World Heritage in South Sudan

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The South Sudan has been no UNESCO World Heritage Site . The state, founded in 2011, deposited its ratification document for the World Heritage Convention with UNESCO on March 9, 2016 . In October 2017, a tentative list was submitted for the first time, listing three sites.

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list . Currently (2017) three sites are entered in the tentative list of South Sudan. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed).

f1Georeferencing Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image designation year Type Ref. description
Deim Zubeir - place of the slave trade 2017 K 6275


Sudd wetland
 Sudd wetland 2017 K / N 6276


Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape 2017 N 6277 The national parks Boma and Badingilo are connected by an unprotected corridor to form a single site.


Web links

  • South Sudan on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ South Sudan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed May 4, 2017 .
  2. ^ UNESCO World Heritage Center: South Sudan ratifies the World Heritage Convention. In: whc.unesco.org. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Tentative Lists - South Sudan - Last Revision 04/10/2017. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed February 27, 2018 .