List of UNESCO World Heritage

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On this page the overview articles about the UNESCO world heritage of individual states are listed. The current World Heritage Sites are listed there as well as the World Heritage candidates currently or previously on the tentative list .

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The UNESCO World Heritage includes sites recognized by UNESCO under the World Heritage Convention of 1972. As of March 2018, 193 signatory states have ratified the World Heritage Convention, including 189 of the 193 member states of the United Nations . Liechtenstein , which is also not a UNESCO member, is still missing , Nauru , Somalia and Tuvalu . This is complemented by Niue , the Cook Islands and the Palestinian Autonomous Territories , which are members of UNESCO but not the United Nations, as well as the Holy See , which represents the State of Vatican City externally and has observer status at both UNESCO and the United Nations.

The World Heritage Committee maintains a World Heritage List in which the recognized World Heritage sites are listed. The individual world heritage sites are grouped there by state, the individual states are grouped according to the UNESCO regions . As of November 2019, the list contains 1121 World Heritage sites, which are spread across 167 of the 193 states party to the World Heritage Convention, with 39 of these sites being cross-border or transnational , i.e. two or more states. 869 sites are World Heritage Sites, 213 World Natural Heritage Sites and 39 mixed sites. Two sites have so far been removed from the World Heritage List

The tentative lists of the individual states are also deposited with the World Heritage Committee . In its tentative list, each state lists its possible candidates for UNESCO World Heritage. From this list, he may nominate a maximum of two sites per year for inclusion in the World Heritage List. As of March 2018, 183 of the contracting states submitted a tentative list. Altogether there are 1703 sites from 177 countries, the remaining tentative lists are currently empty.

World heritage according to UNESCO region

In the following, the 193 signatory states to the World Heritage Convention are listed with links to the corresponding overview articles on the World Heritage of this state, grouped according to the UNESCO regions used by the World Heritage Commission (which in individual cases differ from the eponymous continents). Some signatory states do not yet have a World Heritage Site, but they have already submitted a tentative list. Other states have so far only ratified or acceded to the World Heritage Convention, i.e. they are signatory states to the World Heritage Convention, but have not yet submitted a tentative list. Taiwan is not a UNESCO member, but has already drawn up a list of potential World Heritage Sites.

Africa

Rock-hewn churches of Lalibela , World Heritage Site in Ethiopia
Victoria Falls , cross-border world natural heritage in Zambia and Zimbabwe

Contracting states with world heritage sites:

Contracting states only with tentative list:

Contracting states without world heritage and tentative list:

Arabic states

Giza Pyramids , World Heritage Site in Egypt

Contracting states with world heritage sites:

Contracting states only with tentative list:

Asia and Pacific

Great Wall of China , World Heritage Site in the People's Republic of China

Contracting states with world heritage sites:

Punakha-Dzong , World Heritage candidate on the tentative list of Bhutan

Contracting states only with tentative list:

Contracting states without world heritage and tentative list:

Non-contracting state with candidates:

Europe and North America

Acropolis of Athens , World Heritage Site in Greece
Etna , world natural heritage in Italy

Contracting states with world heritage sites:

Contracting states only with tentative list:

Latin America and the Caribbean

Machu Picchu , mixed world cultural and natural heritage in Peru

Contracting states with world heritage sites:

Contracting states only with tentative list:

World heritage by continent

Gough Island, world natural heritage without continental reference

In addition to the breakdown by contracting state, i.e. according to political spatial division, Wikipedia also provides lists of World Heritage sites divided by continent (i.e. natural spatial division):

Africa - America - Asia - Australia and Oceania - Europe - without continental reference

See also

 Wikipedia: WikiProjekt UNESCO-Kultur- und -naturerbe - Wikipedia internal specialist editorial office on the topic UNESCO culture and natural heritage

literature

Web links

Portal: UNESCO cultural and natural heritage  - overview of Wikipedia content on the topic of UNESCO cultural and natural heritage

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Center: States Parties. In: whc.unesco.org. January 31, 2018, accessed November 29, 2018 .
  2. ^ World Heritage List. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed November 29, 2018 .
  3. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Center: Tentative Lists. In: whc.unesco.org. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .