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Gyeonggi Province
South Korea · Region or area

Gyeonggi Province

Gyeonggi Province is mentioned as an alternative in South Korea if visits to areas near the Demilitarized Zone are cancelled.

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Gyeonggi Province
South Korea · City or town

Gyeongju

Gyeongju is best understood as an ancient Silla capital whose heritage is spread across burial mounds, palace remains and Buddhist sanctuaries. The museum and area-based routes help make sense of this archaeological landscape.

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Gyeonggi Province
South Korea · Place of interest

Gyeongju National Museum

Gyeongju National Museum presents collections about Silla and objects from Donggung and Wolji. Its galleries and outdoor displays provide context for interpreting the city’s burial mounds, pagodas and archaeological finds.

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Győr
Hungary · City or town

Győr

Győr is listed among Hungary’s principal urban areas and serves as a base for an excursion to Pannonhalma. The available sources do not describe the city’s urban attractions.

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Traditional houses of Hahoe beside the Nakdong River landscape.
South Korea · Place of interest

Hahoe Folk Village

Hahoe is a lived-in village in Andong whose layout brings together homes, fields, woodland and the Nakdong River. Its residences and buildings for study and worship reveal aspects of Joseon-era social organization and the village’s relationship with its landscape.

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Haʻamonga ʻa Maui
Tonga · Place of interest

Haʻamonga ʻa Maui

Haʻamonga ʻa Maui is a large coral-limestone trilith at Heketā, near Niutōua, on Tongatapu. It is best understood together with Lapaha, since both form part of the territorial story of Tonga’s ancient capitals.

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Hallig Hooge
Germany · Region or area

Hallig Hooge

Hallig Hooge is a small inhabited island in an exposed landscape, with homes grouped on raised artificial mounds called warften. A circular walk along the dike offers a view of the terrain and its relationship to island life.

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Study notes featuring Vietnamese writing
Vietnam · City or town

Hanoi

Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam and a reference point for locating the country. Available information identifies the city but does not describe its neighbourhoods, sights or urban transport.

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Harar Jugol
Ethiopia · Place of interest

Harar Jugol

Harar Jugol is a fortified historic town in Ethiopia, with walls dating from the 13th to 16th centuries and a lived-in urban fabric. Its lanes, Harari homes and religious spaces reveal a living town, not just its monuments.

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Havana
Cuba · City or town

Havana

Havana is the capital of Cuba, an island country in the Caribbean. Spanish is recorded as the country’s language. The available information locates the city but does not establish its services or current travel conditions.

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Hegra
Saudi Arabia · Place of interest

Hegra

Hegra brings together Nabataean rock-cut funerary façades and water systems across an extensive caravan settlement. Its scale and spread make it worth treating as a dedicated visit on an organised route.

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Eldfell volcanic cone above Heimaey town and harbour.
Iceland · Region or area

Heimaey

Heimaey brings port life together with a landscape transformed by the 1973 eruption. Eldheimar recounts the evacuation of more than 5,000 residents; nearby lava fields and the climb up Eldfell help convey the scale of the eruption.

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Hieroglyphic Stairway
Honduras · Place of interest

Hieroglyphic Stairway

The Hieroglyphic Stairway is part of the architectural setting of Copán’s Main Group. The guide suggests first considering its place within the architecture, then reading it as a historical inscription.

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Circular stone Grand Tomb at Hili Archaeological Park.
United Arab Emirates · Place of interest

Hili Archaeological Park

Hili Archaeological Park in Al Ain brings together settlement and canal remains with the Great Tomb, whose scale reflects Bronze Age burial practices.

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Hobas
Namibia · Place of interest

Hobas

Hobas is a base near the start of the hiking route and the main Fish River Canyon viewpoint. It offers a way to see the canyon without undertaking the trek to Ai-Ais.

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