Walt Disney World Resort, also known as Walt Disney World or Disney World, is an entertainment resort complex in Bay Lake and Lake

Walt Disney World Resort, also known as Walt Disney World or Disney World, is an entertainment resort complex in Bay Lake and Lake

Buena Vista, Florida, United States, near the cities of Orlando and Kissimmee. Opened on October 1, 1971, the resort is operated by Disney

Parks, Experiences and Products, a division of The Walt Disney Company. The property covers approximately 25,000 acres (39 sq mi; 101 km),

half of which has been used.The resort has four theme parks (Magic Kingdom,Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom),

two water parks (Disney's Blizzard Beach and Disney's Typhoon Lagoon), 31 themed resort hotels, nine non-Disney hotels. , includes several

golf courses. Other entertainment venues, including a camping resort, and the outdoor shopping center Disney Springs.Designed to complement

Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which opened in 1955, the complex was developed by Walt Disney in the 1960s. The "Florida Project",

as it was known, aimed to present a distinctive vision with its diverse attractions. Walt Disney's original plans also called for the

inclusion of an"Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow" (EPCOT), a planned community intended to serve as a test case for new

city-living innovations. Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, during the initial planning of the complex. After his death, the company

wrestled with the idea of whether to materialize the Disney World project However, Walt's older brother Roy O'Disney came out of retirement

to make Walt's biggest dream come true. Construction began in 1967, with the company instead building a resort similar to Disneyland,