World Heritage Sites

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A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain range, lake, desert, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated for the international World Heritage program administered by UNESCO.

The program aims to catalogue, name, and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind (exact criteria). Listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund under certain conditions. The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage that was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972.

As of 2003, a total of 754 sites have been included in the list.

Contents

List of World Heritage Sites

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Argentina

Argentina/Brazil

Armenia

Australia

Austria

Austria/Hungary

Azerbaijan

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

Bangladesh

Belarus

Belarus/Poland

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bermuda

Bolivia

Botswana

Brazil

Bulgaria

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Central African Republic

Chile

China

Colombia

Costa Rica

Costa Rica/Panama

[[C�te d'Ivoire]]

  • [[Como� National Park]]
  • [[Ta� National Park]]

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Denmark

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Estonia

Ethiopia

Finland

France

France/Spain

Georgia

Gambia

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Guatemala

Guinea and [[C�te d'Ivoire]]

Haiti

Holy See

Honduras

Hungary

Hungary and Slovakia

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Italy/Holy See

Japan

Jerusalem

(The Old City of Jerusalem is within East Jerusalem, which has been under Israeli control since 1967, but is not recognized as Israeli territory by the UN and many countries. The site was proposed as a World Heritage site in 1981 by Jordan, which withdrew its claims to the city in 1988.)

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Latvia

  • Historic Centre of Riga

Lebanon

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Lithuania

Lithuania / Russian Federation

Luxembourg

  • City of Luxemburg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

  • Ohrid Region with its Cultural and Historic Aspect and its Natural Environment

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Mali

Malta

Mauritania

Mexico

Mongolia / Russian Federation

Morocco

Mozambique

Nepal

Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

  • Sukur Cultural Landscape

Norway

Oman

Pakistan

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Republic of Korea

Romania

Russian Federation

Senegal

Serbia and Montenegro

Seychelles

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

Tanzania

Thailand

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

  • State Historical and Cultural Park "Ancient Merv"

Uganda

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States of America

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Venezuela

Viet Nam

Yemen

Zimbabwe

See also

External links

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