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Cultural
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Natural
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Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1979 Abu Mena EG C ARB 183 90
1979 Ancient City of Damascus SY C ARB 86 20
1979 Everglades National Park US N EUR 567,017 76
1979 Virunga National Park # CD N AFR 800,000 63
1980 Ancient City of Bosra SY C ARB 116 22
1980 Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo PA C LAC 0 135
1980 Garamba National Park CD N AFR 500,000 136
1980 Kahuzi-Biega National Park CD N AFR 600,000 137
1980 Site of Palmyra SY C ARB 1,640 23
1981 Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve * CI N AFR 17,540 155
1981 Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve * GN N AFR 17,540 155
1981 Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls C ARB 0 148
1982 Archaeological Site of Cyrene LY C ARB 132 190
1982 Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna LY C ARB 387 183
1982 Archaeological Site of Sabratha LY C ARB 91 184
1982 Old Walled City of Shibam YE C ARB 0 192
1982 Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve HN N LAC 350,000 196
1982 Selous Game Reserve TZ N AFR 5,120,000 199
1985 Hatra IQ C ARB 324 277
1985 Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus LY C ARB 3,923,961 287
1986 Ancient City of Aleppo SY C ARB 364 21
1986 Chan Chan Archaeological Zone PE C LAC 1,415 366
1986 Old City of Sana'a YE C ARB 0 385
1986 Old Town of Ghadamès LY C ARB 288 362
1987 City of Potosí BO C LAC 2,211 420
1988 Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park CF N AFR 1,740,000 475
1988 Old Towns of Djenné ML C AFR 0 116
1988 Timbuktu ML C AFR 0 119
1990 Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra UA C EUR 29 527
1991 Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves NE N AFR 7,736,000 573
1993 Coro and its Port VE C LAC 18 658
1993 Historic Town of Zabid YE C ARB 0 611
1996 Okapi Wildlife Reserve CD N AFR 1,372,625 718
1997 Lake Turkana National Parks KE N AFR 161,485 801
1998 East Rennell SB N APA 37,000 854
1998 L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre UA C EUR 120 865
2000 Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz UZ C APA 240 885
2001 Historic Centre of Vienna AT C EUR 371 1033
2002 Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam AF C APA 70 211
2003 Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat) IQ C ARB 70 1130
2003 Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley AF C APA 159 208
2004 Medieval Monuments in Kosovo RS C EUR 3 724
2004 Tomb of Askia ML C AFR 4 1139
2004 Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra ID N APA 2,595,124 1167
2005 Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California MX N LAC 688,558 1182
2006 Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din SY C ARB 9 1229
2007 Rainforests of the Atsinanana MG N AFR 479,661 1257
2007 Samarra Archaeological City IQ C ARB 15,058 276
2011 Ancient Villages of Northern Syria SY C ARB 12,290 1348
2014 Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines – Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir PS C ARB 349 1492
2016 Nan Madol: Ceremonial Centre of Eastern Micronesia FM C APA 77 1503
2017 Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town PS C ARB 21 1565
2021 Roșia Montană Mining Landscape RO C EUR 0 1552
2023 Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba, Marib YE C ARB 375 1700
2023 Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli LB C ARB 72 1702
2023 The Historic Centre of Odesa UA C EUR 619 1703
2024 Saint Hilarion Monastery/ Tell Umm Amer PS C ARB 1 1749

*: 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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