World Heritage in Pakistan

The world heritage in Pakistan (as of 2018) includes six UNESCO world heritage sites , all of which are world cultural heritage sites. Pakistan ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1976, and the first three World Heritage sites were added to the World Heritage List in 1980. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 1997.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Pakistan 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
	Archaeological ruins in Moenjodaro ( location )	1980	K	138
	Taxila ( location )	1980	K	139
	Buddhist ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and adjacent relics in Sahr-i-Bahlol ( Lage )	1980	K	140	includes the ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Sehri-Bahlol
	Historic Monuments in Makli, Thatta ( Lage )	1981	K	143	Historical monuments and tombs on Makli Hill near Thatta town
	Fortress and Shalimar Gardens in Lahore	1981	K (R)	171	includes the Lahore Fort and Shalimar Gardens in the city of Lahore
	Rohtas Fortress ( location )	1997	K	586

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

As of 2018, 25 sites are entered in the tentative list of Pakistan, 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
(more pictures)	Badshahi Mosque ( location )	1993	K	1277	The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and one of the largest mosques in the world.
(more pictures)	Wazir Khan Mosque ( location )	1993	K	1278	Mosque in Lahore
Jahangir mausoleum	Tombs of Jahangir, Asif Khan and Akbari Sarai	1993	K	1279	includes the Jahangir Mausoleum , Asif Khan Mausoleum and Akbari Sarai Mausoleum in Lahore
(more pictures)	Hiran Tower and Pond ( location )	1993	K	1281	A complex of buildings built around an artificially created pond in the former hunting park of the Mughal ruler Jahangirs near the city of Sheikhupura with a round observation or hunting tower, a rectangular gate and an octagonal pavilion in the middle of the pond.
(more pictures)	Ranikot Fortress ( location )	1993	K	1284	Fortress on the territory of Dadu city in Sindh province
(more pictures)	Shah Jahan Mosque ( location )	1993	K	1286	Mosque in Thatta
(more pictures)	Chaukhandi tombs	1993	K	1287	Burial ground about 30 km east of Karachi in the province of Sindh
	Mehrgarh archaeological site	2004	K	1876
	Archaeological site of Rehman Dheri	2004	K	1877
	Harappa archaeological site	2004	K	1878
	Ranigat archaeological site	2004	K	1879
(more pictures)	Stone edicts of Shahbaz Garhi	2004	K	1880	Edicts carved into two large blocks of stone by Ashoka , the third ruler of the Maurya Empire (reigned 268 to 232 BC), near the village of Shahbaz Garhi in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . These and other stone edicts by Emperor Ashoka are among the earliest written evidence in South Asia.
	Stone edicts of Mansehra	2004	K	1881	Edicts carved into three large blocks of stone by Ashoka , the third ruler of the Maurya Empire (reigned 268 to 232 BC), near the city of Mansehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . These and other stone edicts by Emperor Ashoka are among the earliest written evidence in South Asia.
	Fort Baltit	2004	K	1882
	Tombs of Bibi Jawindi, Baha'al-Halim and Ustead as well as tomb and mosque of Jalaluddin Bukhari ( location )	2004	K	1883	includes four closely spaced mausoleums and a mosque in Uch Sharif in the Punjab province : the tomb of Bibi Jawindi , the tomb of Baha'al-Halim and the tomb of Ustead and the tomb and mosque of Jalaluddin Bukhari ,
(more pictures)	Tomb of Rukn-i-Alam	2004	K	1884	The mausoleum in Multan , built 1320-1324 under Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq , the first sultan of the Sultanate of Delhi from the Tughluq dynasty , became the burial place of the Sufi saint Rukn-i-Alam († 1335). Revision of a proposal from 1993
	Banbhore Harbor	2004	K	1885	Remains of the medieval port city of Daibul
	Derawar and the desert fortresses of Cholistan	2016	K	6108	includes Derawar Fort and other fortresses in the Cholistan Desert
(more pictures)	Hingol cultural landscape	2016	K	6109
	Cultural landscape of the Karez system	2016	K	6110	Karez is an alternative name for Qanat , a system for obtaining fresh water with underground channels. The proposal includes four representative kareze in Balochistan .
	Nagarparkar cultural landscape	2016	K	6111	Cultural landscape in the vicinity of the city of Nagarparkar in the province of Sindh with numerous temples of Jainism
	Central Karakoram National Park	2016	N	6112
	Deosai National Park	2016	N	6115
	Ziarat juniper forest	2016	N	6116	The juniper forest in the district of Ziarat in the province of Balochistan is the second largest population of Juniperus polycarpos in the world . In 2013 the forest was declared a biosphere reserve.
Khewra Salt Mine	Salt mountains and Khewra salt mine	2016	K / N	6118	includes salt rock in the Punjab and at whose slope to flow Jhelam lying salt mine Khewra

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.

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Petroglyphs from Hunza, Gilgit, Chilas	1980-1981	K
	Kirthar National Park	1982-1982	N	176
	Indus Dolphin Reserve	1982-1982	N	177
	Lal Suhanra National Park	1982-1982	N	178

Web links

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

• Pakistan on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pakistan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 3, 2018 . 
2. ↑ At the UNESCO World Heritage Center (WHC) there are 26 entries on the tentative list of Pakistan (see next itemization). However, in addition to the revised proposal for the tomb of Rukn-e-Alam from 2004, the original proposal from 1993 is also listed there, so that this site is listed twice.
3. ^ Tentative list of Pakistan. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 3, 2018 . 
4. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Pakistan. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved March 3, 2018 . 

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