Landmarks

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Originally, a landmark literally meant a prominent, easily identified geographic point, (like a mountain, a cliff, or a river) used by explorers and others to find their way back or through an area.

In modern use, it includes anything that can be recognized easily, such as a monument, building, or other structure. In American English it is the main word used to call places that are tourist attractions because they are beautiful, or big, or they have historical importance. Some, such as National Landmarks, are on official lists of landmarks. Landmarks in the British English are normally used for casual navigation, such as giving directions to someone to get somewhere. This is done in American English as well.

List of important landmarks

Landmarks also can be of two different categories: natural (e.g., physical features such as waterfalls and mountains), and structures constructed by humans. Many of them are World Heritage Sites.

Some important landmarks across the world today include:

Natural phenomena

Constructed features

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

Central and South America

Australia

Landmarks Media

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An 18th-century painting of a ship with Table Mountain in the background, used by navigators as the landmark to sail around southern tip of Africa.
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The Statue of Liberty (formally Liberty Enlightening the World), a famous landmark of New York City and the United States, greets newly arrived immigrants and is located near Ellis Island, where millions of immigrants first touched U.S. soil.
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Mount Fitz Roy in Argentina
The Eiffel Tower – tallest in the world from 1889 to 1930 and a famous Paris landmark