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Nominations to the World Heritage List
WHC-14/38.COM/8B

Title
Nominations to the World Heritage List
Date:
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Code:
WHC-14/38.COM/8B
Decisions
38COM/8B.1/ Changes to names of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List: Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta 38COM/8B.2/ Changes to names of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List: Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå, Sweden 38COM/8B.3/ Changes to names of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List: Grimeton Radio Station, Varberg, Sweden 38COM/8B.5/ Okavango Delta (Botswana) 38COM/8B.9/ South China Karst (China) (extension) 38COM/8B.10/ Stevns Klint (Denmark) 38COM/8B.11/ Tectono-volcanic ensemble of the Chaîne des Puys and Limagne Fault (France) (refered nomination) 38COM/8B.12/ Białowieża Forest (Belarus/Poland) 38COM/8B.13/ Wadden Sea (Denmark/Germany/ Netherlands) 38COM/8B.14/ Trang An Landscape Complex (Viet Nam) 38COM/8B.16/ Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche (Mexico) 38COM/8B.17/ Tongo-Tangzuk Tallensi Cultural Landscape, Ghana 38COM/8B.18/ Mount Mulanje Cultural Landscape (Malawi) 38COM/8B.19/ Barotse Cultural Landscape (Zambia) 38COM/8B.20/ Erbil Citadel (Iraq) 38COM/8B.21/ Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah (Saudi Arabia) 38COM/8B.22/ Khor Dubai (Dubai Creek) (United Arab Emirates) 38COM/8B.23/ The Grand Canal (China) 38COM/8B.24/ Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang’an – Tian-shan Corridor (China/Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan) 38COM/8B.25/ Rani-ki-Vav (The Queen’s Stepwell) at Patan, Gujarat (India) 38COM/8B.26/ Shahr-i Sokhta (Islamic Republic of Iran) 38COM/8B.27/ Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites (Japan) 38COM/8B.28/ Pyu Ancient Cities (Myanmar) 38COM/8B.29/ Namhansanseong (Republic of Korea) 38COM/8B.30/ Silk Roads: Penjikent-Samarkand-Poykent Corridor (Tajikistan/Uzbekistan) 38COM/8B.32/ Decorated cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche (France) 38COM/8B.33/ Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey (Germany) 38COM/8B.34/ Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves (Israel) 38COM/8B.35/ Van Nellefabriek (Netherlands) 38COM/8B.37/ Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) 38COM/8B.38/ Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape (Turkey) 38COM/8B.39/ Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point (United States of America) 38COM/8B.41/ Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato (Italy) 38COM/8B.43/ Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System (Argentina / Bolivia / Chile / Colombia / Ecuador / Peru) 38COM/8B.44/ Precolumbian chiefdom settlements with stone spheres of the Diquís (Costa Rica) 38COM/8B.45/ Adoption of the Statements of Outstanding Universal Value of properties inscribed at the 37th session (Phnom Penh, 2013) 38COM/8C.1/ Update of the List of World Heritage in Danger (inscribed sites) 38COM/13/ Other business
Description

This document presents the nominations to be examined by the Committee at its 38th session (Doha, 2014). It is divided into four sections:

I Changes to names of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List
II Examination of nominations of natural, mixed and cultural properties to the World Heritage List
III Statements of Outstanding Universal Value of the three properties inscribed at the 37th session (Phnom Penh, 2013) and not adopted by the World Heritage Committee
IV Record of the physical attributes of each property being discussed at the 38th session

The document presents for each nomination the proposed Draft Decision based on the recommendations of the appropriate Advisory Body(ies) as included in WHC-14/38.COM/INF.8B1 and WHC-14/38.COM/INF.8B2 and it provides a record of the physical attributes of each property being discussed at the 38th session. The information is presented in two parts:

  • a table of the total surface area of each property and any buffer zone proposed, together with the geographic coordinates of each site's approximate centre point; and
  • a set of separate tables presenting the component parts of each of the 16 proposed serial properties.
Author:
World Heritage Centre
Copyright:
© UNESCO
Language: English en
Editor: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO
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