World Heritage in Eritrea

For World Heritage in Eritrea belongs (as of 2017), a UNESCO World Heritage Site of World Heritage . Eritrea acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 2001; the only World Heritage site to date was added to the World Heritage List in 2017.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Eritrea in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion on the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).

 Map with all coordinates of the World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Asmara: A modernist city in Africa ( location )	2017	K	1550	Modern architecture in the historical area of Asmara

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list .

Current World Heritage candidates

Currently (2017) one site is entered in the tentative list of Eritrea, the entry was made in 2011. 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 ).

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Qohaito cultural landscape	2011	K	5600

Former World Heritage candidates

These sites were previously on the tentative list, but were withdrawn or rejected by UNESCO. Sites that are included in other entries on the tentative list or that are part of world heritage sites are not taken into account here.

 Map with all coordinates of former World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Adulis	1978-1981	K	11	ancient trading town on the Red Sea
	Matara	1978-1981	K

Web links

• Eritrea on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eritrea. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Eritrea. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 14, 2017 . 
3. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Eritrea. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved June 21, 2017 (English). 

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