World Heritage in the United Arab Emirates

The world heritage in the United Arab Emirates includes (as of 2017) a UNESCO world heritage site. The United Arab Emirates acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 2001, and the only World Heritage site to date was added to the World Heritage List in 2011.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Arab Emirates 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 ).

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Cultural sites of al Ain	2011	K	1343	includes Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and oasis areas in the area of ​​the city of al-Ain

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, eight sites are entered in the tentative list of the United Arab Emirates, the last entry was made in 2018. 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 current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Settlement and cemetery on Umm an Nar Island ( location )	2012	K	5660	archaeological site on the island of Umm an-Nar
	Sir Abu Nu'ayr Island ( location )	2012	N	5661
	Khor Dubai ( location )	2012	K	5662
	ed major ( Location )	2012	K	5663	one of the largest archaeological sites in the United Arab Emirates above the Khor-Al-Beidha in the emirate of Umm al-Qaiwain
	al-badiyya mosque ( location )	2012	K	5665	Mud mosque in al-Badiyya in the Emirate of Fujairah
	Sharjah: The Gateway to the Trucial States ( location )	2014	K	5941	In the 19th and 20th centuries, the port city of Sharjah was the most important gateway to the so-called Trucial States , which today form the United Arab Emirates.
	Cultural landscape of the central region of the Emirate of Sharjah	2018	K	6311	Cultural landscape in the center of the Emirate of Sharjah . The proposal is a revision of a proposal submitted in 2012 for a mixed cultural and natural heritage site, limited to cultural heritage
	Abu Dhabi Sabkha	2018	N	6352	Sabcha on the coast of Abu Dhabi

Web links

Commons : World Heritage Sites in the United Arab Emirates  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• United Arab Emirates on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ United Arab Emirates. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 17, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of the United Arab Emirates. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed March 18, 2018 . 

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