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Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1978 Mesa Verde National Park US C EUR 21,043 27
1978 Yellowstone National Park US N EUR 898,349 28
1979 Everglades National Park US N EUR 567,017 76
1979 Grand Canyon National Park US N EUR 493,270 75
1979 Independence Hall US C EUR 2 78
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
1980 Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo PA C LAC 0 135
1980 Redwood National and State Parks US N EUR 41,571 134
1981 Mammoth Cave National Park US N EUR 21,191 150
1981 Olympic National Park US N EUR 369,660 151
1982 Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site US C EUR 541 198
1983 Great Smoky Mountains National Park US N EUR 209,000 259
1983 La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico US C EUR 33 266
1984 Statue of Liberty US C EUR 6 307
1984 Yosemite National Park # US N EUR 307,934 308
1987 Chaco Culture US C EUR 14,261 353
1987 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park # US N EUR 87,940 409
1987 Historic Centre of Puebla MX C LAC 690 416
1987 Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville US C EUR 796 442
1992 Taos Pueblo US C EUR 19 492
1993 Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino MX N LAC 369,631 554
1994 Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl MX C LAC 24 702
1995 Carlsbad Caverns National Park US N EUR 18,926 721
1995 Waterton Glacier International Peace Park * CA N EUR 457,614 354
1995 Waterton Glacier International Peace Park * US N EUR 457,614 354
1998 Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes MX C LAC 147 560
2003 Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro MX C LAC 104 1079
2004 Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski * PL C EUR 348 1127
2004 Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski * DE C EUR 348 1127
2007 Rideau Canal CA C EUR 21,455 1221
2010 Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site MH C APA 73,500 1339
2010 Camino Real de Tierra Adentro MX C LAC 3,102 1351
2010 Papahānaumokuākea US M EUR 36,207,499 1326
2013 El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve MX N LAC 714,566 1410
2014 Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point US C EUR 163 1435
2014 Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites JP C APA 7 1449
2015 San Antonio Missions US C EUR 301 1466
2019 The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright US C EUR 26 1496
2019 Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi CA C EUR 1,106 1597
2021 Ivindo National Park GA N AFR 298,758 1653
2021 The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales GB C EUR 3,259 1633
2023 Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks US C EUR 321 1689
Notes

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

  2. 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

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Cultural Natural Mixed

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