Originally, a landmark literally meant a geographic feature used by explorers and others to find their way back or through an area.
Now, a landmark includes anything that is easily recognizable, such as a monument or a building, or any other spot to designate places that might be of interest to tourists.
A few examples are the Statue of Liberty, Uluru, the Taj Mahal, Mount Everest, and the Eiffel Tower.
When we see one of those, everyone knows in which part of the world they are located.
Here are 50 landmarks for you to recognize. Are you ready for a trip around the world?
Blue-domed Church in Santorini
St Basil Cathedral in Moscow
The Statue of Liberty in New York
Machu Picchu in Peru
The Taj Mahal in Agra ( India )
The Eiffel Tower in Paris
The Great Sphynx at Giza
The Chinese Wall in China
Uluru in the Northern Territory
The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen
Windmills at Kinderdijk ( Holland )
Agia Sofia in Istanbul, Turkey
Acropolis of Athens
Mount Fuji in Japan
Stonehenge in the English county of Wiltshire
Big Ben in London
Neuschwanstein in Bavaria
Mount Eden crater in New Zealand
Loch Ness in Scotland
Easter Island in the Polynesian Triangle
Christo Redemptor in Rio de Janeiro
Capitol Hill in Washington DC
Tower of Pisa
Al Aqsa in Jerusalem
Niagara Falls at the border of Ontario ( Canada ) and New York ( USA )
Angkor Wat at Cambodia
The Burj in Dubai
Bran Castle in Romania
Manneke Pis in Brussels
Mount Everest on the border of Tibet and Nepal
Mecca in Saudi Arabia
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
St Peters at Vatican City
Mont St Michel in France
Mount Rushmore in South Dakota
Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe
The Grand Canyon in Arizona
Nevado Mismi in Peru ( source of the Amazon River )
Auschwitz in Poland
The Great Buddha of Kamakura in Tokyo
Neptune and the Palace of Versailles in France
Cape of Good Hope in South Africa
Trevi Fountain in Rome
Petra in Jordan
Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
North Cape in Norway
Chichen Itza in Mexico
Inukshuk in Canada
Lascaux in France
Table Mountain in South Africa
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