile Orașului building in Chișinău
    City

    Chișinău

    A fossil skeleton found in 1966, carpets described by use and a 1948–1985 reference herbarium at Chișinău’s national museum.

    Explore Chișinău

    Photograph: Crissty90 · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  11. A long reservoir with pale, bare shores between forested Andean slopes, seen from a hillside with low shrubs and reddish-brown twigs in the foreground
    Country

    Colombia

    Cartagena’s bay shaped its fortifications; coffee towns use flexible bahareque walls; Chingaza’s lakes flow to Chuza, part of Bogotá’s water supply.

    Explore Colombia

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

  12. A wide panorama into a deep volcanic crater, with dark layered walls, a grey crater floor marked by pale patches and curved ridges, beneath a blue sky with a few clouds
    Country

    Comoros

    Comoros: six historic medinas, a seismic study of Karthala’s 1991 eruption, and turtle nesting on Mwali.

    Explore Comoros

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

  13. Rooftops, streets and shoreline of Kaloum in Conakry
    City

    Conakry

    Conakry’s national herbarium holds duplicate plant specimens; a museum directory lists three exhibition themes, and a cultural centre has a hall and a media library.

    Explore Conakry

    Photograph: Boubacar Bila Diao Balde · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  14. Copenhagen rooftops and church towers seen from Rundetårn
    City

    Copenhagen

    Copenhagen’s Rundetårn pairs an old library book wheel with a turning observatory dome; the university Palm House has five climate sections.

    Explore Copenhagen

    Photograph: Jakub Hałun · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  15. Arenal volcano’s steep, dark cone rises above green forest, with the summit partly hidden by cloud
    Country

    Costa Rica

    Arenal’s 42-year open-vent eruption, Guanacaste’s protected range from the Pacific to Caribbean-side lowlands and Diquís spheres preserved at Finca 6 in Costa Rica.

    Explore Costa Rica

    Photograph: Bernard Gagnon · Photo source · CC0 1.0

  16. Earthen mosque with tall tapered buttresses and wooden beams projecting from the walls, behind a low wall and green metal gate.
    Country

    Côte d’Ivoire

    At Taï, a three-site study informs an ancient chimpanzee nut-cracking inference; at Lamto, 61% of estimated grassland production was below ground.

    Explore Côte d’Ivoire

    Photograph: AZIMIE · Photo source · CC0 1.0

  17. Dubrovnik’s old harbour, city walls and red-roofed houses beside the Adriatic Sea
    Country

    Croatia

    Read Croatia through Dubrovnik’s maritime past, Split’s Roman palace and Plitvice’s growing lake barriers. Save the places you have visited.

    Explore Croatia

    Photograph: Diego Delso, delso.photo · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  18. Rounded, forested limestone mogotes rise above a green valley of fields, with low clouds over the distant hills.
    Country

    Cuba

    Viñales tobacco fields, the former sugar mills of Valle de los Ingenios and San Pedro de la Roca at Santiago de Cuba Bay.

    Explore Cuba

    Photograph: Rob Oo from NL · Photo source · CC BY 2.0

  19. Waterfront row of tall gabled buildings painted lilac, blue, green, pink and yellow along the Handelskade in Punda, Willemstad, seen across the harbour water
    Country

    Curaçao

    Willemstad’s coloured façades and the tradition dated to 1817, a reef from the last interglacial in the Hato unit, and the bokas of the northwest coast.

    Explore Curaçao

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

  20. Dark, tightly fitted curved Inca stone wall beneath the brown stone walls and wooden balcony of the Santo Domingo convent, under a blue sky
    City

    Cusco

    From the 1950 earthquake to 1990s excavations: how the Qorikancha and Santo Domingo in Cusco changed, with UNESCO and city sources for your map.

    Explore Cusco

    Photograph: Diego Delso, delso.photo · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  21. Three round, plastered buildings with flat tops and small windows stand among low stone walls under a blue sky, with a dry hillside behind
    Country

    Cyprus

    Flat roofs at Neolithic Choirokoitia, timber shelter over Troodos church domes and Roman mosaic floors at Kato Paphos.

    Explore Cyprus

    Photograph: Berthold Werner · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  22. Stone gateway of the Plzeň brewery with two arches, topped by a sculpture group and inscribed with the Roman numerals for 1842 and 1892, with brewery buildings and a chimney beyond
    Country

    Czechia

    Czechia through three places: the Burghers’ Brewery gate in Plzeň, silver-mining Kutná Hora with Sedlec, and the Liechtenstein landscape of Lednice and Valtice.

    Explore Czechia

    Photograph: Jan Polák · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  23. The exterior and entrance of the Théodore Monod Museum in Dakar
    City

    Dakar

    IFAN’s December 2025 newsletter reports a Soundioulou Sissokho kora joining the Monod Museum in July; the museum also describes a documentation room and a garden.

    Explore Dakar

    Photograph: HaguardDuNord · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  24. A hazy elevated view of Damascus, with dense blocks of buildings stretching to the horizon.
    City

    Damascus

    Glass gave the Great Umayyad Mosque’s wall mosaics a wider colour range than other materials; an unfinished 1928–29 copying effort recorded nine fragments.

    Explore Damascus

    Photograph: © Vyacheslav Argenberg · Photo source · CC BY 4.0

  25. Aerial view of a green and brown mountainside dropping to a dark lake, with a narrow waterfall running down the slope and a green point jutting into the water.
    Country

    Democratic Republic of the Congo

    A carved bone from Ishango, the lesula monkey of the Lomami basin and the rumba of Kinshasa: three places in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with sources.

    Explore Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Photograph: MONUSCO Photos (photo: Abel Kavanagh) · Photo source · CC BY-SA 2.0

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