Xanadu may refer to:

  • Shangdu, the summer capital of Yuan dynasty ruled by Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan.
  • a metaphor for opulence or an idyllic place, based upon Samuel Taylor Coleridge's description of Shangdu in his poem Kubla Khan

Other places

Art, entertainment, and media

Film, television, and theatre

Music

Other media

Computing

Other uses

  • Philodendron xanadu, plant in the family Araceae
    • Xanadu, a shade of gray whose name is derived from the Philodendron
  • Xanadu, a two-mooned, sunless planet in Cordwainer Smith's novel "Down to a Sunless Sea"
  • AirAsia X, airline (callsign XANADU)

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