UNESCO World Heritage List

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a geographic site that has been selected for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's International World Heritage program. The program aims to catalogue and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind. While the World Heritage Committee maintains a list of World Heritage Sites, they make no independent review; in practice, they are listed by each national government. After the 2017 session of the World Heritage Committee, there is a total of 1,073 sites. With around 400 sites on the smallest continent, Europe has by far the highest density of world heritage sites. Only a little over 200 sites are in the New World (Americas and Oceania).

There are several related UNESCO programs:

• UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, for things that cannot be touched such as musical or culinary traditions.
• UNESCO Creative Cities, a program which recognises entire cities for their cultural contributions.
• UNESCO Global Geoparks Network, for parks of great geological interest.
• UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves

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Africa

Angola

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo	Northern Angola	Cultural	2017

Algeria

M'Zab Valley, Algeria

Djémila, Algeria

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad	Saharan Atlas	Cultural	1980
Djémila	Sétif	Cultural	1982
Kasbah of Algiers	Algiers	Cultural	1992
M'zab Valley	M'zab	Cultural	1982
Tassili n'Ajjer	Saharan Algeria	Mixed	1982
Timgad	Batna	Cultural	1982
Tipasa	Tipaza	Cultural	1982

Benin

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Royal Palaces of Abomey	Abomey	Cultural	1985

Botswana

Tsodilo, Botswana

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Tsodilo	Okavango Delta	Cultural	2001
Okavango Delta	Okavango Delta	Natural	2014

Burkina Faso

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
The Ruins of Loropéni	Gaoua	Cultural	2009

Cameroon

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Dja Faunal Reserve	South Cameroon Plateau	Natural	1987
Sangha Trinational	South Cameroon Plateau	Natural	2012	Shared with Central African Republic and Rep. Congo

Cape Verde

Cidade Velha

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande	Cidade Velha	Cultural	2009

Central African Republic

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park	Northeast Central African Republic	Natural	1988	Listed as in danger since 1997
Sangha Trinational	Southwest Central African Republic	Natural	2012	Shared with Cameroon and Rep. Congo

Chad

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape	Saharan Chad	Mixed	2016

Congo, Republic of the

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Sangha Trinational	Sangha and Likouala	Natural	2012	Shared with Central African Republic and Cameroon

Côte d'Ivoire

Historic town of Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Comoe National Park	Northern Savanna	Natural	1983	Listed as in danger since 2003
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve	Southwestern Forests	Natural	1981	Listed as in danger since 1992; shared with Guinea
Taï National Park	Southwestern Forests	Natural	1982
Historic town of Grand-Bassam	Grand-Bassam	Cultural	2012

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Virunga National Park, DR Congo

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Virunga National Park	Kivu	Natural	1979	Listed as in danger since 1994
Kahuzi-Biega National Park	Kivu	Natural	1980	Listed as in danger since 1997
Garamba National Park	Congo Basin	Natural	1980	Listed as in danger in 1980, removed 1991. Relisted as in danger in 1996
Salonga National Park	Congo Basin	Natural	1984	Listed as in danger since 1999
Okapi Wildlife Reserve	Congo Basin	Natural	1996	Listed as in danger since 1997

Egypt

Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae, Egypt

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Abu Mena	Alexandria	Cultural	1979	Listed as in danger since 2001
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis	Luxor	Cultural	1979
Historic Cairo	Cairo	Cultural	1979
Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur	Memphis, Cairo/Giza, Dahshur	Cultural	1979
Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae	Abu Simbel, Philae	Cultural	1979
Saint Catherine Area	Saint Catherine	Cultural	2002
Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)	Whale Valley	Natural	2005

Eritrea

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Asmara: a Modernist City of Africa	Asmara	Cultural	2017

Ethiopia

Aksum, Ethiopia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela	Lalibela	Cultural	1979
Simien National Park	Amhara	Natural	1978	Listed as in danger since 1996
Fasil Ghebbi	Gondar	Cultural	1979
Aksum	Axum	Cultural	1980
Lower Valley of the Awash	Awash National Park	Cultural	1980
Lower Valley of the Omo	Omo National Park	Cultural	1980
Tiya	Tiya	Cultural	1980
Harar Jugol Fortified Historic Town	Harar	Cultural	2006
Konso Cultural Landscape	Konso	Cultural	2011

Gabon

Lopé National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda	Lopé National Park	Mixed	2007

Gambia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Stone Circles of Senegambia	Janjanbureh	Cultural	2006	Shared with Senegal
Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites	Western Gambia	Cultural	2003

Ghana

Elmina Castle, Ghana

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions	Ghanaian Coastal Plain	Cultural	1979
Asante Traditional Buildings	Kumasi	Cultural	1980
Nzulezo	Nzulezo	Cultural	2000	Listed as in danger

Guinea

Chimpanzee in Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve	Guinee Forestiere	Natural	1981	Listed as in danger since 1992; shared with Côte d'Ivoire

Kenya

Lamu Old Town

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Lake Turkana National Parks	Sibiloi National Park	Natural	1997
Mount Kenya-Lewa Wildlife conservancy	Mount Kenya	Natural	1997	extended in 2013
Lamu Old Town	Lamu	Cultural	2001
Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests	Coastal Kenya	Cultural	2008
Fort Jesus	Mombasa	Cultural	2011
Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley	Northern Rift Valley and Southern Rift Valley	Natural	2011
Thimlich Ohinga Archaeological Site	Western Kenya	Cultural	2018

Lesotho

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Maloti Drakensberg Tranboundary World Heritage Site	Sehlabathebe National Park	Mixed	2000	extended in 2013, shared with South Africa

Libya

Theater at Leptis Magna

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna	Leptis Magna	Cultural	1982
Archaeological Site of Cyrene	Cyrene	Cultural	1982
Archaeological Site of Sabratha	Sabratha	Cultural	1982
Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus	Fezzan	Cultural	1985
Old Town of Ghadamès	Ghadamis	Cultural	1986

Madagascar

Tsingy de Bemaraha

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Royal Hill of Ambohimanga	Antananarivo Province	Cultural	2001
Tsingy de Bemaraha Reserve	Mahajanga Province	Natural	1990
Rainforests of the Atsinanana	six national parks on the east coast of Madagascar	Natural	2007	Listed as in danger since 2010

Malawi

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Chongoni Rock Art Area	Central Malawi	Cultural	2006
Lake Malawi National Park	Southern Malawi	Natural	1984

Mali

Old Towns of Djenné, Mali

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Timbuktu	Timbuktu	Cultural	1988	Severely damaged by Islamic extremists during conflict in 2012.
Old Towns of Djenné	Djenné	Cultural	1988
Tomb of Askia	Gao	Cultural	2004	Severely damaged by Islamic extremists during conflict in 2012.
Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)	Bandiagara	Mixed	1989

Mauritania

Banc d'Arguin National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Banc d'Arguin National Park	Nouadhibou	Natural	1989
Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichit and Oualata	Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichit, Oualata	Cultural	1996

Mauritius

Aapravasi Ghat in Port Louis

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Aapravasi Ghat in Port Louis	Port Louis	Cultural	2006
Le Morne Cultural Landscape	Le Morne	Cultural	2008

Morocco

Tanneries in the Medina of Fez

Medina of Tetouan

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Medina of Fez	Fez	Cultural	1981
Medina of Marrakech	Marrakech	Cultural	1985
Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou	Aït-Benhaddou	Cultural	1987
Historic City of Meknes	Meknes	Cultural	1996
Archaeological Site of Volubilis	Meknes	Cultural	1997
Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin)	Tetouan	Cultural	1997
Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)	Essaouira	Cultural	2001
Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida)	El Jadida	Cultural	2004
Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage	Rabat	Cultural	2012

Mozambique

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Island of Mozambique	Ilha de Mozambique	Cultural	1991

Namibia

The Namib desert, aka the Namib Sand Sea

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes	Kunene	Cultural	2007
Namib Sand Sea	Hardap	Natural	2013

Niger

Antelope in W National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves	Northern Niger	Natural	1991	Listed as in danger since 1992
W National Park of Niger	Southwestern Niger	Natural	1996
Historic Centre of Agadez	Northern Niger	Cultural	2013

Nigeria

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Sukur Cultural Landscape	Sukur	Cultural	1999
Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove	Osogbo	Cultural	2005

Réunion

Plaine des Sables in Reunion National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Pitons, Cirques and Remparts of Reunion Island	Reunion	Natural	2010	Categorised as part of France

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Gough and Inaccessible Islands	Tristan da Cunha	Natural	1995	Categorised as part of the United Kingdom

Senegal

Saloum Delta, Senegal

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Island of Gorée	Dakar	Cultural	1978
Niokolo-Koba National Park	Tambacounda Region	Natural	1981	Listed as in danger since 2007
Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary	Northern Senegal	Natural	1981
Island of Saint-Louis	Saint-Louis	Cultural	2000
Stone Circles of Senegambia	Kaolack	Cultural	2006	Shared with Gambia
Saloum Delta	Palmarin	Cultural	2011
Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes	Tambacounda Region	Cultural	2012

Seychelles

The Aldabra Atoll

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Aldabra Atoll	Outer Seychelles	Natural	1982
Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve	Praslin	Natural	1983

South Africa

Cradle of Humankind

Robben Island

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs	Cradle of Humankind	Cultural	1999
iSimangaliso Wetland Park	Elephant Coast	Natural	1999
Robben Island	Robben Island	Cultural	1999
Maloti Drakensberg Tranboundary World Heritage Site	Ukhahlamba Drakensberg	Mixed	2000	extended in 2013, shared with Lesotho
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape	Limpopo	Cultural	2003
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas	Overberg	Natural	2004
Vredefort Dome	Vredefort	Natural	2005
Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape	Ai-Ais Richtersveld Transfrontier Park	Cultural	2007
ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape	Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park	Cultural	2017
Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains	Mpumalanga	Natural	2018

Sudan

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region	Merowe	Cultural	2003
Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe	Meroë	Cultural	2011
Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay – Mukkawar Island Marine National Park	Northern Sudan	Natural	2016

Tanzania

Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania

Uhuru Peak of Mount Kilimanjaro

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Ngorongoro Conservation Area	Northwest Tanzania	Mixed	1979
Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara	Kilwa	Cultural	1981	Listed as in danger since 2004
Serengeti National Park	Northeast Tanzania	Natural	1981
Selous Game Reserve	Tanzania	Natural	1982
Kilimanjaro National Park	Mount Kilimanjaro	Natural	1987
Stone Town of Zanzibar	Stone Town	Cultural	2000
Kondoa Rock-Art Sites	Kondoa	Cultural	2006

Togo

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba	Kara	Cultural	2004

Tunisia

Kairouan, Tunisia

The Medina of Sousse

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Amphitheatre of El Jem	El Jem	Cultural	1979
Archaeological Site of Carthage	Carthage	Cultural	1979
Medina of Tunis	Tunis	Cultural	1979
Ichkeul National Park	Bizerte	Natural	1980
Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis	Kerkouane	Cultural	1985
Kairouan	Kairouan	Cultural	1988
Medina of Sousse	Sousse	Cultural	1988
Dougga / Thugga	Dougga	Cultural	1997

Uganda

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park	Western Uganda	Natural	1994
Rwenzori Mountains National Park	Western Uganda	Natural	1994
Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi	Kampala	Cultural	2001	Listed as in danger since 2010

Zambia

Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls, Zambia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls	Livingstone	Natural	1989	Shared with Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas	Lake Kariba-Lower Zambezi	Natural	1984
Great Zimbabwe National Monument	Great Zimbabwe	Cultural	1989
Khami Ruins National Monument	Bulawayo	Cultural	1986
Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls	Victoria Falls	Natural	1989	Shared with Zambia
Matobo Hills	Matobo National Park	Cultural	2003

Asia

Afghanistan

Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam	Jam	Cultural	2002	Listed as in danger since inscription
Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley	Bamiyan	Cultural	2003	Listed as in danger since inscription

Bahrain

Bahrain Pearling Trail, Muharraq

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Qal’at al-Bahrain – Ancient Harbour and Capital of Dilmun	Manama	Cultural	2005
Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy	Muharraq	Cultural	2012

Bangladesh

Bagerhat

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat	Bagerhat	Cultural	1985
Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur	Naogaon District	Cultural	1985
The Sundarbans	Khulna Division	Natural	1997	Similar site in India

Cambodia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Angkor	Siem Reap	Cultural	1992
Temple of Preah Vihear	Preah Vihear	Cultural	2008
Temple Zone of Sambor Prei Kuk, Archaeological Site of Ancient Ishanapura	Mekong Lowlands and Central Plains	Cultural	2017

China

Temple of Heaven, Beijing

The Great Wall

The Potala Palace, Lhasa

Ancient City of Pingyao, Shanxi

Yungang Grottoes, Shanxi

Sacred mountain Kawagarbo, in Three Parallel Rivers Park, Yunnan

Kaiping Diaolou

Zhangjiajie, Wulingyuan

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang	Forbidden City, Beijing and Shenyang	Cultural	1987	Extended in 2004
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor	Xi'an	Cultural	1987
Mogao Caves	Dunhuang	Cultural	1987
Mount Taishan	Shandong	Mixed	1987
Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian	Western and Southern Suburbs, Beijing	Cultural	1987
The Great Wall	Mostly North China	Cultural	1987
Mount Huangshan	Huangshan	Mixed	1990
Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area	Huanglongsi National Park	Natural	1992
Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area	Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve	Natural	1992
Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area	Wulingyuan	Natural	1992
Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains	Hubei	Cultural	1994
Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa	Tibet	Cultural	1994	Extended in 2000 and 2001
Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde	Hebei	Cultural	1994
Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu	Shandong	Cultural	1994
Lushan National Park	Lushan	Cultural	1996
Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area	Emeishan National Park	Mixed	1996
Ancient City of Ping Yao	Pingyao	Cultural	1997
Classical Gardens of Suzhou	Suzhou	Cultural	1997	Extended in 2000
Old Town of Lijiang	Lijiang	Cultural	1997
Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing	Haidian District, Beijing	Cultural	1998
Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing	Chongwen District, Beijing	Cultural	1998
Dazu Rock Carvings	Dazu	Cultural	1999
Mount Wuyi	Fujian	Mixed	1999
Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun	Anhui	Cultural	2000
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties	Xianling tomb, Zhongxiang | Eastern Qing tombs, Zunhua | Western Qing tombs, Yixian and Baoding | Ming tombs, Changping | Xiaoling, Chang Yushun, Qiu Cheng, Wu Liang, Wu Zhen, Xu Da and Li Wenzhong tombs, Nanjing	Cultural	2000	Extended in 2003 and 2004
Longmen Grottoes	Luoyang	Cultural	2000
Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System	Qingchengshan-Dujiangyan National Park	Cultural	2000
Yungang Grottoes	Datong	Cultural	2001
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas	Three Parallel Rivers National Park	Natural	2003
Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom	Huanren County, Liaoning Province and Ji’an, Jilin Province	Cultural	2004	Shared with North Korea
Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains	Sichuan	Natural	2006
Yin Xu	Anyang	Cultural	2006
Kaiping Diaolou and Villages	Kaiping	Cultural	2007
South China Karst	Shilin	Mixed	2007	Natural heritage since 2007, extension in 2014
Fujian Tulou	Fujian	Cultural	2008
Mount Sanqingshan National Park	Jiangxi	Natural	2008
Mount Wutai	Wutaishan National Park	Cultural	2009
China Danxia	Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Guizhou provinces	Natural	2010
Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in “The Centre of Heaven and Earth”	Dengfeng	Cultural	2010
West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou	Hangzhou	Cultural	2011
Chengjiang Fossil Site	Southeastern Yunnan	Natural	2012
Site of Xanadu	Inner Mongolia	Cultural	2012
Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces	Southern Yunnan	Cultural	2013
Xinjiang Tianshan	Xinjiang	Natural	2013
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor		Cultural	2014	Shared with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
The Grand Canal	North China, East China	Cultural	2014
Tusi Sites	Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou	Cultural	2015
Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape	Central Guangxi	Cultural	2016
Hubei Shennongjia	Hubei	Natural	2016
Kulangsu: a Historic International Settlement	Fujian	Cultural	2017
Qinghai Hoh Xil	Qinghai	Natural	2017
Fanjingshan	Guizhou	Natural	2018

India

Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram, India

Fatehpur Sikri

Pattadakal

Humayun's Tomb, Delhi, India

The Red Fort, Delhi

Stone Chariot, Hampi

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Agra Fort	Agra	Cultural	1983
Ajanta Caves	Aurangabad	Cultural	1983
Ellora Caves	Aurangabad	Cultural	1983
Taj Mahal	Agra	Cultural	1983
Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram	Mamallapuram	Cultural	1984
Sun Temple, Konârak	Konark	Cultural	1984
Kaziranga National Park	Assam	Natural	1985
Keoladeo National Park	Rajasthan	Natural	1985
Manas National Park	Assam	Natural	1985
Churches and Convents of Goa	Old Goa	Cultural	1985
Fatehpur Sikri	Agra	Cultural	1986
Group of Monuments at Hampi	Hampi	Cultural	1986
Khajuraho Group of Monuments	Khajuraho	Cultural	1986
Elephanta Caves	Elephanta Island	Cultural	1987
Great Living Chola Temples	Brihadisvara Temple of Thanjavur; Brihadisvara Temple of Gangaikondacholisvaram; and the Airavatesvara Temple at Darasuram	Cultural	1987
Group of Monuments at Pattadakal	Pattadakal	Cultural	1987
Sundarbans National Park	Southeast Bengal	Natural	1987	Similar site in Bangladesh
Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks	Uttarakhand	Natural	1988
Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi	Sanchi	Cultural	1989
Humayun's Tomb, Delhi	Delhi	Cultural	1993
Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi	Delhi	Cultural	1993
Mountain Railways of India	India	Cultural	1999
Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya	Bodh Gaya	Cultural	2002
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka	Bhimbetka	Cultural	2003
Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park	Gujarat	Cultural	2004
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)	Mumbai	Cultural	2004
Red Fort Complex	Delhi	Cultural	2007
The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur	Jaipur	Cultural	2010
Western Ghats	Western and Southern India	Natural	2012
Hill Forts of Rajasthan	Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh, Sawai Madhopur, Jhalawar, Jaipur and Jaisalmer	Cultural	2013
Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen’s Stepwell) at Patan	North Gujarat	Cultural	2014
Great Himalayan National Park	Himachal Pradesh, Himalayan North	Natural	2014
Archaeological Site of Nalanda Mahavihara (Nalanda University) at Nalanda, Bihar	Nalanda	Cultural	2016
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement	Chandigarh	Cultural	2016	17 sites, shared with Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland
Khangchendzonga National Park	West Sikkim	Mixed	2016
Historic City of Ahmadabad	Central Gujarat	Cultural	2017
Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai	Mumbai	Cultural	2018

Indonesia

Dancer's mask, Bali

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Borobudur Temple Compounds	Borobudur	Cultural	1991
Komodo National Park	Flores	Natural	1991
Prambanan Temple Compounds	Prambanan	Cultural	1991
Ujung Kulon National Park	Banten	Natural	1991
Sangiran Early Man Site	Solo	Cultural	1996
Lorentz National Park	Asmat	Natural	1999
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra	Gunung Leuser National Park, Kerinci Seblat National Park and Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park	Natural	2004	Listed as in danger since 2011
Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy	Bali	Cultural	2012

Iran

Persepolis, Iran

Shushtar, ancient irrigation

Golestan Palace

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Meidan Emam, Esfahan	Isfahan	Cultural	1979
Persepolis	Shiraz	Cultural	1979
Tchogha Zanbil	Tchogha Zanbil	Cultural	1979
Takht-e Soleyman	Takab	Cultural	2003
Bam and its Cultural Landscape	Bam	Cultural	2004	Listed as in danger since 2004
Pasargadae	Pasargad	Cultural	2004
Soltaniyeh	Zanjan	Cultural	2005
Bisotun	Kermanshah	Cultural	2006
Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran	West Azerbaijan	Cultural	2008
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System	Shushtar	Cultural	2009
Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil	Ardabil	Cultural	2010
Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex	Tabriz	Cultural	2010
The Persian Garden	Pasargad, Isfahan, Kashan, Shiraz, Mahan, Yazd, Caspian Iran, Khorasan	Cultural	2011
Gonbad-e Qābus	Caspian Iran	Cultural	2012
Masjed-e Jāmé of Isfahan	Isfahan	Cultural	2012
Golestan Palace	Tehran Province	Cultural	2013
Shahr-I Sokhta	Baluchistan	Cultural	2014
Cultural Landscape of Maymand	Kerman (province)	Cultural	2015
Susa	Khuzestan	Cultural	2015
The Persian Qanat		Cultural	2016	11 sites around Iran
Lut Desert	Kerman (province), Sistan and Baluchestan	Natural	2016
Historic City of Yazd	Yazd (province)	Cultural	2017
Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region	Fars	Cultural	2018	8 individual sites

Iraq

Hatra (now destroyed)

Panoramic View of Arbil Citadel

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Hatra	Hatra	Cultural	1985	Severely damaged or destroyed by Da'esh (ISIS) extremists in 2015
Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)	Al Jazira	Cultural	2003	Listed as in danger since inscription
Samarra Archaeological City	Samarra	Cultural	2007	Listed as in danger since inscription
Erbil Citadel	Iraqi Kurdistan	Cultural	2014
The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities	Lower Mesopotamia	Mixed	2016	Composed of 7 sites

Israel

Acre

Mount Carmel

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Masada	Masada	Cultural	2001
Old City of Acre	Akko	Cultural	2001
White City of Tel-Aviv—the Modern Movement	Tel Aviv	Cultural	2003
Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba	Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba	Cultural	2005
Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev	Negev	Cultural	2005
Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee	Western Galilee	Cultural	2008
Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves	Carmel Range	Cultural	2012
Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves	Shfela	Cultural	2014
Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of Jewish Renewal	Western Galilee	Cultural	2015

Japan

Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, Japan

Shrines and temples of Nikko

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area	Horyuji	Cultural	1993
Himeji-jo	Himeji	Cultural	1993
Shirakami-Sanchi	Shirakami-Sanchi	Cultural	1993
Yakushima	Yakushima	Natural	1993
Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)	Kyoto, Uji and Otsu	Cultural	1994
Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama	Shirakawa-go and Gokayama	Cultural	1995
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)	Hiroshima	Cultural	1996
Itsukushima Shinto Shrine	Miyajima	Cultural	1996
Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara	Nara	Cultural	1998
Shrines and Temples of Nikko	Nikko	Cultural	1999
Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu	Okinawa Island	Cultural	2000
Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range	Kansai (Mount Koya, Mount Yoshino, Mount Omine, Hongu, Nachikatsuura, Shingu, Kumano, Owase)	Cultural	2004
Shiretoko	Shiretoko National Park	Natural	2005
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape	Oda	Cultural	2007
Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land	Hiraizumi	Cultural	2011
Ogasawara Islands	Ogasawara Islands	Natural	2011
Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration	Shizuoka, Yamanashi	Cultural	2013
Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites	Tomioka	Cultural	2014
Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining	Kyushu, Hagi, Kamaishi, Izunokuni	Cultural	2015
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement	Tokyo/Ueno	Cultural	2016	17 sites, shared with Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India and Switzerland
Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region	Okinoshima island	Cultural	2017
Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region	Nagasaki, Hirado, Sasebo, Minamishimabara, Goto Islands, Amakusa	Cultural	2018	12 individual sites

Jerusalem

Old City of Jerusalem, Israel (de facto; not recognized as part of Israel by UNESCO)

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls	Old City, Jerusalem	Cultural	1981	Under de facto Israeli control as part of its capital; disputed by the Palestinians, who claim Jerusalem as their capital; proposed in the 1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine to be part of a separate Jerusalem territory under international control; listed as in danger since 1982

Jordan

Petra, Jordan

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Petra	Petra	Cultural	1985
Quseir Amra	Quseir Amra	Cultural	1985
Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a)	Um er-Rasas	Cultural	2005
Wadi Rum Protected Area	Wadi Rum	Mixed	2011
Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas)	Northern Jordan	Cultural	2015

Kazakhstan

Saryarka

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi	Turkestan	Cultural	2003
Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly	Almaty Province	Cultural	2004
Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan	Naurzum State Nature Reserve, Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve	Natural	2008
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor		Cultural	2014	Shared with China and Kyrgyzstan
Western Tien-Shan		Natural	2016	Shared with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

Kyrgyzstan

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain	Osh	Cultural	2009
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor		Cultural	2014	Shared with China and Kazakhstan
Western Tien-Shan		Natural	2016	Shared with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Laos

Luang Prabang

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Town of Luang Prabang	Luang Prabang	Cultural	1995
Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape	Champasak	Cultural	2001

Lebanon

Baalbek

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Anjar	Bekaa	Cultural	1984
Baalbek	Baalbek	Cultural	1984
Byblos	Byblos	Cultural	1984
Tyre	Tyre	Cultural	1984
Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)	Kadisha Valley	Cultural	1998

Macau

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Centre of Macao	Macau/Peninsula	Cultural	2005

Malaysia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Gunung Mulu National Park	Sarawak	Natural	2000
Kinabalu Park	Mount Kinabalu	Natural	2000
Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca	Malacca and Georgetown	Cultural	2008
Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley	Perak	Cultural	2012

Mongolia

Uvs

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Uvs Nuur Basin	Uvs	Natural	2003	Shared with Russia
Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape	Central Mongolia	Cultural	2004
Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai	Western Mongolia	Cultural	2011	In Altai Tavan Bogd National Park
Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape	Central Mongolia	Cultural	2015
Landscapes of Dauria	Eastern Mongolia	Natural	2017	shared with Russia

Myanmar

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Pyu Ancient Cities	Northern Myanmar	Cultural	2014

Nepal

Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Kathmandu Valley	Kathmandu Valley	Cultural	1979	Severely damaged by 2015 earthquake.
Sagarmatha National Park	Khumbu	Natural	1979
Chitwan National Park	Western Terai	Natural	1984
Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha	Lumbini	Cultural	1997

North Korea

Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Complex of Koguryo Tombs	Pyongyang and Nampho	Cultural	2004	Shared with China
Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong	Hwanghae	Cultural	2013

Oman

Bahla Fort

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Bahla Fort	Bahla	Cultural	1987
Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn	Northern Oman	Cultural	1988
Land of Frankincense	Frankincense Trail in Al Baleed Museum, Salalah	Cultural	2000
Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman	Northern Oman	Cultural	2006
Ancient City of Qalhat	Central Coastal Oman	Cultural	2018

Pakistan

Ruins of the ancient city of Mohenjo-daro.

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro	Moenjodaro	Cultural	1980
Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Neighbouring City Remains at Sahr-i-Bahlol	Northwest Pakistan	Cultural	1980
Taxila	Taxila	Cultural	1980
Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore	Lahore	Cultural	1981
Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta	Thatta	Cultural	1981
Rohtas Fort	Jhelum	Cultural	1997

Palestinian Territories

Church of the Nativity

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem	Bethlehem	Cultural	2012
Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines – Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir	West Bank	Cultural	2014
Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town	West Bank	Cultural	2017

Philippines

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park

Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Baroque Churches of the Philippines	Iglesia de San Agustín, Intramuros, Manila | Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Santa Maria (Ilocos Sur)|Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur | Iglesia de San Agustín, Paoay, Ilocos Norte | Iglesia de Santo Tomás de Villanueva, Miag-ao, Iloilo	Cultural	1993
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park	Palawan	Natural	1993
Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras	Ifugao	Cultural	1995
Historic Town of Vigan	Vigan	Cultural	1999
Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park	Puerto Princesa	Natural	1999
Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary	Davao Oriental	Natural	2014

Qatar

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Al Zubarah Archaeological Site	Qatar	Cultural	2013

Russia

Volcanoes of Kamchatka

Lena pillars

See also the list of Russian sites in Europe.

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Lake Baikal	Siberia	Natural	1996
Volcanoes of Kamchatka	Russian Far East	Natural	1996
Golden Mountains of Altai	Siberia	Natural	1998
Bikin River Valley	Russian Far East, Primorsky Krai	Natural	2001	extended and renamed in 2018
Uvs Nuur Basin	Siberia, Eastern Siberia	Natural	2003	shared with Mongolia
Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve	Chukotka	Natural	2004
Putorana Plateau	Taymyria	Natural	2010
Lena Pillars Nature Park	Sakha Republic	Natural	2012
Landscapes of Dauria	Zabaykalsky Krai	Natural	2017	shared with Mongolia

Saudi Arabia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madâin Sâlih)	Hejaz	Cultural	2008
Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah	Hejaz	Cultural	2014
Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia	Nejd	Cultural	2015
Al-Ahsa Oasis, an evolving Cultural Landscape	Eastern Province (Saudi Arabia)	Cultural	2018

Singapore

Symphony Lake, Singapore Botanic Gardens

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Singapore Botanic Gardens	Singapore	Cultural	2015

South Korea

Hwaseong Fortress

Mt. Halla, Jeju Volcanic Island

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon, the Depositories for the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks	Gayasan Mountain National Park	Cultural	1995
Jongmyo Shrine	Jongno District, Seoul	Cultural	1995
Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple	Gyeongju	Cultural	1995
Changdeokgung Palace Complex	Jongno District, Seoul	Cultural	1997
Hwaseong Fortress	Suwon	Cultural	1997
Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites	Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Island	Cultural	2000
Gyeongju Historic Areas	Gyeongju	Cultural	2000
Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes	Jeju	Natural	2007
Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty	Gyeonggi and Gangwon	Cultural	2009
Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong	Andong	Cultural	2010
Namhansanseong	Gyeonggi	Cultural	2014
Baekje Historic Areas	Gongju, Buyeo, North Jeolla	Cultural	2015
Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries in Korea	Yangsan, Yeongju, Andong, Songnisan National Park, Gongju, Suncheon, Haenam	Cultural	2018	7 components

Sri Lanka

Old town of Galle

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Ancient City of Polonnaruwa	Polonnaruwa	Cultural	1982
Ancient City of Sigiriya	Sigiriya	Cultural	1982
Sacred City of Anuradhapura	Anuradhapura	Cultural	1982
Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications	Galle	Cultural	1988
Sacred City of Kandy	Kandy	Cultural	1988
Sinharaja Forest Reserve	Sabaragamuwa	Natural	1988
Golden Temple of Dambulla	Dambulla	Cultural	1991
Central Highlands of Sri Lanka	Central Province	Natural	2010

Syria

Krak des Chevaliers

NOTE: Syria is a war zone. By 2015, news reports were indicating all six of the country's listed sites had been gravely damaged. The sites remain on the UNESCO heritage list and the list of UNESCO heritage in danger. Much of Palmyra was destroyed after the city fell to Da'esh extremists in 2015; the Assad régime regained control in 2016 but the damage has been done.

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Ancient City of Damascus	Damascus	Cultural	1979
Ancient City of Bosra	Bosra	Cultural	1980
Site of Palmyra	Palmyra	Cultural	1980	Mined or destroyed in 2015.
Ancient City of Aleppo	Aleppo	Cultural	1986
Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din	Krak des Chevaliers and Latakia	Cultural	2006
Ancient Villages of Northern Syria	Dead Cities	Cultural	2011

Tajikistan

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Proto-urban site of Sarazm	Zeravshan	Cultural	2010
Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs)	Pamirs	Natural	2013

Thailand

Historic City of Ayutthaya, Thailand

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic City of Ayutthaya	Ayutthaya	Cultural	1991
Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns	Sukhothai, Si Satchanalai and Kamphaeng Phet	Cultural	1991
Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries	Lower Northern Thailand	Natural	1991
Ban Chiang Archaeological Site	Udon Thani	Cultural	1992
Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex	Khao Yai National Park	Natural	2005

Turkey

Historic areas of Istanbul

Nemrut Dagi

City of Safranbolu

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia	Cappadocia	Mixed	1985
Great Mosque and Hospital of Divrigi	Central Anatolia	Cultural	1985
Historic Areas of Istanbul	Istanbul Province	Cultural	1985
Hattusha: the Hittite Capital	Central Karadeniz	Cultural	1986
Nemrut Dagi	Southeastern Anatolia	Cultural	1987
Hierapolis-Pamukkale	Southern Aegean	Mixed	1988
Xanthos-Letoon	Lycia	Cultural	1988
City of Safranbolu	Western Karadeniz	Cultural	1994
Archaeological Site of Troy	Southern Marmara	Cultural	1998
Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex	Eastern Thrace	Cultural	2011
Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük	Central Anatolia	Cultural	2012
Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire	Southern Marmara	Cultural	2014
Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape	Northern Aegean	Cultural	2014
Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape	Southeastern Anatolia	Cultural	2015
Ephesus	Central Aegean	Cultural	2015
Archaeological Site of Ani	Eastern Anatolia	Cultural	2016
Aphrodisias	Southern Aegean	Cultural	2017
Göbekli Tepe	Urfa	Cultural	2018

Turkmenistan

Konye Urgench

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
State Historical and Cultural Park “Ancient Merv”	Merv	Cultural	1999
Kunya-Urgench	Konye Urgench	Cultural	2005
Parthian Fortresses of Nisa	Nissa	Cultural	2007

United Arab Emirates

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas)	Al Ain	Cultural	2011

Uzbekistan

Samarkand - Crossroads of Cultures, Uzbekistan

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Itchan Kala	Khiva	Cultural	1990
Historic Centre of Bukhara	Bukhara	Cultural	1993
Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz	Shakhrizabz	Cultural	2000
Samarkand – Crossroad of Cultures	Samarkand	Cultural	2001
Western Tien-Shan		Natural	2016	Shared with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

Vietnam

Hoi An ancient town

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Complex of Hué Monuments	Hue	Cultural	1993
Ha Long Bay	Ha Long Bay	Natural	1994	Extended in 2000
Hoi An Ancient Town	Hoi An	Cultural	1999
My Son Sanctuary	My Son	Cultural	1999
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park	Phong Nha-Ke Bang	Natural	2003
Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long - Hanoi	Hanoi	Cultural	2010
Citadel of the Ho Dynasty	Central Coast (Vietnam)	Cultural	2011
Trang An Landscape Complex	Ninh Binh, Northern Vietnam	Mixed	2014

Yemen

Historic town of Zabid

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Old Walled City of Shibam	Shibam	Cultural	1982
Old City of Sana'a	Sana'a	Cultural	1986
Historic Town of Zabid	Zabid	Cultural	1993	Listed as in danger since 2000
Socotra Archipelago	Socotra	Natural	2008

Europe

Albania

Gjirokastër

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Butrint	Coastal Albania	Cultural	1992
Historic Centres of Gjirokastër and Berat	Southeastern Albania	Cultural	2005
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe		Natural	2007	enlarged in 2011 and 2017, shared with 11 other European countries

Andorra

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley	south and east of Andorra La Vella	Cultural	2004

Armenia

Echmiadzin Cathedral

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin	Northern Armenia	Cultural	1996
Cathedral and Churches of Echmiadzin and the archaeological site of Zvartnots	Central Armenia	Cultural	2000
Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley	Central Armenia	Cultural	2000

Austria

Hallstatt-Dachstein

Historic Centre of Vienna

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg	Salzburg (state)	Cultural	1996
Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn	Vienna	Cultural	1996
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape	Salzburg (state)	Cultural	1997
Semmering Railway	Lower Austria	Cultural	1998
City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg	Styria	Cultural	1999
Wachau Cultural Landscape	Lower Austria, between Melk and Krems	Cultural	2000
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape	Burgenland	Cultural	2001	shared with Hungary
Historic Centre of Vienna	Vienna	Cultural	2001
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe		Natural	2007	enlarged in 2011 and 2017, shared with 11 other European countries
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps		Cultural	2011	shared with France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland

Azerbaijan

Gobustan

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
The Walled city of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower	Baku Region	Cultural	2000
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape	Baku Region	Cultural	2007

Belarus

Mir Castle

Bisons in Belovezhskaya Puscha National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Mir Castle complex	Grodno Oblast	Cultural	2000
Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh	Minsk Oblast	Cultural	2005
Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Białowieża Forest	Grodno Oblast	Natural	1979	shared with Poland, extended in 2014
Struve Geodetic Arc	Grodno Oblast, Brest Oblast	Cultural	2005	shared with Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine

Belgium

Grand Place, Brussels

Neolithic flint mines, Spiennes

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Flemish Béguinages	Flanders	Cultural	1998	13 Béguinages
La Grand-Place, Brussels	Brussels	Cultural	1998
The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainault)	Wallonia	Cultural	1998
Belfries of Belgium and France		Cultural	1999	33 belfries in Belgium
Historic Centre of Bruges	Flanders	Cultural	2000
Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta	Brussels	Cultural	2000
Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons)	Wallonia	Cultural	2000
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai	Wallonia	Cultural	2000
Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex, Antwerp	Flanders	Cultural	2005
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe		Natural	2007	enlarged in 2011 and 2017, shared with 11 other European countries
Stoclet House	Brussels	Cultural	2009
Major Mining Sites of Wallonia	Wallonia	Cultural	2012
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement	Antwerp	Cultural	2016	17 sites, shared with Argentina, France, Germany, India, Japan and Switzerland

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mostar Old Town

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar	Herzegovina	Cultural	2005
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad	Sarajevo Region	Cultural	2007
Stećci Medieval Tombstones Graveyards		Cultural	2016	28 sites, shared with Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia

Bulgaria

Pirin National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Boyana Church (Sofia)	Bulgarian Shopluk	Cultural	1979
Madara Rider	Dobruja	Cultural	1979
Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo	North Bulgaria	Cultural	1979
Thracian tomb of Kazanlak	Northern Thrace	Cultural	1979
Ancient City of Nessebar	Bulgarian Black Sea Coast	Cultural	1983
Srebarna Nature Reserve	Dobruja	Natural	1983
Pirin National Park	Pirin Macedonia	Natural	1983
Rila Monastery	Bulgarian Shopluk	Cultural	1983
Thracian tomb of Sveshtari	Dobruja	Cultural	1985
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe		Natural	2007	enlarged in 2011 and 2017, shared with 11 other European countries

Croatia

Old City of Dubrovnik, Croatia

Palace of Diocletian, Split

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Old City of Dubrovnik	Dalmatia	Cultural	1979
Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian	Dalmatia	Cultural	1979
Plitvice Lakes National Park	Dalmatia	Natural	1979
Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč	Istria	Cultural	1997
Historic City of Trogir	Dalmatia	Cultural	1997
Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik	Dalmatia	Cultural	2000
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe		Natural	2007	enlarged in 2011 and 2017, shared with 11 other European countries
Stari Grad Plain, Island Hvar	Dalmatia	Cultural	2008
Stećci Medieval Tombstones Graveyards		Cultural	2016	28 sites, shared with Bosnia and Herzegovnia, Montenegro and Serbia
Venetian Works of Defence between 15th and 17th centuries: Stato da Terra – western Stato da Mar	Sibenik, Zadar	Cultural	2017	6 sites, shared with Italy and Montenegro

Cyprus

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Paphos	Paphos district	Cultural	1980
Painted Churches in the Troodos Region		Cultural	1985	10 churches
Choirokoitia	Larnaca district	Cultural	1998

Czech Republic

Historic centre of Prague, Czech Republic

Stained glass in St. Barbara, Kutna Hora

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov	South Bohemia	Cultural	1992
Historic Centre of Prague	Central Bohemia	Cultural	1992
Historic Centre of Telč	Bohemian-Moravian Highlands	Cultural	1992
Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora	South Moravia	Cultural	1994
Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec	Central Bohemia	Cultural	1995
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape	South Moravia	Cultural	1996
Holasovice Historical Village Reservation	South Bohemia	Cultural	1998
Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž	South Moravia	Cultural	1998
Litomyšl Castle	East Bohemia	Cultural	1999
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc	North Moravia	Cultural	2000
Tugendhat Villa in Brno	South Moravia	Cultural	2001
The Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica in Třebíč	Bohemian-Moravian Highlands	Cultural	2003

Denmark

For sites in Greenland (officially listed under Denmark), see the #Greenland table below

Kronborg Castle, Elsinore

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church	East Jutland	Cultural	1994
Roskilde Cathedral	West Zealand	Cultural	1995
Kronborg Castle in Elsinore	North Zealand	Cultural	2000
Stevns Klint	South Zealand	Natural	2014
Wadden Sea	South Jutland	Natural	2014	Extended to Denmark in 2014, shared with Germany and Netherlands
Christiansfeld, a Moravian Church Settlement	Kolding	Cultural	2015
The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand	North Zealand	Cultural	2015

Estonia

Tallinn, Estonia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn	North Estonia	Cultural	1997
Struve Geodetic Arc		Cultural	2005	shared with Belarus, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine

Finland

Suomenlinna, Finland

Old Rauma

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Fortress of Suomenlinna, Helsinki	Southern Finland	Cultural	1991
Old Rauma	Western Finland	Cultural	1991
Petäjävesi Old Church	Western Finland	Cultural	1994
Verla Groundwood and Board Mill, Jaala	Southern Finland	Cultural	1996
Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki, near Rauma	Western Finland	Cultural	1999
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago	Ostrobothnia	Natural	2000
Struve Geodetic Arc		Cultural	2005	shared with Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine

France

Mont-Saint Michel and its Bay, France

Throne room, Fontainebleau Castle

Saltworks of Franche-Comté

Banks of the Seine, France

Fortified city of Carcassone

Azay le Rideau, Loire Valley

Bordeaux

Albi

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Chartres Cathedral	Centre-Val de Loire	Cultural	1979
Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay	Lower Normandy	Cultural	1979
Palace and Park of Versailles	Île-de-France	Cultural	1979
Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley	Dordogne	Cultural	1979
Vézelay, Church and Hill	Burgundy	Cultural	1979
Amiens Cathedral	Picardy	Cultural	1981
Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments	Bouches-du-Rhône	Cultural	1981
Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay	Burgundy	Cultural	1981
Palace and Park of Fontainebleau	Île-de-France	Cultural	1981
Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange	Vaucluse	Cultural	1981
From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt	Franche-Comté	Cultural	1982
Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe	Vienne	Cultural	1983
Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve	Corsica	Natural	1983
Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy	Lorraine	Cultural	1983
Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)	Languedoc-Roussillon	Cultural	1985
Strasbourg - Grande île	Alsace	Cultural	1988
Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Palace of Tau, Reims	Champagne-Ardenne	Cultural	1991
Paris, Banks of the Seine	Île-de-France	Cultural	1991
Bourges Cathedral	Centre-Val de Loire	Cultural	1992
Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge	Vaucluse	Cultural	1995
Canal du Midi	Midi-Pyrenees, Languedoc-Roussillon: from Toulouse to Sète	Cultural	1996	part of a network of navigable waterways linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne	Aude	Cultural	1997
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu	Midi-Pyrenees	Mixed	1997	shared with Spain
Historic Site of Lyons	Rhône	Cultural	1998
Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France		Cultural	1998
Belfries of Belgium and France		Cultural	1999	23 belfries in France
Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion	Aquitaine	Cultural	1999
The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes	Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire	Cultural	2000
Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs	Île-de-France	Cultural	2001
Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret	Haute-Normandie	Cultural	2005
Bordeaux, Port of the Moon	Aquitaine	Cultural	2007
Fortifications of Vauban		Cultural	2008	12 groups of fortified buildings and sites along the western, northern and eastern borders of France.
Episcopal City of Albi	Midi-Pyrenees, Tarn	Cultural	2010
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps	Haute-Savoie	Cultural	2011	shared with Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia
The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean Agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape		Cultural	2011
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin	Nord-Pas de Calais	Cultural	2012	site consists of 109 separate components over 120,000 ha
Decorated cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche	Ardèche	Cultural	2014
Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars	Épernay, Reims	Cultural	2015
Climats, terroirs of Burgundy	Dijon, Beaune	Cultural	2015
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement	Paris, Pessac, Marseille, Île-de-France, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Franche-Comté, Menton, Firminy	Cultural	2016	17 sites, shared with Argentina, Belgium, Germany, India, Japan and Switzerland
Chaine des Puys - Limagne fault tectonic arena	Auvergne	Natural	2018

Georgia

Historical Monuments of Mtskheta, Georgia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery	Rioni Region	Cultural	1994	in danger
Historical Monuments of Mtskheta	Kartli	Cultural	1994	in danger
Upper Svaneti	Northwestern Georgia	Cultural	1996

Germany

Aachen Cathedral

Church of Saint Michael, Hildesheim, Germany

Lübeck: Holstentor, Germany

Cologne Cathedral, Germany

Old Stralsund

Middle Rhine Valley: View from castle Schönburg to Oberwesel

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe: View towards Kassel

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Aachen Cathedral	North Rhine-Westphalia, Eifel	Cultural	1978
Speyer Cathedral	Rhineland-Palatinate	Cultural	1981
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square	Bavaria, Lower Franconia	Cultural	1981
Pilgrimage Church of Wies	Bavaria, Bavarian Swabia, Steingaden	Cultural	1983
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl	North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne Lowland	Cultural	1984
St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim	Lower Saxony, Hanover Region	Cultural	1985
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier	Rhineland-Palatinate	Cultural	1986
Frontiers of the Roman Empire	Hesse, Bad Homburg	Cultural	1987 (2005)	Shared with UK, The two sections of the Limes in Germany cover a length of 550 km from the north-west of the country to the Danube in the south-east.
Hanseatic City of Lübeck	Schleswig-Holstein	Cultural	1987
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin	Berlin	Cultural	1990
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch	Hesse	Cultural	1991
Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System	Lower Saxony	Cultural	1992
Maulbronn Monastery Complex	Baden-Württemberg, Pforzheim	Cultural	1993
Old Town of Bamberg	Bavaria, Franconia	Cultural	1993
Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg	Saxony-Anhalt	Cultural	1994
Völklingen Ironworks	Saarland	Cultural	1994
Messel Pit Fossil Site	Hesse	Natural	1995
Cologne Cathedral	North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne Lowland	Cultural	1996
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau	Thuringia; Saxony-Anhalt	Cultural	1996
Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg	Saxony-Anhalt	Cultural	1996
Classical Weimar	Thuringia	Cultural	1998
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin	Berlin	Cultural	1999
Wartburg Castle	Thuringia, Eisenach	Cultural	1999
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz	Saxony-Anhalt	Cultural	2000
Monastic Island of Reichenau	Baden-Württemberg	Cultural	2000
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen	North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr	Cultural	2001
Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Cultural	2002
Upper Middle Rhine Valley	Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse, between Koblenz and Bingen / Rüdesheim	Cultural	2002
Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski	Saxony, Upper Lusatia	Cultural	2004	shared with Poland
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen	Bremen	Cultural	2004
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof	Bavaria, Upper Palatinate	Cultural	2006
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates	Berlin	Cultural	2008
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Thuringia and Hesse	Natural	2007	enlarged in 2011 and 2017, shared with 11 other European countries
The Wadden Sea	along the coast of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, including the East and North Frisian Islands	Natural	2009	shared with Netherlands, in 2014 extended to Denmark
Fagus Factory in Alfeld	Lower Saxony	Cultural	2011
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps	Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria	Cultural	2011	shared with Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth	Bavaria, Franconia	Cultural	2012
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe	North Hesse	Cultural	2013
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey	Teutoburg Forest	Cultural	2014
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus	Hamburg	Cultural	2015
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement	Stuttgart	Cultural	2016	17 sites, shared with Argentina, Belgium, France, India, Japan and Switzerland
Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura	Swabian Mountains	Cultural	2017
Archaeological Border complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke	Schleswig	Cultural	2018
Naumburg Cathedral	Saxony Anhalt	Cultural	2018

Gibraltar

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Gorham's Cave Complex	Gibraltar	Cultural	2016

Greece

Acropolis, Athens

Mt Athos

Pythagoeion, Samos

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae	Peloponnese	Cultural	1986
Archaeological Site of Delphi	Central Greece	Cultural	1987
Acropolis, Athens	Attica	Cultural	1986
Medieval City of Rhodes	Greek Islands	Cultural	1988
Meteora	Thessaly, Greece	Mixed	1988
Mount Athos	Northern Greece	Mixed	1988
Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessaloniki	Northern Greece	Cultural	1988
Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus	Nafplio	Cultural	1988
Archaeological Site of Mystras	Peloponnese	Cultural	1989
Archaeological Site of Olympia	Peloponnese	Cultural	1989
Delos, Cyclades	Greek Islands	Cultural	1990
Monasteries of Daphni, Hossios Luckas and Nea Moni of Chios		Cultural	1990
Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos	Greek Islands	Cultural	1992
Archaeological Site of Aigai (modern name Vergina)	Macedonia (Greece)	Cultural	1996
Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns	Peloponnese	Cultural	1999
Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint John, Pátmos	Greek Islands	Cultural	1999
Old Town of Corfu	Greek Islands	Cultural	2007
Archaeological Site of Philippi	East Macedonia	Cultural	2016

Hungary

Budapest

Hortobágy National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue	Central Hungary	Cultural	1987
Old Village of Hollókő and its Surroundings	Northern Hungary	Cultural	1987
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst	Northern Hungary	Natural	1995	shared with Slovakia
Millenary Benedictine Monastery of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment	Transdanubia	Cultural	1996
Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta	Great Hungarian Plain	Cultural	1999
Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae)	Transdanubia	Cultural	2000
Fertő / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape	Transdanubia	Cultural	2001	shared with Austria
Tokaj Wine Region Cultural Landscape	Northern Hungary	Cultural	2002

Iceland

Þingvellir National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Þingvellir National Park	South Iceland	Cultural	2004
Surtsey	South Iceland	Natural	2008

Ireland

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne	East Coast and Midlands	Cultural	1993
Sceilg Mhichíl	Southwest Ireland	Cultural	1996

Italy

Piazza del Duomo, Pisa, Italy

Venice and its Lagoon, Italy

Trulli of Alberobello, Italy

Pompeii

Cinque Terre

The Basilica of Aquileia

Villa d'Este, Tivoli

Syracuse

The Dolomites

Mt Etna

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica	Lombardy	Cultural	1979
Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by "Leonardo da Vinci" in Milan	Lombardy	Cultural	1979
Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights, and San Paolo Fuori le Mura	Lazio, Rome	Cultural	1980	shared with Vatican
Historic Centre of Florence	Tuscany	Cultural	1982
Piazza del Duomo, Pisa	Tuscany	Cultural	1987
Venice and its Lagoon	Veneto	Cultural	1987
Historic Centre of San Gimignano	Tuscany	Cultural	1990
The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera	Basilicata	Cultural	1993
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto	Veneto	Cultural	1994
Crespi d'Adda	Lombardy	Cultural	1995
Ferrara, City of the Renaissance and its Po Delta	Emilia-Romagna	Cultural	1995
Historic Centre of Naples	Campania	Cultural	1995
Historic Centre of Siena	Tuscany	Cultural	1995
Castel del Monte	Andria	Cultural	1996
Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna	Emilia-Romagna	Cultural	1996
Historic Centre of the City of Pienza	Tuscany	Cultural	1996
The Trulli of Alberobello	Apulia	Cultural	1996
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and the San Leucio Complex	Campania	Cultural	1997
Archaeological Area of Agrigento	Sicily	Cultural	1997
Archaeological Areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Torre Annunziata	Campania	Cultural	1997
Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua	Veneto	Cultural	1997
Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena	Emilia-Romagna	Cultural	1997
Costiera Amalfitana	Campania	Cultural	1997
Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)	Liguria	Cultural	1997
Residences of the Royal House of Savoy	Piedmont, in and around Turin	Cultural	1997
Su Nuraxi di Barumini	Sardinia	Cultural	1997	a special type of defensive structure known as nuraghi
Villa Romana del Casale	Sicily, Piazza Armerina	Cultural	1997
Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Cultural	1998
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula	Campania	Cultural	1998
Historic Centre of Urbino	Marche	Cultural	1998
Villa Adriana, Tivoli	Lazio	Cultural	1999
Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites	Umbria	Cultural	2000
City of Verona	Veneto	Cultural	2000
Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)	Sicily, Messina	Natural	2000
Villa d'Este, Tivoli	Lazio	Cultural	2001
Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-eastern Sicily)	Sicily: Noto, Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli	Cultural	2002
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy	Piedmont and Lombardy	Cultural	2003
Monte San Giorgio	Lombardy	Natural	2003	shared with Switzerland
Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia	Lazio	Cultural	2004
Val d'Orcia	Tuscany	Cultural	2004
Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica	Sicily	Cultural	2005
Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli	Liguria	Cultural	2006
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe		Natural	2007	enlarged in 2011 and 2017, shared with 11 other European countries
Mantua and Sabbioneta	Lombardy	Cultural	2008
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula /Bernina Landscapes	Lombardy	Cultural	2008	shared with Switzerland
The Dolomites	Trentino-Alto Adige	Natural	2009
Longobards in Italy, Places of Power (568–774 A.D.)	Brescia, Cividale del Friuli (province of Udine), Castelseprio (province of Varese), Spoleto and Campello sul Clitunno (province of Perugia), Benevento (in Campania) and Monte Sant'Angelo (province of Foggia)	Cultural	2011	Monasteries, churches and fortresses associated with the Longobards who settled in Italy in that period of time.
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps		Cultural	2011	shared with Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Slovenia
Medici Villas and Gardens	Tuscany	Cultural	2013
Mount Etna	Sicily	Natural	2013
The Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato	Northwest Italy	Cultural	2014
Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale	Sicily	Cultural	2015
Venetian Works of Defence between 15th and 17th centuries: Stato da Terra – western Stato da Mar	Bergamo, Peschiera del Garda, Palmanova	Cultural	2017	6 sites, shared with Croatia and Montenegro
Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century	Piedmont	Cultural	2018

Kosovo

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Medieval Monuments in Kosovo	Gračanica (Kosovo), Peja, Prizren, Deçan	Cultural	2004	in danger

Latvia

Town square, Riga

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Centre of Riga	Riga region	Cultural	1997
Struve Geodetic Arc		Cultural	2005	shared with Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine

Lithuania

Curonian Spit

Struve Geodetic Arc

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Vilnius Historic Centre	Dzūkija	Cultural	1994
Curonian Spit	Lithuania Minor	Cultural	2000	shared with Russia
Kernavė Archaeological Site (Cultural Reserve of Kernavė)	Dzūkija	Cultural	2004
Struve Geodetic Arc	Aukštaitija, Dzūkija	Cultural	2005	shared with Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine

Luxembourg

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications	Luxembourg	Cultural	1994

Malta

Valletta

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
City of Valletta	Malta Island	Cultural	1980
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum	Malta Island	Cultural	1980
Megalithic Temples of Malta	Malta Island, Gozo	Cultural	1980

Moldova

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Struve Geodetic Arc		Cultural	2005	shared with Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine

Montenegro

Durmitor National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Durmitor National Park	North Montenegrin Mountains	Natural	1980
Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor	Bay of Kotor	Cultural	1979
Stećci Medieval Tombstones Graveyards		Cultural	2016	28 sites, shared with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia
Venetian Works of Defence between 15th and 17th centuries: Stato da Terra – western Stato da Mar	Kotor	Cultural	2017	6 sites, shared with Croatia and Italy

Netherlands

Kinderdijk

The canals of Amsterdam

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Defence Line of Amsterdam	North Holland and Utrecht	Cultural	1996
Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder)	Beemster	Cultural	1999
Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao	Curaçao	Cultural	1997	Officially listed under the Netherlands
Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station)	Lemmer	Cultural	1998
Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout	Kinderdijk	Cultural	1997
Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House)	Utrecht	Cultural	2000
Schokland and Surroundings	Noordoostpolder	Cultural	1995
Seventeenth-century canal ring area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht	Amsterdam	Cultural	2010
Van Nellefabriek	Rotterdam	Cultural	2014
The Wadden Sea	West Frisian Islands, Hogeland coast and Frisian coast	Natural	2009	shared with Germany and since 2014 with Denmark

North Macedonia

Ohrid Region, North Macedonia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region	Western North Macedonia	Mixed	1979

Norway

Bryggen

West Norwegian Fjords

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Bryggen	Bergen	Cultural	1979
Urnes Stave Church	Luster	Cultural	1979
Rock Art of Alta	Northern Norway	Cultural	1985
Vegaøyan - The Vega Archipelago	Northern Norway	Cultural	2004
Røros Mining Town and the Circumference	Middle Norway	Cultural	1980
Struve Geodetic Arc		Cultural	2005	shared with Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine
West Norwegian Fjords - Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord		Natural	2005
Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site	Telemark	Cultural	2015

Poland

Krakow's Historic Centre

Historic Centre of Warsaw, Poland

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Białowieża Forest	Podlachia	Natural	1979	shared with Belarus, extended in 2014
Krakow's Historic Centre	Lesser Poland	Cultural	1978
Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines	Lesser Poland	Cultural	1978, extension 2013
Auschwitz Birkenau: German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)	Lesser Poland	Cultural	1979
Historic Centre of Warsaw	Masovia	Cultural	1980
Old City of Zamość	Lesser Poland	Cultural	1992
Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork	Pomerania	Cultural	1997
Medieval Town of Toruń	Pomerania	Cultural	1997
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park	Lesser Poland	Cultural	1999
Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica	Silesia	Cultural	2001
Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland	Lesser Poland	Cultural	2003
Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski	Greater Poland	Cultural	2004	shared with Germany
Centennial Hall in Wrocław	Silesia	Cultural	2006
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine	Lesser Poland, Subcarpathia	Cultural	2013	shared with Ukraine
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System	Silesian Voivodeship	Cultural	2017

Portugal

Belém Tower

Alto Douro Wine Region, Portugal

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroísmo in the Azores	Azores, Terceira	Cultural	1983
Convent of Christ in Tomar	Alentejo	Cultural	1983
Monastery of Batalha	Central Portugal	Cultural	1983
Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belem in Lisbon	Lisbon Region	Cultural	1983
Historic Centre of Évora	Central Portugal	Cultural	1986
Monastery of Alcobaça	Alentejo	Cultural	1989
Cultural Landscape of Sintra	Lisbon Region	Cultural	1995
Historic Centre of Oporto	Northern Portugal	Cultural	1996
Prehistoric Rock-Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde	Alentejo	Cultural	1998	shared with Spain
Laurisilva of Madeira	Madeira	Natural	1999
Alto Douro Wine Region	Northern Portugal	Cultural	2001
Historic Centre of Guimarães	Northern Portugal	Cultural	2001
Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture	Azores	Cultural	2004
Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications	Central Portugal	Cultural	2012
University of Coimbra – Alta and Sofia	Central Portugal	Cultural	2013

Romania

Danube Delta

Villages with fortified churches in Transsylvania

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Danube Delta	Dobruja	Natural	1991
Churches of Moldavia	Moldavia	Cultural	1993	including some of the Painted Monasteries
Monastery of Horezu	Oltenia	Cultural	1993
Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania	Transylvania	Cultural	1993
Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains	Transylvania	Cultural	1999	see also Sarmizegetusa
Historic Centre of Sighişoara	Transylvania	Cultural	1999
Wooden Churches of Maramureş	Maramureş	Cultural	1999
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe		Natural	2007	enlarged in 2011 and 2017, shared with 11 other European countries

Russia

Kremlin and Red Square, Russia

Virgin Komi forests

Kazan Kremlin

Jaroslavl's Historic Centre

See also the list of Russian sites in Asia.

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments	Northwestern Russia	Cultural	1990
Kizhi Pogost	Northwestern Russia	Cultural	1990
Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow	Central Russia	Cultural	1990
Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands	Northwestern Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast	Cultural	1992
Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings	Northwestern Russia	Cultural	1992
White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal	Central Russia	Cultural	1992
Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad	Central Russia	Cultural	1993
Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye	Central Russia, Moscow Oblast	Cultural	1994
Virgin Komi Forests	Northwestern Russia, Komi Republic	Natural	1995
Western Caucasus	Southern Russia	Natural	1999
Curonian Spit	Kaliningrad Oblast	Cultural	2000	shared with Lithuania
Ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery	Northwestern Russia, Vologda Oblast, Ferapontovo	Cultural	2000
Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin	Volga Region, Tatarstan	Cultural	2000
Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent	Southern Russia, Dagestan	Cultural	2003
Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent	Central Russia	Cultural	2004
Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl	Central Russia,	Cultural	2005
Struve Geodetic Arc	Gogland Island	Cultural	2005	shared with Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Sweden, Ukraine
Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex	Tatarstan	Cultural	2014
Assumption Cathedral and Monastery of the town-island of Sviyazhsk	Tatarstan	Cultural	2017

San Marino

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
San Marino Historic Centre and Monte Titano		Cultural	2008

Serbia

Studenica Monastery

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Stari Ras and Sopocani	Novi Pazar	Cultural	1979
Studenica Monastery	Šumadija	Cultural	1986
Medieval Monuments in Kosovo	Gračanica (Kosovo), Peja, Prizren, Deçan	Cultural	2004	in danger
Gamzigrad-Romuliana, Palace of Galerius	Podunavlje	Cultural	2007
Stećci Medieval Tombstones Graveyards		Cultural	2016	28 sites, shared with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro

Slovakia

Banska Stiavnica

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity	Central Slovakia	Cultural	1993
Levoča, Spišský Hrad and the Associated Cultural Monuments	Eastern Slovakia	Cultural	1993
Vlkolínec	Central Slovakia	Cultural	1993
Caves of the Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst	Eastern Slovakia	Natural	1995	shared with Hungary
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve	Eastern Slovakia	Cultural	2000
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe		Natural	2007	enlarged in 2011 and 2017, shared with 11 other European countries
Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area		Cultural	2008	List consist of two Roman Catholic, three Protestant and three Greek Orthodox churches built between the 16th and 18th centuries.

Slovenia

Skojcan Caves

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Skocjan Caves	Coast and Karst near Divača	Natural	1986
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe		Natural	2007	enlarged in 2011 and 2017, shared with 11 other European countries
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps		Cultural	2011	shared with Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Italy
Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija	Julian Alps	Cultural	2012	shared with Spain

Spain

Alhambra

Old town of Segovia and its Aqueduct

Historic City of Toledo, Spain

Poblet Monastery

Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula

Archeological Ensemble of Tárraco

Vizcaya Bridge

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzin, Granada	Andalusia	Cultural	1984
Burgos Cathedral	Castile-Leon	Cultural	1984
Historic Centre of Cordoba	Andalusia	Cultural	1984
Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid	Community of Madrid	Cultural	1984
Works of Antoni Gaudí	Catalonia	Cultural	1984
Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain	Cantabria	Cultural	1985
Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias	Asturias	Cultural	1985
Old Town of Ávila, with its Extra-Muros churches	Castile-Leon	Cultural	1985
Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct	Castile-Leon	Cultural	1985
Santiago de Compostela (Old Town)	Galicia	Cultural	1985
La Palma	Canary Islands	Natural	2002
Garajonay National Park	La Gomera (Canary Islands)	Natural	1986
Historic City of Toledo	Castile-La Mancha	Cultural	1986
Mudejar Architecture of Aragon	Aragon	Cultural	1986
Old Town of Cáceres	Extremadura	Cultural	1986
Cathedral, Alcazar and Archivo de Indias in Seville	Andalusia	Cultural	1987
Old City of Salamanca	Castile-Leon	Cultural	1988
Poblet Monastery	Catalonia	Cultural	1991
Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida	Extremadura	Cultural	1993
Route to Santiago de Compostela		Cultural	1993
Historic Walled Town of Cuenca	Castile-La Mancha	Cultural	1996
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia	Valencia	Cultural	1996
Las Médulas	Castile-Leon	Cultural	1997
Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona	Catalonia	Cultural	1997
Pyrénées: Mont Perdu	Aragon	Mixed	1997	shared with France
San Millán Yuso and Suso Monasteries	La Rioja	Cultural	1997
Prehistoric Rock-Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde	Extremadura	Cultural	1998	shared with Portugal
Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula	Andalusia, Aragón, Castille-La Mancha, Catalonia, Murcia and Valencia	Cultural	1998
University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares	Community of Madrid	Cultural	1998
Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture	Balearic Islands	Mixed	1999
San Cristóbal de La Laguna	Canary Islands	Cultural	1999
Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco	Catalonia	Cultural	2000
Archaeological Site of Atapuerca	Castile-Leon	Cultural	2000
Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí	Catalonia	Cultural	2000
Palmeral of Elche	Valencia	Cultural	2000
Roman Walls of Lugo	Galicia	Cultural	2000
Aranjuez Cultural Landscape	Community of Madrid	Cultural	2001
Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza	Jaén, Andalusia	Cultural	2003
Vizcaya Bridge	Basque Country, Bilbao	Cultural	2006
Teide National Park	Canary Islands	Natural	2007
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe		Natural	2007	enlarged in 2011 and 2017, shared with 11 other European countries
Tower of Hercules	Galicia	Cultural	2009
Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana	Balearic Islands	Cultural	2011
Heritage of Mercury Almadén and Idrija	Castile-La Mancha	Cultural	2012	shared with Slovenia
Antequera Dolmens Site	Andalusia	Cultural	2016
Caliphate City of Medina Azahara	Córdoba (province, Spain)	Cultural	2018

Sweden

Drottningholm Castle

Hanseatic town of Visby

Decorated farmhouses of Hälsingland

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Royal Domain of Drottningholm	Ekerö (Stockholm)	Cultural	1991
Birka and Hovgården	Stockholm, Ekerö in lake Mälaren	Cultural	1993
Engelsberg Ironworks	Västmanland, Fagersta	Cultural	1993
Rock Carvings in Tanum	Bohuslän	Cultural	1994
Skogskyrkogården	Stockholm/Söderort	Cultural	1994	(The Woodland Cemetery)
Hanseatic town of Visby	Gotland	Cultural	1995
Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå	Norrbotten	Cultural	1996
Laponian Area	Lapland	Mixed	1996
Naval Port of Karlskrona	Blekinge	Cultural	1998
Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland	Öland	Cultural	2000
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago	Ångermanland	Natural	2000	shared with Finland
Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun	Svealand	Cultural	2001
Varberg Radio Station	Halland	Cultural	2004
Struve Geodetic Arc		Cultural	2005	shared with Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Ukraine
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland	Hälsingland	Cultural	2012

Switzerland

Old city of Berne

Vineyard Terraces of Lavaux

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Benedictine Convent of St. John at Müstair	Graubünden	Cultural	1983
Convent of St. Gall	Northeastern Switzerland	Cultural	1983
Old City of Berne	Berne Region	Cultural	1983
Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-town of Bellinzona	Ticino	Cultural	2000
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch	Bernese Highlands, Valais	Natural	2001
Monte San Giorgio	Ticino, near Lugano	Natural	2003	shared with Italy
Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces	Lake Geneva	Cultural	2007
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes	Graubünden	Cultural	2008	shared with Italy
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona	Northeastern Switzerland	Natural	2008
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning	Jura Mountains and Fribourg	Cultural	2009
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps	Swiss Alps	Cultural	2011	shared with Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement	Geneva, Corseaux	Cultural	2016	17 sites, shared with Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India and Japan

Ukraine

Saint Sofia Cathedral, Kiev

Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Kiev: Saint Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra	Central Ukraine	Cultural	1990
Lviv - the Ensemble of the Historic Center	Western Ukraine	Cultural	1998
Struve Geodetic Arc	Western Ukraine	Cultural	2005	shared with Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe	Western Ukraine, around Rakhiv	Natural	2007	enlarged in 2011 and 2017, shared with 11 other European countries
Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans	Western Ukraine, Chernivtsi	Cultural	2005
Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora	Crimea, Sevastopol	Cultural	2013
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine	Western Ukraine	Cultural	2013	shared with Poland

United Kingdom

Harlech Castle

Durham Castle and Cathedral

The Palace of Westminster

Durdle Door on the Jurassic Coast, Dorset

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd	North Wales	Cultural	1986	Caernarfon Castle, Conwy Castle, Beaumaris Castle & Harlech Castle
Durham Castle and Cathedral	Durham	Cultural	1986
Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast	County Antrim	Natural	1986
Ironbridge Gorge	Telford	Cultural	1986
St Kilda	Outer Hebrides	Mixed	1986
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites	Wiltshire	Cultural	1986
Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey	North Yorkshire near Ripon and Harrogate	Cultural	1986
Blenheim Palace	Oxfordshire	Cultural	1987
City of Bath	Somerset	Cultural	1987
Frontiers of the Roman Empire	Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear	Cultural	1987	shared with Germany
Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church	London/Westminster	Cultural	1987
Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church	Canterbury	Cultural	1987
Tower of London	London	Cultural	1988
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh	Edinburgh	Cultural	1995
Maritime Greenwich	London/Greenwich	Cultural	1997
Heart of Neolithic Orkney	Orkney Islands	Cultural	1999
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape	South Wales	Cultural	2000
Derwent Valley Mills, Belper and Cromford	Derbyshire	Cultural	2001
Jurassic Coast	Devon and Dorset	Natural	2001
New Lanark	Clydesdale, near Glasgow	Cultural	2001
Saltaire	Bradford	Cultural	2001
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	London/Richmond-Kew	Cultural	2003
Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City	Liverpool	Cultural	2004	in danger
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape	West Country	Cultural	2006
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal	Chirk	Cultural	2009
The Forth Bridge	South Queensferry	Cultural	2015
The English Lake District	Cumbria	Cultural	2017

Vatican City

Vatican City

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura	Rome	Cultural	1980	shared with Italy
Vatican City	Rome	Cultural	1984	The only entire country to be UNESCO-listed

North America

Antigua and Barbuda

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Antigua Naval Dockyard and Related Archaeological Sites	English Harbour	Cultural	2016

Barbados

Historic Bridgetown

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison	Bridgetown	Cultural	2011

Belize

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System	Toledo, Stann Creek and Belize District, Belize	Natural	1996	Listed as in danger since 2009

Bermuda

Historic town of St George

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda	Saint George	Cultural	2000	Officially listed under the United Kingdom

Canada

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (Banff National Park), Canada

Old town, Quebec City

Rideau Canal, downtown Ottawa

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site	St. Anthony, Newfoundland	Cultural	1978
Nahanni National Park	Northwest Territories	Natural	1978
Dinosaur Provincial Park	Alberta badlands, near Brooks	Natural	1979
Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek	Kluane National Park and Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park	Natural	1979	Extended in 1992 and 1994; shared with the United States of America
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump	near Fort Macleod	Cultural	1981
SGang Gwaay	Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve	Cultural	1981
Wood Buffalo National Park	Peace River Valley	Natural	1983
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks	Banff National Park | Hamber Provincial Park | Jasper National Park | Kootenay National Park | Mount Robson Provincial Park | Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park | Yoho National Park	Natural	1984
Historic District of Old Québec	Quebec City	Cultural	1985
Gros Morne National Park	Western Newfoundland	Natural	1987
Old Town Lunenburg	Lunenburg	Cultural	1995
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park	Waterton Lakes National Park	Natural	1995	Shared with the United States of America
Miguasha National Park	Gaspé Peninsula	Natural	1999
Rideau Canal and Fortifications	Eastern Ontario	Cultural	2007
Joggins Fossil Cliffs	Cumberland County	Natural	2008
Landscape of Grand Pré	Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia	Cultural	2012
Red Bay Basque Whaling Station	Red Bay, Labrador	Cultural	2013
Mistaken Point	Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland	Natural	2016
Pimachiowin Aki	Northern Ontario, Eastern Manitoba	Mixed	2018

Costa Rica

La Amistad International Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park	La Amistad International Park	Natural	1983	Extended in 1990; shared with Panama
Cocos Island National Park	Cocos Island	Natural	1997	Extended in 2002
Area de Conservación Guanacaste	Guanacaste	Natural	1999	Extended in 2004
Precolumbian chiefdom settlements with stone spheres of the Diquís	South Pacific Costa Rica	Cultural	2014

Cuba

Old Havana

Viñales Valley

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Old Havana and its Fortifications	Havana	Cultural	1982
Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios	Trinidad and Sancti Spíritus	Cultural	1988
San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba	Santiago de Cuba Province	Cultural	1997
Desembarco del Granma National Park	Granma	Natural	1999
Viñales Valley	Viñales	Cultural	1999
Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba	Sierra Maestra	Cultural	2000
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park	Holguin and Guantánamo Provinces	Natural	2001
Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos	Cienfuegos	Cultural	2005
Historic Centre of Camagüey	Camagüey	Cultural	2008

Curaçao

Willemstad

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao	Willemstad	Cultural	1997	Officially listed under the Netherlands

Dominica

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Morne Trois Pitons National Park	Dominica	Natural	1997

Dominican Republic

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Colonial City of Santo Domingo	Santo Domingo	Cultural	1990

El Salvador

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site	La Libertad	Cultural	1993

Greenland

Ilulissat Icefjord

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Ilulissat Icefjord	Ilulissat	Natural	2004	Officially listed under Denmark
Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap	Southern Greenland	Cultural	2004	Officially listed under Denmark. Made up of 5 components.
Aasivissuit – Nipisat. Inuit Hunting Ground between Ice and Sea	Western Greenland	Cultural	2018	Officially listed under Denmark

Guatemala

Tikal National Park, Guatemala

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Antigua Guatemala	Antigua Guatemala	Cultural	1979
Tikal National Park	Tikal	Mixed	1979
Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua	Quirigua	Cultural	1981

Haiti

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers	Milot	Cultural	1982

Honduras

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Maya Site of Copan	Copán Ruinas	Cultural	1980
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve	Caribbean Honduras	Natural	1982	Listed as in danger since 2011

Jamaica

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Blue and John Crow Mountains	Blue Mountains	Mixed	2015

Mexico

Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque, Mexico

El Tajin, Mexico

Archeological zone of Paquimé

Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco	Centro Historico, Mexico City and Xochimilco	Cultural	1987
Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán	Oaxaca and Monte Alban	Cultural	1987
Historic Centre of Puebla	Puebla	Cultural	1987
Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque	Palenque	Cultural	1987
Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan	Teotihuacan	Cultural	1987
Sian Ka'an	Quintana Roo	Natural	1987
Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines	Guanajuato	Cultural	1988
Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza	Chichen Itza	Cultural	1988
Historic Centre of Morelia	Morelia	Cultural	1991
El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City	El Tajin	Cultural	1992
Historic Centre of Zacatecas	Zacatecas	Cultural	1993
Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco	Baja California Sur	Cultural	1993
Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino	Baja California Sur	Natural	1993
Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl	Puebla and Morelos States	Cultural	1994
Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro	Querétaro	Cultural	1996
Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal	Uxmal	Cultural	1996
Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara	Guadalajara	Cultural	1997
Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes	Chihuahua State	Cultural	1998
Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan	Veracruz	Cultural	1998
Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco	Morelos State	Cultural	1999
Historic Fortified Town of Campeche	Campeche	Cultural	1999
Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche	Campeche State	Mixed	2002	Cultural heritage since 2002, extended to mixed in 2014
Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro	Querétaro State	Cultural	2003
Luis Barragán House and Studio	Mexico City/Chapultepec	Cultural	2004
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California	Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa and Nayarit States	Natural	2005
Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila	Tequila	Cultural	2006
Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico City/Coyoacán	Cultural	2007
Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve	Angangueo	Natural	2008
Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco	San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato	Cultural	2008
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro	Mexico	Cultural	2010
Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valley of Oaxaca	Oaxaca State	Cultural	2010
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve	Sonora	Natural	2013
Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System	Hidalgo and Mexico State	Cultural	2015
Archipiélago de Revillagigedo	Colima	Natural	2016
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica	Oaxaca (state), Puebla (state)	Mixed	2018

Nicaragua

León Cathedral

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Ruins of León Viejo	near León	Cultural	2000
León Cathedral	León	Cultural	2011

Panama

Collared Aracari, Darien National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo	Portobelo and San Lorenzo	Cultural	1980	Listed as in danger since 2012
Darien National Park	Eastern Panama	Natural	1981
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park	La Amistad International Park	Natural	1983	Extended in 1990; shared with Costa Rica
Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá	Panama City	Cultural	1997	Extended in 2003
Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection	Coiba National Marine Park	Natural	2005

Puerto Rico

San Juan National Historic Site

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico	San Juan	Cultural	1983	Officially listed under the United States of America

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Brimstone Hill

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park	Saint Kitts	Cultural	1999

Saint Lucia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Pitons Management Area	near Soufriere	Natural	2004

United States of America

Yellowstone National Park, United States

Independence Hall, United States

Statue of Liberty

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Mesa Verde National Park	Colorado	Cultural	1978
Yellowstone National Park	Wyoming	Natural	1978
Everglades National Park	Florida	Natural	1979	in danger since 2010
Grand Canyon National Park	Arizona	Natural	1979
Independence Hall	Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Old City	Cultural	1979
Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek	Alaska	Natural	1979	Extended in 1992 and 1994; shared with Canada
Redwood National and State Parks	California	Natural	1980
Mammoth Cave National Park	Kentucky	Natural	1981
Olympic National Park	Washington	Natural	1981
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site	Illinois	Cultural	1982
Great Smoky Mountains National Park	Tennessee and North Carolina	Natural	1983
Statue of Liberty	New York City, Financial District	Cultural	1984
Yosemite National Park	California	Natural	1984
Chaco Culture	New Mexico	Cultural	1987
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	Hawaii, Big Island	Natural	1987
Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville	Virginia	Cultural	1987
Taos Pueblo	New Mexico, Taos	Cultural	1992
Carlsbad Caverns National Park	New Mexico	Natural	1995
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park	Montana, Glacier National Park	Natural	1995	shared with Canada
Papahānaumokuākea	Hawaii	Mixed	2010
Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point	North Louisiana	Cultural	2014
San Antonio Missions	Texas	Cultural	2015

Oceania

Australia

Australian Convict Sites

Greater Blue Mountains Area

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte)	Riversleigh and Naracoorte	Natural	1992
Australian Convict Sites	New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Tasmania and Western Australia	Cultural	2010
Fraser Island	Queensland	Natural	1992
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia	Queensland and New South Wales	Natural	1986
Great Barrier Reef	Queensland	Natural	1981
Greater Blue Mountains Area	Blue Mountains	Natural	2000
Heard and McDonald Islands	Heard and McDonald Islands	Natural	1997
Kakadu National Park	Top End	Mixed	1981
Lord Howe Island Group	Lord Howe Island	Natural	1982
Macquarie Island	Tasmania	Natural	1997
Ningaloo Reef	Exmouth and Coral Bay	Natural	2011
Purnululu National Park	Kimberley	Natural	2003
Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens	Melbourne/Inner north	Cultural	2004
Shark Bay	Gascoyne	Natural	1991
Sydney Opera House	Sydney	Cultural	2007
Tasmanian Wilderness	Tasmania	Mixed	1982
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park	Northern Territory	Mixed	1987
Wet Tropics of Queensland	Queensland	Natural	1988
Willandra Lakes Region	New South Wales	Mixed	1981

Easter Island

Rapa Nui National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Rapa Nui National Park	Easter Island	Cultural	1995

Fiji

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Levuka Historical Port Town	Ovalau	Cultural	2013

French Polynesia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Taputapuātea	Raiatea	Cultural	2017	Categorised as part of France

Hawaii

Hawaiian squirrelfish, Papahānaumokuākea

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	Big Island	Natural	1987	Categorised as part of the United States
Papahanaumokuakea	Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (past Niihau)	Mixed	2010	Categorised as part of the United States

Kiribati

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Phoenix Islands Protected Area	Phoenix Islands	Natural	2010

Marshall Islands

Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site	Ralik	Cultural	2010

Micronesia, Federated States of

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Nan Madol: Ceremonial Centre of Eastern Micronesia	Pohnpei	Cultural	2016

New Caledonia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Lagoons of New Caledonia	New Caledonia	Natural	2008

New Zealand

Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Tongariro National Park	Central North Island	Mixed	1990
Te Wahipounamu	South Island	Natural	1990	Includes: Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, Fiordland National Park, Mount Aspiring National Park and Westland/Tai Poutini National Park
New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands	Outlying islands	Natural	1998

Palau

Diving at the Rock Islands, Palau

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon	Koror	Mixed	2012

Papua New Guinea

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Kuk Early Agricultural Site	Western Highlands	Cultural	2008

Pitcairn Islands

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Henderson Island	Pitcairn Islands	Natural	1988

Solomon Islands

East Rennell

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
East Rennell	Rennell and Bellona	Natural	1998

Vanuatu

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Chief Roi Mata's Domain	Shefa	Cultural	2008

South America

Argentina

Los Glaciares National Park

Ischigualasto Provincial Park, Argentina

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Los Glaciares National Park	Patagonia, Santa Cruz	Natural	1981
Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missoes (Brazil)	Misiones	Cultural	1983	shared with Brazil
Iguazu National Park	Misiones	Natural	1984
Cueva de las Manos, Rio Pinturas	Santa Cruz	Cultural	1999
Peninsula Valdes	Patagonia, Chubut	Natural	1999
Ischigualasto/Talampaya Natural Parks	San Juan and La Rioja	Natural	2000
Jesuit Block and Estancias of Cordoba	Pampas, Córdoba	Cultural	2000
Quebrada de Humahuaca	Jujuy	Cultural	2003
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System		Cultural	2014	Shared with Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement	La Plata	Cultural	2016	17 sites, shared with Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan and Switzerland
Los Alerces National Park	Chubut	Natural	2017

Bolivia

Tiwanaku, Bolivia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
City of Potosí	Potosí	Cultural	1987
Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos	Santa Cruz	Cultural	1990
Historic city of Sucre	Chuquisaca	Cultural	1991
Fuerte de Samaipata	Santa Cruz	Cultural	1998
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park	Santa Cruz	Natural	2000
Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture	La Paz	Cultural	2000
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System		Cultural	2014	Shared with Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

Brazil

Historic Town of Ouro Preto, Brazil

Iguaçu National Park

Rio de Janeiro

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Town of Ouro Preto	Minas Gerais	Cultural	1980
Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda	Pernambuco	Cultural	1982
Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of São Miguel das Missões (Brazil)	Rio Grande do Sul	Cultural	1983	shared with Argentina
Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia	Bahia	Cultural	1985
Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Congonhas	Minas Gerais	Cultural	1985
Iguaçu National Park	Paraná	Natural	1986
Brasilia	Distrito Federal (Federal District)	Cultural	1987
Serra da Capivara National Park	Piauí	Cultural	1991
Historic Centre of Sao Luis	Maranhão	Cultural	1997
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves	Paraná, São Paulo	Natural	1999
Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves	Bahia, Espirito Santo	Natural	1999
Historic Centre of the town of Diamantina	Minas Gerais	Cultural	1999
Central Amazon Conservation Complex	Amazonas, Jaú National Park	Natural	2000
Pantanal Conservation Area	Mato Grosso	Natural	2000
Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves	Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte	Natural	2001
Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks	Goiás	Natural	2001
Historic Centre of the Town of Goias	Goiás	Cultural	2001
São Francisco Square in the Town of São Cristóvão	Sergipe	Cultural	2010
Rio de Janeiro, Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea	Rio de Janeiro	Cultural	2012
Pampulha Modern Ensemble	Belo Horizonte	Cultural	2016
Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site	Rio de Janeiro/Centro	Cultural	2017

Chile

Valparaiso's Historic Quarter

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Rapa Nui National Park	Easter Island	Cultural	1995
Churches of Chiloe	Chiloé Island	Cultural	2000
Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso	Central Chile	Cultural	2003
Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works	Northern Chile, Atacama Desert	Cultural	2005	in danger since 2005
Sewell Mining Town	Central Chile	Cultural	2006
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System		Cultural	2014	Shared with Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

Colombia

Fort of Cartagena

Coffee Cultural landscape of Colombia

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena	Costa Norte	Cultural	1984
Los Katios National Park		Natural	1994	in danger
Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox	Costa Norte	Cultural	1995
National Archaeological Park of Tierradentro	Pacifica	Cultural	1995
San Agustin Archaeological Park	Andino	Cultural	1995
Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary	Malpelo Island	Natural	2006
Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia	(Pacifica and Andino	Cultural	2011
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System		Cultural	2014	Shared with Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru
Chiribiquete National Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar”	Amazonia (Colombia)	Mixed	2018

Ecuador

Giant Turtle, Galapagos Islands

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
City of Quito	Andean Highlands	Cultural	1978
Galápagos Islands	Galápagos Islands	Natural	1978
Sangay National Park	Andean Highlands	Natural	1983
Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca	Andean Highlands	Cultural	1999
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System		Cultural	2014	Shared with Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Peru

Paraguay

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Jesuit Missions of La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesus de Tavarangue	Trinidad (Paraguay), Encarnación	Cultural	1993

Peru

Machu Picchu

Lines and Geoglyphs of Nazca

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
City of Cuzco	Southern Sierra	Cultural	1983
Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu	Southern Sierra	Mixed	1983
Chavin (Archaeological Site)	Northern Sierra	Cultural	1985
Huascarán National Park	Northern Sierra	Natural	1985
Chan Chan Archaeological Zone	Trujillo	Cultural	1986	in danger
Manú National Park	Madre de Dios	Natural	1987
Historic Centre of Lima	Central Coast	Cultural	1988
Río Abiseo National Park	San Martín	Mixed	1990
Lines and Geoglyphs of Nazca and Pampas de Jumana	Southern Coast	Cultural	1994
Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa	Southern Coast	Cultural	2000
Sacred City of Caral-Supe	Central Coast	Cultural	2009
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System	Inca trail	Cultural	2014	Shared with Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Columbia and Ecuador

Suriname

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Central Suriname Nature Reserve	Surinamese Rainforest	Natural	2000
Historic Inner City of Paramaribo	Surinamese East Coast	Cultural	2002

Uruguay

Historic Quarter of Colonia del Sacramento

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento	Rio de la Plata	Cultural	1995
Fray Bentos Cultural Industrial Landscape	Rio de la Plata	Cultural	2015

Venezuela

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Coro and its Port	Northwest	Cultural	1993	in danger
Canaima National Park	Guayana	Natural	1994
Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas	Central	Cultural	2000

Delisted sites

Waldschlösschen Bridge

The process of delisting a site is a lengthy political endeavor. Mere continued existence of a UNESCO listing should not be taken as evidence the underlying site (or its landmark heritage) still exists. UNESCO's World Heritage Committee updates a list of endangered sites annually (see List of World Heritage in Danger on Wikipedia) as a political tool to pressure individual countries to take specific conservation measures or to refrain from certain actions that are seen as endangering the world heritage site. Sites such as Hatra in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria remain listed as UNESCO World Heritage (and as World Heritage in Danger) in 2017, even though warring belligerents have largely obliterated anything of historic value. Conversely, Taiwan is denied UN recognition on entirely political grounds and has no UNESCO world heritage listings, despite the existence of eleven sites which would otherwise be suitable candidates.

In some cases, a UNESCO listing has irrevocably harmed a site. The term UNESCO-cide, coined by Italian writer Marco d’Eramo, describes a pattern where listing a tiny fishing village or historic community to protect the buildings from developers creates an unsustainable influx of voyagers. As gentrification and hyper-commercialisation price the original people and their subsistence fishery out of the community, existing structures are repurposed as travel lodging or tacky souvenir shops. UNESCO pays lip service to sustainable travel, but tends to underestimate its own impact on tiny, vulnerable communities. Conversely, some listings of UNESCO sites as "in danger" are arguably political responses to actions or non-actions of local authorities which are hardly capable of destroying or seriously endangering the site.

A majority vote of the World Heritage Committee at a UNESCO meeting may be used to revoke a landmark's status as a World Heritage Site. This has happened twice; once to censure Oman for reducing the park boundaries of the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary by 90% as numbers of the protected species declined, once to censure Germany for a local decision to construct the Waldschlösschen Bridge in the Dresden Elbe Valley.

The following are sites that were once registered World Heritage Sites but have since been taken off the list:

Official name	Location	Criteria	Year	Notes
Arabian Oryx Sanctuary	Oman	Natural	1994 - 2007	Site was first to be delisted in 2007 because of a reduction in the habitat of the Oryx.
Dresden Elbe Valley	Germany	Cultural	2004 - 2009	Site was delisted in 2009 because a road bridge was constructed through it.