Twenty-five new properties inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List which now numbers 936
The World Heritage Committee has inscribed a total of 25 sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List, including three natural properties, 21 cultural and one mixed site. Two properties were added to the World Heritage List in Danger and one was removed from that list. The World Heritage List now numbers 936 properties: 183 natural sites; 725 cultural; and 28 mixed.
Natural properties:
- Ningaloo Coast (Australia)
- Ogasawara Islands (Japan)
- Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya)
Mixed natural and cultural properties:
- Wadi Rum Protected Area (Jordan)
Cultural Properties:
- Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison (Barbados)
- West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou (China)
- Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia (Colombia)
- The Persian Garden (Iran)
- Konso Cultural Landscape (Ethiopia)
- The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean Agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape (France)
- Fagus Factory in Alfeld (Germany)
- Longobards in Italy. Places of the power (568-774 A.D.) (Italy)
- Hiraizumi - Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing The Buddhist Pure Land (Japan)
- Fort Jesus, Mombasa (Kenya)
- Petroglyphs Complexes of the Mongolian Altai (Mongolia)
- León Cathedral (Nicaragua)
- Saloum Delta (Senegal)
- Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana (Spain)
- Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe (Sudan)
- Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps (Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia)
- Ancient Villages of Northern Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)
- Selimiye Mosque Complex at Edirne (Turkey)
- Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas) (United Arab Emirates)
- The Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans (Ukraine)
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty (Viet Nam)
Extensions:
- Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (Slovakia, Ukraine, Germany)
Additions to the World Heritage List in Danger:
- Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve (Honduras)
- Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (Indonesia)
Removed from World Heritage List in Danger:
- Manas Wildlife Sanctuary (India)
Other news
- Four new sites inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List Tuesday, June 28, 2011
- Six new sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List Monday, June 27, 2011
- Sites in Ethiopia, Kenya and Viet Nam inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List Monday, June 27, 2011
- World Heritage Committee inscribes five new sites in Colombia, Sudan, Jordan, Italy and Germany Saturday, June 25, 2011
- Barbados enters World Heritage List with Bridgetown and its Garrison; Hiraizumi (Japan) and Germany’s Beech Forests also inscribed Saturday, June 25, 2011
- Ancient Chinese cultural landscape, the West Lake of Hangzhou, inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List Friday, June 24, 2011
- Japan's Ogasawara Islands on UNESCO's World Heritage List Friday, June 24, 2011
- Senegal’s Saloum Delta inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List Friday, June 24, 2011
- Danger listing for Indonesia’s Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra Wednesday, June 22, 2011