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Delisted
18
In Danger
101
Cultural
49
Natural
8
Mixed
Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1978 Island of Gorée SN C AFR 0 26
1979 Amphitheatre of El Jem TN C ARB 1 38
1979 Ancient City of Damascus SY C ARB 86 20
1979 Archaeological Site of Carthage TN C ARB 498 37
1979 Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions GH C AFR 0 34
1979 Historic Cairo EG C ARB 524 89
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 Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad DZ C ARB 150 102
1980 Garamba National Park CD N AFR 500,000 136
1980 Ichkeul National Park TN N ARB 12,600 8
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
1981 Darien National Park PA N LAC 579,000 159
1981 Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary SN N AFR 16,000 25
1981 Medina of Fez MA C ARB 280 170
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
1981 Willandra Lakes Region AU M APA 240,000 167
1982 Archaeological Site of Sabratha LY C ARB 91 184
1982 Djémila DZ C ARB 31 191
1982 National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers HT C LAC 25,286 180
1982 Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve HN N LAC 350,000 196
1982 Selous Game Reserve TZ N AFR 5,120,000 199
1982 Taï National Park CI N AFR 508,186 195
1982 Timgad DZ C ARB 91 194
1983 Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores PT C EUR 0 206
1983 Comoé National Park CI N AFR 0 227
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 Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia BR C LAC 200 309
1985 Medina of Marrakesh MA C ARB 1,107 331
1985 Royal Palaces of Abomey BJ C AFR 48 323
1986 Garajonay National Park ES N EUR 3,984 380
1986 Great Zimbabwe National Monument ZW C AFR 722 364
1986 Khami Ruins National Monument ZW C AFR 0 365
1986 Old Town of Ghadamès LY C ARB 288 362
1987 Bahla Fort OM C ARB 0 433
1987 Dja Faunal Reserve CM N AFR 526,000 407
1987 Frontiers of the Roman Empire * 2 DE C EUR 527 430
1987 Frontiers of the Roman Empire * 3 GB C EUR 527 430
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 Banc d'Arguin National Park MR N ARB 1,200,000 506
1989 Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) ML M AFR 327,390 516
1990 Colonial City of Santo Domingo DO C LAC 106 526
1991 Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves NE N AFR 7,736,000 573
1991 Island of Mozambique MZ C AFR 96 599
1992 Kasbah of Algiers DZ C ARB 55 565
1994 Bwindi Impenetrable National Park UG N AFR 32,092 682
1994 Doñana National Park ES N EUR 54,252 685
1994 Rwenzori Mountains National Park UG N AFR 99,600 684
1996 Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata MR C ARB 0 750
1996 Historic City of Meknes MA C ARB 0 793
1996 Okapi Wildlife Reserve CD N AFR 1,372,625 718
1996 Sceilg Mhichíl IE C EUR 22 757
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 Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá PA C LAC 57 790
1997 Archaeological Site of Volubilis MA C ARB 42 836
1997 Dougga / Thugga TN C ARB 75 794
1997 Heard and McDonald Islands AU N APA 658,903 577
1997 Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao NL C EUR 86 819
1997 Lake Turkana National Parks KE N AFR 161,485 801
1997 Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin) MA C ARB 7 837
1997 Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest KE N AFR 202,334 800
1999 Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park KN C LAC 15 910
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 Viñales Valley CU C LAC 13,200 840
2000 Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba CU C LAC 81,475 1008
2000 Archaeological Site of Atapuerca ES C EUR 284 989
2000 Central Amazon Conservation Complex 4 BR N LAC 5,232,018 998
2000 Island of Saint-Louis SN C AFR 0 956
2000 Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba AR C LAC 38 995
2000 Maloti-Drakensberg Park * LS M AFR 249,313 985
2000 Maloti-Drakensberg Park * ZA M AFR 249,313 985
2000 Palmeral of Elche ES C EUR 144 930
2000 Stone Town of Zanzibar TZ C AFR 96 173
2001 Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves BR N LAC 43,270 1000
2001 Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone PT C EUR 38 1031
2001 Lamu Old Town KE C AFR 16 1055
2001 Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador) MA C ARB 57 753
2001 Royal Hill of Ambohimanga MG C AFR 59 950
2001 Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch CH N EUR 82,400 1037
2001 Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi UG C AFR 27 1022
2001 Tsodilo BW C AFR 4,800 1021
2003 Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region SD C ARB 183 1073
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
2003 White City of Tel-Aviv – the Modern Movement IL C EUR 140 1096
2004 Cape Floral Region Protected Areas ZA N AFR 1,094,742 1007
2004 Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida) MA C ARB 8 1058
2004 Tomb of Askia ML C AFR 4 1139
2005 Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove NG C AFR 75 1118
2005 Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos CU C LAC 70 1202
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
2006 Vizcaya Bridge ES C EUR 1 1217
2007 Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda GA M AFR 491,291 1147
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 Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan KZ N APA 450,344 1102
2008 Socotra Archipelago YE N ARB 410,460 1263
2009 Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande CV C AFR 209 1310
2009 Ruins of Loropéni BF C AFR 1 1225
2009 Wadden Sea * DK N EUR 1,143,403 1314
2009 Wadden Sea * DE N EUR 1,143,403 1314
2009 Wadden Sea * NL N EUR 1,143,403 1314
2010 The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur IN C APA 2 1338
2011 Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe SD C ARB 2,357 1336
2011 Fort Jesus, Mombasa KE C AFR 2 1295
2011 Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison BB C LAC 187 1376
2011 Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley KE N AFR 32,034 1060
2011 Saloum Delta SN C AFR 145,811 1359
2012 Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley MY C APA 399 1396
2012 Historic Town of Grand-Bassam CI C AFR 110 1322
2012 Major Mining Sites of Wallonia BE C EUR 118 1344
2012 Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage MA C ARB 349 1401
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
2012 Western Ghats IN N APA 795,315 1342
2013 Namib Sand Sea NA N AFR 3,077,700 1430
2014 Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire TR C EUR 27 1452
2014 Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah SA C ARB 18 1361
2014 Okavango Delta BW N AFR 2,023,590 1432
2015 Blue and John Crow Mountains JM M LAC 26,252 1356
2016 Antigua Naval Dockyard and Related Archaeological Sites AG C LAC 255 1499
2016 The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities IQ M ARB 211,544 1481
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 Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site BR C LAC 0 1548
2017 ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape ZA C AFR 959,100 1545
2018 Ancient City of Qalhat OM C ARB 76 1537
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
2019 Paraty and Ilha Grande – Culture and Biodiversity BR M LAC 173,164 1308
2019 Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape ES C EUR 9,425 1578
2021 Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes * DE C EUR 813 1631
2021 Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes * NL C EUR 813 1631
2021 Ivindo National Park GA N AFR 298,758 1653
2021 Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’Ivoire CI C AFR 0 1648
2021 The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales GB C EUR 3,259 1633
2021 Trans-Iranian Railway IR C APA 5,784 1585
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 Jodensavanne Archaeological Site: Jodensavanne Settlement and Cassipora Creek Cemetery SR C LAC 25 1680
2023 Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba, Marib YE C ARB 375 1700
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)

  2. The “Hadrian’s Wall” which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the transnational property “Frontiers of the Roman Empire”.

  3. The “Hadrian’s Wall” which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the transnational property “Frontiers of the Roman Empire”.

  4. Extension of "Jaú National Park".

*: 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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Cultural Natural Mixed

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