December 1993
UNESCO
WORLD HERITAGE LIST
The 410 properties which the World Heritage Committee
has included in the World Heritage List
(304 cultural sites, 90 natural sites, and 16 mixed sites
in 94 States)
The World Heritage Committee has approved the following properties and
natural properties to be included on the World Heritage List. The
properties are arranged alphabetically by nominating country. The
following list is updated to December 1993.
ALBANIA:
1992 Butrinti
ALGERIA:
1980 Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad
1982 Tassili n'Ajjer
1982 M'zab Valley
1982 Djemila
1982 Tipasa
1982 Timgad
1992 Kasbah of Algiers
ARGENTINA:
1981 Los Glaciares
1984 Iguazu National Park
ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL:
1984 Jesuit Missions of the Guarnis:
San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestro Senora de Loreto and Santa Maria
Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missoes (Brazil)
AUSTRALIA:
1981 Great Barrier Reef
1981 Kakadu National Park
1981 Willandra Lakes Region
1982 Tasmanian Wilderness
1982 Lord Howe Island Group
1987 Uluru National Park
1987 Australian East Coast Temperate and Sub-Tropical Rainforest Parks
1988 Wet Tropics of Queensland
1991 Shark Bay, Western Australia
1992 Fraser Island
BANGLADESH:
1985 Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat
1985 Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur
BELARUS/POLAND:
1992 Beloveshskaya Pushcha/Bialowieza Forest
BENIN:
1985 Royal Palaces of Abomey
BOLIVIA:
1987 City of Potosi
1990 Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
1991 Historic City of Sucre
BRAZIL:
1980 Historic Town of Ouro Preto
1982 Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda
1984 Iguau National Park
1985 Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia
1985 Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas
1987 City of Brasilia
1991 Serra da Capivara National Park
BULGARIA:
1979 Boyana Church
1979 Madara Rider
1979 Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
1979 Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
1983 Ancient City of Nessebar
1983 Srebarna Nature Reserve
1983 Pirin National Park
1983 Rila Monastery
1985 Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari
CAMBODIA:
1992 Angkor
CAMEROON:
1987 Dja Faunal Reserve
CANADA:
1978 L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park
1978 Nahanni National Park
1979 Dinosaur Provincial Park
1981 Anthony Island
1981 Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Complex
1983 Wood Buffalo National Park
1984 Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks*
1985 Historic Area of Quebec
1987 Gros Morne National Park
*The Burgess Shale Site, previously inscribed on the WHL, is
part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.
CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
1979 Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon, Canada; Wrangell-St. Elias
National Park and Preserve, and Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska,
U.S.A.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC:
1988 Parc National du Manovo-Gounda St. Floris
CHINA (PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF):
1987 The Great Wall
1987 Mount Taishan
1987 Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
1987 Mogao Caves
1987 The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emporer
1987 Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
1990 Mount Hungshan
1992 Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area
1992 Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area
1992 Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area
COLOMBIA:
1984 Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena
COSTA RICA/PANAMA:
1983 Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves/
1990 La Amistad National Park
COTE D'IVOIRE:
1982 Tai National Park
1983 Como National Park
CROATIA:
1979 Old City of Dubrovnik
1979 Historic Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian
1979 Plitvice Lakes National Park
CUBA:
1982 Old Havana and its Fortifications
1988 Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
CYPRUS:
1980 Paphos
1985 The Painted Churches in the Troodos Region
CZECH REPUBLIC:
1992 Historic Centre of Prague
1992 Historic Centre of Cesky Krumlov
1992 Historic Centre of Telc
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:
1990 Colonial City of Santo Domingo
ECUADOR:
1978 Galapagos National Park, including the Galapagos Islands
1978 Old City of Quito
1983 Sangay National Park
EGYPT:
1979 Abu Mena
1979 Ancient Thebes, including its Necropolis
1979 Islamic Cairo
1979 Memphis and its Necropolis-the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
1979 Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
EL SALVADOR:
1993 Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site
ETHIOPIA:
1978 Rock-hewn Churches of Lalibela
1978 Simen National Park
1979 Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region
1980 Aksum
1980 Lower Valley of the Awash
1980 Lower Valley of the Omo
1980 Tiya
FINLAND:
1991 Old Rauma
1991 Fortress of Suomenlinna
FRANCE:
1979 Chartres Cathedral
1979 Decorated Grottoes of the Vezere Valley, including the Grotto of
Lascaux
1979 Mont-St. Michel and its Bay
1979 Palace and Park of Versailles
1979 Vezelay, Church and Hill
1981 Amiens Cathedral
1981 Chateau and Estate of Chambord
1981 Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
1981 Palace and Park of Fontainebleau
1981 Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles
1981 The Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the Triumphal Arch of
Orange
1982 The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
1983 Place Stanislas, Place de la Carriere, and Place d'Alliance, Nancy
1983 Church of Saint-Savin-sur Gartempe
1983 Classified Site of Cape Girolata, Cape Porto and Scandola Natural
Reserve, Corsica
1985 Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)
1988 Strasbourg, Grande Isle
1991 Paris, Banks of the Seine
1991 Cathedral of Notre-Dame, former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Tau Palace,
of Reims
1992 Bourges Cathedral
GERMANY:
1978 Aachen Cathedral
1981 Speyer Cathedral
1981 Wurzburg Residence, including the Court Gardens and Residence Square
1983 Pilgrimage of Church of Wies
1984 The Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Bruhl
1985 St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church, Hildesheim
1986 Roman Monuments, Cathedral and Liebfrauen-Church in Trier
1987 Hanseatic City of Lubeck
1990 Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
1991 Abbey and Altenmunster of Lorsch
1992 Mines of Rammelsberg and the Historic Town of Goslar
1993 Bamberg
1993 Maulbronn Monastery Complex
GHANA:
1979 Forts and Castles, Volta Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
1980 Ashante Traditional Buildings
GREECE:
1986 Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
1987 Archaeological Site of Delphi
1987 The Acropolis, Athens
1988 Mount Athos
1988 Meteora
1988 Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika
1988 Archaeological Site of Epidaurus
1988 Medieval City of Rhodes
1989 Archaeological Site of Olympia
1989 Mystras
1990 Delos
1990 Monasteries of Daphni, Hossios Luckas and Nea Moni of Chios
1992 Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
GUATEMALA:
1979 Antigua Guatemala
1979 Tikal National Park
1981 Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua
GUINEA AND COTE D'IVOIRE:
1981 Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
HAITI:
1982 National Historic Park, including La Ferriere Citadel,
Sans-Souci Palace, and Site of Les Ramiers
HOLY SEE:
1984 Vatican City
HONDURAS:
1980 Maya Site of Copan
1982 Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
HUNGARY:
1987 Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube with the district of Buda
Castle
1987 Holloko
INDIA:
1983 Ajanta Caves
1983 Ellora Caves
1983 Agra Fort
1983 Taj Mahal
1984 Sun Temple, Konarak
1985 Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
1985 Kaziranga National Park
1985 Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
1985 Keoladeo National Park
1986 Churches and Convents of Goa
1986 Group of Monuments at Khajuraho
1986 Group of Monuments at Hampi
1986 Fatehpur Sikri
1987 Group of Monuments at Pattadakal
1987 Elephanta Caves
1987 Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur
1987 Sundarbans National Park
1988 Nanda Devi National Park
1989 Buddhist Monastery at Sanchi
1993 Humayun's Tomb
1993 Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi
INDONESIA:
1991 Komodo National Park
1991 Ujung Kulon National Park
1991 Borobudur Temple compound
1991 Prambanan Temple compound
IRAN:
1979 Persepolis
1979 Tchoga Zanbil Ziggurat and Complex
1988 Meidan Emam, Esfahan
IRAQ:
1985 Hatra
IRELAND:
1993 Archaeological ensemble of the Bend in the Boyne
ITALY:
1979 Rock Drawings in Valcamonica near Bresica
1980 Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The
Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci
1982 Historic Centre of Florence
1987 Venice and its Lagoon
1987 Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
1990 Historic Centre of San Gimignano
1993 I Sassi di Matera
ITALY/HOLY SEE:
1980 Historic Centre of Rome, the properties of the Holy See in that city
enjoyning extraterritorial rights, and San Paolo fuori le Mura
JAPAN:
1993 Himeji-jo
1993 Buddhist Monuments in the Horyuji Area
1993 Yakushima
1993 Shirakami-Sanchi
JORDAN (HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF):
1981 The Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls
1985 Petra
1985 Quseir Amra
LEBANON:
1984 Anjar
1984 Baalbek
1984 Byblos
1984 Tyr
LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA (SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S):
1982 Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna
1982 Archaeological Site of Sabratha
1982 Archaeological Site of Cyrene (Shahhat)
1985 Rock-art Sites of Tadrart Acacus
1988 Old Town of Ghadames
MADAGASCAR:
1990 Tsingy Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve
MALAWI:
1984 Lake Malawi National Park
MALI:
1988 Old Towns of Djenne
1988 Timbuktu
1989 Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)
MALTA:
1980 City of Valetta
1980 Ggantija Temples on the Island of Gozo
1980 Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
MAURITANIA:
1989 Banc D'Arguin National Park
MEXICO:
1987 Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco
1987 Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque
1987 Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan
1987 Historic Centre of Oaxaca and the Archaeological Site of Monte Alban
1987 Historic Centre of Puebla
1987 Sian Ka'an
1988 Historic Town of Guanajuato and adjacent mines
1988 Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
1991 Historic Centre of Morelia
1992 El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City
1993 Refugio de Ballenas en las Lagunas de El Vizcaino
1993 Historic Centre of Zacatecas
1993 Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
MOROCCO:
1981 Medina of Fez
1985 Medina of Marrakesh
1987 Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou
MOZAMBIQUE:
1991 Island of Mozambique
NEPAL:
1979 Kathmandu Valley
1979 Sagarmatha National Park, including Mt. Everest
1984 Royal Chitwan National Park
NEW ZEALAND:
1990 Te Wahipounam - South West New Zealand (Westland/Mount Cook National
Park and Fiordland National Park, previously inscribed on the World
Heritage List, are part of this site)
1990 Tongariro National Park
NIGER:
1991 Air-Tenere Reserve
NORWAY:
1979 Bryggen, the Old Hansiatic Quarter of Bergen
1979 Urnes Stave Church
1980 Roros Mining Town
1985 Rock Drawings of Alta
OMAN:
1987 Bahla Fort
1988 Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
PAKISTAN:
1980 Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro
1980 Buddhist Ruins at Takht-i-Bahi and Neighboring City Remains at
Sahr-i-Bahlol
1980 Taxila
1981 Fort and Shalamar Gardens at Lahore
1981 Historic Monuments of Thatta
PANAMA:
1980 Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Portobelo-San Lorenzo
1981 Darien National Park
PARAGUAY:
1993 Jesuit Missions of La Santisima Trinidad de Parana and Jesus de
Tavarangue
PERU:
1983 City of Cuzco
1983 Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
1985 Archaeological Site of Chavin
1985 Huascaran National Park
1987 Manu National Park
1988 Chan Chan Archaeological Zone
1990 Rio Abiseo National Park
1991 Historic Centre of Lima
1992 Rio Abiseo National Park
PHILPPINES:
1993 Baroque Churches of the Philippines
1993 Tubbataha Reef Marine Park
POLAND:
1978 Historic Centre of Cracow
1978 Wieliczka Salt Mines
1979 Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1980 Historic Centre of Warsaw
1992 Old City of Zamosc
PORTUGAL:
1983 Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroisma in the Azores
1983 Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belem, Lisbon
1983 Monastery of Batalha
1983 Convent of Christ in Tomar
1988 Historic Centre of Evora
1989 Alcobaca Monastery with the tombs of Ines de Castro and King Dom
Pedro
ROMANIA:
1991 Danube Delta
1993 Biertan and its Fortified Church
1993 Monastery of Horezu
1993 Churches of Moldavia
RUSSIAN FEDERATION:
1990 Historic Centre of St. Petersburg and related groups of monuments*
1990 Khizi Pogost
1990 Kremlin and the Red Square
1992 Historic Monuments of Novgorod and surroundings
1992 Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands
1992 The White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
1993 Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad
SENEGAL:
1978 Island of Goree
1981 Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary
1981 Niokolo-Koba National Park
SEYCHELLES:
1982 Aldabra Atoll
1983 Vallee de Mai Nature Reserve
SLOVAK REPUBLIC:
1993 Vlkolinec
1993 Spissky Hrad and its Associated Cultural Monuments
1993 Banska Stiavnica
SLOVENIA:
1988 Skocjan Caves
SPAIN:
1984 Mosque of Cordoba
1984 Alhambra and Generalife, Granada
1984 Burgos Cathedral
1984 Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid
1984 Parque Guell, Palacio Guell and Casa Mila, Barcelona
1985 Altamira Cave
1985 Old Town of Segovia, including its aqueduct
1985 Churches of the Kingdom of the Asturias
1985 Santiago de Compostela (Old Town)
1985 Old Town of Avila, including its Extra Muros churches
1986 Mudejar Architecture of Teruel
1986 Historic City of Toledo
1986 Garajonay National Park
1986 Old Town of Caceres
1987 Cathedral, the Alcazar and Archivo de Indias, Seville
1988 Old City of Salamanca
1991 Poblet Monastery
1993 Archaeological Ensemble of Merida
1993 Royal Manastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe
1993 The Route of Santiago de Compostela
SRI LANKA:
1982 Sacred City of Anuradhapura
1982 Ancient City of Polonnaruva
1982 Ancient City of Sigiriya
1988 Sinharaja Forest Reserve
1988 Sacred City of Kandy
1988 Old Town of Galle and its fortifications
1991 Golden Temple of Dambulla
SWEDEN:
1991 Royal Domain of Drottningholm
1993 Birka and Hovgarden
1993 Engelsberg Ironworks
SWITZERLAND:
1983 Convent of St. Gall
1983 Benedictine Convent of St. John at Mustair
1983 Old City of Berne
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC:
1979 Ancient City of Damascus
1980 Site of Palmyra
1980 Ancient City of Bosra
1988 Ancient City of Aleppo
THAILAND:
1991 Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries
1991 Historic Town of Sukhothai and associated historic towns
1991 Historic City of Ayutthaya and associated historic towns
1992 Ban Chiang Archaeological Site
TUNISIA:
1979 Roman Amphitheater of El Djem
1979 Archaeological Site of Carthage
1979 Medina of Tunis
1980 Ichkeul National Park
1985 Punic Town of Kerkuane, including its Necropolis
1988 Medina of Sousse
1988 Kairouan
TURKEY:
1985 Historic Areas of Istanbul
1985 Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
1985 Great Mosque and Hospital of Divrigi
1986 Hattusha
1987 Nemrut Dag
1988 Xanthos-Letoon
1988 Hierapolis-Pamukkale
UKRAINE:
1990 Kiev: St Sophia Cathedral and related monastic buildings, and Lavra
of Kiev-Pechersk
UNITED KINGDOM:
1986 The Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast
1986 Durham Castle and Cathedral
1986 Ironbridge Gorge
1986 Studley Royal Park, including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
1986 Stonehenge, Avebury and associated sites
1986 The Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd
1986 St. Kilda
1987 Blenheim Palace
1987 City of Bath
1987 Hadrian's Wall
1987 Palace of Westminster, Abbey of Westminster, and St. Margaret's
Church
1988 Henderson Island
1988 The Tower of London
1988 Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey, and St. Martin's Church
UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA:
1979 Ngorongoro Conservation Area, including the Ngorongoro and Empakaai
Craters and Olduvai Gorge
1981 Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
1981 Serengeti National Park
1982 Selous Game Reserve
1987 Kilimanjaro National Park
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
1978 Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
1978 Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming\Idaho\Montana
1979 Everglades National Park, Florida
1979 Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
1979 Independence Hall, Pennsylvania
1980 Redwood National Park, California
1981 Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
1981 Olympic National Park, Washington State
1982 Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois
1983 Great Smokey Mountains National Park, North Carolina\ Tennessee
1983 San Juan National Historic Site and La Fortaleza, Puerto Rico
1984 The Statue of Liberty, New York
1984 Yosemite National Park, California
1987 Monticello, and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
1987 Chaco Culture National Historic Park, New Mexico
1987 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, including Mauna Loa, Hawaii
1992 Pueblo de Taos
UZBEKISTAN:
1990 Itchan Kala*
VENEZUELA:
1993 Coro
VIETNAM:
1993 The Complex of Hue Monuments
YEMEN:
1982 Old Walled City of Shibam
1988 Old City of Sana'a
1993 Historic Town of Zabid
YUGOSLAVIA:
1979 Natural and Culturo-Historic Region of Kotor
1979 Ohrid Region, including its cultural and historic aspects, and its
natural environment
1979 Stari Ras and Sopocani Monastery
1980 Durmitor National Park
1988 Studenica Monastery
ZAIRE:
1979 Virunga National Park
1981 Kahuzi-Biega National Park
1980 Garamba National Park
1984 Salonga National Park
ZAMBIA/ZIMBABWE:
1989 Victoria Falls/Mosi-oa-Tunya
ZIMBABWE:
1984 Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas
1988 Great Zimbabwe National Monument
1988 Khami Ruins National Monument
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EXPLANATION OF WORLD HERITAGE LIST
The World Heritage List was established under terms of the Convention
Concerning the Protection of World Culture and Natural Heritage adopted in
November, 1972 at the 17th General Conference of UNESCO.
The Convention states that a World Heritage Committee "will
establish, keep up-to-date and publish" a World Heritage List of cultural
and natural properties, submitted by the States and considered to be of
outstanding universal value.
One of the main responsibilities of this Committee is to provide
technical co-operation under the World Heritage Fund for the safeguarding
of World Heritage Sites to States Parties whose resources are insufficient.
States Parties can request international assistance under the Fund
for expert missions, training of specialized staff, and supply of equipment
when appropriate; they can also apply for long-term loans and, in special
cases, non-repayable grants. Requests must concern work necessary for the
preservation of cultural or natural sites included in the World Heritage
List or assistance to national or regional training centres.
Emergency assistance is also available under the Fund in the case of
properties severely damaged by specific natural or man-made disasters or
threatened with imminent destruction.
As of December 1993, 136 Member States had ratified the Convention,
the United States being the first to do so. As of December 1993, the number
of sites on the World Heritage List stands at 410. The Committee named 12
sites in 1978, 45 in 1979, 28 in 1980, 26 in 1981, 24 in 1982, 29 in 1983,
23 in 1984, 31 in 1985, 27 in 1986, 41 in 1987, 27 in 1988, 7 in 1989, 17
in 1990, 23 in 1991, 15 in 1992, and 32 in 1993.
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*Small discrepancies in numbers may be due to different methods of
numbering sites, and overlapping of sites into two countries.
Inquiries should be sent to :
World Heritage Centre
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Paris, 75700 France