World heritage in Kazakhstan
The world heritage in Kazakhstan (as of 2018) includes five UNESCO world heritage sites , including three world cultural heritage sites and two world natural heritage sites. Kazakhstan acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 1994, and the first World Heritage site was added to the World Heritage List in 2003. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2016.
World heritage sites
The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Kazakhstan 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 |
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Mausoleum of Hodja Ahmad Yasawi ( location ) |
2003 | K | 1103 | ||
Petroglyphs of the archaeological excavations of Tamgaly ( location ) |
2004 | K | 1145 | ||
Kazakh threshold (Saryarka) - steppe and lakes of Northern Kazakhstan ( location ) |
2008 | N | 1102 | Nature reserves Naurzum and Qorgalschyn | |
Silk Roads: the road network of the Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor | 2014 | K | 1442 | Sites on the branch of the Silk Road that ran from the ancient Chinese city of Chang'an through the Tianshan Mountains .
The transnational world heritage site includes 8 sites in Kazakhstan. 25 other sites are in China and Kyrgyzstan . |
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Western Tian Shan Mountains | 2016 | N | 1490 | Includes in Kazakhstan seven protected areas in the nature reserve Karatau , Aksu-Zhabagly Nature Reserve and National Park Sairam-Ugam .
Further protected areas are in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan . |
Tentative list
The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list . As of 2018, thirteen sites are entered in the tentative list of Kazakhstan, the last entry was made in 2016. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year they were included in the tentative list.
Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM
image | designation | year | Type | Ref. | description |
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Turkic place of worship from Merke | 1998 | K / N | 1131 | Turkish place of worship at 3000 m altitude in the Kyrgyz Alatau, about 37 km south of the city of Merki | |
Megalithic mausoleums of the Begasy-Dandybai culture | 1998 | K | 1132 | The Begasy-Dandybai culture was a culture of the late Bronze Age that began in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC. In the steppes and semi-deserts of central Kazakhstan. The main monuments of this culture are megalithic mausoleums. | |
Barrows with stone steps of the Tasmola culture | 1998 | K / N | 1133 | The Tasmola culture was a culture that lasted from about the 7th to 3rd centuries BC. Was widespread in the area of today's Kazakhstan. | |
Petroglyphs from Eschkiölmes | 1998 | K / N | 1134 | ||
Arpaosen petroglyphs | 1998 | K | 1135 | ||
Paleolithic sites and geomorphology of the Qaratau mountain range | 1998 | K / N | 1136 | In the Karatau Mountains were discovered more than 300 paleolithic sites, of which so far only a small part has been excavated. | |
Archaeological sites of the Otrar oasis | 1998 | K | 1137 | The Otrar Oasis has an area of about 200 km 2. Here you can find the ruins of a number of abandoned towns, including Otrar , Kuyruk-Tobe , Altyn-Tobe , Pshakshi-Tobe , Mardan-Kuyk and Kok-Mardan . | |
Ulytau cultural landscape ( location ) |
1998 | K / N | 1138 | ||
Northern Tian Shan (Ile-Alatau National Park) ( location ) |
2002 | N | 1681 | ||
Altyn Emel National Park ( location ) |
2002 | N | 1682 | ||
Aqsu-Schabaghyly nature reserve | 2002 | N | 1683 | ||
Silk road | 2012 | K | 5754 | comprises 31 sites on the section of the Silk Road running through Kazakhstan . Some of these sites were added to the World Heritage List in 2014 (Ref. 1442 ). | |
Sauyskandyk petroglyphs site (XVIII BC - III AD) | 2016 | K | 6156 |
Web links
- Kazakhstan on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.
Individual evidence
- ^ Kazakhstan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 29, 2017 .
- ^ Tentative list of Kazakhstan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed February 24, 2018 .