UNESCO sites 

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AFGHANISTAN

* Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam 
* Cultural landscape & archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley

ALBANIA 

* Butrint * Museum-City of Gjirokastra

ALGERIA

Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad  * Djémila  * Kasbah of Algiers
* M'Zab Valley  * Tassili n'Ajjer  * Timgad
* Tipasa     

ANDORRA

* Madriu-Claror-Perafita Valley

ARGENTINA 

* Los Glaciares * Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
* Iguazu National Park * Ischigualasto/ Talampaya Natural Parks
Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas  * Quebrada de Humahuaca
* Península Valdés  

ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL

Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: * San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Seńora de Loreto & Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), * Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missoes (Brazil)

ARMENIA

Monasteries of Haghpat & * Sanahin  * Cathedral & Churches of Echmiatsin & * the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots
* Monastery of Geghard & the Upper Azat Valley  

AUSTRALIA

* Great Barrier Reef  * Shark Bay, Western Australia
* Kakadu National Park * Fraser Island 
* Willandra Lakes Region  * Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) 
* Tasmanian Wilderness * Heard and McDonald Islands
* Lord Howe Island Group * Macquarie Island
* Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park  * Greater Blue Mountains Area 
* Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves (Australia) * Purnululu National Park
* Wet Tropics of Queensland * Royal Exhibition Building & Carlton Gardens, Melbourne
* Sydney Opera House * Australian Convict Sites
* Ningaloo Reef  

AUSTRIA

* Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg * City of Graz - Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg
* Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn * Wachau Cultural Landscape
* Hallstatt-Dachstein Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape * Historic Centre of Vienna
* Semmering Railway  

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY

* Cultural Landscape of Fertö/Neusiedlersee

AZERBAIJAN

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

* Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape

BAHRAIN

* Qal'at al-Bahrain Archaeological Site Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy

BANGLADESH

* Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat  * The Sundarbans
Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur   

BARBADOS

* Historic Bridgetown & its Garrison

BELARUS

* Mir Castle Complex Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh

BELARUS/POLAND

* Belovezhskaya Pushcha/Bialowieza Forest

BELARUS/ESTONIA/FINLAND/LATVIA/LITHUANIA/NORWAY/MOLDOVA/RUSSIA/SWEDEN/ UKRAINE 

* Struve Geodetic Arc

BELGIUM

* Flemish Béguinages : Brugge, Hoogstraaten * Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
* The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre & their Environs, La Louvičre & Le Roeulx (Hainault) * Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons)
* Grand-Place, Brussels * Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
* Belfries of Flanders & Wallonia * Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex
* Historic Centre of Brugge Stoclet House
Major Mining Sites of Wallonia : incl Grand-Hornu colliery and Bois-du-Luc  

BELIZE

* Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System

BENIN

Royal Palaces of Abomey

BOLIVIA

* City of Potosí  Fuerte de Samaipata 
* Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
* Historic City of Sucre * Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

* Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar * Mehmed Paša Sokolovic Bridge of Višegrad

BOTSWANA

* Tsodilo

BRAZIL

* Historic Town of Ouro Preto * Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina 
* Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves
* Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia  * Atlantic Forest Southeast Reserves
* Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas * Pantanal Conservation Area
* Iguaçu National Park  * Jaú National Park - extended - Amazon protected area
* Brasilia  * Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros & Emas National Parks
* Serra da Capivara National Park Brazilian Atlantic Islands: * Fernando de Noronha & Atol das Rocas Reserves
* Historic Centre of Săo Luis * Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás 
Săo Francisco Square in the Town of Săo Cristovăo Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea

BULGARIA

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

BURKINA FASO

* The ruins of Loropemi

CAMBODIA

* Angkor * Preah Vihear Temple

CAMEROON

* Dja Faunal Reserve

CAMEROON, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AND CONGO

Sangha trinational

CANADA

* L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site  * Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
* Nahanni National Park  * Historic District of Québec
* Dinosaur Provincial Park * Gros Morne National Park
* SGaang Gwaii (Anthony Island)  * Old Town Lunenburg
* Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump * Miguasha Park
Wood Buffalo National Park * Rideau Canal
Landscape of Grand Pre * Joggins fossil cliffs

CANADA and the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

* Kluane/Wrangell-St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek * Waterton Glacier International Peace Park

CAPE VERDE

Cidade Velha, historic centre of Ribeira Grande

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park

CHAD

Lakes of Ounianga

CHILE

* Rapa Nui National Park  * Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaiso
* Churches of Chiloé * Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
* Sewell Mining Town  

CHINA

* The Great Wall  * Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
* Mount Taishan  * Old Town of Lijiang
* Imperial Palace of the Ming & Qing Dynasties * Ancient City of Ping Yao
* Mogao Caves * Classical Gardens of Suzhou 
* Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (terracotta army) * Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing 
* Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian * Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing 
* Mount Huangshan * Mount Wuyi 
* Jiuzhaigou Valley  * Dazu Rock Carvings
* Huanglong  * Mount Qincheng & the Dujiangyan Irrigation System
* Wulingyuan  * Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - *Xidi and *Hongcun
* Mountain Resort & its Outlying Temples, Chengde * Longmen Grottoes
* Temple and Cemetery of Confucius, & the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu  * Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
* Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains  * Yungang Grottoes
* Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa * Three parallel rivers of Yunnan protected areas
* Lushan National Park * Capital Cities & Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom
* Yin Xu * Historic Centre of Macao
* Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries * South China Karst
* Kaiping Diaolou and Villages * Fujian Tulou
* Mount Sanqingshan National Park Mount Wutai
Historic Monuments of Dengfeng, in the "Centre of Heaven and Earth" China Danxia
West Lake cultural landscape of Hangzhou Site of Xanadu
Chengjiang Fossil Site  

COLOMBIA

* Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena  * National Archaeological Park of Tierradentro
Los Katios National Park  * San Agustín Archaeological Park
Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox  * Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary
Coffee cultural landscape  

COSTA RICA

* Cocos Island National Park  * Area de Conservación Guanacaste

COSTA RICA/PANAMA

* Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves/ La Amistad National Park

COTE D'IVOIRE

Taď National Park  Comoé National Park 
Historic Town of Grand-Bassam  

CROATIA

* Old City of Dubrovnik * Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Porec
* Historic Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian  * Historic City of Trogir
* Plitvice Lakes National Park  * Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik
Stari Grad plain  

CUBA

* Old Havana and its Fortifications  * Vińales Valley
* Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios  * Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the Southeast of Cuba 
* San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba * Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
* Desembarco del Granma National Park * Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos
* Historic centre of Camaguey  

CYPRUS

* Paphos  * Choirokoitia * Painted Churches in the Troodos Region

CZECH REPUBLIC

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

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

* Virunga National Park  Kahuzi-Biega National Park Garamba National Park
Salonga National Park Okapi Wildlife Reserve  

DENMARK

* Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church  * Kronborg Castle
* Roskilde Cathedral  * Ilulissat Icefjord

DOMINICA

* Morne Trois Pitons National Park

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

* Colonial City of Santo Domingo

ECUADOR

* Galápagos Islands Sangay National Park 
* City of Quito * Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca

EGYPT

* Memphis and its Necropolis - the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur * Abu Mena
* Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis * Saint Catherine Area
* Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae  * Wadi Al-Hitan Whale Valley
* Islamic Cairo  

EL SALVADOR

* Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site

ESTONIA

* Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn

ETHIOPIA

* Rock-hewn Churches, Lalibela * Aksum  * Tiya
* Simien National Park  * Lower Valley of the Awash * Harar Jugol
* Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region  Lower Valley of the Omo Konso cultural landscape

FINLAND

* Old Rauma * Verla Groundwood & Board Mill 
* Fortress of Suomenlinna * Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki
* Petäjävesi Old Church  

FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF MACEDONIA 

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

FRANCE

* Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay * Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct) 
* Chartres Cathedral * Strasbourg-Grande île
* Palace and Park of Versailles * Paris, Banks of the Seine
* Vézelay, Church and Hill  * Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Remi & Palace of Tau, Reims
* Decorated Grottoes of the Vézčre Valley * Bourges Cathedral 
* Palace & Park of Fontainebleau  * Historic Centre of Avignon 
* Amiens Cathedral  * Canal du Midi
* Roman Theatre & its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange * Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne
* Roman & Romanesque Monuments of Arles  * Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
* Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay  * Historic Site of Lyons 
* Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans * Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion
* Place Stanislas, Place de la Carričre, & Place d'Alliance in Nancy * The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes
* Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe * Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs
* Cape Girolata, Cape Porto, Scandola Nature Reserve & the Piana Calanches in Corsica * Le Havre
* Bordeaux, Port of the Moon * Fortifications of Vauban
Lagoons of New Caledonia * Episcopal City of Albi
Pitons, Cirques and Remparts of Reunion Island The Causses & Cevennes - agro-pastoral cultural landscape
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin  

FRANCE / SPAIN

* Pyrénées - Mont Perdu

GABON

* Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda

GAMBIA 

* James Island and related sites * Stone Circles of Senegambia (Gambia and Senegal)

GEORGIA

* City-Museum Reserve of Mtskheta  * Upper Svaneti
Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery   

GERMANY

* Aachen Cathedral * Messel Pit Fossil site
* Speyer Cathedral * Cologne Cathedral
* Würzburg Residence, with the Court Gardens & Residence Square * Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar & Dessau
* Pilgrimage Church of Wies * Luther Memorials in Eisleben & Wittenberg 
* Castles of Augustusburg & Falkenlust at Brühl  * Classical Weimar 
* St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim * Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
* Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter & Church of Our Lady in Trier  * Wartburg Castle 
* Hanseatic City of Lübeck  * Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
* Palaces & Parks of Potsdam & Berlin * Monastic Island of Reichenau
* Abbey & Altenmünster of Lorsch  * Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
* Mines of Rammelsberg & * Historic Town of Goslar * Upper Middle Rhine Valley
* Town of Bamberg Historic Centres of * Stralsund & * Wismar
* Maulbronn Monastery Complex * Dresden Elbe Valley : DELISTED 2009
* Collegiate Church, Castle, & old Town of Quedlinburg  * Muskauer Park/Park Muzakowski (cross border site with Poland)
* Völklingen Ironworks  * Town Hall & Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen
* Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamthof Berlin modernism housing estates
Fagus factory in Alfeld Margravial Opera House Bayreuth

GERMANY/NETHERLANDS

* Wadden Sea

GHANA

* Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions  Asante Traditional Buildings

GREECE

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

GUATEMALA

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

GUINEA AND COTE D'IVOIRE

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 & the Buda Castle Quarter * Hortobágy National Park 
* Hollokö  * Pécs (Sopianae) Early Christian Cemetery
* Millenary Benedictine Monastery of Pannonhalma & its Natural Environment * Tokaji Wine Region Cultural Landscape

HUNGARY AND SLOVAKIA

* Caves of the Aggtelek and Slovak Karst

ICELAND

* Thingvellir * Surtsey

INDIA

* Ajanta Caves * Fatehpur Sikri 
* Ellora Caves  * Group of Monuments at Pattadakal 
* Agra Fort  * Elephanta Caves
* Taj Mahal * Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur - site extended and renamed: Great Living Chola temples 
* Sun Temple, Konarak Sundarbans National Park
* Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram Nanda Devi & Valley of Flowers National Parks 
Kaziranga National Park * Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi 
* Manas Wildlife Sanctuary  * Humayun's Tomb, Delhi
* Keoladeo National Park  * Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi
* Churches and Convents of Goa * Nilgiri and Darjeeling Himalayan Railways
* Khajuraho Group of Monuments  * Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya
* Group of Monuments at Hampi  * Rock shelters of Bhimbetka
Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park * Chhatrapati Shivaji terminus (Victoria Terminus), Mumbai
* Red Fort Complex * Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
Western Ghats  

INDONESIA

* Borobudur Temple Compounds  * Prambanan Temple Compounds
Ujung Kulon National Park Sangiran Early Man Site
* Komodo National Park  * Lorentz National Park
Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy * Tropical Rainforest of Sumatra

IRAN

Tchogha Zanbil  * Meidan Emam, Esfahan Pasargadae
* Persepolis  Armenian monastic ensembles * Soltaniyeh
* Bam & its cultural landscape Takht-e Soleyman Bisotun
Shushtar historical hydraulic system Sheikh Safi al-Din Khanegah & Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil * The Persian Garden
Gonbad-e Qabus Masjed-e Jamé of Isfahan  

IRAQ:

* Hatra  Ashur (Qala'at Cherqat) * Samarra Archaeological City

IRELAND

* Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne * Skellig Michael

ISRAEL

* Masada  * The White City of Tel Aviv - the Modern Movement
* Old City of Acre * Biblical Tells - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba
* Baha'i Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee * Incense Route / Cities in the Negev
Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me'arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves  

ITALY

* Rock Drawings in Valcamonica  * Cathedral, Torre Civica & Piazza Grande, Modena
* Church & Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci  * Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum, & Torre Annunziata 
* Historic Centre of Florence * Costiera Amalfitana
*Venice and its Lagoon * Archaeological Area of Agrigento
* Piazza del Duomo, Pisa  * Villa Romana del Casale
* Historic Centre of San Gimignano  * Su Nuraxi di Barumini 
* I Sassi di Matera * Cilento & Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum & Velia, & the Certosa di Padula 
* City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto * Historic Centre of Urbino
* Historic Centre of Siena * Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia 
* Historic Centre of Naples  * Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 
* Crespi d'Adda  * Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
* Ferrara, City of the Renaissance & its Po Delta * Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites 
* Castel del Monte *City of Verona 
* The trulli of Alberobello * Villa d'Este, Tivoli
* Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna  * Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-eastern Sicily)
* Historic Centre of the City of Pienza * Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
* 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli & the San Leucio Complex  Etruscan Necropolises of * Cerveteri & * Tarquinia
* Residences of the Royal House of Savoy * Val d'Orcia
* Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua * Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
* Portovenere, * Cinque Terre, & the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) * Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli
* Mantua and Sabbioneta * The Dolomites
Longobards in Italy - places of the power: 568-774 AD  

ITALY/HOLY SEE

* Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights, & San Paolo Fuori le Mura

JAPAN

* Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area  * Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) 
* Himeji-jo  * Itsukushima Shinto Shrine 
* Yakushima  * Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
* Shirakami-Sanchi * Shrines & Temples of Nikko
* Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji & Otsu Cities)  * Gusuku Sites & Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu
Historic Villages of * Shirakawa-go & Gokayama  * Sacred Sites & Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range
* Shiretoko * Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
Ogasawara Islands Hiraizumi - temples, gardens and archaeological sites representing the Buddhist Pure Land

JERUSALEM

* Old City of Jerusalem & its Walls

JORDAN 

* Petra * Quseir Amra * Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a)
* Wadi Rum    

last updated September 2012

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