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States Parties with properties out of 195
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Cultural
Natural
Mixed
Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1979 Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1 TZ M AFR 809,440 39
1979 Virunga National Park # CD N AFR 800,000 63
1983 Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve SC N AFR 20 261
1989 Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls # * ZM N AFR 6,860 509
1989 Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls # * ZW N AFR 6,860 509
1997 Lake Turkana National Parks KE N AFR 161,485 801
2005 Vredefort Dome ZA N AFR 30,000 1162
2013 Namib Sand Sea NA N AFR 3,077,700 1430
2018 Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains ZA N AFR 113,137 1575
Notes
  1. (renomination under cultural criteria)

*: 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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Property inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger

Cultural Natural Mixed

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