Twenty-seven new sites inscribed

The World Heritage Committee, meeting for its 32nd session, finished inscribing new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on 8 July with the addition of 19 cultural sites and eight natural sites to the List.

New cultural sites inscribed during the 32nd session:

• Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia)
• Fujian Tulou (China)
• Stari Grad Plain (Croatia)
• Historic Centre of Camagüey (Cuba)
• Fortifications of Vauban (France)
• Berlin Modernism Housing Estates (Germany)
• Armenian Monastic Ensembles in Iran (Iran)
• Baha’i Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee (Israel)
• Mantua and Sabbioneta (Italy)
• Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests (Kenya)
• Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca (Malaysia)
• Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús de Nazareno de Atotonilco (Mexico)
• Le Morne Cultural Landscape (Mauritius)
• Kuk Early Agricultural Site (Papua New Guinea)
• San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano (San Marino)
• Archaeological Site of Al-Hijr (Madâin Sâlih) (Saudi Arabia)
• Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area (Slovakia)
• Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Cultural Landscape (Switzerland and Italy)
• Chief Roi Mata's Domain (Vanuatu)

Natural properties inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List during the 32nd session:

• Joggins Fossil Cliffs (Canada)
• Mount Sanqingshan National Park (China)
• Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems (France)
• Surtsey (Iceland)
• Saryarka - Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)
• Monarch Butterfly biosphere Reserve (Mexico)
• Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona (Switzerland)
• Socotra Archipelago (Yemen)

Extensions added onto properties already on the World Heritage List:

• Historic centres of Berat and Gjirokastra (Albania)
• Mountain Railways of India (India)
  
• Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain (Spain)
  
• Frontiers of the Roman Empire (United Kingdom, Germany)

The following countries have had sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List for the first time this year: Papua New Guinea; San Marino and Saudi Arabia, Vanuatu .

UNESCO’s World Heritage List now numbers a total of 878 sites, 679 cultural and 174 natural sites and 25 mixed in 145 countries.

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