World Heritage in Zambia

The World Heritage in Zambia (as of 2018) includes a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Zambia ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1984, and the only World Heritage site to date was added to the World Heritage List in 1989.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Zambia in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion on the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls	1989	N	509	cross-border world heritage in Zambia and Zimbabwe , includes the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park in Zambia

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list . Currently (2018) seven sites are entered in the tentative list of Zambia, the last entry was made in 2009. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.

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image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial	1997	K	867	On September 18, 1961, the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in an aircraft accident near the city of Ndola . A memorial and a museum were erected at the crash site to commemorate the crash.
	Kalambo Falls archaeological site	1997	K	868	prehistoric settlement near the Kalambo Falls
	Chirundu fossil forest ( location )	2009	N	5424	In the forest there are 150 million year old tree remains.
	Mwela rock paintings	2009	K / N	5425
(more pictures)	Kalambo Falls ( location )	2009	K / N	5426	Kalambo Falls on the border between Zambia and Tanzania at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika is one of Africa's waterfalls.
	Zambezi source ( location )	2009	N	5427	The Zambezi rises in a swampy moor landscape and in the hilly forest area of ​​the Mitumba Mountains in northwestern Zambia
	Barotse cultural landscape	2009	K	5428	Cultural landscape of the Lozi people in western Zambia

Web links

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

• Zambia on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zambia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 28, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Zambia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 28, 2017 . 

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