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Shahinkaya Canyon, a canyon located in the district of Vezirköprü in Samsun. Forming the deepest point of the Altınkaya Dam and being Turkey's second largest canyon after Ulubey…
Aydınpınar Waterfalls Nature Park; it is a 100 hectare area located in the village of Aydınpınar in the central district of Düzce. It was declared a Nature Park on 25 August 2014.
Astım Cave is a cave located in Narlıkuyu Town, Hasanaliler Neighborhood, which belongs to the district of Silifke in Mersin Province. Astım Cave, a 200 m long…
Red Lake or Canova Lake is a karst valley type lake in the Canova Lakes region of Sivas, Zara, Sivas. Red Lake is located 20 km from Zara, 55 km from Sivas, 4 km south of the…
The Panj (Pyandj) river, fed by glaciers of the Pamir mountains, forms a long stretch of the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan as it winds through the country's Khatlon…
The Dashti-Jum Nature Reserve covers about 380 square kilometres of the Hazrati Shoh mountain range in eastern Khatlon region, roughly 80 kilometres southeast of the city of…
Lake Iskanderkul lies at 2,195 metres on the northern slopes of the Gissar range within Tajikistan's Fann Mountains, part of the Sughd region. It formed when a landslide dammed…
The Zeravshan sanctuary is a roughly 1,600-hectare protected zakaznik in Tajikistan's Sughd region, lying along the border with Uzbekistan in the Zeravshan valley. It was set…
This protected site in Kyrgyzstan's Batken region preserves part of the Madygen Formation, a sequence of Middle to Late Triassic rock layers recognized as one of the world's most…
The Ysyk-Ata gorge lies in Kyrgyzstan's Chuy region, about 77 kilometres from Bishkek, at an elevation of roughly 1,775 metres, and is best known for the thermal mineral springs…
Known locally as Skazka, meaning fairy tale in Russian, this canyon lies on the southern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul near the village of Tosor, roughly 120 kilometers from Karakol.…
This canyon sits a few kilometers from the lakeside village of Tosor on the southern side of Lake Issyk-Kul, where a band of reddish sandstone has weathered into an unusually…
Airkhan Lake lies in Bulgan Province in northern Mongolia, fed mainly by rainfall and situated south of a tributary of the Eg River at an elevation of roughly 900 to 1,300…
Bayan Lake is a freshwater lake in Uvs Province in far western Mongolia, lying just north of the Bor Khyariin Els sand dunes. Though modest in surface area, with a shoreline of…
The Sharp Hill 'Helmet' is a small state natural monument of about two hectares in the Birzhan Sal district of Akmola Region, northern Kazakhstan. It protects a solitary, sharply…
The 'Pond with Relict Plantations' is a one-hectare state natural monument located in the Birzhan Sal district of Akmola Region, within the same belt of granite-and-pine steppe…
Jackdaw Hill, known in Russian as Galochya Sopka, is a two-hectare state natural monument in the Birzhan Sal district of Akmola Region, part of a cluster of small protected…
Piceous Hill, known in Russian as Smolnaya Sopka, or 'resin hill', is a one-hectare state natural monument in the Zerendi district of Akmola Region, administered by Kazakhstan's…
Green Cape is a small state natural monument on the shore of Lake Zerendi, in the Zerendi district of Akmola region, within the area administered together with Kokshetau National…
Raspberry Cape is a tiny state natural monument covering roughly half a hectare on the shore of Lake Zerendi, in the Zerendi district of Akmola region. It lies near Smolnaya…
The Kobda sanctuary is a state nature reserve in Kobda district, Aktobe region, created on 6 December 2017 to protect the steppe landscape along the Khobda River, a tributary…
Ebita is a 47-kilometre river rising in the southern spurs of the Ural Mountains and flowing north through Kargaly district, Aktobe region, before joining the Ural River; it is…
The Oiyl sanctuary is a state nature reserve in Oiyl district, Aktobe region, established on 10 March 2020 and covering roughly 63,470 hectares along the Oiyl River valley. The…
Esik arboretum is a dendrological park of about 365 hectares in the town of Esik (Issyk), in Enbekshikazakh district of Almaty region, at the foot of the Trans-Ili Alatau range…