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World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.
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This is a list of the lists of World Heritage Sites. A World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having special cultural or physical significance.
The World Heritage List | For UNESCO World Heritage Travellers. Complete List. This is the complete and up-to-date World Heritage List. 1199 Sites 168 Countries 1978-2023 59 in danger. ID. Site. Year. Countries. Locations. Rating. 1. Galapagos Islands. 1978. Ecuador. 1. 4.8. 943. Belfries. 1999. Belgium. France. 55. 2.97. Quito. 1978. Ecuador. 1.
The countries have been divided by the World Heritage Committee into five geographical zones: Africa, the Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean. With 59 selected areas, Italy is the country with the most sites; followed by China with 57, then France and Germany with 52 each. [2]
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- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
This is an alphabetically ordered list of World Heritage sites—sites that have “outstanding universal value”—as designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Where possible, site names are linked to relevant Britannica content. In some cases spelling of names of sites and cities differs between UNESCO ...
•Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley
•Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jām
•Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe
•Butrint
•Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastër
•Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region
•Al Qal’a of Beni Hammad
•Djémila
•Kasbah of Algiers
•M’Zab Valley
•Tassili-n-Ajjer
•Timgad
•Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the Former Kingdom of Kongo
•Antigua Naval Dockyard and Related Archaeological Sites
•Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement
•Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas (Cave of the Hands)
•ESMA Museum and Site of Memory – Former Clandestine Center of Detention, Torture and Extermination
•Iguaçu National Park
•Ischigualasto/Talampaya Natural Parks
•Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
•Cathedral and Churches of Ejmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots
•Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley
•Australian Convict Sites
•Brickendon and Woolmers Estates (near Longford)
•Cascades Female Factory (Hobart)
•Coal Mines Historic Site (via Premadeyna)
•Cockatoo Island Convict Site
•Darlington Probation Station (Maria Island)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The World Heritage Sites list is maintained by the international World Heritage Program administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 "states parties" that are elected by the United Nations General Assembly, and advised by reviews of international panels of experts in natural or cultural history, and education. [9]
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This is our world heritage. But our heritage is constantly under threat – from natural disasters, wars, climate change, construction, pollution and mass tourism. In this book, we visit over 70 World Heritage Sites in 52 countries. We find out how communities, governments and organisations are working to save this extraordinary inheritance.
