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Bookmark or Share- World Heritage | UNESCOToday, 195 countries adhere to the World Heritage Convention, as it is commonly known, and have become part of an international community united in a common mission to identify and safeguard our world’s most significant natural and cultural heritage.
- World Heritage Site - WikipediaAs of April 2024, a total of 1,199 World Heritage Sites (933 cultural, 227 natural and 39 mixed cultural and natural properties) exist across 168 countries. With 59 selected areas, Italy is the country with the most sites; followed by China with 57, then France and Germany with 52 each.
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre - World Heritage ListWorld Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.
- World Heritage site | Criteria, Definition, History, & ListWorld Heritage site, any of various areas or objects inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage List. The sites are designated as having “outstanding universal value” under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
- The World Heritage List | For UNESCO World Heritage TravellersComplete List By Country. This is the complete and up-to-date World Heritage List, ordered by country and followed by the number of locations and the year of inscription.
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