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/ August 16, 2026
On the strip of land between Durban’s harbor and the Indian Ocean surf sits uShaka Marine World, a 16-hectare marine theme park whose Sea World aquarium is the largest in Africa. With roughly 17.5 million liters (4.6 million US gallons) of water, it was among…
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/ August 16, 2026
Most aquariums bring the ocean indoors. Atlanterhavsparken, on the rocky headland of Tueneset just west of Ålesund, does the opposite: the buildings are blasted and built directly into the Atlantic coastline, and its biggest exhibits blur into the sea itself. Counting its huge outdoor seal…
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/ August 16, 2026
On the volcanic island of Jeju, a short hop from Seongsan Ilchulbong crater, Hanwha’s Aqua Planet Jeju is the largest public aquarium in South Korea. With roughly 20 million liters of water across its tanks, it lands at number 12 on our ranking of the…
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/ August 16, 2026
Most people walk into EPCOT’s Seas pavilion expecting a Finding Nemo dark ride. What they are actually entering is one of the biggest aquariums in the United States: a 5.7-million-US-gallon (21.6-million-liter) saltwater system that held the title of world’s largest tank for nearly two decades.
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/ August 16, 2026
SeaWorld Abu Dhabi opened on May 23, 2023, on Yas Island in the UAE capital — the first SeaWorld park ever built outside the United States, and the first designed from the ground up without orcas. The $1.2 billion marine park, developed and operated by…
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/ August 16, 2026
At the southern tip of Taiwan, where the island narrows into the tropical peninsula of Kenting National Park, sits the country’s biggest window on the ocean. The National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium (NMMBA) in Pingtung County holds 24.14 million liters of seawater, which…
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/ August 16, 2026
Chimelong Spaceship is the current holder of the Guinness World Record for the largest aquarium on Earth. Opened to the public in September 2023 on Hengqin Island in Zhuhai, China, the spaceship-shaped megastructure holds a certified 75,350,969 litres of water — nearly twice the volume…
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/ August 16, 2026
Wrocław Zoo is the oldest zoo in Poland — and, by number of animals and species, also its largest. It first opened on July 10, 1865, as the Breslau Zoological Garden, when the city was part of Prussia, with a grand ceremony complete with fireworks…
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/ August 16, 2026
Hanover Zoo — officially the Erlebnis-Zoo Hannover, or ‘Adventure Zoo’ — was established on May 4, 1865, making it the fifth-oldest zoo in Germany and one of the oldest zoos in the world still operating. After one of the rockiest histories of any major zoo…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Moscow Zoo opened on January 31, 1864, which makes it the oldest zoo in Russia and one of the oldest zoos in the world still operating. From a modest menagerie founded by university professors, it has grown into one of the largest zoos in…
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/ August 16, 2026
Dresden Zoo (Zoo Dresden) opened its gates on May 9, 1861, on the southern edge of the Großer Garten, the vast park at the heart of the Saxon capital. That makes it the fourth-oldest zoo in Germany and one of the oldest zoos in the…
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/ August 16, 2026
Cologne Zoo (Kölner Zoo) has been part of life on the Rhine since 1860, making it the third-oldest zoo in Germany and one of the oldest zoos in the world still operating. Today the zoo, with its attached aquarium and invertebrate exhibit, keeps more than…
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/ August 16, 2026
Thiruvananthapuram Zoo (also known as Trivandrum Zoo) in the capital of Kerala is one of the oldest zoos in India — and one of the oldest anywhere in Asia. A zoo and public park were opened here in 1859 to draw more visitors to the…
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/ August 16, 2026
Antwerp Zoo (ZOO Antwerpen) was established on 21 July 1843, making it the oldest animal park in Belgium and one of the oldest zoos anywhere. Its location could hardly be more dramatic: the ornate entrance sits directly beside Antwerpen-Centraal, the cathedral-like railway station in the…
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/ August 16, 2026
Copenhagen Zoo was founded in 1859 by the ornithologist Niels Kjærbølling, who was granted a princess’s former summer garden on Frederiksberg hill to house his collection. More than 165 years later it is the most visited zoo in Denmark and one of the country’s most…
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/ August 16, 2026
Frankfurt Zoological Garden opened in 1858, making it the second-oldest zoo in Germany after Berlin. It sits in the Ostend district close to the city centre, packing more than 4,500 animals of over 510 species into about 11 hectares. Its age alone earns it a…
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/ August 16, 2026
Diergaarde Blijdorp — Rotterdam Zoo — was founded on 18 May 1857 as the Rotterdamsche Diergaarde, a Victorian-era garden in the middle of the city. Yet the zoo you visit today is also a 20th-century landmark: in 1940 it moved to the Blijdorp district and…
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/ August 16, 2026
Circuit de la Sarthe is a legendary racing venue in Le Mans, France, best known as the home of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s oldest active endurance sports car race, first run in 1923. The circuit combines permanent racetrack sections with public…
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/ August 16, 2026
Natura Artis Magistra — Latin for “Nature is the teacher of art”, and known to everyone simply as Artis — opened in Amsterdam in 1838. It is the oldest zoo in the Netherlands and the fifth-oldest zoo in the world still operating, founded by a…
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/ August 16, 2026
Dublin Zoo opened its gates in Phoenix Park on 1 September 1831, a year after the Royal Zoological Society of Dublin was founded at a meeting in the Rotunda Hospital in May 1830. The grounds were laid out by Decimus Burton, the celebrated architect who…
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