UNESCO World Heritage List


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A UNESCO World Heritage Site [1] is a site that has been nominated for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's international World Heritage program. The program aims to catalogue and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind. See also UNESCO Creative Cities, describing a recently instituted program recognizing entire cities with some similar characteristics.

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[edit] Africa

[edit] Algeria

[edit] Benin

[edit] Botswana

[edit] Cameroon

[edit] Central African Republic

[edit] Cote d'Ivoire

[edit] Democratic Republic of the Congo

[edit] Egypt

[edit] Ethiopia

[edit] Gambia & Senegal

[edit] Libya

[edit] Malawi

[edit] Mauritius

[edit] Nigeria

  • Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

[edit] South Africa

[edit] Tanzania

[edit] Togo

[edit] Tunisia

[edit] Zimbabwe

[edit] Americas

[edit] Argentina

[edit] Belize

[edit] Bolivia

[edit] Brazil

[edit] Canada

[edit] Chile

[edit] Colombia

[edit] Costa Rica

[edit] Cuba

[edit] Dominica

[edit] Dominican Republic

[edit] Ecuador

[edit] El Salvador

[edit] Guatemala

[edit] Honduras

[edit] Mexico

[edit] Panama

[edit] Paraguay

  • Jesuit Missions of La Santisima Trinidad de Parana and Jesus de Tavarangue near Encarnacion

[edit] Peru

[edit] Saint Kitts

[edit] United States of America

[edit] Asia

[edit] Afghanistan

  • Minaret and archaeological remains of Jam
  • Cultural landscape and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley: Bamiyan Cliff including niches of the 38 meter Buddha, seated Buddhas, 55 meter Buddha and surrounding caves | Kakrak Valley caves including the niche of the standing Buddha | Qoul-I Akram Caves in the Fuladi Valley | Kalai Ghamai Caves in the Fuladi Valley | Shahr-i-Zuhak | Qallay Kaphari A | Qallay Kaphari B | Shahr-i-Ghulghulah

[edit] Armenia

[edit] Azerbaijan

  • The Walled city of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower

[edit] Bahrain

  • Qal'at al-Bahrain

[edit] Bangladesh

[edit] Cambodia

[edit] China

[edit] Georgia

[edit] India

[edit] Indonesia

[edit] Iran

[edit] Iraq

[edit] Israel

[edit] Japan

[edit] Jordan

[edit] Kazakhstan

  • The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
  • Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly

[edit] Korea, North

[edit] Korea, South

[edit] Laos

[edit] Lebanon

[edit] Malaysia

[edit] Mongolia

[edit] Mongolia / Russian Federation

[edit] Nepal

[edit] Oman

[edit] Pakistan

[edit] Philippines

[edit] Sri Lanka

[edit] Syria

[edit] Thailand

[edit] Turkey

[edit] Turkmenistan

  • Kunya-Urgench
  • State Historical and Cultural Park "Ancient Merv"

[edit] Uzbekistan

[edit] Vietnam

[edit] Yemen

[edit] Australasia and Oceania

[edit] Australia

[edit] New Zealand

[edit] Pitcairn Islands

[edit] Solomon Islands

[edit] Europe

[edit] Andorra

  • Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley

[edit] Albania

[edit] Austria