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

Africa

Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Gabon
Guinea
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Namibia
Niger
Rwanda
Senegal
Seychelles
South Africa
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Asia and the Pacific

Australia
Bangladesh
China
India
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kiribati
Kyrgyzstan
Malaysia
Mongolia
Nepal
New Zealand
Philippines
Republic of Korea
Solomon Islands
Sri Lanka
Tajikistan
Thailand
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Viet Nam

Europe and North America

Albania
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Canada
Croatia
Czechia
Denmark
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Montenegro
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
North Macedonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russian Federation
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United States of America

Latin America and the Caribbean

Argentina
Belize
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Brazil
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Ecuador
Honduras
Mexico
Panama
Peru
Saint Lucia
Suriname
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Notes
  1. Extension of the "Australian East Coast Temperate and Subtropical Rainforest Park".

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

  2. 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".

  3. 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.

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

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

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

  7. Extension of "Gough Island Wildlife Reserve".

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

  9. 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

Legend
Category of property

Cultural Natural Mixed

Property inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger

Cultural Natural Mixed

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