Grand-Pré National Historic Site is a park created to remember the Grand-Pré area of Nova Scotia as an important place where Acadians lived from 1682 to 1755. It also honors the British removal of the Acadians during the French and Indian War. The original village of Grand-Pré stretched about four kilometers along a hill between today’s Wolfville and Hortonville.
Lake Malawi National Park is located at the southern end of Lake Malawi in Malawi, Southeast Africa. It is the only national park in Malawi created specifically to protect fish and underwater habitats. Although its main goal is to protect aquatic life, the park also includes land areas such as a headland, the shoreline, and several small rocky islands within Lake Malawi.
The Grand-Place (French: pronounced [ɡʁɑ̃ plas]; “Grand Square”) or Grote Markt (Dutch: pronounced [ˌɣroːtə ˈmɑr(ə)kt]; “Big Market”) is the main square in Brussels, Belgium. It is surrounded by grand Baroque buildings from the former Guilds of Brussels and two larger structures: the city’s ornate Town Hall and the neo-Gothic King’s House or Bread House, which houses the Brussels City Museum. The square is 68 by 110 meters (223 by 361 feet) in size and is fully paved.
Konye-Urgench, also called Köneürgenç, Old Urgench, or Urganj, is a city in northern Turkmenistan, located just south of the border with Uzbekistan. In 2022, the city had a total population of 37,176 people. The city is the location of the ancient town of Gurgānj, which has the remains of the capital of Khwarazm.
Krzemionki, also called Krzemionki Opatowskie, is a Neolithic and early Bronze Age site where people mined flint. This flint came from Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) banded flint deposits located about eight kilometers northeast of the Polish city of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. It is one of the largest known prehistoric flint mining areas in Europe, along with Grime’s Graves in England and Spiennes in Belgium.
The Kondoa Rock-Art Sites, also called the Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings, are ancient paintings found on rockshelter walls in central Tanzania. In 2006, the Kondoa region was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its large collection of rock art. These sites were declared national monuments in 1937 by the Tanzania Antiquities Department.
Komodo National Park (Indonesian: Taman Nasional Komodo) is a national park in Indonesia located in the Lesser Sunda Islands, where the provinces of East Nusa Tenggara and West Nusa Tenggara meet. The park includes three large islands—Komodo, Padar, and Rinca—and 26 smaller islands, covering a total area of 1,733 km² (669 sq mi), with 603 km² (233 sq mi) of land. The national park was created in 1980 to protect the Komodo dragon, the world’s largest lizard.
Kluane / Wrangell–St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek is an international park system located in Canada and the United States, at the border of Yukon, Alaska, and British Columbia. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 because of its beautiful glacier and icefield landscapes and the importance of its habitat for grizzly bears, caribou, and Dall sheep.
Kizhi Pogost (Russian: Кижский погост) is a historical site built in the 17th century on Kizhi Island. The island is located on Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia (Medvezhyegorsky District), Russia. A pogost is the area inside a fence that includes two large wooden churches (the 22-dome Transfiguration Church and the 9-dome Intercession Church) and a bell tower.
Kinabalu Park (Malay: Taman Kinabalu) was created in 1964 as one of Malaysia’s first national parks. It became Malaysia’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site in December 2000 because of its “outstanding universal values” and its importance as a major biological site. The park is home to more than 4,500 species of plants and animals, including 326 bird species, about 100 mammal species, and over 110 land snail species.