UNESCO World Heritage List
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a geographic site that has been selected for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
There are several related UNESCO programmes:
- UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, for things that cannot be touched such as musical or culinary traditions.
- UNESCO Creative Cities, a programme which recognizes entire cities for their cultural contributions.
- UNESCO Global Geoparks Network, for parks of great geological interest.
- UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves
- UNESCO Memory of the World (MoW), programme to preserve the documentary heritage of humanity
There are also conservation programmes run by other organizations, such as the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat. The nearest site from the headquarter of UNESCO is Eiffel Tower because the headquarter is in Paris, walking for 22 minutes.
UnderstandThe programme aims to catalogue and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind.
Africa
AntarcticaSee § Australia for Heard and McDonald Islands and § Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha for the Gough and Inaccessible Islands.
AsiaSee also the list of Russian sites in Europe.
EuropeFor sites in Greenland (officially listed under Denmark), see the #Greenland table below
North America
Oceania
South America
Delisted sitesThe process of delisting a site is a lengthy endeavor, so it is difficult to delete one.
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- Guide text adapted from the Wikivoyage article "UNESCO World Heritage List" by its contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikivoyage · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0