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Set amongst rice, tea and tobacco fields, the 46 multi- homes of Fujian B 2 8 (Denmark) RUSSIAN FEDERATION 22 Tulou (“earthen house”) nestle in the hillsides of southeastern China. 60° 60° From the 15th to the 20th centuries, they were built of wood, stone and 6 mud along an inward-looking, circular or square floor plan as housing Albers Conic Equal-Area Projection for up to 800 people each. In contrast with their plain exterior, the CANADA Area enlarged 11 0 mi 400 inside of the Tulou were built for comfort and were often highly The World Heritage Cities Programme seeks at top right decorated. They were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 0 km 400 2008 as exceptional examples of a building tradition and to protect living historic city centres function exemplifying a particular type of communal living and their cultural and architectural her- 10 and defensive organization, and, in terms of their har- 4 17 151 itage from threats such as uncontrolled 3 monious relationship with the natural environment, 7 3 12 R an outstanding example of human settlement. development or inappropriate construction. AJ 5 18 NORTH 9 J 2 3 Title photo: LI Yishuang 11 KAZAKHSTAN 8 1 8 16 AMERICA 13 AE The World Heritage emblem symbolizes 12 14 ASIA 16 2 10 AH 2 13 the interdependence of the world’s natural 1 UZBEKISTAN AE 45 and cultural diversity. The central square 42 2 1 AH KYRGYZSTAN 3 27 6 3 AH 30 represents the achievements of human skill UNITED STATES 12 AZERBAIJAN 2 11 DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S 1 1 REPUBLIC OF KOREA 4 22 5 2 2 4 4 28 2021 and inspiration, and the circle celebrates 1 6 9 TURKMENISTAN 2 38 1 16 9 12 1 3 REPUBLIC the gifts of nature. The emblem is round, OF AMERICA 15 12 11 3 TAJIKISTAN 2 4 13 (Portugal) 24 1 311 OF KOREA 1 7 4 2 14 17 9 like the world, a symbol of global protec- 7 1 5 4 5 1014 10 17 5 4 8 4 7 1 1213 6 JAPAN 3 14 1 6 16 CHINA 33 2 6 18 tion for the heritage of all humankind. 10 6 6 7 1 2 51 12 1 17AF 3 2 46 7 14 5 19 2 19 9 5 3 8 20 1 3 AE 5 26 40 20 87 22 The Small Islands Programme focuses on 41 IRAN (ISLAMIC 2 12 8 8 8 (Portugal) 9 2 3 15 AFGHANISTAN 6 54 21 preserving heritage on the islands of the 20 18 (UK) MOROCCO 3 1 6 18 3 9 13 32 18 110 22 32 7 2 IRAQ 5 5 49 Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic, Pacific 3 REPUBLIC OF) 24 18 5 17 AF 32 18 5 19 21 18 7 4153 3 and Indian Oceans. 5 14 23 213 25 30°N 21 7 KUWAIT 14 16 23 10 15 30°N 30 6 PAKISTAN 20 37 (Spain) 6 27 NEPAL 47 133944 4 21 1 29 39 52 11 1325 4 3 2 BHUTAN 22 The World Heritage Marine Programme 1 37 9 4 3 34 15 1 1 28 13 8 7 19 EGYPT 321 11 The Earthen Conservation helps countries nominate marine sites and 2 QATAR 22 19 (USA) 4 2 5 33 35 4 4 30 11 2 36 Programme works toward conserving and BAHAMAS manage them effectively to ensure that they 2 UNITED 1 23 43 50 TROPIC OF CANCER SAUDI ARAB 31 19 BANGLADESH TROPIC OF CANCER revitalizing earthen architecture, which is 1 will thrive for future generations. There EMIRATES 2 4 35 44 34 12 5 1 5 24 1 30 3 ARABIA 25 1 48 31 82 CUBA are currently 50 marine sites on the World 173 threatened by natural disasters and indus- 9 3 INDIA 26 728 23 2 2 6 2 trialization. Currently, some one hundred 17 16 10 8 7 Heritage List. 1 LAO P.D.R. 16 (USA) 334 15 36 DOMINICAN 1 2 MYANMAR 7 8 9 24 21 4 1 REPUBLIC 3 5 1 29 273 1 MAURITANIA 1 3615 3 properties on the World Heritage List are 34 14 6 HAITI (USA) 26 20 19 22 1 11 1 PACIFIC 35 JAMAICA 1 MALI 1 3 partially or totally built with earth. 2 BELIZE ANTIGUA CABO VERDE 4 5 5 1 AND BARBUDA 2 2 5 31 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 ST KITTS AND NEVIS 3 4 ERITREA 1 4 1 14 THAILAND 3 3 2 1 DOMINICA SUDAN 1 10 4 HONDURAS SENEGAL CHAD 2 YEMEN 12 3 PHILIPPINES OCEAN 2 1 1 1 2 VIET 2 5 3 6 3 2 5 2 GUATEMALA 1 1 SAINT LUCIA U 1 NAM ST VINCENT AND GAMBIA 1 EL SALVADOR 2 THE GRENADINES 1 BARBADOS 1 2 1 (Yemen) 3 1 NICARAGUA 6 2 AK 3 4 6 CAMBODIA 4 (Netherlands) GRENADA GUINEA- AFRICA 2 BURKINA FASO DJIBOUTI 22 1 1 4 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO GUINEA BENIN 1 16 MARSHALL 2 1 3 1 1 4 (Philippines) F 1 ISLANDS COSTA 3 3 3 ATLANTIC 2 1 ETHIOPIA 8 1 World Heritage sites are inscribed on the SIERRA TOGO 5 29 1 RICA PANAMA 2 LEONE COTEˆ SOUTH 3 2 D GHANA 2 7 2 PALAU List on the basis of their merits as forming 4 VENEZUELA 1 CENTRAL 5 8 SRI 1 D'IVOIRE SUDAN 6 1 LIBERIA 4 LANKA 1 a significant contribution to the cultural GUYANA 2 AFRICAN REPUBLIC 6 PACIFIC 1 (Costa Rica) OCEAN 1 3 2 9 BRUNEI MICRONESIA 7 2 1 4 DARUSSALAM and of the world. Their 7 (FEDERATED STATES OF) 6 1 (Colombia) COLOMBIA 2 3 2 outstanding universal value is considered SURINAME EQUATORIAL 1 2 MALAYSIA OCEAN 4 GUINEA AA KIRIBATI to go beyond national boundaries and to 5 5 UGANDA SAO TOME 1 AD AND PRINCIPE 1 9 SINGAPORE EQUATOR be of importance for future generations. AD 8 3 KENYA EQUATOR 2 2 5 1 0° 1 CONGO DEMOCRATIC 0° ECUADOR 1 7 (Ecuador) 1 3 4 RWANDA 12 3 3 3 INDIAN 4 8 REPUBLIC 7 BURUNDI 1 5 6 1 () 15 S KIRIBATI 4 E 2 L L 7 E 6 OF THE CONGO H OCEAN SOUTH C 1 1 UNITED REP. 6 Y E 2 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 8 Cultural heritage refers to monuments, OF TANZANIA S 145 SOLOMON 5 2 8 7 buildings and sites with historical, aesthetic, 3 TIMOR- ISLANDS 4 4 2 1 Conserving the diversity of life on Earth is 3 AMERICA archaeological, scientific, ethnological or LESTE 11 PERU 17 COMOROS critical to global human welfare. With the BRAZIL anthropological value. Natural heritage 1 7 6 support of the World Heritage Convention, refers to outstanding physical, biological or The World Heritage Sustainable 1 2 1 3 MALAWI SAMOA AD 14 1 the most important biodiversity sites 6 geological features and includes habitats of 2 3 Programme helps visitors discover World 9 E 1 receive international recognition as well as threatened species, as well as areas with U Heritage sites while encouraging respect of 8 BOLIVIA 2 16 6 VANUATU 10 AD 9 1 Q COOK ISLANDS 39 (France) technical and financial assistance to deal 5 (PLURINATIONAL scientific, environmental or aesthetic I the environment and local cultures and FIJI STATE OF) 13 B 15 1 1 with threats such as agricultural encroach- AD 4 11 value. Mixed sites have both cultural H enhancing community livelihoods. 2 NIUE 1 M 1 2 3 2 A 11 ment, alien species and poaching. 1 19 and natural values. 3 Z 1 4 41 1 4 2 MAURITIUS 2 31 TONGA O (France) 32 (France) BOTSWANA M 19 PARAGUAY 21 1820 4 TROPIC OF CAPRICORN 7AD TROPIC OF CAPRICORN 11 (UK) 10 3 5 2 8 9 7 10 2 9 Robinson Projection ESWATINI 1 (Chile) 1 6 SCALE 1:43,720,000 AUSTRALIA 1 0 mi 1000 E 7 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by the SOUTH AB 0 km 1000 30°S United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, at its General Conference, Paris, 16 November 1972. 5 AFRICA LESOTHO 30°S CHILE The reduced scale of the maps and the cartographic 6 projections have resulted in approximate locations 5 (Australia) of some properties. 6 3 2 18 EXTRACTS URUGUAY 2 Land cover data: Tom Patterson, 14 17 5 1 5 3 … parts of the cultural or natural heritage are of out- An Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection AF United States National Park Service standing interest and therefore need to be preserved as of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Outstanding Text: Shelley Sperry 11 Design and production: National Geographic Maps part of the world heritage of humankind as a whole. Universal Value, called “the World Heritage ARGENTINA Committee”, is… established within UNESCO. 20 16 … [with] the magnitude and gravity of the new dan- NEW 2 (UK) gers threatening… [the world’s heritage], it is incum- ... the Committee shall establish… under the title 15 ZEALAND bent on the international community as a whole to of “World Heritage List”, a list of the properties 4 White-faced capuchin monkeys are among 140 species of mammals participate in the protection of the cultural and natural forming part of the cultural heritage and natural The grand historic landmarks of Paris, from the Eiffel to 2 8 3 A gallery of more than 4,000 paintings covers the gray and copper- in Costa Rica’s Area de Conservación Guanacaste. From protected heritage of outstanding universal value… heritage... which it considers as having outstanding Notre Dame Cathedral and Sainte Chapelle, overlook the curved colored rocks of the Tsodilo Hills in northern Botswana. The images waters in the Pacific to lowland forests, the region hosts 500 bird universal value... banks of the Seine. For centuries, stone and iron bridges across preserve the history of humans and animals in the area, which spans 1 species, including endangered hummingbirds and macaws. Diverse the liquid heart of the city have linked the people, commerce at least 100,000 years. The quartzite hills are sacred to the indigenous ecosystems face threats from infrastructure projects and fire. and culture of the Left and Right Banks. Hambukushu and San people. 4

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ANTARCTIC CIRCLE The World Heritage Collection Carl DeAbreu Photography / Shutterstock John M Lund Photography Inc / Getty Images James P. Blair / National Geographic Image Collection yvon52 / Shutterstock Mrinal Mohit De Agostini / C. Sappa Getty Images Peter Gudella / Shutterstock OUR PLACE Reinhard Dirscherl / Getty Images From 1805 to 1820, thousands of formerly enslaved workers constructed the Citadel, the largest Tens of millions of years of geological history are visible in the 712 Caves of Aggtelek Karst Petrified camel-thorn trees stand like sentinels among the Yemen’s is known as the Galápagos of the because From 626 to 539 B.C., Babylon was the capital of a great empire, though its Over 5,000 Komodo dragons, the largest lizards in the world, roam fortress in the Americas, the Palace of Sans Souci and the Ramiers fortifications in northern Haiti. and Slovak Karst on the border of Hungary and Slovakia. The subterranean wonderland of dunes of the Namib Sand Sea. Covering over 30,000 square the islands are a haven for unique plants, birds and reptiles, many of which live history stretches back to the third millennium B.C., and it evolved into a center of Indonesia’s . In the tropical waters surrounding the These massive stone monuments were built to celebrate and defend the nation’s independence from stalactites, stalagmites and lakes draws 300,000 visitors each year, but 99 percent of the kilometers along Namibia’s coast, the desert is often blanketed nowhere else. The red sap of the dragon’s blood trees has been prized for its medicinal Mesopotamian civilization from the 19th century B.C. After years of conflict and park’s islands, sport divers can swim among hundreds of species of fish, France after a 14-year struggle against colonial rule. caves remain in pristine condition. in fog, providing moisture for plants and animals adapted to the and other uses since ancient times. instability, its archaeological treasures are now better protected. corals and sharks—and may glimpse grazing dugongs, known as “sea cows.” extreme environment. CONGO 1987 2# Historic Site of Lyon r Hortobágy National Park — the Puszta NIGER 1974 REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 2002 2@ Historic Walled Town of Cuenca UKRAINE 1988 AA Sangha Trinational 2$ Routes of in France t Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae) q Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves T 2# La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia q : Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic COOK ISLANDS 2009 2% Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion y Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape w Historic Centre of Agadez 2$ Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra 2^ I ROMANIA 1990 2% Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst AK W-Arly-Pendjari Complex q Danube Delta Palau de la Música Catalana and , w L’viv — the Ensemble of the Historic Centre COSTA RICA 1977 2& P Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape NIGERIA w Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania e Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans q Cocos Island National Park 2* 1974 2^ Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret ICELAND 1995 q Sukur Cultural Landscape e of Horezu San Millán Yuso and Suso r Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora w Area de Conservación Guanacaste 2( 2& Bordeaux, Port of the Moon q Þingvellir National Park w Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove r Churches of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian T Struve Geodetic Arc e Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres 3) Fortifications of Vauban w Surtsey t Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains Peninsula V Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians of the Diquís 3! NIUE 2001 2* Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and e Vatnajökull National Park — Dynamic Nature of Fire and y Historic Centre of Sighi¸soara University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares and Other Regions of Europe F Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad 2( Associated Ecosystems Ice NORTH MACEDONIA 1997 u Wooden Churches of Maramure¸s , Biodiversity and Culture AC Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland National Park 3@ 3) Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island AM Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Region V Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians San Cristóbal de La Laguna and Ukraine 3# INDIA 1977 x CÔTE D’IVOIRE 1981 Episcopal City of Albi and Other Regions of Europe Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 2001 q 3$ The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean q NORWAY 1977 3@ Palmeral of Taï National Park q q Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and w Agro-Pastoral Cultural Landscape w Ellora Caves RUSSIAN FEDERATION 1988 3# Roman of Lugo Comoé National Park w Oases Areas) e 3% Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin e Agra Fort q Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups 3$ Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí Historic town of Grand-Bassam e Røros Mining Town and the Circumference D Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve 3^ Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte r Taj Mahal of Monuments 3% Archaeological Site of Atapuerca UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND t r Rock Art of Alta NIO M Sun Temple, Konârak w U NORTHERN IRELAND O 3^ 1984 N Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche Cultural Landscape M D RI T IA

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D L D N q H O of u Kaziranga National Park y — and Nærøyfjord r w E M 3* Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings Durham Castle and Cathedral Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars Baeza R I E T IN AG O E PATRIM w Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian 3( Taputapuˉatea i Manas Wildlife Sanctuary u Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site t Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the 3* Vizcaya e Ironbridge Gorge United Nations World e Plitvice Lakes National Park 4) Chaîne des Puys — Limagne fault tectonic arena o Keoladeo National Park T Struve Geodetic Arc y White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 3( r Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Educational, Scientific and Heritage r Episcopal Complex of the in the Cultural Organization Convention 4! French Austral Lands and Seas p Churches and Convents of OMAN 1981 u Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in 4) Abbey Historic Centre of Poreˇc K Pyrénées — Mount Perdu a Khajuraho Group of Monuments q Sergiev Posad 4! Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana t Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites t Historic City of M Belfries of Belgium and France s Group of Monuments at Hampi w i Church of the Ascension, 4@ Antequera Dolmens Site y Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd y ˇ Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn he United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cathedral of St James in Sibenik Y Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps d Fatehpur Sikri e o 4# Caliphate City of Medina Azahara u St Kilda u AF The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding f Group of Monuments at Pattadakal Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata, Mauritania Images & Stories / Alamy Stock Photo r Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman p 4$ Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria i Blenheim Palace Organization (UNESCO) works with countries around V Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians Contribution to the Modern Movement g Elephanta Caves t Ancient City of Qalhat a Cultural Landscape o City of Bath and Other Regions of Europe 2^ Archaeological Area of MADAGASCAR 1983 the world to identify and protect cultural and natural h Great Living Chola Temples q Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve s Golden Mountains of Altai AG Ste´cci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards GABON 1986 j Sundarbans National Park 2& Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of PAKISTAN 1976 d AI Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th q Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé- w Royal Hill of Ambohimanga q Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro places that merit recognition as part of the common k Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks e Rainforests of the Atsinanana f Historic and Architectural Complex of the Centuries: Stato da Terra — Western Stato da Mar Okanda l Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi 2* and National Park with the w Taxila g Ensemble of the heritage of humankind. UNESCO adopted the Convention e Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Neighbouring City CUBA 1981 GAMBIA 1987 ; Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi Archaeological Sites of and and the MALAWI 1982 h Central Sikhote-Alin q q Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites z Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi Certosa de Padula q Lake Malawi National Park Remains at Sahr-i-Bahlol j Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Old Havana and its Fortification System r w U Stone Circles of Senegambia 2@ Mountain Railways of India 2( Historic Centre of w Chongoni Rock-Art Area Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta k Ensemble of the Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios t Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore Heritage in 1972. Since then, 193 countries have ratified the e San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba 2# Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya 3) Villa Adriana (Tivoli) MALAYSIA 1988 l Natural System of Reserve GEORGIA 1992 x City of y Rohtas Fort treaty, and at present 1121 properties are inscribed on the r Desembarco del Granma National Park q Historical Monuments of Mtskheta 2$ Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka q Kinabalu Park ; Historical Centre of the City of t Viñales Valley 2% Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park 3@ Isole Eolie () w Gunung Mulu National Park PALAU 2002 z w Gelati Monastery 3# , the Basilica of San Francesco and other List — 869 of which are cultural, 213 natural and 39 mixed y Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee e Upper Svaneti 2^ Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) e Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits 1 Rock Islands Southern Lagoon 2@ Pillars Nature Park 2& Red Fort Complex Franciscan Sites 2# Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex Plantations in the South-East of Cuba of PALESTINE 2011 (a combination of the two). They are noted here in alphabetical u Alejandro de Humboldt National Park GERMANY 1976 2* Jantar Mantar, Jaipur 3$ Villa d’Este, Tivoli r Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley 2$ Assumption Cathedral and Monastery of the Town- q 2( Western Ghats 3% Late Towns of the Val di (South-Eastern q Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Island of order by country and in the order they were listed. and John Crow Mountains, Jamaica i Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos MALDIVES 1986 Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem JCDT o Historic Centre of Camagüey w 3) Hill Forts of Rajasthan ) 2% Churches of the School of Architecture e Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and x Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen’s ) at Patan, Gujarat 3^ Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2 Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines — Cultural N MALI 1977 Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir e Historic Centre of Sheki with the Khan’s Palace BURKINA FASO 1987 CYPRUS 1975 Residence Square 3@ Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area 3& Etruscan Necropolises of and 1 Old Towns of Djenné R Uvs Nuur Basin KEY q Ruins of Loropéni q Paphos r Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3* Val d’Orcia 3 Hebron / Al-Khalil BAHAMAS 2014 3# Archaeological Site of Nalanda Mahavihara at Nalanda, 2 Timbuktu T Struve Geodetic Arc q Cultural property w Ancient Ferrous Metallurgy Sites of Burkina Faso w Painted Churches in the Troodos Region t Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl Bihar 3( Syracuse and the Rocky e PANAMA 1978 AJ Landscapes of Dauria q Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) Natural property BAHRAIN 1991 AK W-Arly-Pendjari Complex e Choirokoitia y St Mary’s Cathedral and St Michael’s Church at 3$ Khangchendzonga National Park 4) : The Strade Nuove and the system of the 4 Tomb of Askia 1 Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: RWANDA 2000 q Mixed property (cultural and natural) q Qal’at al-Bahrain — Ancient Harbour and Capital of CZECHIA 3% Historic City of Ahmadabad Palazzi dei Rolli Portobelo-San Lorenzo A Transnational property BURUNDI 1982 1993 MALTA 1978 Dilmun q Historic Centre of Prague u Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church 3^ Victorian Gothic and Ensembles of Mumbai 4! and _ w Darien National Park SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 1986 (Thirty-nine properties are nominated and w Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy CABO VERDE 1988 4@ q Hal Saflieni Hypogeum managed by more than one State Party) w Historic Centre of Cesk´ˇ y Krumlov of Our Lady in 3& Jaipur City, Rajasthan The e Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic q Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park e Dilmun Burial Mounds q Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande 4# w City of Valletta q Property in danger e Historic Centre of Telˇc i Hanseatic City of Lübeck AF The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding The Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568- District of Panamá SAINT LUCIA o 774 A.D.) e Megalithic Temples of Malta 1991 BANGLADESH 1983 CAMBODIA 1991 r Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Contribution to the Modern Movement r Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine q Pitons Management Area 1979 Year in which each of the 193 p Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 4$ and Gardens in Tuscany States Parties adhered to the q Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat q Angkor Hora INDONESIA 1989 MARSHALL ISLANDS 2002 Protection w Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur w Temple of Preah Vihear t Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of a Mines of , Historic Town of and 4% q Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site F Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 2003 Saloum Delta, Senegal Curioso / Shutterstock World Heritage Convention Upper Harz Water Management System q Borobudur Temple Compounds 4^ The Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: - e The Sundarbans e Temple Zone of Sambor Prei Kuk, Archaeological Site of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Sedlec w Ujung Kulon National Park MAURITANIA 1981 National Park SAMOA 2001 K Pyrénées — Mount Perdu p Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey A variety of dangers due to natural causes or human Y y s Town of and Monferrato L including Saint Margaret’s Church intervention are constantly threatening World Heritage. BARBADOS 2002 Ancient Ishanapura Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape e Komodo National Park q Banc d’ National Park PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1997 Prehistoric Rock-Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega u Hola ˇs ovice Historical Village d Complex 4& Arab-Norman and the Cathedral Churches of SAN MARINO 1991 Verde a Henderson Island As a result, 53 properties (in bold on the list) are currently q Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison CAMEROON 1982 f r Prambanan Temple Compounds w Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and q Kuk Early Agricultural Site q San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger and are i Gardens and Castle at Kromˇeˇríˇz Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Cefalú and V Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians s Tower of q Dja Faunal Reserve g Völklingen Ironworks t Early Man Site 4* , industrial city of the 20th century Oualata PARAGUAY thus entitled to particular attention and emergency BELARUS 1988 o Litomyˇsl Castle y 1988 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 2006 and Other Regions of Europe d Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey and q AA Sangha Trinational h Fossil Site 4( Le Colline del Prosecco di e MAURITIUS 1995 q Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and conservation action. p Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc u Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra SAUDI ARABIA Z Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija St Martin’s Church w Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the CANADA j Cathedral C Historic Centre of q Aapravasi Ghat Jesús de Tavarangue 1978 f 1976 a Tugendhat Villa in Brno i Cultural Landscape of Province: the Subak System q Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madâin Sâlih) Old and New Towns of Edinburgh Radziwill Family at Nesvizh q L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site k and its Sites in , Dessau and Bernau Q w Le Morne Cultural Landscape 1980 g Gough and Inaccessible Islands AFGHANISTAN 1979 s Jewish Quarter and St Procopius’ Basilica in Tˇrebíˇco as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy PERU 1982 w At-Turaif District in ad-Dir’iyah q A Białowie˙za Forest w Nahanni National Park l Luther Memorials in and V Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians Sacred City of h Maritime Greenwich q Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam d Landscape for Breeding and Training of Ceremonial o Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto MEXICO 1984 q City of Cuzco e Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah w T Struve Geodetic Arc e Dinosaur Provincial Park ; Classical Weimar and Other Regions of Europe Ancient City of j Heart of Neolithic Orkney w Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Carriage Horses at Kladruby nad Labem q Sian Ka’an w Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu r Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia e r SG_ang Gwaay z Castle IRAN (Islamic Republic of) 1975 W in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes Ancient City of k Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bamiyan Valley BELGIUM 1996 AL Erzgebirge/Krušnohoˇrí Mining Region w Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of e Chavin (Archaeological Site) t Al-Ahsa Oasis, an Evolving Cultural Landscape r t Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 2@ Museumsinsel (), Berlin q Tchogha Zanbil Y Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps Bermuda q La Grand-Place, Brussels e Historic Centre of and r Huascarán National Park t ALBANIA 1989 y Wood Buffalo National Park DEM. PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA 1998 2# Monastic Island of Reichenau w Persepolis AI Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th SENEGAL 1976 Sacred City of l Blaenavon Industrial Landscape w Flemish Béguinages q r Pre-Hispanic City of t Chan Chan Archaeological Zone y q Butrint u Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks Complex of Koguryo Tombs Centuries: Stato da Terra — Western Stato da Mar q Island of Gorée Old Town of and its Fortifications ; Dorset and East Devon Coast e The Four Lifts on the du Centre and their w t Historic Centre of and Archaeological Site of y Manú National Park u w Historic Centres of and Gjirokastra i Historic District of Old Québec Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong 2 Niokolo-Koba National Park Rangiri Cave Temple z Derwent Valley Mills Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut) JAMAICA 1983 Monte Albán u Historic Centre of Lima i V Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians o Gros Morne National Park DEMOCRATIC 1974 e Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary Central Highlands of Sri Lanka 2@ New Lanark and Other Regions of Europe r Historic Centre of Brugge q Blue and John Crow Mountains y Historic Centre of i Río Abiseo National Park t Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta p Old Town Lunenburg q Virunga National Park u Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines o Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa r Island of Saint-Louis SUDAN 1974 2# Saltaire AM Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid Region a Miguasha National Park w Garamba National Park JAPAN 1992 t Saloum Delta q Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region 2$ Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Brussels) q Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area i Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza p Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa ALGERIA 1974 y Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons) s Rideau Canal e Kahuzi-Biega National Park o Historic Centre of a Sacred City of Caral-Supe y Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural w Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe 25 Liverpool — Maritime Mercantile City q Al Qal’a of Beni Hammad d Joggins Fossil Cliffs r Salonga National Park w Himeji-jo Landscapes e Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay — 2^ Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape u Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai e Yakushima p El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City AD Qhapac Ñan, Andean Road System w Tassili n’Ajjer f Landscape of Grand Pré t Okapi Wildlife Reserve a Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino U Stone Circles of Senegambia Mukkawar Island Marine National Park 2& Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal i Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex r Shirakami-Sanchi e M’Zab Valley g Red Bay Basque Whaling Station s PHILIPPINES 1985 2* The Forth Bridge o Stoclet House DENMARK 1979 t Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Historic Centre of Zacatecas q Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park SERBIA 2001 SURINAME 1997 r Djémila h Mistaken Point d 2( Gorham’s Cave Complex p Major Mining Sites of Wallonia q Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church Otsu Cities) Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco w Baroque Churches of the Philippines q Stari Ras and Sopo´cani q Central Suriname Nature Reserve t Tipasa M Belfries of Belgium and France 1& Pimachiowin Aki w f Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of w Studenica Monastery w Historic Inner City of Paramaribo 3) The English Lake District y Timgad k Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi y Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama e Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras x Jodrell Bank Observatory V Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians e Castle u Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) Popocatepetl r Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park 3 Medieval Monuments in Kosovo u Kasbah of Algiers B Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / g SWEDEN 1985 G Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Other Regions of Europe r i Itsukushima Shinto Shrine Pre-Hispanic Town of t Historic City of Vigan r Gamzigrad-Romuliana, Palace of Galerius Tatshenshini-Alsek h q Royal Domain of Drottningholm ANDORRA 1997 AF The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding t Stevns Klint o Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro y Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary AG Ste´cci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA 1977 J Waterton Glacier International Peace Park j Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara w and Hovgården q Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley Contribution to the Modern Movement y , a Moravian Church Settlement p Shrines and Temples of Nikko SEYCHELLES 1980 e q Ngorongoro Conservation Area CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 1980 u The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand a Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of k Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, POLAND 1976 w Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara ANGOLA 1991 BELIZE 1990 q Historic Centre of Kraków q Aldabra Atoll r q Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park i Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge Ryukyu l Historic Monuments Zone of e Serengeti National Park q Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former q Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System w Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines w Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve t Skogskyrkogården AA Sangha Trinational of the Ice Cap s Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain ; Archaeological Monuments Zone of 4 Selous Game Reserve Kingdom of Kongo e Auschwitz Birkenau y Hanseatic Town of BENIN 1982 o Aasivissuit — Nipisat. Inuit Hunting Ground between Ice Range z Historic Fortified Town of Campeche SIERRA LEONE 2005 t Kilimanjaro National Park q CHAD 1999 German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp u ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 1983 Royal Palaces of Abomey and Sea d Shiretoko 2@ Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of SINGAPORE 2012 y Stone Town of AK q Lakes of Ounianga (1940-1945) i Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå q Antigua Naval Dockyard and Related Archaeological W-Arly-Pendjari Complex X f Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape , Campeche q Singapore Botanic Gardens u Kondoa Rock-Art Sites w Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape r Historic Centre of o Naval Port of Sites BHUTAN 2001 g Ogasawara Islands 2# Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro CHILE 1980 DJIBOUTI 2007 2$ Luis Barragán House and Studio t Old City of Zamo´s´c SLOVAKIA 1993 p Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1973 ARGENTINA h Hiraizumi — Temples, Gardens and Archaeological a 1978 BOLIVIA (Plurinational State of) 1976 q Rapa Nui National Park DOMINICA 25 Islands and Protected Areas of the y Medieval Town of Toru´n q Vlkolínec Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun q Mesa Verde National Park q Los Glaciares National Park 1995 Sites Representing the Buddhist q City of Potosí w Churches of Chiloé q Morne Trois Pitons National Park 2^ Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of u Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork w Historic Town of Banská Stiavnicaˇ and the Technical s , w Yellowstone National Park w Iguazu National Park 1& Fujisan, Sacred Place and Source of Artistic Inspiration d Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland e w Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos e Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso Vatnajökull National Park — Dynamic Nature of Fire and Ice, Iceland incamerastock / Alamy Stock Photo Tequila i Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Monuments in its Vicinity Grand Canyon National Park e Península Valdés DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1985 k Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites e Historic City of Sucre r Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works 2& Central University City Campus of the Universidad Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park e Levoˇca, Spiˇssk´y Hrad and the Associated Cultural O / Archipelago r Everglades National Park r Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas q Colonial City of Santo Domingo l Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and r Fuerte de Samaipata t Sewell Mining Town 2$ Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz e Meidan Emam, Esfahan Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) o in Jawor and Swidnica Monuments T Struve Geodetic Arc t Independence Hall t Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks Steel, and Coal Mining t Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku AD Qhapac Ñan, Andean Road System ECUADOR 1975 2% Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen r Takht-e Soleyman 2* Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of p Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska r Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve y Redwood National and State Parks y Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba ; Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in 1975 Culture q Galápagos Islands 2^ Historic Centres of and t Pasargadae Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco a in Wroclaw t Wooden Churches of the Slovak Part of the Carpathian q Abbey of St Gall u Mammoth Cave National Park u Quebrada de Humahuaca y Noel Kempff Mercado National Park CHINA 1985 w City of Quito 2& Upper Middle Rhine Valley y Bam and its Cultural Landscape the Munakata Region s Mountain Area i Olympic National Park z 2( Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its w Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair i Los Alerces National Park AD Qhapac Ñan, Andean Road System q Mount Taishan e Sangay National Park 2* Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of u Soltaniyeh Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region I Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst o Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site w 2@ 3) Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Underground Water Management System e Old City of Berne E Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis The Great r Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca 2( Old Town of with Stadtamhof i Bisotun Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient d V Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians p Great Smoky Mountains National Park 1993 e 3! Prehistoric Caves of and Mitla in the Central Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region r Three Castles, and Ramparts of the AD Qhapac Ñan, Andean Road System Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in AD Qhapac Ñan, Andean Road System 3) Berlin Modernism Housing Estates o Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran Japan A and Other Regions of Europe a La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in q Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar AF Valley of Oaxaca Białowie˙za Forest Market-Town of Bellinzona AF The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Beijing and Shenyang 3! in p Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding S Puerto Rico w Mehmed Paˇsa Sokolovic´ Bridge in Viˇsegrad r EGYPT 1974 3@ El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Muskauer Park / Park Mu˙zakowski SLOVENIA 1992 t Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch Contribution to the Modern Movement 3@ Bayreuth a Sheikh Safi al-din Kh¯aneg¯ah and Shrine Ensemble in Contribution to the Modern Movement AC s Statue of Liberty AG Ste´cci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards t q Memphis and its Necropolis — the Pyramid Fields from Reserve Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland q Skocjanˇ Caves y Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 3# Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe Ardabil JERUSALEM (Site proposed by Jordan) d Yosemite National Park ARMENIA 1993 y Giza to Dahshur 3# Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System and Ukraine V Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians u Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona q BOTSWANA 1998 Peking Man Site at 3$ Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey s Tabriz Historical Bazaar Complex q Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls f Chaco Culture Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin u w Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis 3$ Archipiélago de Revillagigedo and Other Regions of Europe i La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town w q Tsodilo Mount 3% and with d The Persian Garden g Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the i Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area e Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae JORDAN 1975 3% Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Planning Archaeological Site of Zvartnots w Okavango Delta 3^ Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura f Gonbad-e Qˉabus Q Monte San Giorgio h Hawaii Volcanoes National Park o Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area r Historic Cairo 3& Archaeological Border complex of and the g Masjed-e Jˉamé of Isfahan q j e Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley BRAZIL W Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes Taos Pueblo 1977 p Scenic and Historic Interest Area t Abu Mena 1^ Golestan Palace w Quseir Amra MICRONESIA (Fed. States of) 2002 k Carlsbad Caverns National Park q Historic Town of Y Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps AUSTRALIA 1974 a Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde y Saint Catherine Area 3* Naumburg Cathedrale j Shahr-i Sokhta e Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa’a) q Nan Madol: Ceremonial Centre of Eastern Micronesia 1( Papah¯anaumoku¯akea w Historic Centre of the Town of AF The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding q s Temple and and the Kong Family u Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley) 3( Water Management System of k Susa r Wadi Rum Protected Area ; Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point e Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia MONACO 1978 Contribution to the Modern Movement w Mansion in G Frontiers of the Roman Empire l Cultural Landscape of Maymand t Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas) z San Antonio Missions r Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de EL SALVADOR 1991 e d Ancient Building Complex in the q S Muskauer Park / Park Mu˙zakowski ; The Persian Qanat MONGOLIA 1990 SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC 1975 2@ The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright t Iguaçu National Park Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site KAZAKHSTAN 1994 r Tasmanian Wilderness f Historic Ensemble of the , Lhasa V Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians z Lut Desert q Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi q Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape 1 Ancient City of Damascus B Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / 2010 g Lushan National Park and Other Regions of Europe 2@ Historic City of Yazd w Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of w Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai w Ancient City of Bosra Tatshenshini-Alsek 1^ Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant ERITREA 2001 X Wadden Sea 2# Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region Tamgaly e Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its Surrounding 3 Site of Palmyra J Waterton Glacier International Peace Park Buddha Scenic Area Sacred Landscape 4 Ancient City of Aleppo q Asmara: a Modernist African City Y Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps 2$ Hyrcanian Forests e Saryarka — Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan URUGUAY 1989 j Ancient City of Ping Yao AF The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding AE Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang’an-Tianshan R Uvs Nuur Basin 5 Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din k Classical Gardens of Suzhou ESTONIA 1995 IRAQ 1974 AJ Landscapes of Dauria 6 Ancient Villages of Northern Syria q Historic Quarter of the City of q Historic Centre (Old Town) of Contribution to the Modern Movement q Hatra Corridor w Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape l Old Town of AL Erzgebirge/Krušnohoˇrí Mining Region AH Western Tien-Shan MONTENEGRO 2006 TAJIKISTAN 1992 ; , an Imperial Garden in Beijing T Struve Geodetic Arc w Ashur (Qal’at Sherqat) e q Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of q Proto-Urban Site of Sarazm UZBEKISTAN 1993 z : an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing ESWATINI 2005 GHANA 1975 Samarra Archaeological City KENYA 1991 q Itchan Kala q Forts and Castles, Volta Greater , Central and r Erbil Citadel q Mount Kenya National Park / Natural Forest w Durmitor National Park w Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs) 2@ Mount Wuyi ETHIOPIA AG Ste´cci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards w Historic Centre of Bukhara 2# 1977 Western Regions t The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and w Lake Turkana National Parks THAILAND 1987 q Simien National Park AI Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th e Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz 2$ w Asante Traditional Buildings the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities e Lamu Old Town q Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic and the Irrigation System w Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela Centuries: Stato da Terra — Western Stato da Mar r Samarkand — Crossroad of Cultures 2% y Babylon r Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests Towns Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui — and e Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region GREECE 1981 AH Western Tien-Shan 2^ q t Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley MOROCCO 1975 w Historic City of Ayutthaya r Lower Valley of the Awash Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae IRELAND 1991 2& w q y Fort Jesus, Mombasa q Medina of Fez e Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries VANUATU 2002 Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties t Tiya Archaeological Site of Brú na Bóinne — Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend q Chief Roi Mata’s Domain 2* e u Archaeological Site w Medina of Marrakesh r Ban Chiang Archaeological Site y Aksum , of the Boyne 2( of Yunnan Protected Areas r Mount Athos w Sceilg Mhichíl KIRIBATI 2000 e Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou t Dong Phayayen–Khao Yai Forest Complex VENEZUELA 1990 u Lower Valley of the Omo r Historic City of Meknes 3) Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo t Meteora q Phoenix Islands Protected Area TIMOR-LESTE 2016 q Coro and its Port i Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town ISRAEL 1999 t Archaeological Site of Volubilis and — Culture and Biodiversity, Brazil Peter Adams / AWL Images / Getty Images w Canaima National Park Kingdom y Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of q o Konso Cultural Landscape Masada KUWAIT 2002 y Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin) TOGO 1998 e Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas x Historic Centre of Macao Thessalonika w Old City of Acre 3@ Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries — Wolong, FIJI 1990 u Sanctuary of Asklepios at KYRGYZSTAN 1995 u Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador) PORTUGAL 1980 Y Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps q Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba e White City of Tel-Aviv — the Modern Movement VIET NAM 1987 Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains q Levuka Historical Port Town i Medieval City of q Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain i Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida) q Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Z Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija TONGA 2004 r Biblical Tels — Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba o Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared q Complex of Hué Monuments 3# Yin Xu FINLAND 1987 o Archaeological Site of Mystras t AE Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang’an-Tianshan SOLOMON ISLANDS 1992 w Ha Long Bay Incense Route — Desert Cities in the Negev Heritage w Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 2005 3$ Kaiping and Villages q p Archaeological Site of Olympia y Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee Corridor 1 East Rennell e Hoi An Ancient Town 3% a AH Western Tien-Shan Lisbon TUNISIA 1975 w Fortress of u Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal MOZAMBIQUE 1982 1997 r My Son Sanctuary 3^ e Petäjävesi Old Church s Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni q Island of Mozambique e Monastery of Batalha q Medina of Tunis t Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 1987 r q iSimangaliso Wetland Park Bagan, Myanmar Amazing Aerial Agency / Shutterstock 3& Mount Sanqingshan National Park r Groundwood and Board Mill of Chios i q Convent of Christ in Tomar w Archaeological Site of Carthage y Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long — Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Town of Luang Prabang MYANMAR 1994 t Historic Centre of ´Evora w 3* Mount38 Wutai t Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki d Pythagoreion and Heraion of Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves w Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the e Amphitheatre of El Jem Hanoi t Group y Brasilia 3( q Pyu Ancient Cities y Monastery of Alcobaça e Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa China Danxia O High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago f Archaeological Site of Aigai (modern name Vergina) o Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of Jewish Champasak Cultural Landscape r Ichkeul National Park u Citadel of the Ho Dynasty y of Australia u Serra da Capivara National Park 4) w Bagan u Cultural Landscape of Sintra r Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape Historic Monuments of in “The Centre of T Struve Geodetic Arc g Archaeological Sites of and Tiryns Renewal e Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang — Plain of Jars t Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis i Trang An Landscape Complex u Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park i Historic Centre of São Luís Heaven and Earth” h Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint NAMIBIA 2000 i Historic Centre of Oporto, Luiz I Bridge and Monastery t Cape Floral Region Protected Areas y Medina of Sousse i Wet¯ Tropics of¯ Queensland o Discovery Coast Reserves 4! Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou FRANCE 1975 John “the Theologian” and the Cave of the Apocalypse ITALY 1978 LATVIA 1995 q Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes of Serra do Pilar y Vredefort Dome u Kairouan YEMEN 1980 o , p Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves 4@ Site of Xanadu q Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay on the Island of Pátmos q Rock Drawings in Valcamonica q Historic Centre of w Namib Sand Sea o Laurisilva of u Cultural and Botanical Landscape i Dougga / Thugga q Old Walled City of Shibam p a Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina w Chartres Cathedral w Church and Domincan Convent of Santa Maria delle T Struve Geodetic Arc p Alto Douro Wine Region i ‡Khomani Cultural Landscape w Old City of Sana’a 4# Fossil Site j Old Town of TURKEY a Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / s Central Amazon Conservation Complex 4$ e Palace and Park of Versailles k Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci NEPAL 1978 a Historic Centre of Guimarães o Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains 1983 e Historic Town of Zabid Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces Archaeological Site of Philippi LEBANON 1983 q Sagarmatha National Park q Historic Areas of Istanbul Naracoorte) d Conservation Area 4% r Vézelay, Church and Hill e Historic Centre of s Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture AB Maloti- Park r Socotra Archipelago Xinjiang Tianshan GRENADA 1998 q Anjar w Kathmandu Valley w Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia s Heard and McDonald Islands f Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and 4^ t Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère r and its Lagoon d Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications The w Baalbek e Chitwan National Park SOUTH SUDAN 2016 e Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriˇgi ZAMBIA 1984 d Emas National Parks 4& Valley GUATEMALA 1979 t Piazza del Duomo, Pisa 1$ University of Coimbra — Alta and Sofia Tusi Sites e Byblos r Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha r Hattusha: the Hittite Capital H Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls f Greater Blue Mountains Area g Brazilian Atlantic Islands: and Atol 4* Zuojiang Huashan Art Cultural Landscape y Palace and Park of Fontainebleau q Tikal National Park y Historic Centre of g Royal Building of Mafra — Palace, Basilica, Convent, SPAIN 1982 r Tyre q t Nemrut Daˇg g Purnululu National Park das Rocas Reserves 4( Hubei u Amiens Cathedral w Antigua Guatemala u The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of NETHERLANDS 1992 Cerco Garden and Hunting Park (Tapada) Historic Centre of Cordoba ZIMBABWE 1982 t Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the w y Xanthos-Letoon h Royal Exhibition Building and h Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás 5) Kulangsu, a Historic International Settlement i Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the e Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua q Schokland and Surroundings h Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in Braga , and Albayzín, q Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab) e u Hierapolis-Pamukkale j j São Francisco Square in the Town of São Cristóvão 5! Qinghai “Triumphal ” of i City of and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto w Defence Line of Amsterdam L Prehistoric Rock-Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Areas GUINEA 1979 r i City of Safranbolu k k : Carioca Landscapes between the 5@ Fanjingshan o Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments o Historic Centre of LESOTHO 2003 e Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout Verde Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid w National Monument D Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve t o Archaeological Site of l Mountain and the Sea 5# Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City p Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay p Historic Centre of AB Maloti-Drakensberg Park r Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Works of Antoni Gaudí e Khami Ruins National Monument QATAR 1984 y p Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex ; Cultural Landscape l Pampulha Modern Ensemble 5$ Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of a From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the GUINEA-BISSAU 2006 a Crespi d’Adda Curaçao and Palaeolithic Cave Art of Northern r Matobo Hills LIBERIA 2002 q Al Zubarah Archaeological Site Spain a Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük H ; Archaeological Site Sea-Bohai Gulf of China (Phase I) Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of GUYANA 1977 s , City of the Renaissance and its Po Delta t Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls AUSTRIA 1992 2! Paraty and Ilha Grande — Culture and Biodiversity Open-Pan Salt d Castel del Monte LIBYA 1978 REPUBLIC OF KOREA 1988 u Old Town of and its Aqueduct s Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the q Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg AE Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang’an-Tianshan Station) E Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis s Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place HAITI 1980 f The Trulli of q Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna y q Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple i Monuments of and the Kingdom of the Asturias d and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape UNESCO World Heritage Centre w Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn Corridor Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder) d’Alliance in Nancy q National History Park — Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers g Early Christian Monuments of w Archaeological Site of Sabratha u w Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon, the Depositories o Santiago de Compostela (Old Town) f e Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape BRUNEI DARUSSALAM 2011 Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House) The map of World Heritage properties is produced each COLOMBIA 1983 d Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe h Historic Centre of the City of e Archaeological Site of Cyrene i Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam for the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks p Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches g Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural r Semmering Railway q Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena HOLY SEE 1982 a Landscape year by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. BULGARIA 1974 f Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, q j 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the r Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus inside the Singelgracht e Jongmyo Shrine Mudejar Architecture of Aragon t City of Graz — Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg q w Los Katíos National Park Vatican City s h Archaeological Site of Ani Boyana Church Scandola Reserve C and Complex t Old Town of Ghadamès o Van Nellefabriek r Changdeokgung Palace Complex Historic City of Toledo If you would like to receive more information about y Wachau Cultural Landscape e Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox Historic Centre of Rome d j Aphrodisias w Madara Rider g Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct) k Residences of the Royal House of Savoy LITHUANIA X Wadden Sea t Hwaseong Fortress the World Heritage Convention and World Heritage u Historic Centre of Vienna e r National Archaeological Park of Tierradentro HONDURAS 1979 1992 f Old Town of Cáceres k Göbekli Tepe Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak h Strasbourg, Grande-Île and Neustadt l Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua q Vilnius Historic Centre y Gyeongju Historic Areas conservation, please contact: P Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape r Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo t San Agustín Archaeological Park q Maya Site of Copan NEW ZEALAND 1984 g Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in j Paris, Banks of the Seine ; Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, w Kernav˙e Archaeological Site (Cultural Reserve of u Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites TURKMENISTAN 1994 V Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians t y Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary w Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve q Te Wahipounamu — South West New Zealand h Old City of UNESCO World Heritage Centre Ancient City of Nessebar k Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Remi z Archaeological Areas of Pompei, and Kernav˙e) i Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes q State Historical and Cultural Park “Ancient Merv” and Other Regions of Europe y u Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia w Tongariro National Park j Poblet Monastery 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, FRANCE Rila Monastery and Palace of Tau, Reims HUNGARY 1985 N Curonian Spit o Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty w Kunya-Urgench Y Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps u Srebarna Nature Reserve i Chiribiquete National Park — “The Maloca of the e New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands k Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida Telephone: +33 (0)1 45 68 11 04 l Bourges Cathedral q , including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda 2@ T Struve Geodetic Arc p Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong e Parthian Fortresses of Nisa AZERBAIJAN 1993 i Pirin National Park Jaguar” ; Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue 2# di Barumini NICARAGUA 1979 a Namhansanseong l Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe Explore World Heritage sites online at whc.unesco.org q Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah’s Palace o Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari AD Qhapac Ñan, Andean Road System Ensemble and Avignon Bridge LUXEMBOURG 1983 q Ruins of León Viejo s Baekje Historic Areas ; Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés UGANDA 1987 w Old Village of Hollók˝o and its Surroundings 2$ Portovenere, and the Islands (, q World Heritage donations online: and Maiden Tower V Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians z Canal du Midi q City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and w León Cathedral d Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries in Korea and Routes of Northern Spain Bwindi Impenetrable National Park COMOROS 2000 e Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its and ) w Rwenzori Mountains National Park whc.unesco.org/en/donation w Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape and Other Regions of Europe 2@ Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne 2% Costiera Amalfitana Fortifications f Seowon, Korean Neo-Confucian Academies z Doñana National Park Natural Environment e Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi © UNESCO, 2020 Printed May 2020