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Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1978 Nahanni National Park # CA N EUR 476,560 24
1979 Plitvice Lakes National Park # HR N EUR 29,631 98
1979 Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley FR C EUR 106 85
1981 Mammoth Cave National Park US N EUR 21,191 150
1982 Tasmanian Wilderness AU M APA 1,584,233 181
1983 Ajanta Caves IN C APA 8,242 242
1983 Ellora Caves IN C APA 0 243
1984 Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks # 1 CA N EUR 2,360,000 304
1985 Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain ES C EUR 0 310
1986 Škocjan Caves # SI N EUR 413 390
1987 Elephanta Caves IN C APA 0 244
1987 Mogao Caves CN C APA 23,392 440
1991 Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple LK C APA 0 561
1995 Carlsbad Caverns National Park US N EUR 18,926 721
1995 Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst * HU N EUR 56,651 725
1995 Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst * SK N EUR 56,651 725
1999 The Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint-John the Theologian and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos GR C EUR 0 942
2001 Yungang Grottoes CN C APA 349 1039
2010 Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valley of Oaxaca MX C LAC 1,515 1352
2012 Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves IL C EUR 54 1393
2014 Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves IL C EUR 259 1370
2014 Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche FR C EUR 9 1426
2014 Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor * CN C APA 42,668 1442
2014 Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor * KZ C APA 42,668 1442
2014 Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor * KG C APA 42,668 1442
2015 Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars FR C EUR 1,102 1465
2016 Gorham's Cave Complex GB C EUR 28 1500
2017 Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura DE C EUR 462 1527
2023 Evaporitic Karst and Caves of Northern Apennines IT N EUR 3,680 1692
Notes

  1. The "Burgess Shale" property, which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks".

*: 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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