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Parking facilities include indoor and outdoor private property belonging to a house, the side of the road, a parking lot or car park, and indoor and outdoor multi-level structures.

The following terms exemplify regional variations in language. All refer to outdoor multi-level parking facilities. Some refer also to indoor or single-level facilities.

Parking ramp (used in some parts of the upper Midwest, especially Minneapolis, but sometimes seen as far east as Toledo, Ohio)
Multi-storey car park (England)
Parkade (British Columbia)
Parking structure (California)
Parking garage (Eastern USA, where this term refuses to distinguish between outdoor multi-level parking facilities and indoor parking facilities; to a Minneapolitan this term emphatically says indoor parking facility; to a Bostonian it does not.)
Parking deck (Sighted in both New Jersey and North Carolina.)