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Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1978 Galápagos Islands EC N LAC 14,066,514 1
1978 Nahanni National Park # CA N EUR 476,560 24
1978 Yellowstone National Park US N EUR 898,349 28
1979 Dinosaur Provincial Park CA N EUR 7,825 71
1979 Everglades National Park US N EUR 567,017 76
1979 Grand Canyon National Park US N EUR 493,270 75
1979 Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek # * 1 CA N EUR 9,839,121 72
1979 Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek # * 2 US N EUR 9,839,121 72
1979 Ngorongoro Conservation Area 3 TZ M AFR 809,440 39
1979 Plitvice Lakes National Park # HR N EUR 29,631 98
1979 Virunga National Park # CD N AFR 800,000 63
1980 Durmitor National Park ME N EUR 32,100 100
1981 Great Barrier Reef AU N APA 34,870,000 154
1981 Los Glaciares National Park # AR N LAC 726,927 145
1981 Mammoth Cave National Park US N EUR 21,191 150
1981 Willandra Lakes Region AU M APA 240,000 167
1982 Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve HN N LAC 350,000 196
1982 Tasmanian Wilderness AU M APA 1,584,233 181
1982 Tassili n'Ajjer # DZ M ARB 7,200,000 179
1983 Great Smoky Mountains National Park US N EUR 209,000 259
1983 Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve # FR N EUR 11,800 258
1983 Pirin National Park BG N EUR 38,350 225
1983 Sangay National Park # EC N LAC 271,925 260
1983 Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park * CR N LAC 570,045 205
1983 Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park * PA N LAC 570,045 205
1983 Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve SC N AFR 20 261
1984 Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks # 4 CA N EUR 2,360,000 304
1984 Yosemite National Park # US N EUR 307,934 308
1985 Huascarán National Park # PE N LAC 340,000 333
1986 Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast GB N EUR 239 369
1986 Gondwana Rainforests of Australia 5 AU N APA 370,000 368
1986 Škocjan Caves # SI N EUR 413 390
1987 Gros Morne National Park CA N EUR 180,500 419
1987 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park # US N EUR 87,940 409
1987 Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park 6 AU M APA 132,566 447
1988 Wet Tropics of Queensland AU N APA 893,453 486
1989 Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls # * ZM N AFR 6,860 509
1989 Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls # * ZW N AFR 6,860 509
1990 Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand 7 NZ N APA 2,600,000 551
1990 Tongariro National Park # NZ M APA 79,596 421
1991 Shark Bay, Western Australia AU N APA 2,200,902 578
1992 K’gari (Fraser Island) AU N APA 181,851 630
1994 Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte) AU N APA 10,326 698
1994 Canaima National Park VE N LAC 3,000,000 701
1994 Ha Long Bay - Cat Ba Archipelago VN N APA 65,650 672
1995 Carlsbad Caverns National Park US N EUR 18,926 721
1995 Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst * HU N EUR 56,651 725
1995 Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst * SK N EUR 56,651 725
1995 Messel Pit Fossil Site DE N EUR 42 720
1996 Lake Baikal RU N EUR 8,800,000 754
1996 Laponian Area SE M EUR 940,900 774
1996 Volcanoes of Kamchatka 8 RU N EUR 3,995,769 765
1997 Heard and McDonald Islands AU N APA 658,903 577
1997 Lake Turkana National Parks KE N AFR 161,485 801
1997 Macquarie Island AU N APA 557,280 629
1997 Morne Trois Pitons National Park DM N LAC 6,857 814
1997 Pyrénées - Mont Perdu * FR M EUR 30,639 773
1997 Pyrénées - Mont Perdu * ES M EUR 30,639 773
1999 Desembarco del Granma National Park CU N LAC 32,576 889
1999 Lorentz National Park ID N APA 2,350,000 955
1999 Miguasha National Park CA N EUR 87 686
2000 Gunung Mulu National Park MY N APA 52,864 1013
2000 High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago * FI N EUR 336,900 898
2000 High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago * SE N EUR 336,900 898
2000 Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks AR N LAC 275,369 966
2000 Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands) IT N EUR 1,216 908
2001 Dorset and East Devon Coast GB N EUR 2,550 1029
2001 Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch CH N EUR 82,400 1037
2003 Monte San Giorgio * IT N EUR 1,089 1090
2003 Monte San Giorgio * CH N EUR 1,089 1090
2003 Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park VN N APA 123,326 951
2003 Purnululu National Park AU N APA 239,723 1094
2003 Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas CN N APA 0 1083
2004 Ilulissat Icefjord DK N EUR 399,800 1149
2004 Pitons Management Area LC N LAC 2,909 1161
2005 Vredefort Dome ZA N AFR 30,000 1162
2005 Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley) EG N ARB 20,015 1186
2005 West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord NO N EUR 122,712 1195
2007 Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes KR N APA 9,522 1264
2007 South China Karst CN N APA 97,125 1248
2007 Teide National Park ES N EUR 18,990 1258
2008 Joggins Fossil Cliffs CA N EUR 689 1285
2008 Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona CH N EUR 32,850 1179
2009 The Dolomites IT N EUR 141,903 1237
2009 Wadden Sea * DK N EUR 1,143,403 1314
2009 Wadden Sea * DE N EUR 1,143,403 1314
2009 Wadden Sea * NL N EUR 1,143,403 1314
2010 China Danxia CN N APA 82,151 1335
2010 Papahānaumokuākea US M EUR 36,207,499 1326
2012 Chengjiang Fossil Site CN N APA 512 1388
2012 Lena Pillars Nature Park RU N EUR 1,387,000 1299
2013 El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve MX N LAC 714,566 1410
2013 Mount Etna IT N EUR 19,237 1427
2013 Namib Sand Sea NA N AFR 3,077,700 1430
2013 Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs) TJ N APA 2,611,674 1252
2014 Stevns Klint DK N EUR 50 1416
2014 Trang An Landscape Complex VN M APA 6,226 1438
2016 Lut Desert IR N APA 2,278,015 1505
2016 Mistaken Point CA N EUR 146 1497
2018 Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains ZA N AFR 113,137 1575
2018 Chaîne des Puys - Limagne fault tectonic arena FR N EUR 24,223 1434
2019 Vatnajökull National Park - Dynamic Nature of Fire and Ice IS N EUR 1,482,000 1604
2023 Anticosti CA N EUR 18,240 1686
2023 Evaporitic Karst and Caves of Northern Apennines IT N EUR 3,680 1692
2023 Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique FR N EUR 13,980 1657
2024 Badain Jaran Desert - Towers of Sand and Lakes CN N APA 726,291 1638
2024 Lençóis Maranhenses National Park BR N LAC 156,562 1611
Notes

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

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

  3. (renomination under cultural criteria)

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

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

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

  6. Renomination of "Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park" under cultural criteria.

  7. 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".

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

*: 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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Cultural Natural Mixed

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