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231
Properties
Transboundary
105
States Parties with properties out of 196
Delisted
In Danger
0
Cultural
Natural
0
Mixed

Albania

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Cameroon

Canada

Central African Republic

Chad

China

Colombia

Congo

Costa Rica

Côte d'Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba

Czechia

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Denmark

Dominica

Ecuador

Egypt

Ethiopia

Finland

France

Gabon

Georgia

Germany

Guinea

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Italy

Japan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kiribati

Kyrgyzstan

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Mauritania

Mexico

Mongolia

Montenegro

Namibia

Nepal

Netherlands (Kingdom of the)

New Zealand

Niger

North Macedonia

Norway

Oman

Panama

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Republic of Korea

Romania

Russian Federation

Rwanda

Saint Lucia

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Seychelles

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Sweden

Switzerland

Tajikistan

Thailand

Tunisia

Turkmenistan

Uganda

Ukraine

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

United Republic of Tanzania

United States of America

Uzbekistan

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Viet Nam

Yemen

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Notes
  1. Extension of the "Australian East Coast Temperate and Subtropical Rainforest Park".

    name changed 2007 from 'Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves (Australia)'

  2. Extension of "Jaú National Park".

  3. Extension of the "Glacier Bay/Wrangell/St Elias/Kluane" property.

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

  5. The Westland and Mount Cook National Park and the Fiordland National Park, which were previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of the "Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand".

  6. At the time the property was extended, natural criterion (iv) was also found applicable.

  7. The WH area is managed directly by the Divisional Forest Officer from the Forest Dept. A national steering Committee co-ordinates institutions for Sinharaja as a National Wilderness Area, Biosphere Reserve (1988), and WH site. There are two management plans, prepared in 1985/86 and 1992/94, which emphasise conservation, scientific research, buffer zone management, benefit-sharing, and community participation.

  8. Extension of "Gough Island Wildlife Reserve".

  9. Extension of the "Glacier Bay/Wrangell/St Elias/Kluane" property.

*: 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

Legend
Category of property

Cultural Natural Mixed

Property inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger

Cultural Natural Mixed

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