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THE AMERICAS ANTIGUA and BARBUDA 1983 Los Glaciares ARGENTINA 1978 Iguazu National Park ARGENTINA and BRAZIL Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis BELIZE 1990 Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System City of Potosi BOLIVIA 1976 Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos Historic City of Sucre Historic Town of Ouro Preto Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas BRAZIL 1977 Iguacu National Park Brasilia Serra de Capivara National Park Historic Centre of Sao Luis L’ Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park Nahanni National Park Dinosaur Provincial Park Anthony Island Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Complex CANADA 1976 Wood Buffalo National Park Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks Quebec (Historic area) Gros Morne National Lunenburg Old Town Tatshenshini-Alsek, Kluane, Wrangell- St. Elias CANADA and UNITED STATES OF and Glacier Bay Parks AMERICA Waterton Glacier International Peace Park CHILE 1980 Rapa Nui National Park Carthagena Los Katios National Park COLOMBIA 1983 Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox National Archaeological Park of Tierradentro San Agustin Archaeological Park COSTA RICA 1977 Cocos Island National Park COSTA RICA and PANAMA Talamanca-La Amistad Old Havana CUBA 1981 Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba DOMINICA 1985 Morne Trois Pitons National Park DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1985 Colonial City of Santo Domingo Galapagos Islands ECUADOR 1975 City of Quito Sangay National Park EL SALVADOR 1991 Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site Tikal National Park GUATEMALA 1979 Antigua Guatemala Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua GUYANA 1977 HAITI 1980 National History Park-Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers Maya Site of Copan HONDURAS 1979 Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve SAINT CHRISTOPHER and NEVIS 1986 SAINT LUCIA 1991 SURINAM 1998 Redwood National Park Mesa Verde Yellowstone Grand Canyon National Park Everglades National Park Independence Hall Mammoth Cave National Park Olympic National Park Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site Great Smoky Mountains National Park UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1973 La Fortaleza and San Juan Historic Site in Puerto Rico Statue of Liberty Yosemite National Park Chaco Culture National Historical Park Monticello and University of Virginia in Charlottesville Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Pueblo de Taos Carlsbad Caverns National Park URUGUAY 1989 Historic Quarter of Colonia del Sacramento Coro and its Port VENEZUELA 1990 Canaima National Park EUROPE
ALBANIA 1989 Butrinti ANDORRA 1997 ARMENIA 1993 Monastery of Haghpat Historic Centre of Salzburg Palace and Gardens of Schonbrunn AUSTRIA 1992 Hallstatt-Dachstein Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape AZERBAIJAN 1993 BELARUS 1988 BELARUS and POLAND Belovezhskaya Pushcha/Bialoiwieza Forest BELGIUM 1996 BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA 1993 Boyana Church Madara Rider Thracian tomd of Kazanlak Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo BULGARIA 1974 Ancient City of Nessebar Rila Monastery Srebarna Nature Reserve Pirin National Park Thracian tomb of Sveshtari Old City of Dubrovnik Historical Complex of Split Plitvice Lakes National Park CROATIA 1992 Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica, Porec Historic City of Trogir Paphos CYPRUS 1975 Painted Churches in the Troodos Region Historic Centre of Prague Historic Centre of Cesky Krumlov Historic Centre of Telc CZECH REPUBLIC 1993 Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelena Hora Kutna Hora: Historical Town Centre Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church DENMARK 1979 Roskilde Cathedral ESTONIA 1995 Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn Old Rauma Fortress of Suomenlinna FINLAND 1987 Petajavesi Old Church Verla Groundwood and Board Mill F.Y.R.O.M. 1997 Ohrid Region Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay Chartres Cathedral Palace and Park of Versailles Vezelay, Church and Hill Decorated Grottoes of the Vezere Valley Palace and Park of Fontainebleau Chateau and Estate of Chambord Amiens Cathedral Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the “Triumphal Arch” of Orange Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans FRANCE 1975 Place Stanislas, Place de la Carriere and Place d’ Alliance in Nancy Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe Cape Girolata, Cape Porto, Scandola Nature Reserve and the Piana Calanches in Corsica Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct) Strasbourg-Grande ile Paris, Banks of the Seine Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Palace of Tau, Reims Bourges Cathedral Historic Centre of Avignon Le Canal du Midi Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne FRANCE and SPAIN 1987 Pyrenees-Mont Perdu City-Museum Reserve of Mtskheta GEORGIA 1992 Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery Upper Svaneti Aachen Cathedral Speyer Cathedral Wurzburg Residence Pilgrimage Church of Wies Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Bruhl GERMANY 1976 St Mary’s Cathedral and St Michael’s Church at Hildesheim Roman Monuments, Cathedral and Liebfrauen- Church in Trier Hanseatic City of Lubeck Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin Abbey and Altenmunster of Lorsch Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar Town of Bamberg Maulbronn Monastery Complex Old Town of Quedlinburg Volklingen Ironworks Messel Pit-Fossil Site Cologne Cathedral Bauhaus and its sites in Weimar and Dessau Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae Archaeological Site of Delphi Acropolis, Athens Mount Athos Meteora Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika Archaeological Site of Epidaurus GREECE 1981 Medieval City of Rhodes Mystras Archaeological Site of Olympia Delos Monasteries of Daphni, Hossios Luckas and Nea Moni of Chios Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos Archaeological Site of Vergina HOLY SEE 1982 Vatican City Budapest, the Banks of the Danube and the Buda Castle Quarter HUNGARY 1985 Holloko Millenary Benedictine Monastery of Pannonhalma HUNGARY and SLOVAKIA Caves of the Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst ICELAND 1995 Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne IRELAND 1991 Skellig Michael Rock Drawings in Valcamonica Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci Historic Centre of Florence Venice and its Lagoon Piazza del Duomo, Pisa Historic Centre of San Gimignano I Sassi di Matera City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto Historic Centre of Siena ITALY 1978 Historic Centre of Naples Crespi d’ Adda Ferrara: City of the Renaissance Castel del Monte The trulli of Alberobello Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna Historic Centre of Pienza Royal Palace and the Park of Caserta, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and San Leucio Residences of the Royal House of Savoy Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua The Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena Pompei, Herculanum and Torre Annunziata Villa Romana del Casale Su Nuraxi di Barumini Portovenere, Cinque Terre, Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto Costiera Amalfitana Archaeological Area of Agrigento ITALY and HOLY SEE Historic Centre of Rome LATVIA 1995 Historic Centre of Riga LITHUANIA 1992 Vilnius Historic Centre City of Luxemburg: its Old Quarters and LUXEMBURG 1983 Fortifications Hal Saflieni Hypogeum MALTA 1978 City of Valletta Megalithic Temples MONACO 1978 Schokland and surroundings Defence Line of Amsterdam NETHERLANDS 1992 Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour Urnes Stave Church Bryggen area in Bergen NORWAY 1977 Roros Rock Drawings of Alta Cracow’s Historic Centre Wieliczka Salt Mine Auschwitz Concentration Camp POLAND 1976 Historic Centre of Warsaw Old City of Zamosc Medieval Town of Torun Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belem in Lisbon Monastery of Batalha PORTUGAL 1980 Convent of Christ in Tomar Historic Centre of Evora Monastery of Alcobaca Cultural Landscape of Sintra Historic Centre of Oporto Danube Delta Biertan and its Fortified Church ROMANIA 1990 Monastery of Horezu Churches of Moldavia Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg Kizhi Pogost Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky RUSSIAN FEDERATION 1988 Islands White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye Virgin Komi Forests Lake Baikal Volcanoes of Kamchatka SAN MARINO 1991 Vlkolinec SLOVAKIA 1993 Banska Stiavnica Spissky Hrad SLOVENIA 1992 Skocjan Caves Historic Centre of Cordoba Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzin, Granada Burgos Cathedral Monastery and site of the Escurial, Madrid Parque Guell, Palacio Guell and Casa Mila in Barcelona Altamira Cave Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct Churches of the Kingdom of the Asturias Santiago de Compostela (Old Town) Old Town of Avila with its Extra-Muros Churches Mudejar Architecture of Teruel Historic City of Toledo Garajonay National Park SPAIN 1982 Old Town of Caceres Cathedral, Alcazar and Archivo de Indias in Seville Old City of Salamanca Poblet Monastery Archaeological Ensemble of Merida Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe Route of Santiago de Compostela Donana National Park Historic Walled Town of Cuenca La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia Las Medulas Palau de la Musica Catalana and the Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona San Millan Yuso and Suso Monasteries Royal Domain of Drottningholm Birka and Hovgarden Engelsberg Ironworks Rock Carvings in Tanum SWEDEN 1985 Skogskyrkogarden Hanseatic Town of Visby The Lapponian Area Church Village of Gammelstad, Lulea Convent of St. Gall SWITZERLAND 1975 Benedictine Convent of St. John at Mustair Old City of Berne Historic Areas of Istanbul Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia Great Mosque and Hospital of Divrigi TURKEY 1983 Hattusha Nemrut Dag Xanthos-Letoon Hierapolis-Pamukkale City of Safranbolu Kiev: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related UKRAINE 1988 Monastic Buildings UNITED KINGDOM 1984 Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast Durham Castle and Cathedral Ironbridge Gorge Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd St Kilda Blenheim Palace City of Bath Hadrian’s Wall Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret’s Church Henderson Island Tower of London Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey and St Martin’s Church Old and New Towns of Edinburgh Gough Island Wildlife Reserve Maritime Greenwich Stari Ras and Sopocani Region of Kotor YUGOSLAVIA 1975 Durmitor National Park Studenica Monastery AFRICA and THE ARAB STATES
Al Qal’a of Beni Hammad Tassili n’ Ajjer M’Zab Valley ALGERIA 1974 Djemila Tipasa Timgad Kasbah of Algiers ANGOLA 1991 BAHRAIN 1991 BENIN 1982 Royal Palaces of Abomey BURKINA FASO 1987 BURUNDI 1982 CAMEROON 1982 Dja Faunal Reserve CAPE VERDE 1988 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 1980 Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park CONGO 1987 Tai National Park COTE D’ IVOIRE 1981 Comoe National Park Virunga National Park Garamba National Park DEM. REP. OF THE CONGO 1974 Kahuzi-Biega National Park Salonga National Park Okapi Wildlife Reserve Memphis and its Necropolis with the Pyramid fields Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis EGYPT 1974 Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae Islamic Cairo Abu Mena Simen National Park Rock-hewn Churches, Lalibela ETHIOPIA 1977 Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region Lower Valley of the Awash Tiya Aksum Lower Valley of the Omo GABON 1986 GAMBIA 1987 Forts and Castles, Volta Greater Accra, Central GHANA 1975 and Western Regions Ashanti Traditional Buildings GUINEA 1979 GUINEA and COTE D’ IVOIRE Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve IRAQ 1974 Hatra JERUSALEM Petra JORDAN 1975 Quseir Amra Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest KENYA 1991 Sibiloi/Central Island National Parks Anjar Baalbek LEBANON 1983 Byblos Tyre Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna Archaeological Site of Sabratha LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA 1978 Archaeological Site of Cyrene Rock-art Sites of Tadrart Acacus Old Town of Ghadames MADAGASCAR 1983 Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve MALAWI 1982 Lake Malawi National Park Old Towns of Djenne MALI 1977 Timbuktu Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) Banc d’ Arguin National Park MAURITANIA 1981 Ancient ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata MAURITIUS 1995 Medina of Fez Medina of Marrakesh Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou MOROCCO 1975 Historic City of Meknes Archaeological Site of Volubilis Medina of Tetouan (formerly known as Titawin) MOZAMBIQUE 1982 Island of Mozambique Air and Tenere Natural Reserves NIGER 1974 W National Park of Niger NIGERIA 1974 Bahla Fort Archaeological sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al- OMAN 1981 Ayn Arabian Oryx Sanctuary QATAR 1984 SAUDI ARABIA 1978 Island of Goree SENEGAL 1976 Niokolo-Koba National Park Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary Aldabra Atoll SEYCHELLES 1980 Vallee de Mai Nature Reserve SOUTH AFRICA 1977 SUDAN 1974 SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC 1975 Ancient City of Damascus Ancient City of Bosra Site of Palmyra Ancient City of Aleppo Medina of Tunis Site of Carthage Amphitheatre of El Jem Ichkeul National Park TUNISIA 1975 Punic Town of Kerkuane Medina of Sousse Kairouan Dougga/Thugga Bwindi Impenetrable Park UGANDA 1987 Rwenzori Mountains National Park ASIA and THE PACIFIC AFGHANISTAN 1979 Kakadu National Park Great Barrier Reef Willandra Lakes Region Tasmanian Wilderness Lord Howe Island Group Central Eastern Australian Rainforest Reserves AUSTRALIA 1974 Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Wet Tropics of Queensland Shark Bay, Western Australia Fraser Island Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) Heard and McDonald Islands Macquarie Island Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat BANGLADESH 1983 Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur The Sundarbans CAMBODIA 1991 Angkor Mount Taishan The Great Wall Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties Mogao Caves Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian Mount Huangshan Jiuzhaigou Valley Huanglong Wulingyuan The Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, CHINA 1985 Chengde Temple and Cemetery of Confucius, and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains Potala Palace, Lhasa Lushan National Park Mount Emei and Leshan Giant Buddha Ancient City of Ping Yao Classical Gardens of Suzhou Old Town of Lijiang FIJI 1990 Ajanta Caves INDIA 1977 Ellora Caves Agra Fort Taj Mahal Sun Temple, Konarak Mahabalipuram Kaziranga National Park Manas Wildlife Sanctuary Keoladeo National Park Churches and Convents of Goa Khajuraho Hampi Fatehpur Sikri Pattadakal Elephanta Caves Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur Sundarbans National Park Nanda Devi National Park Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi Qutb Minar, Delhi Borobudur Temple Compounds Ujung Kulon National Park INDONESIA 1989 Komodo National Park Prambanan Temple Compounds Sangiran Early Man Site Tchogha Zanbil IRAN 1975 Persepolis Meidan Emam, Esfahan Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area Himeji-jo Yakushima Shirakami-Sanchi JAPAN 1992 Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) Itsukushima Shinto Shrine KAZAKHSTAN 1994 KYRGYSTAN 1995 LAO PEOPLE’S DEM. REP. 1987 Town of Luang Prabang MALAYSIA 1988 MALDIVES 1986 MONGOLIA 1990 MYANMAR 1994 Sagarmatha National Park Kathmandu Valley NEPAL 1978 Royal Chitwan National Park Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha Te Wahipounamu NEW ZEALAND 1984 Tongariro National Park Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro Taxila Takht-I-Bahi and Sahr-I-Bahlol PAKISTAN 1976 Historical Monuments of Thatta Fort ad Shalamar Gardens in Lahore Rohtas Fort PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1997 Tubbataha Reef Marine Park PHILIPPINES 1985 Baroque Churches of the Philippines Rice Terraces of the Philippines Cordilleras Sokkuram Buddhist Grotto REPUBLIC OF KOREA 1988 Haeinsa Temple Changgyong P’ango Chongmyo Shrine Ch’angdokklung Palace Complex Hwasong Fortress SOLOMON ISLANDS 1992 Sacred City of Anuradhapura Ancient City of Polonnaruva Ancient City of Sigiriya SRI LANKA 1980 Sinharaja Forest Reserve Sacred City of Kandy Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications Golden Temple of Dambulla TAJIKISTAN 1994 Historic Town of Sukhothai Historic City of Ayutthaya THAILAND 1987 Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries Ban Chiang Archaeological Site TURKMENISTAN 1994 Itchan Kala UZBEKISTAN 1993 Historic Centre of Bukhara Complex of Hue Monuments VIET NAM 1987 Ha Long Bay