Xanadu
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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
- Xanadu Hills, a range near Ward Valley in Antarctica.
 - Xanadu (Titan), an enigmatic bright feature on the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan
 - Xanadu 2.0, the nickname of Bill Gates's house
 - Xanadu Beach Resort & Marina, Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas
 - Xanadu Houses, a series of experimental homes built to showcase computers and automation in the home
 - Madrid XanadĂș, a large shopping precinct and entertainment centre in Spain
 - Xanadu, the original name of the New Jersey mall American Dream Meadowlands
 
Art, entertainment, and media
Film, television, and theatre
- Xanadu (Citizen Kane), a mansion in the 1941 film Citizen Kane
 - Xanadu (film), a 1980 film starring Olivia Newton-John 
- Xanadu (musical), a 2007 Broadway musical based on the film
 
 - Xanadu (TV series)
 - Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical, a 1953 Seventh Army musical
 - Xanadu, a ballet by Mildred Couper
 - Xanadu, a virtual world in "Garage Kids", the pilot of Code Lyoko
 - Xanadu, a fictional hotel that got imploded in Ocean's Eleven
 
Music
- "The Legend of Xanadu", a hit song by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (1968)
 - Xanadu Records, a jazz record label
 - "Xanadu" (Rush song) (1977)
 - Xanadu (Menudo album) (1981)
 - Xanadu (soundtrack), the soundtrack of the film
 - "Xanadu" (Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra song) (1980)
 - "Xanadu (A Vision in a Dream)", a 2001 song by Stormlord from At the Gates of Utopia
 - "Mona Lisa Overdrive -Xanadu-", a 2003 concert video by Buck-Tick
 - "Xanadu", a 2007 song by Moi dix Mois from Dixanadu
 - "Xanadu", a song by Screw (2012)
 - "Xanadu", a song by Moving Mountains from Moving Mountains
 - "Xanadu", a song by the Party Animals (2003)
 - "Xanadu", a song by The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (2014)
 - "Xanadu", a song by Ummet Ozcan (2022)
 - "Xanadu", a song by The Winery Dogs (2022)
 - Xanadu (ExWhyZ album) (2023)
 
Other media
- Xanadu (video game), a 1985 video game
 - Tokyo Xanadu a 2015 action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom
 - Faxanadu, a 1987 video game for the NES/Famicom
 - Madame Xanadu, a DC comics character
 - The home of comics character Mandrake the Magician
 - The Xanadu Adventure (2005), a Vesper Holly series novel
 - "Zombie Xanadu", working title for the 1995 video game Killing Time
 
Computing
- Project Xanadu, an early non-markup hypertext project by Ted Nelson
 - Xanadu Quantum Technologies, a photonic quantum computing company based out of Toronto, Canada
 
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)
 
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Xanadu
 - All pages with titles containing Xanadu
 - Shanadoo, a Japanese dance and pop girl group
 - Shangdu (disambiguation)
 - Shangri-La (disambiguation)