Natural wonders · Curated list
Ajanta Caves, Hang Sơn Đoòng, Cave of Altamira and 22 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
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Most written-about first. Each description summarises the cave's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
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Buddhist cave monuments in Maharashtra, India
Thirty Buddhist monuments carved out of the rock as caves in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India, made between the second century BCE and roughly 480 CE; UNESCO lists them as a World Heritage Site.
Wikidata · Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Soman assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 2.5
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Largest cave passage in the world, located in Quảng Trị, Vietnam
The largest natural cave on Earth, in Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng National Park, in Vietnam's Quảng Trị province.
Wikidata · Photo: Doug Knuth from Woodstock, IL, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Cave with prehistoric paintings in Spain
A complex of caves near Santillana del Mar, a historic town in Cantabria, Spain, famous for prehistoric art: polychrome paintings and charcoal drawings of human hands and of the animals living there at the time.
Wikidata · Photo: José-Manuel Benito, Public domain
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Ancient cave temples in Maharashtra, India
A UNESCO World Heritage Site in Aurangabad, India: one of the biggest complexes of caves cut into rock anywhere, with Buddhist, Hindu and Jain caves and art from AD 600–1000.
Wikidata · Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0
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Cave in Vietnam
A cave 60 km northwest of the city of Đồng Hới, in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It sits 350 meters above sea level near the western branch of the Ho Chi Minh Highway, in Son Trach Commune, Bố Trạch District, Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam.
Wikidata · Photo: Genghiskhan, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Caves near Dunhuang City, Gansu, China
Also called the Thousand Buddha Grottoes or the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: 500 temples that lie 25 km (16 mi) southeast of central Dunhuang, an oasis at a religious and cultural crossroads of the Silk Road, in China's Gansu province. They are sometimes called the Dunhuang Caves, though that name also covers other Buddhist cave sites in and around Dunhuang, such as the Five Temple Caves, the Yulin Caves and the Western and Eastern Thousand Buddha Caves.
Wikidata · Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0
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30,000+ years old archaeological World Heritage site in Madhya Pradesh, India
An archaeological site in central India spanning the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods and historic times. Here are the oldest signs of people in India, and evidence that the Stone Age at the site began in Acheulean times.
Wikidata · Photo: Raveesh Vyas, CC BY-SA 2.0
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French cave with prehistoric paintings
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, in the Ardèche department of southeastern France, which holds some of the world's best-preserved figurative cave paintings and other evidence of life in the Upper Paleolithic. It opens in a limestone cliff over the Ardèche's former riverbed, in the gorges the river has cut, close to the commune of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc.
Wikidata · Photo: Inocybe at French Wikipedia, Public domain
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Collection of cave temples in Maharashtra, India
A group of cave temples, mostly dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva and listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. They stand on an island in Mumbai Harbour, Elephanta, also called Gharapuri, which lies 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Mumbai, in Maharashtra, India.
Wikidata · Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0
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Cave with paintings in Santa Cruz, Argentina
A cave and group of rock art sites in Argentina's Santa Cruz province, lying 163 km (101 mi) to the south of Perito Moreno, a town. It takes its name from its hundreds of stencilled paintings of hands, layered in many collages on the rock walls.
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Holy site in Hebron, Palestine
Also called the Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Jews by its Biblical name, the Cave of Machpelah, and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque or Sanctuary of Ibrahim: a series of caves in the middle of Hebron's Old City, in the West Bank, lying 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Jerusalem. The Abrahamic religions hold that Abraham bought the cave and the field beside it as a burial place.
Wikidata · Photo: Utilisateur:Djampa - User:Djampa, CC BY-SA 4.0
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National park in Kentucky, United States
A US national park in south-central Kentucky, covering parts of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system known in the world.
Wikidata · Photo: Willis Thomas Lee, Public domain
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Cave in People's Republic of China
Also called the Longmen Caves, among the finest works of Chinese Buddhist art, filled with tens of thousands of statues of the Buddha Shakyamuni and those who followed him. They lie 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of present-day Luoyang, in Henan province, China.
Wikidata · Photo: Rialfver Original uploader was Rialfver at nl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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National park in New Mexico, United States
A US national park in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico, whose main attraction is Carlsbad Cavern, a show cave.
Wikidata · Photo: Eric Guinther, User:Marshman, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Cave system in Slovenia
A karst cave system 24.34 km (15.12 mi) long near Postojna, in southwestern Slovenia, the country's second-longest cave system and one of its leading tourist sights.
Wikidata · Photo: Original uploader was Boštjan Burger ( Lander ) at sl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Buddhist temple grottoes in Shanxi, China
Once called the Wuzhoushan Grottoes, ancient Chinese Buddhist temple grottoes carved under the Northern Wei dynasty near Datong, then called Pingcheng, in Shanxi province. They are outstanding examples of rock-cut architecture, and one of China's three most famous ancient sites of Buddhist sculpture.
Wikidata · Photo: Marcin Białek, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cave system in Slovenia
A cave system in Slovenia, placed on UNESCO’s list of natural and cultural World Heritage Sites in 1986. It is an important underground phenomenon of the Karst Plateau and of Slovenia, and after Slovenia became independent of Yugoslavia in 1991 the country committed itself to actively protecting the area.
Wikidata · Photo: Lander at Slovenian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Cave system in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia
Limestone caves in a mogote 325 m (1,066 ft) tall at Gombak, Selangor, roughly 13 km (8.1 mi) north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital.
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Iraqi- Kurdish site of Neanderthal remains
An archaeological site on Bradost Mountain, in the Zagros Mountains, in Erbil Governorate of the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. Neanderthal remains were found there in 1953, among them Shanidar 1, who lived through several injuries, perhaps cared for by others of his group, and Shanidar 4, the famous supposed 'flower burial', where some have proposed that pollen found with the body comes from flowers placed there deliberately.
Wikidata · Photo: JosephV at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Buddhist temple in Gyeongju, South Korea
A hermitage belonging to the Bulguksa temple complex in Gyeongju, South Korea. Both stand on Tohamsan mountain, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) apart.
Wikidata · Photo: Cultural Heritage Administration, KOGL Type 1
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Sea cave on the coast of Capri, Italy
A sea cave on the coast of Capri, an island of southern Italy. Sunlight entering through an underwater opening is reflected up through the seawater beneath the cave, making the water glow blue and lighting the cavern.
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Cave in Abkhazia, Georgia
Also called Krubera Cave or Voronya Cave, the deepest cave known on Earth, in the Arabika Massif of the Gagra Range, Western Caucasus, in the Gagra District of Abkhazia, a region of Georgia occupied by separatists backed by Russia.
Wikidata · Photo: Yuri Kasyan, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cave and archaeological site in Bashkortostan, Russia
A limestone cave, also known as Kapova Cave, carved by karst processes in Bashkortostan's Burzyansky District, Russia. It lies in the south of the Urals, beside the Belaya River, inside the Shulgan-Tash Nature Reserve, roughly 200 km (120 mi) south-east of Ufa.
Wikidata · Photo: Элиза Азатовна Мусина, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cave and archaeological site in Gibraltar
A cave at sea level in Gibraltar, a British overseas territory. It is often taken for a sea cave, though it is not one.
Wikidata · Photo: Gibmetal77, CC BY 3.0
Every Wikidata item that is a cave, or a kind of cave — including the rock-cut temples Wikidata files as caves, and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 25 are shown.
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