World Heritage in Mongolia

The world heritage in Mongolia (as of 2017) includes five UNESCO world heritage sites , including three world cultural heritage sites and two world natural heritage sites. The Mongolia joined the World Heritage Convention in 1990, the first World Heritage site was inscribed on the World Heritage List of 2003. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2017.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Mongolia 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 ).

 Map with all coordinates of World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Uws-Nuur Basin ( location )	2003	N	769	The Uws Nuur is a lake with an area of ​​3350 km² and is one of the Great Lakes in northwestern Mongolia. The basin is protected because of the various ecosystems, such as snow fields, the lake and steppe areas and the desert of Altan Els. Although the temperature fluctuates between −58 ° C in winter and 47 ° C, 173 bird species and 41 mammal species are at home here.
	Orkhon Valley cultural landscape	2004	K	1081	The Orkhon is a 1,124 kilometer long river in Mongolia. A 1220 km² large part of the Orkhon Valley was protected. This area is home to historical sites such as the Erdene Dsuu Monastery , the ruined city of Karakorum and the Töwchön Chiid Monastery .
	Rock carvings in the Mongolian Altai	2011	K	1382	in the Mongolian part of the Altai Mountains, includes the areas Tsagaan Salaa-Baga Oigor , Aral Tolgoi and Upper Tsagaan-Gol
	Holy Mountain Burchan Chaldun and the surrounding sacred landscape ( location )	2015	K	1440	Surroundings of the Burchan Khaldun
	Daurian landscapes	2017	N	1448	Together with Russia

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 (2017) twelve sites are entered in the tentative list of Mongolia, the last entry was made in 2015. 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
	Desert landscape of the Great Gobi in Mongolia	2014	N	5943	Part of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia
	Cretaceous dinosaur fossil sites in the Mongolian Gobi	2014	N	5944
	Eastern Mongolian steppes	2014	N	5946
	Amarbayasgalant Monastery and its surrounding sacred cultural landscape ( location )	2014	K	5947
	Baldan Bereeven monastery and its sacred environment ( location )	2014	K	5949
	Holy Mountain Binder and its associated cultural heritage sites	2014	K	5950
	Tombs of the Xiongnu elite	2014	K	5951	five sites with graves of the elite of the equestrian nomads from the Xiongnu tribal union : Noyon Uul, Gol Mod I, Gol Mod II, Duurlig Nars and Takhiltyn Khotgor
	Archaeological sites of Khuduu Aral and its cultural landscape	2014	K	5952
	Deer stone monuments, the heart of Bronze Age culture	2014	K	5953	comprises three sites with Hirsch stones from the Bronze : Uushgiin Uvur, Khoid-Tamir valley and Jargalantyn
	Petroglyph complexes in the Mongolian Gobi	2014	K	5954	includes three sites with petroglyphs in the Mongolian part of the Gobi desert : Del-Uul Mountain, Bichigtiin Am, Javkhlant-Khairkhan Mountain
	Mongolian Altai Mountains	2014	K	5955	includes the Altai Tavan Bogd National Park ( location ) and the two separate areas "A" ( location ) and "B" ( location ) of the Siilkhem National Park in the Mongolian part of the Altai Mountains
Otgon Tenger from the east	Sacred Mountains of Mongolia	2014	K	6068	includes the mountains: Otgon Tenger , Eej Khairkhan , Khanbayanzurkh , Bogd Khan , Altan Ovoo and Sutai Khairkhan . Otgon Tenger and Bogd Khan have been on the tentative list (Ref. 936 ) together with the Burchan Chaldun since 1996 , after its inclusion in the World Heritage (Ref. 1440 ) a new proposal with further mountains was submitted in 2014.

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
	Rock paintings of the Khoit Tsenkher Cave	1996-2014	K	935	around 15,000 to 20,000 year old rock paintings in the Khoit Tsenkher Cave
	Chöwsgöl Lake, shamanistic landscape of the Tsaatan ( location )	1996-2012	K / N	938	Environment of the Chöwsgöl Nuur as a habitat of the people of the Tsaatan that the shamanism attach

Web links

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

• Mongolia on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mongolia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 30, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Mongolia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 30, 2017 . 
3. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Mongolia. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved June 30, 2017 . 

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