Walt Disney World Resort is a vast destination organized around four theme parks, water parks, hotels, and shared visitor spaces. Its scale makes it useful to think of the resort as a designed region, with distinct places offering different ways to explore stories and environments.
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Walt Disney World is less a single park than a deliberately connected region. Four theme parks—Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom—offer different ways to build an imagined world, from fairy-tale settings to international pavilions and animal habitats.
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- Walt Disney World opened October 1, 1971.
- The resort includes four theme parks.
- Its parks include Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom.
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