🇦🇱 Albania
Limestone mountains over most of its area and a coast on two seas — with the Vjosa, the last large free-flowing river in Europe, running undammed for 192 kilometres to the Adriatic.
1 wonders · Europe
The atlas, country by country
106 countries · more on the way
We’re building this atlas one country at a time — starting in the Philippines, then reaching across Southeast Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the wider world. Each country page frames its natural character and points you to the wonders worth the journey.
🇩🇿 Algeria
Africa's largest country, and about four-fifths Sahara — sandstone plateaus eroded into rock forests, volcanic peaks in the Hoggar, and a Mediterranean coastline behind the Atlas ranges.
1 wonders · Africa
🇦🇶 Antarctica
The frozen continent at the bottom of the world — a wilderness of ice, mountains, and staggering wildlife, governed by treaty and reserved for peace and science.
2 wonders · Antarctica & the Poles
🇦🇷 Argentina
A long country reaching from subtropics to the edge of Antarctica — its far south, Patagonia, holds vast ice fields and one of the world's most active and accessible glaciers.
6 wonders · Latin America
🇦🇺 Australia
An island continent of ancient rock and unique life — from the largest living structure on Earth off its tropical coast to the red sandstone heart of its outback and the wave-carved cliffs of its wild south.
8 wonders · Oceania
🇦🇹 Austria
An alpine country of glaciated peaks, high valleys, and limestone karst — riddled with caves, including the largest ice cave on Earth.
4 wonders · Europe
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
Nine of the world's climate zones inside one country — Caspian coast, semi-desert, and the Greater Caucasus above 4,000 metres — plus around four hundred mud volcanoes, more than anywhere else on Earth.
1 wonders · Europe
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
A country built by rivers — the vast Ganges–Brahmaputra delta — and home to the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest on Earth and the last stronghold of the swimming Bengal tiger.
1 wonders · South Asia
🇧🇿 Belize
A small Caribbean-coast country with an outsized ocean treasure — the second-largest barrier reef on Earth, and the perfect deep-blue circle of the Great Blue Hole.
2 wonders · North America
🇧🇹 Bhutan
A Himalayan country that runs from subtropical foothills to 7,000-metre peaks in under 200 kilometres, keeps more than seventy per cent of itself under forest by constitutional requirement, and limits visitor numbers by design.
1 wonders · South Asia
🇧🇴 Bolivia
A high-altitude Andean country of astonishing landscapes — home to the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt flat on Earth and, after rain, the world's biggest natural mirror.
1 wonders · Latin America
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Two landscapes under one name — forested Dinaric mountains and wild rivers in the north, bare limestone karst and turquoise water in the south, with some of the last old-growth forest in Europe.
1 wonders · Europe
🇧🇼 Botswana
A largely wild, sparsely populated country dominated by the Kalahari — and home to the Okavango Delta, a river that ends not in the sea but in the sand, drawing Africa's wildlife into the desert.
1 wonders · Africa
🇧🇷 Brazil
A country of superlatives — home to most of the Amazon rainforest and the thunderous Iguazú Falls — where the planet's greatest concentration of life meets some of its most dramatic water.
5 wonders · Latin America
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Three mountain systems, the highest summit in the Balkan Peninsula, and several hundred glacial lakes left in the cirques — plus a Black Sea coast and the Danube along the northern border.
1 wonders · Europe
🇰🇭 Cambodia
Beyond the temples of Angkor, Cambodia is a land of a great pulsing lake, jungle waterfalls on a carved sandstone plateau, and castaway islands in the warm Gulf of Thailand.
4 wonders · Southeast Asia
🇨🇦 Canada
A vast northern country of glacier-fed turquoise lakes, soaring Rocky Mountains, and thundering waterfalls — wilderness on a continental scale, from the Rockies to the Great Lakes.
7 wonders · North America
🇹🇩 Chad
A vast Saharan country of sandstone massifs, hidden desert pools, and prehistoric rock art — holding some of the most remote and spectacular landscapes in Africa.
1 wonders · Africa
🇨🇱 Chile
A ribbon of a country running the length of South America's Pacific edge — from the hyper-arid Atacama in the north to the granite towers and ice fields of Patagonia in the south.
4 wonders · Latin America
🇨🇳 China
A country of continental scale and astonishing landscapes — from the floating sandstone pillars of Zhangjiajie to the painted karst peaks of the Li River, and far beyond.
10 wonders · East Asia
🇨🇴 Colombia
One of the most biodiverse countries on Earth, where the Andes fan out toward the Amazon and Caribbean — home to a river that runs five colours and valleys of the world's tallest palms.
5 wonders · Latin America
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
A small Central American country with an outsized share of the planet's biodiversity — volcanoes and cloud forests packed between two oceans, and a world-leading model for conservation.
4 wonders · North America
🇭🇷 Croatia
A country of clear water and karst — from the terraced turquoise lakes and living travertine dams of Plitvice to a long, island-strewn Adriatic coast.
4 wonders · Europe
🇨🇺 Cuba
The largest island in the Caribbean, with limestone country in the west where round-topped mogotes rise straight out of red tobacco fields, and reef, mangrove and wetland along much of the coast.
1 wonders · North America
🇩🇯 Djibouti
A small country sitting on a three-way tectonic junction — lava fields, salt lakes below sea level, and a strait where whale sharks gather every winter.
1 wonders · Africa
🇩🇲 Dominica
The youngest and steepest of the Lesser Antilles — nine potentially active volcanoes on one small island, hot springs and fumaroles throughout, and rainforest instead of resorts.
1 wonders · Latin America
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
The most mountainous country in the Caribbean — the highest peak in the whole Antilles, the lowest point too, and a drowned karst coastline of forested limestone islets.
1 wonders · Latin America
🇨🇩 DR Congo
A country of extraordinary natural riches — the world's second-largest rainforest, Africa's oldest national park, and a volcano cradling one of Earth's great lava lakes.
2 wonders · Africa
🇪🇨 Ecuador
A small country straddling the equator with volcanoes, cloud forest, and Amazon — and, far offshore, the Galápagos Islands, the living laboratory of evolution.
2 wonders · Latin America
🇪🇬 Egypt
Far beyond the Nile and the pyramids, Egypt holds surreal white chalk deserts, spring-fed oases, and some of the finest coral reefs on Earth along its Red Sea coast.
4 wonders · Africa
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
A high, ancient land of dramatic geology — from cool highland plateaus to the searing, alien Danakil Depression, where the Earth's crust is tearing apart and a lava lake glows.
4 wonders · Africa
🇫🇴 Faroe Islands
A remote cluster of green, cliff-walled islands in the North Atlantic — grass-roofed villages, sea stacks, and waterfalls tumbling straight into the ocean.
1 wonders · Europe
🇫🇮 Finland
The land of a thousand lakes and vast northern forests — reaching above the Arctic Circle into Lapland, one of the world's great places to witness the northern lights.
1 wonders · Europe
🇫🇷 France
A country of remarkable natural variety — from the high glaciers and granite spires of Mont Blanc and the Alps to volcanic uplands, wild coasts, and river gorges.
4 wonders · Europe
🇵🇫 French Polynesia
Scattered across the vast South Pacific, a realm of volcanic peaks, coral atolls, and luminous lagoons — with Bora Bora the most famous of its islands.
1 wonders · Oceania
🇬🇪 Georgia
A small Caucasus country of soaring glaciated peaks, turquoise river canyons, and vast karst caves, where the mountains of Europe and Asia meet.
4 wonders · Europe
🇩🇪 Germany
Beyond its cities, Germany is a land of dark forests, glacier-carved alpine lakes, and sandstone rock towers — some of Europe's most varied scenery packed into a compact country.
4 wonders · Europe
🇬🇷 Greece
A land of mountains and islands ringed by the Aegean and Ionian seas — where dramatic geology, from the soaring rock pillars of Meteora to countless islands, meets deep human history.
6 wonders · Europe
🇬🇱 Greenland
The world's largest island — a vast Arctic realm where a colossal ice sheet meets iceberg-filled fjords, and the great glaciers of the north calve into the sea.
1 wonders · North America
🇬🇹 Guatemala
The volcanic heart of Central America — a highland country of caldera lakes, smoking cones, turquoise jungle pools, and living Maya culture.
4 wonders · Latin America
🇬🇾 Guyana
The only English-speaking country in South America, and one of the most forested on Earth — more than three-quarters rainforest, with the Potaro dropping 226 metres off the sandstone in the middle of it.
1 wonders · Latin America
🇮🇸 Iceland
A young volcanic island straddling the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where fire and ice share the same landscape — glaciers, geysers, waterfalls, and rift valleys, all powered by the Earth's heat.
14 wonders · Europe
🇮🇳 India
A subcontinent of staggering natural range — from the high Himalaya and its wildflower valleys and turquoise lakes to steamy floodplains teeming with rhinos, tigers, and elephants.
4 wonders · South Asia
🇮🇩 Indonesia
The world's largest archipelago and its most volcanically active country — thousands of islands strung along the Ring of Fire, from the smoking cone of Bromo to the dragons and reefs of Komodo.
6 wonders · Southeast Asia
🇮🇷 Iran
A land of extremes beyond its famous cities — record-hot deserts of wind-carved ridges, mineral-terraced springs, and a 'rainbow island' of coloured salt-dome geology.
4 wonders · Middle East
🇮🇪 Ireland
An emerald island on the edge of the Atlantic — green, wet, and wild, where ancient sea cliffs, limestone karst, and windswept coasts meet the ocean along the Wild Atlantic Way.
4 wonders · Europe
🇮🇹 Italy
A land of alpine peaks and active volcanoes, where fossil-reef mountains glow at dawn in the north and Europe's largest volcano smokes over fertile Sicilian slopes in the south.
4 wonders · Europe
🇯🇵 Japan
A volcanic archipelago on the Pacific Ring of Fire, where mountains, forests, and hot springs meet a deep culture of reverence for nature — crowned by the near-perfect cone of Mount Fuji.
4 wonders · East Asia
🇯🇴 Jordan
A desert kingdom of dramatic contrasts — from the red sandstone wilderness of Wadi Rum to the shores of the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the surface of the Earth.
5 wonders · Middle East
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
The vast heart of Central Asia — a country of endless steppe, snow-capped Tian Shan peaks, and dramatic red-rock canyons carved into the plains.
1 wonders · Central Asia
🇰🇪 Kenya
The heartland of the African safari — great savannas and the Rift Valley, rising to equatorial glaciers on Africa's second-highest peak.
5 wonders · Africa
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
A mountainous heart of Central Asia where the Tian Shan fills almost the whole country — a land of high alpine lakes, summer pastures, and a living nomadic herding culture.
2 wonders · Central Asia
🇱🇦 Laos
A landlocked, mountainous country of limestone karst, jungle waterfalls, and river caves — one of Southeast Asia's greenest and least-developed corners.
4 wonders · Southeast Asia
🇱🇹 Lithuania
Low, wet and glacial — a country of lakes, bogs and forest left behind by the ice sheet, with a 98-kilometre sand spit holding a lagoon off the Baltic.
1 wonders · Europe
🇲🇬 Madagascar
A great island adrift off Africa where evolution ran its own course — home to lemurs, baobabs, razor-rock 'stone forests,' and thousands of species found nowhere else on Earth.
2 wonders · Africa
🇲🇼 Malawi
The 'warm heart of Africa' — a small Rift Valley country dominated by a vast freshwater lake holding more fish species than any other on Earth.
1 wonders · Africa
🇲🇾 Malaysia
A tropical country straddling the South China Sea — home to some of the oldest rainforests on Earth and, on Borneo, the granite giant of Mount Kinabalu with its extraordinary plant life.
5 wonders · Southeast Asia
🇲🇻 Maldives
A nation built entirely of coral — nearly 1,200 low islands gathered into ring-shaped atolls across the Indian Ocean, and the lowest-lying country on Earth.
1 wonders · South Asia
🇲🇽 Mexico
A megadiverse country of volcanoes, jungles, deserts, and two long coasts — from the crystal cenotes of the Yucatán to the fir forests where hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies gather each winter.
4 wonders · North America
🇲🇳 Mongolia
A vast, sparsely peopled land of steppe and desert under an endless sky — home to the Gobi, a high cold desert of singing dunes, flaming cliffs, and dinosaur fossils.
1 wonders · East Asia
🇲🇪 Montenegro
A small Balkan country where limestone mountains rise straight off the Adriatic — glacial lakes and 2,000-metre peaks in Durmitor, and the Tara cutting the deepest river canyon in Europe.
1 wonders · Europe
🇲🇦 Morocco
Where the Atlas Mountains meet the Sahara — a North African country whose southeast dissolves into the great sand seas of the world's largest hot desert.
4 wonders · Africa
🇲🇲 Myanmar
A land of misty highland lakes, extinct volcanoes and sheer volcanic plugs, and limestone karst mountains riddled with caves, rising from the paddy fields of the southeast.
4 wonders · Southeast Asia
🇳🇦 Namibia
A vast, empty, staggeringly scenic country built around the ancient Namib Desert — home to some of the tallest dunes on Earth and the surreal dead trees of Deadvlei.
7 wonders · Africa
🇳🇵 Nepal
A Himalayan nation holding eight of the world's fourteen highest peaks — including Everest, the highest point on Earth — where the greatest mountains on the planet meet deep-cut valleys and rich culture.
4 wonders · South Asia
🇳🇱 Netherlands
A low, water-shaped country of reclaimed polders, dunes, and river deltas — fringed by the Wadden Sea, the world's largest system of intertidal flats.
1 wonders · Europe
🇳🇿 New Zealand
A young, restless land of glacier-carved fjords and active volcanoes — where the Southern Alps drop to rainforest fjords in the south and volcanic craters steam on the North Island plateau.
6 wonders · Oceania
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
The largest country in Central America, built along a chain of active volcanoes and holding the region's biggest lake — with two of those volcanoes standing in the middle of it.
1 wonders · Latin America
🇳🇴 Norway
A long, mountainous country of deep glacier-carved fjords, Arctic islands, and midnight sun — where the sea reaches far inland between cliffs streaked with waterfalls.
11 wonders · Europe
🇴🇲 Oman
A land of dramatic contrasts on the Arabian Peninsula — palm-shaded canyon pools, a mile-deep mountain gorge, and a rolling red sand sea, all within reach of the coast.
4 wonders · Middle East
🇵🇰 Pakistan
Home to the greatest concentration of high mountains on Earth — the Karakoram, with K2 and a wilderness of glaciers, granite towers, and 8,000-metre giants.
1 wonders · South Asia
🇵🇼 Palau
A Micronesian nation of emerald limestone islands and some of the healthiest reefs on Earth — a global leader in ocean conservation, and home to a lake full of harmless jellyfish.
1 wonders · Oceania
🇵🇦 Panama
The isthmus that closed three million years ago and changed the world's oceans and animals — now a narrow country with two very different coasts and more bird species than the United States and Canada combined.
1 wonders · Latin America
🇵🇪 Peru
An Andean country of extremes — from mineral-striped rainbow ridges above 5,000 metres to one of the deepest canyons on Earth, where giant condors ride the morning air.
5 wonders · Latin America
🇵🇭 Philippines
An archipelago of more than 7,600 islands strung along the Pacific's Ring of Fire — a country of active volcanoes, world-class reefs, limestone karst, and living landscapes packed into extraordinary variety.
42 wonders · Southeast Asia
🇵🇱 Poland
A country of ancient forest, lake districts, and Baltic dunes, rising in the south to the Tatras — the highest and most alpine range of the Carpathians.
5 wonders · Europe
🇵🇹 Portugal
A country of golden coasts and river valleys on Europe's western edge — and, far out in the Atlantic, the green volcanic islands of the Azores with their crater lakes and whales.
4 wonders · Europe
🇷🇴 Romania
A country of high Carpathian mountains, one of Europe's greatest river deltas, and karst caves holding ancient ice — with some of the continent's last great wildlife.
4 wonders · Europe
🇷🇺 Russia
The largest country on Earth — a vastness of Siberian taiga, tundra, and mountains holding the world's deepest lake and, in the far east, a peninsula of fire and bears.
4 wonders · East Asia
🇷🇼 Rwanda
The 'Land of a Thousand Hills' — a small, mountainous country in the heart of Africa where volcanoes, ancient rainforest, and a great rift lake shelter mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, and rare highland life.
4 wonders · Africa
🇱🇨 Saint Lucia
A lush, volcanic Caribbean island crowned by the Pitons — two dramatic forested spires rising straight from the sea, beside hot springs and a 'drive-in' volcano.
1 wonders · North America
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Far more varied than its deserts suggest — dramatic escarpments and sandstone country, misty green monsoon mountains, and coral islands in the Red Sea.
4 wonders · Middle East
🇸🇨 Seychelles
An Indian Ocean archipelago of granite islands and remote coral atolls — home to giant tortoises, unique palms, and some of the least disturbed island ecosystems on Earth.
1 wonders · Africa
🇸🇰 Slovakia
A small Carpathian country that is mostly mountain — the highest peaks in the whole range, several thousand caves, and gorges walked on ladders bolted beside the waterfalls.
1 wonders · Europe
🇸🇮 Slovenia
A small, green country where the Julian Alps meet emerald rivers, glacial lakes, and vast cave systems — one of Europe's most beautiful and forested corners.
1 wonders · Europe
🇿🇦 South Africa
A country of extraordinary biological richness at the tip of Africa — where two oceans meet and Table Mountain presides over a plant kingdom found nowhere else on Earth.
5 wonders · Africa
🇬🇸 South Georgia
A remote, mountainous sub-Antarctic island in the South Atlantic — one of the greatest wildlife spectacles on Earth, where glaciers meet beaches heaving with penguins and seals.
1 wonders · Antarctica & the Poles
🇰🇷 South Korea
A mountainous peninsula of forested ranges and rocky coasts, with a volcanic island in the south crowned by the country's highest peak and world-class lava caves.
1 wonders · East Asia
🇪🇸 Spain
Far more than beaches: Spain packs volcanic islands, glacier-carved limestone peaks, and semi-deserts into one country, from Atlantic mountains to the Canary Islands off Africa.
4 wonders · Europe
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
A compact island of astonishing variety — misty highland plateaus, primary rainforest, and a monolithic rock fortress — packed into a teardrop off the tip of India.
4 wonders · South Asia
🇸🇪 Sweden
A long northern country of Arctic wilderness, forest, and archipelago — from the aurora skies of Lapland to a Baltic coast still rising out of the sea.
4 wonders · Europe
🇨🇭 Switzerland
The heart of the Alps — a compact country of glaciated peaks, deep valleys, and mirror-still lakes, laced with cog railways and cable cars that make its high mountains extraordinarily accessible.
9 wonders · Europe
🇹🇼 Taiwan
A mountainous island on the collision line between two tectonic plates — more than two hundred peaks above 3,000 metres, marble gorges cut by fast rivers, and a landscape still rising a few millimetres a year.
1 wonders · East Asia
🇹🇯 Tajikistan
Ninety-three per cent mountain — the Pamirs in the east above 7,000 metres, the Fann Mountains in the west with their turquoise landslide lakes, and glaciers that feed most of Central Asia's water.
1 wonders · Central Asia
🇹🇿 Tanzania
The beating heart of African safari — home to the Serengeti's great migration, the vast Ngorongoro caldera, and Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain on the continent.
7 wonders · Africa
🇹🇭 Thailand
A tropical country of limestone karst bays, jungle waterfalls, and cliff-ringed beaches, where the Andaman Sea meets forested mountains and thousands of limestone islands.
4 wonders · Southeast Asia
🇹🇷 Türkiye (Turkey)
A land bridging Europe and Asia, shaped by volcanoes and hot springs — home to the fairy chimneys of Cappadocia and the white travertine terraces of Pamukkale.
5 wonders · Middle East
🇺🇬 Uganda
The 'Pearl of Africa' — a green, well-watered land of misty mountains, the source of the Nile, and ancient forests sheltering nearly half the world's mountain gorillas.
2 wonders · Africa
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
A green, weather-shaped land of dramatic coasts and highlands — from the jagged peaks and sea cliffs of Scotland's islands to moors, dales, and chalk shores across the isles.
6 wonders · Europe
🇺🇸 United States
A continent-sized country with one of the world's greatest ranges of natural wonders — canyons and deserts, geyser basins over a supervolcano, granite valleys, and the national-park idea that spread worldwide.
20 wonders · North America
🇻🇺 Vanuatu
A South Pacific archipelago strung along the Ring of Fire — active volcanoes, rainforest, blue holes, and coral reefs across some eighty islands.
1 wonders · Oceania
🇻🇪 Venezuela
A land of astonishing natural extremes — from the tallest waterfall on Earth to the ancient tepui table mountains, Caribbean coast, Andean peaks, and the vast Orinoco plains.
2 wonders · Latin America
🇻🇳 Vietnam
A long, green country of limestone seascapes, terraced highlands, and river deltas — most famous for the karst islands of Hạ Long Bay rising from a jade-green sea.
4 wonders · Southeast Asia
🇾🇪 Yemen
Home to Socotra, one of the most biologically unique islands on Earth — the 'Galápagos of the Indian Ocean', where a third of the plants grow nowhere else.
1 wonders · Middle East
🇿🇲 Zambia
A landlocked plateau country defined by its rivers — the Zambezi, the Kafue and the Luangwa — with roughly a third of its territory under some form of protection and the walking safari as its own invention.
1 wonders · Africa
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
A Southern African country of dramatic water and wildlife — home to its share of Victoria Falls, the largest sheet of falling water on Earth, on the great Zambezi River.
1 wonders · Africa