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Theme Park Guide is a huge database of theme parks, attractions, rides and rollercoasters from all around the world from Australia to Japan. Our extensive database has over 4,000 rides in over 1,000 parks. Amusement park is the generic term for a collection of rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group of people. An amusement park is more elaborate than a simple city park or playground, usually providing attractions meant to cater to adults, teenagers, and small children. A theme park is a type of amusement park which has been built around one or more themes, such as an American West theme, or Atlantis. Today, the terms amusement parks and theme parks are often used interchangeably.

Theme parks evolved in Europe from fairs and pleasure gardens which were created for people's recreation. The oldest theme park in the world (opened 1583) is Bakken, at Klampenborg, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Often a theme park will have various 'lands' (sections) of the park devoted to telling a particular story. Non-theme amusement parks rides will usually have little in terms of theming or additional design elements while in a theme park all the rides go all with the theme of the park, for example Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World.