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 ).

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image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	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 .
	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.

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image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	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
(more pictures)	Northern Tian Shan (Ile-Alatau National Park) ( location )	2002	N	1681
(more pictures)	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

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

• Kazakhstan on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kazakhstan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 29, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Kazakhstan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed February 24, 2018 . 

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