World Heritage Sites

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.

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

• Minaret[?] and Archaeological Remains of Jam by the Hari Rud
• Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley[?]

Albania

• Butrint

Algeria

• Al Qal'a[?] of Beni Hammad[?]
• Djémila[?]
• Kasbah[?] of Algiers
• M'Zab Valley[?]
• Tassili n'Ajjer[?]
• Timgad[?]
• Tipasa[?]

Argentina

• Cueva de las Manos[?], Rio Pinturas[?]
• Iguazu (or Iguaçú) National Park, home of Iguaçú Falls
• Ischigualasto[?] / Talampaya Natural Parks[?]
• Jesuit Block[?] and Cordoba[?] of Cordoba
• Los Glaciares[?]
• Peninsula Valdes[?]
• Quebrada de Humahuaca[?]

Argentina/Brazil

• Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis

Armenia

• Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin[?] and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots[?]
• Monasteries of Haghpat[?] and Sanahin[?]
• Monastery of Geghard[?] and the Upper Azat Valley[?]

Australia

• Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh[?]/Naracoorte[?])
• Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves[?]
• Fraser Island
• Great Barrier Reef
• Greater Blue Mountains Area[?]
• Heard and McDonald Islands[?]
• Kakadu National Park
• Lord Howe Island Group[?]
• Macquarie Island
• Shark Bay[?]
• Tasmanian Wilderness
• Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
• Wet Tropics of Queensland
• Willandra Lakes[?] Region
• Purnululu[?] National Park

Austria

• City of Graz; Historic Centre
• Hallstatt-Dachstein[?] Salzkammergut[?] Cultural Landscape
• Historic Centre of Vienna
• Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
• Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn[?]
• Semmering Railway
• Wachau Cultural Landscape

Austria and Hungary

• Cultural Landscape of Fertö/Neusiedlersee[?]

Azerbaijan

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

Bangladesh

• Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat[?]
• Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur[?]
• The Sundarbans[?]

Belarus

• Mir Castle Complex

Belarus / Poland

• Belovezhskaya Pushcha/Bialowieza Forest

Belgium

• Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia
• Flemish Béguinages[?]
• Grand-Place, Brussels
• Historic Centre of Bruges
• Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta[?] (Brussels)
• Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes[?] (Mons)
• Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
• The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre[?] and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainault)

Belize

• Belize Barrier Reef[?] Reserve System

Benin

• Royal Palaces of Abomey

Bermuda

• Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda[?]

Bolivia

• City of Potosi
• Fuerte de Samaipata[?]
• Historic City of Sucre
• Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
• Noel Kempff Mercado National Park[?]
• Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture

Botswana

• Tsodilo[?]

Brazil

• Atlantic Forest Southeast Reserves[?]
• Brasilia
• Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas[?] Reserves
• Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros[?] and Emas National Parks[?]
• Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves[?]
• Historic Centre of Sao Luis[?]
• Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia
• Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina[?]
• Historic Centre of the Town of Goias
• Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda
• Historic Town of Ouro Preto[?]
• Iguacu National Park
• Jau National Park[?]
• Pantanal[?] Conservation Area
• Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas[?]
• Serra da Capivara National Park[?]

Bulgaria

• Ancient City of Nessebar[?]
• Boyana Church[?]
• Madara Rider[?]
• Pirin National Park[?]
• Rila Monastery[?]
• Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo[?]
• Srebarna Nature Reserve[?]
• Thracian tomb of Kazanlak[?]
• Thracian tomb of Sveshtari[?]

Cambodia

• Angkor

Cameroon

• Dja Faunal Reserve[?]

Canada

• Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
• Dinosaur Provincial Park[?]
• Gros Morne National Park
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
• Historic District of Québec
• L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
• Miguasha Park[?]
• Nahanni National Park[?]
• Old Town Lunenburg
• SGaang Gwaii (Anthony Island)[?]
• Wood Buffalo National Park[?]

Canada and the United States of America

• Kluane/Wrangell-St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek[?]
• Waterton Glacier International Peace Park[?]

Central African Republic

• Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park[?]

Chile

• Churches of Chiloé[?]
• Rapa Nui National Park[?]
• Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso[?]

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

• Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox[?]
• Los Katios National Park[?]
• National Archaeological Park of Tierradentro[?]
• Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena
• San Agustín Archaeological Park[?]

Costa Rica

• Area de Conservación Guanacaste[?]
• Cocos Island National Park[?]

Costa Rica/Panama

• Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves/ La Amistad National Park[?]

Côte d'Ivoire

• Comoé National Park[?]
• Taï National Park[?]

Croatia

• Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik[?]
• Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica[?] in the Historic Centre of Porec[?]
• Historic City of Trogir[?]
• Historic Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian[?]
• Old City of Dubrovnik
• Plitvice Lakes[?] National Park

Cuba

• Alejandro de Humboldt National Park[?]
• Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the Southeast of Cuba[?]
• Desembarco del Granma National Park[?]
• Old Havana and its Fortifications
• San Pedro de la Roca Castle[?], Santiago de Cuba
• Trinidad[?] and the Valley de los Ingenios[?]
• Viñales Valley[?]

Cyprus

• Choirokoitia[?]
• Painted Churches[?] in the Troodos Region[?]
• Paphos[?]

Czech Republic

• Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz[?]
• Historic Centre of Ceský Krumlov
• Historic Centre of Prague
• Historic Centre of Telc[?]
• Holašovice[?] Historical Village Reservation
• Holy Trinity Column[?] in Olomouc
• Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of Saint Barbara[?] and the Cathedral of our Lady at Sedlec[?]
• Lednice[?]-Valtice[?] Cultural Landscape
• Litomyšl Castle[?]
• Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk[?] at Zelena Hora[?]
• Tugendhat Villa[?] in Brno
• The Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica[?] in Trebíc[?]

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Garamba National Park[?]
• Kahuzi-Biega National Park[?]
• Okapi Wildlife Reserve[?]
• Salonga National Park[?]
• Virunga National Park[?]

Denmark

• Jelling[?] Mounds, Runic Stones and Church
• Kronborg Castle
• Roskilde Cathedral

Dominica

• Morne Trois Pitons National Park[?]

Dominican Republic

• Colonial City of Santo Domingo

Ecuador

• City of Quito
• Galápagos Islands
• Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca[?]
• Sangay National Park[?]

Egypt

• Abu Mena[?]
• Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis[?]
• Islamic Cairo
• Memphis and its Necropolis[?] - the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur[?]
• Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel[?] to Philae[?]
• Saint Catherine Area[?]

El Salvador

• Joya de Ceren[?] Archaeological Site

Estonia

• Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn

Ethiopia

• Aksum[?]
• Fasil Ghebbi[?], Gondar Region[?]
• Lower Valley of the Awash[?]
• Lower Valley of the Omo[?]
• Rock-hewn Churches, Lalibela[?]
• Simien National Park[?]
• Tiya[?]

Finland

• Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki[?]
• Fortress[?] of Suomenlinna
• Ohrid[?] Region with its Cultural and Historic Aspect and its Natural Environment
• Old Rauma[?]
• Petäjävesi[?] Old Church
• Verla[?] Groundwood and Board Mill

France

• Mont-Saint-Michel[?] and its Bay (1979)
• Chartres Cathedral (1979)
• Palace and Park of Versailles (1979)
• Vézelay, Church and Hill (1979)
• Decorated Grottoes of the Vézère Valley[?] (1979)
• Palace and Park of Fontainebleau (1981)
• Amiens Cathedral[?] (1981)
• Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch[?]" of Orange (1981)
• Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles (1981)
• Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay[?] (1981)
• Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans[?] 1982)
• Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière, and Place d'Alliance in Nancy (1983)
• Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe (1983)
• Cape Girolata[?], Cape Porto[?], Scandola Nature Reserve[?] and the Piana Calanches[?] in Corsica (1983)
• Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct) (1985)
• Strasbourg-Grande île (1988)
• Paris, Banks of the Seine (1991)
• Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Palace of Tau, Reims (1991)
• Bourges Cathedral (1992)
• Historic Centre of Avignon (1995)
• Canal du Midi (1996)
• Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne (1997)
• Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France (1998)
• Historic Site of Lyon (1998)
• Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion[?] (1999)
• The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire[?] and Chalonnes[?] (2000)
• Provins[?], Town of Medieval Fairs (2001)

France/Spain

• Pyrénées - Mont Perdu[?]

Georgia

• Bagrati Cathedral[?] and Gelati Monastery[?]
• City-Museum Reserve[?] of Mtskheta[?]
• Upper Svaneti[?]

Gambia

• James Island[?] and Related Sites

Germany

• Aachen Cathedral
• Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch[?]
• Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau
• Castles of Augustusburg[?] and Falkenlust[?] at Brühl[?]
• Classical Weimar
• Collegiate Church, Castle, and old Town of Quedlinburg
• Cologne cathedral
• Garden Realm of Dessau-Wörlitz
• Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar
• Luther Memorials[?] in Eisleben[?] and Wittenberg
• Maulbronn[?] Monastery Complex
• Messel Pit[?] Fossil site
• Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar
• Monastic Island of Reichenau
• Museum Island (Museumsinsel), Berlin
• Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
• Pilgrimage Church[?] of Wies
• Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier
• Speyer Cathedral
• St. Mary's Cathedral[?] and St. Michael's Church[?] at Hildesheim
• Town of Bamberg
• Upper Middle Rhine Valley
• Völklingen[?] Ironworks
• Würzburg[?] Residence, with the Court Gardens and Residence Square
• Wartburg Castle
• Zollverein Coal Mine[?] Industrial Complex in Essen

Ghana

• Asante Traditional Buildings
• Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra[?], Central and Western Regions

Greece

• Acropolis, Athens
• Archaeological Site of Delphi
• Archaeological Site of Epidaurus[?]
• Archaeological Site of Olympia
• Archaeological Site of Vergina[?]
• Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns
• Delos
• Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint John[?] "the Theologian" and the Cave of the Apocalypse[?] on the Island of Pátmos
• Medieval City of Rhodes
• Meteora
• Monasteries of Daphni[?], Hossios Luckas[?] and Nea Moni[?] of Chios
• Mount Athos
• Mystras[?]
• Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika[?]
• Pythagoreion[?] and Heraion[?] of Samos
• Temple of Apollo Epicurius[?] at Bassae[?]

Guatemala

• Antigua Guatemala
• Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua
• Tikal National Park

Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire

• Mount Nimba[?] Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve[?]

Haiti

• National History Park[?] -- Citadel, Sans-Souci, Ramiers

Holy See

• Vatican City

Honduras

• Maya Site of Copan
• Rio Platano[?] Biosphere Reserve[?]

Hungary

• Budapest, the Banks of the Danube and the Buda Castle[?] Quarter
• Hollokö[?]
• Hortobágy National Park[?]
• Millenary Benedictine Monastery[?] of Pannonhalma[?] and its Natural Environment
• Pécs (Sopianae[?]) Early Christian Cemetery
• Tokaji Wine Region Cultural Landscape[?]

Hungary and Slovakia

• Caves of the Aggtelek[?] and Slovak Karst[?]

India

• Agra Fort[?]
• Ajanta Caves
• Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur[?]
• Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi[?]
• Churches and Convents of Goa
• Darjeeling Himalayan Railway[?]
• Elephanta Caves[?]
• Ellora Caves[?]
• Fatehpur Sikri[?]
• Group of Monuments at Hampi[?]
• Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram[?]
• Group of Monuments at Pattadakal[?]
• Humayun's Tomb[?], Delhi
• Kaziranga National Park[?]
• Keoladeo National Park[?]
• Khajuraho[?] Group of Monuments
• Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya
• Manas Wildlife Sanctuary[?]
• Nanda Devi National Park[?]
• Qutb Minar[?] and its Monuments, Delhi
• Sun Temple[?], Konarak[?]
• Sundarbans National Park[?]
• Taj Mahal
• Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka[?]

Indonesia

• Borobudur Temple Compounds
• Komodo National Park[?]
• Lorentz National Park[?]
• Prambanan[?] Temple Compounds
• Sangiran[?] Early Man Site
• Ujung Kulon National Park[?]

Iran

• Meidan Emam[?], Esfahan
• Persepolis
• Tchogha Zanbil[?]
• Takht-e Soleyman[?]

Iraq

• Hatra
• Ashur[?] (Qal'at Sherqat)

Ireland

• Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne[?]
• Skellig Michael

Israel

• Masada
• Old City of Acre
• Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls
• The White City of Tel-Aviv - The Modern Movement

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[?]

• Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights, and San Paolo Fuori le Mura[?]

Japan

• Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji[?] Area
• Gusuku[?] Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu
• Himeji-jo
• Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
• Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu[?] Cities)
• Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
• Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go[?] and Gokayama[?]
• Itsukushima Shinto Shrine[?]
• Shirakami-Sanchi[?]
• Shrines and Temples of Nikko[?]
• Yakushima

Jordan

• Petra
• Quseir Amra[?]

Kazakhstan

• The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi[?]

Kenya

• Lake Turkana National Parks[?]
• Lamu Old Town[?]
• Mount Kenya[?] National Park / Natural Forest

Lao People's Democratic Republic

• Town of Luang Phrabang
• Vat Phou[?] and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape[?]

Latvia

• Historic Centre of Riga

Lebanon

• Anjar[?]
• Baalbek
• Byblos
• Ouadi Qadisha[?] (the Holy Valley[?]) and the Forest of the Cedars of God[?] (Horsh Arz el-Rab[?])
• Tyre

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

• Archaeological Site of Cyrene
• Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna
• Archaeological Site of Sabratha[?]
• Old Town of Ghadames[?]
• Rock-art Sites of Tadrart Acacus[?]

Lithuania

• Vilnius Historic Centre

Lithuania / Russian Federation

• Curonian Spit[?]

Luxembourg

• City of Luxemburg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications

Madagascar

• The Royal Hill of Ambohimanga[?]
• Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve[?]

Malawi

• Lake Malawi National Park[?]

Malaysia

• Gunung Mulu National Park[?]
• Kinabalu Park[?]

Mali

• Cliff of Bandiagara[?] (Land of the Dogons[?])
• Old Towns of Djenné[?]
• Timbuktu

Malta

• City of Valletta
• Hal Saflieni Hypogeum[?]
• Megalithic Temples of Malta

Mauritania

• Ancient Ksour[?] of Ouadane[?], Chinguetti[?], Tichitt[?] and Oualata[?]
• Banc d'Arguin National Park[?]

Mexico

• Ancient Maya City of Calakmul[?], Campeche
• Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco[?]
• Archeological Zone of Paquimé[?], Casas Grandes[?]
• Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl
• El Tajin[?], Pre-Hispanic City
• Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco[?]
• Historic Centre of Morelia
• Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Alban[?]
• Historic Centre of Puebla
• Historic Centre of Zacatecas
• Historic Fortified Town of Campeche
• Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro
• Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan[?]
• Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines
• Hospicio Cabañas[?], Guadalajara
• Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque
• Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
• Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan
• Prehispanic City of Uxmal
• Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco[?]
• Sian Ka'an[?]
• Whale Sanctuary[?] of El Vizcaino[?]
• Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda[?] of Queretaro

Mongolia / Russian Federation

• Uvs Nuur[?] Basin

Montenegro

• Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor[?]

Morocco

• Archaeological Site of