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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.
This aims to catalogue, name, and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind. exact criteria (http://whc.unesco.org/criteria.htm#debut)
To date, some 754 sites have been included in the list.
List of World Heritage Sites:
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Argentina/
Brazil
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Austria and
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
Canada and the
United States of America
Central African Republic
Chile
China
- The Great Wall (1987)
- Mount Taishan[?], Shandong province (1987)
- Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, in Beijing (1987)
- Mogao Caves, in Dunhuang, Gansu proivince (1987)
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in Xi'an, Shaanxi province (1987)
- Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian, Beijing Municipality (1987)
- Mount Huangshan[?], Anhui province (1990)
- Jiuzhaigou Valley[?] Scenic and Historic Interest Area, Sichuan province (1992)
- Huanglong[?] Scenic and Historic Interest Area, Sichuan province (1992)
- Wulingyuan[?] Scenic and Historic Interest Area, Hunan province (1992)
- Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde[?], Hebei province (1994)
- Temple and Cemetery of Confucius, and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu[?], Shandong province (1994)
- Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains[?], Hubei province (1994)
- Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace[?], Lhasa, Tibet (1994, 2000, 2001)
- Lushan National Park[?], Jiangxi province (1996)
- Mount Emei[?] Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha[?] Scenic Area in Sichuan province (1996)
- Old Town of Lijiang[?], Yunnan province (1997)
- Ancient City of Ping Yao[?], Shanxi province (1997)
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou[?], Jiangsu province (1997, 2000)
- Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing (1998)
- Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing (1998)
- Mount Wuyi[?], Fujian province (1999)
- Dazu[?] Rock Carvings, Sichuan province (1999)
- Mount Qincheng[?] and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, Sichuan province (2000)
- Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - Xidi[?] and Hongcun[?] (2000)
- Longmen Grottoes[?], near Luoyang, Henan province (2000)
- Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (2000)
- Yungang Grottoes[?], in Datong[?], Shanxi province (2001)
- Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas (2003)
Colombia
Costa Rica
Costa Rica/
Panama
C�te d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
- Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn
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
- 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta[?] with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli[?] and the San Leucio Complex[?]
- Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica[?] of Aquileia
- Archaeological Area of Agrigento
- Archaeological Areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Torre Annunziata[?]
- Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco[?] and Other Franciscan Sites
- Botanical Garden[?] (Orto Botanico), Padua
- Castel del Monte[?]
- Cathedral[?], Torre Civica[?] and Piazza Grande[?], Modena
- Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie[?] with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park[?] with the Archeological sites of Paestum[?] and Velia[?], and the Certosa di Padula[?]
- City of Verona
- City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas[?] of the Veneto
- Costiera Amalfitana[?]
- Crespi d'Adda[?]
- Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
- Ferrara, City of the Renaissance and its Po Delta
- Historic Centre of Florence
- Historic Centre of Naples
- Historic Centre of San Gimignano[?]
- Historic Centre of Siena
- Historic Centre of Urbino[?]
- Historic Centre of the City of Pienza[?]
- I Sassi di Matera[?]
- Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
- Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto[?] (South-eastern Sicily)
- Piazza del Duomo[?], Pisa
- Portovenere[?], Cinque Terre[?], and the Islands (Palmaria[?], Tino[?] and Tinetto[?])
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica[?]
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini[?]
- The trulli[?] of Alberobello
- Venice and its Lagoon[?]
- Villa Adriana[?] (Tivoli)
- Villa Romana del Casale[?]
- Villa d'Este[?], Tivoli
- Sacri Monti[?] of Piedmont and Lombardy
Italy/Holy See[?]
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Latvia
Lebanon
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Lithuania
Lithuania /
Russian Federation
Luxembourg
- City of Luxemburg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mexico
Mongolia / Russian Federation
Montenegro
- Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor[?]
Morocco
Mozambique
Nepal
Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Republic of Korea
Romania
Russian Federation
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
- State Historical and Cultural Park "Ancient Merv"
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United Republic of Tanzania
United States of America
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Viet Nam
Yemen
Zimbabwe
See also:
List of Conservation Topics[?]
External links
- UNESCO world heritage sites (http://whc.unesco.org/heritage.htm#debut)
- For information concerning World Heritage sites: UNESCO (http://www.unesco.org/whc).
- For participation in documentation of World Heritage sites: VRheritage.org (http://www.vrheritage.org).
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