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56
Cultural
42
Natural
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Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1978 Island of Gorée SN C AFR 0 26
1978 Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela ET C AFR 0 18
1978 Simien National Park ET N AFR 13,600 9
1979 Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region ET C AFR 0 19
1979 Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions GH C AFR 0 34
1979 Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1 TZ M AFR 809,440 39
1979 Virunga National Park # CD N AFR 800,000 63
1980 Aksum ET C AFR 0 15
1980 Asante Traditional Buildings GH C AFR 0 35
1980 Garamba National Park CD N AFR 500,000 136
1980 Kahuzi-Biega National Park CD N AFR 600,000 137
1980 Lower Valley of the Awash ET C AFR 0 10
1980 Lower Valley of the Omo ET C AFR 0 17
1980 Tiya ET C AFR 0 12
1981 Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary SN N AFR 16,000 25
1981 Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve * CI N AFR 17,540 155
1981 Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve * GN N AFR 17,540 155
1981 Niokolo-Koba National Park SN N AFR 913,000 153
1981 Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara TZ C AFR 0 144
1981 Serengeti National Park TZ N AFR 1,476,300 156
1982 Aldabra Atoll SC N AFR 35,000 185
1982 Selous Game Reserve TZ N AFR 5,120,000 199
1982 Taï National Park CI N AFR 508,186 195
1983 Comoé National Park CI N AFR 0 227
1983 Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve SC N AFR 20 261
1984 Lake Malawi National Park MW N AFR 9,400 289
1984 Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas ZW N AFR 676,600 302
1984 Salonga National Park CD N AFR 3,600,000 280
1985 Royal Palaces of Abomey BJ C AFR 48 323
1986 Great Zimbabwe National Monument ZW C AFR 722 364
1986 Khami Ruins National Monument ZW C AFR 0 365
1987 Dja Faunal Reserve CM N AFR 526,000 407
1987 Kilimanjaro National Park TZ N AFR 75,575 403
1988 Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park CF N AFR 1,740,000 475
1988 Old Towns of Djenné ML C AFR 0 116
1988 Timbuktu ML C AFR 0 119
1989 Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) ML M AFR 327,390 516
1989 Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls # * ZM N AFR 6,860 509
1989 Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls # * ZW N AFR 6,860 509
1990 Andrefana Dry Forests MG N AFR 734,298 494
1991 Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves NE N AFR 7,736,000 573
1991 Island of Mozambique MZ C AFR 96 599
1994 Bwindi Impenetrable National Park UG N AFR 32,092 682
1994 Rwenzori Mountains National Park UG N AFR 99,600 684
1996 Okapi Wildlife Reserve CD N AFR 1,372,625 718
1996 W-Arly-Pendjari Complex * BJ N AFR 1,714,831 749
1996 W-Arly-Pendjari Complex * BF N AFR 1,714,831 749
1996 W-Arly-Pendjari Complex * NE N AFR 1,714,831 749
1997 Lake Turkana National Parks KE N AFR 161,485 801
1997 Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest KE N AFR 202,334 800
1999 Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa ZA C AFR 0 915
1999 iSimangaliso Wetland Park ZA N AFR 239,566 914
1999 Robben Island ZA C AFR 475 916
1999 Sukur Cultural Landscape NG C AFR 764 938
2000 Island of Saint-Louis SN C AFR 0 956
2000 Maloti-Drakensberg Park * LS M AFR 249,313 985
2000 Maloti-Drakensberg Park * ZA M AFR 249,313 985
2000 Stone Town of Zanzibar TZ C AFR 96 173
2001 Lamu Old Town KE C AFR 16 1055
2001 Royal Hill of Ambohimanga MG C AFR 59 950
2001 Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi UG C AFR 27 1022
2001 Tsodilo BW C AFR 4,800 1021
2003 Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites GM C AFR 8 761
2003 Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape ZA C AFR 28,169 1099
2003 Matobo Hills ZW C AFR 205,000 306
2004 Cape Floral Region Protected Areas ZA N AFR 1,094,742 1007
2004 Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba * BJ C AFR 271,826 1140
2004 Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba * TG C AFR 271,826 1140
2004 Tomb of Askia ML C AFR 4 1139
2005 Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove NG C AFR 75 1118
2005 Vredefort Dome ZA N AFR 30,000 1162
2006 Aapravasi Ghat MU C AFR 0 1227
2006 Chongoni Rock-Art Area MW C AFR 12,640 476
2006 Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town ET C AFR 48 1189
2006 Kondoa Rock-Art Sites TZ C AFR 233,600 1183
2006 Stone Circles of Senegambia * GM C AFR 10 1226
2006 Stone Circles of Senegambia * SN C AFR 10 1226
2007 Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda GA M AFR 491,291 1147
2007 Rainforests of the Atsinanana MG N AFR 479,661 1257
2007 Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape ZA C AFR 160,000 1265
2007 Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes NA C AFR 57 1255
2008 Le Morne Cultural Landscape MU C AFR 350 1259
2008 Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests KE C AFR 1,538 1231
2009 Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande CV C AFR 209 1310
2009 Ruins of Loropéni BF C AFR 1 1225
2011 Fort Jesus, Mombasa KE C AFR 2 1295
2011 Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley KE N AFR 32,034 1060
2011 Konso Cultural Landscape ET C AFR 23,000 1333
2011 Saloum Delta SN C AFR 145,811 1359
2012 Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes SN C AFR 50,309 1407
2012 Historic Town of Grand-Bassam CI C AFR 110 1322
2012 Lakes of Ounianga TD N AFR 62,808 1400
2012 Sangha Trinational * CM N AFR 746,309 1380
2012 Sangha Trinational * CF N AFR 746,309 1380
2012 Sangha Trinational * CG N AFR 746,309 1380
2013 Historic Centre of Agadez NE C AFR 78 1268
2013 Namib Sand Sea NA N AFR 3,077,700 1430
2014 Okavango Delta BW N AFR 2,023,590 1432
2016 Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape TD M AFR 2,441,200 1475
2017 Asmara: A Modernist African City ER C AFR 481 1550
2017 Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo AO C AFR 89 1511
2017 ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape ZA C AFR 959,100 1545
2018 Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains ZA N AFR 113,137 1575
2018 Thimlich Ohinga Archaeological Site KE C AFR 21 1450
2019 Ancient Ferrous Metallurgy Sites of Burkina Faso BF C AFR 122 1602
2021 Ivindo National Park GA N AFR 298,758 1653
2021 Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’Ivoire CI C AFR 0 1648
2023 Bale Mountains National Park ET N AFR 215,000 111
2023 Forest Massif of Odzala-Kokoua CG N AFR 1,179,376 692
2023 Memorial sites of the Genocide: Nyamata, Murambi, Gisozi and Bisesero RW C AFR 25 1586
2023 Nyungwe National Park RW N AFR 101,964 1697
2023 The Gedeo Cultural Landscape ET C AFR 29,620 1641
Notes

  1. (renomination under cultural criteria)

*: transboundary property

#: As for 19 Natural and Mixed Properties inscribed for geological values before 1994, criteria numbering of this property has changed. See Decision 30.COM 8D.1

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Category of property

Cultural Natural Mixed

Property inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger

Cultural Natural Mixed

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