World Heritage in Oman

For World Heritage in Oman has five World Heritage sites , all five cultural heritage sites are. Oman acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 1981. The first World Heritage Site was registered in 1987, the last to date in 2018. In 2007 one site was removed from the World Heritage List.

World heritage sites

Current world heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Oman 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
(more pictures)	Bahla Fortress ( location )	1987	K	433
	Archaeological sites of Bat, al-Chutm and al-Ain	1988	K	434	Bat fortress with the Bronze Age settlement al-Chutm and necropolis al-Ain
(more pictures)	Land of incense	2000	K	1010	4 sites in Dhofar Governorate : the archaeological sites of Khor Rori , Al-Baleed and Shisr and the incense park of Wadi Dawkah In 2000 included in the World Heritage under the name "The Incense Route", renamed "Land of Incense" in 2005
(more pictures)	Afladsch irrigation system	2006	K	1207
(more pictures)	Qalhat ancient city	2018	K	1537	Qalhat was a major trading center for trade between the Arabian Peninsula, India, and eastern Asia. It is also an outstanding example of a city in the Principality of Hormuz . Many ruins still bear witness to its former importance. The city lost its importance after the destruction in 1508 by Portuguese colonizers under Afonso de Albuquerque

Sites marked as World Heritage

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Arabian Oryx Wildlife Sanctuary ( location )	1994-2007	N	654	The site included an Arabian oryx reintroduction area . UNESCO removed this area from the World Heritage List on June 28, 2007, as the government of Oman had decided to reduce the size of the protected area by 90 percent and the population of the Arabian oryx had declined sharply. It was the first deletion of a world heritage from the UNESCO list.

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 (2018) seven sites are entered in the tentative list of Oman, the last entry was made in 2014. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.

 Map with all coordinates of World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	The forts of Rustaq and Al-Hazm	1988	K	497	Fortresses in the cities of Rustaq and Al-Hazm
	Ḥallāniyyāt Islands Nature Reserve	2013	N	5832
	Bar al Hikman nature reserve	2013	N	5833
	Jebel Shams nature reserve	2013	N	5834
	Al-Dimaniyyat Islands Nature Reserve	2013	N	5839
	Ras al-Hadd turtle reserve and the Ras al-Jinz heritage site	2013	K / N	5840	comprises a coastal strip at Ras al-Hadd and Ras al-Jinz with breeding grounds for sea turtles and archaeological sites
	Cultural landscape of Bisya and Salut and their archaeological remains	2014	K		Surroundings of the city of Bisya and the Salut plain with archaeological sites from the Bronze and Iron Ages.

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
	Sur al-Luwatiya, the historic center of Matrah	1987-1987	K	432	In 1987 rejected by the World Heritage Committee

Web links

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

• Oman on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oman. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed May 29, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Wildlife reserve in Oman loses World Heritage status
3. ^ Oman's Arabian Oryx Sanctuary: first site ever to be deleted from UNESCO's World Heritage List
4. ^ Tentative list of Oman. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed May 29, 2017 . 
5. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Oman. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved June 20, 2017 (English). 

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap