World Heritage in Gambia

Kerr Batch Stone Circles Wassu stone circles Kunta Kinteh Island SENEGAL

World Heritage Sites in Gambia

The World Heritage in Gambia (as of 2016) includes two UNESCO World Heritage sites , both of which are world cultural heritage sites. The West African state of Gambia ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1987, and the first World Heritage site was registered in 2003. The last World Heritage site in Gambia to date was added to the World Heritage List in 2006.

World heritage sites

This table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Gambia in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in 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 World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
Kunta Kinteh Island with Fort James (further pictures)	Kunta Kinteh Island and related sites ( location )	2003	K	761	With Kunta Kinteh Island (formerly James Island) with Fort James ; The Bullen Fort at Barra ; the ruins of San Domingo , the remains of the Portuguese chapel , the CFAO building , the building of Maurel Frères in Albreda / Juffure and the six-cannon battery in Banjul (formerly Bathurst).
Stone circles at Kerr Batch (further pictures)	Senegambian stone circles	2006	K	1226	The cross-border World Heritage Site in Gambia includes the stone circles of Kerr Batch ( Lage ) and Wassu ( Lage ) as well as two other stone circles in Senegal .

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list . Currently (2016) two sites are entered in the tentative list of Gambia.

 Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Quarrying site of the stone circles of Wassu ( location )	2016	K	6063	Extension of the existing world heritage site ' Senegambian Stone Circles ' to include the quarrying site of the Wassu Stone Circles
(more pictures)	Historic Georgetown ( location )	2016	K	6064	Expansion of the existing world heritage site 'Kunta Kinteh Island and associated sites' to include the historic buildings and ruins in Janjanbureh (formerly Georgetown)

Web links

Commons : World Heritage Sites in The Gambia  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Gambia on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gambia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed May 27, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Gambia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 2, 2007 . 

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap