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Grand Place ~ Brussels

THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST

AFGHANISTAN
2002 Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam
2003Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley

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ALBANIA
1992, 1999 Butrint

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ALGERIA
1980 Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad
1982 Tassili n'Ajjer
1982 M'Zab Valley
1982 Djémila
1982 Tipasa
1982 Timgad
1992 Kasbah of Algiers

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ANDORRA
2004Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley

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ARGENTINA
1981 Los Glaciares
1984 Iguazu National Park
1999 Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas
1999 Península Valdés
2000 Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
2000 Ischigualasto/ Talampaya Natural Parks
2003Quebrada de Humahuaca

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ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL
1984 Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis:
San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missoes (Brazil)

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ARMENIA
1996, 2000 Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin
2000 Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley
2000 Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots

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AUSTRALIA
1981 Great Barrier Reef
1981 Kakadu National Park
1981 Willandra Lakes Region
1982 Tasmanian Wilderness
1982 Lord Howe Island Group
1987 Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
1987 Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves (Australia)
1988 Wet Tropics of Queensland
1991 Shark Bay, Western Australia
1992 Fraser Island
1994 Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte)
1997 Heard and McDonald Islands
1997 Macquarie Island
2000 Greater Blue Mountains Area
2003Purnululu National Park
2004Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens

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AUSTRIA
1996 Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
1996 Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
1997 Hallstatt-Dachstein Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape
1998 Semmering Railway
1999 City of Graz – Historic Centre
2000 Wachau Cultural Landscape
2001 Historic Centre of Vienna

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AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY
2001 Cultural Landscape of Fertö/Neusiedlersee

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AZERBAIJAN
2000 Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower

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BANGLADESH
1985 Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat
1985 Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur
1997 The Sundarbans

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BELARUS
2000 Mir Castle Complex

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BELARUS/POLAND
1979, 1992 Belovezhskaya Pushcha/Bialowieza Forest

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BELGIUM
1998 Flemish Béguinages
1998 The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainault)
1998 Grand-Place, Brussels
1999 Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia
2000 Historic Centre of Brugge
2000 Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
2000 Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons)
2000 Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai

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BELIZE
1996 Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System

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BENIN
1985 Royal Palaces of Abomey

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BOLIVIA
1987 City of Potosí
1990 Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
1991 Historic City of Sucre
1998 Fuerte de Samaipata
2000 Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
2000 Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture

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BOTSWANA
2001 Tsodilo

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Mount Huangshan ~ China

BRAZIL
1980 Historic Town of Ouro Preto
1982 Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda
1985 Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia
1985 Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas
1986 Iguaçu National Park
1987 Brasilia
1991 Serra da Capivara National Park
1997 Historic Centre of São Luis
1999 Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina
1999 Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves
1999 Atlantic Forest Southeast Reserves
2000 Pantanal Conservation Area
2000 Jaú National Park
2001 Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks
2001 Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves
2001 Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás
See also Argentina and Brazil

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BULGARIA
1979 Boyana Church
1979 Madara Rider
1979 Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
1979 Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
1983 Ancient City of Nessebar
1983 Srebarna Nature Reserve
1983 Pirin National Park
1983 Rila Monastery
1985 Thracian tomb of Sveshtari

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CAMBODIA
1992 Angkor

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CAMEROON
1987 Dja Faunal Reserve

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CANADA
1978 L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
1978 Nahanni National Park
1979 Dinosaur Provincial Park
1981 SGaang Gwaii (Anthony Island)
1981 Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
1983 Wood Buffalo National Park
1984 Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks*
1985 Historic District of Québec
1987 Gros Morne National Park
1995 Old Town Lunenburg
1999 Miguasha Park

*The Burgess Shale Site, previously inscribed on the WHL, is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.

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CANADA and the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1979 Kluane/Wrangell-St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek
1995 Waterton Glacier International Peace Park

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
1988 Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park

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CHILE
1995 Rapa Nui National Park
2000 Churches of Chiloé
2003 Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso

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CHINA
1987 The Great Wall
1987 Mount Taishan
1987 Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
1987 Mogao Caves
1987 Mausoleum of the First Qin Emporer
1987 Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
1990 Mount Huangshan
1992 Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area
1992 Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area
1992 Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area
1994 Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde
1994 Temple and Cemetery of Confucius, and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu
1994 Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains
1994, 2000, 2001 Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa
1996 Lushan National Park
1996 Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
1997 Old Town of Lijiang
1997 Ancient City of Ping Yao
1997, 2000 Classical Gardens of Suzhou
1998 Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
1998 Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
1999 Mount Wuyi
1999 Dazu Rock Carvings
2000 Mount Qincheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System
2000 Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - Xidi and Hongcun
2000 Longmen Grottoes
2000 Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
2001 Yungang Grottoes
2003 Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
2004Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom

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Angkor ~ Cambodia

COLOMBIA
1984 Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena
1994 Los Katios National Park
1995 Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox
1995 National Archaeological Park of Tierradentro
1995 San Agustín Archaeological Park

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COSTA RICA
1997, 2002 Cocos Island National Park
1999, 2004 Area de Conservación Guanacaste

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COSTA RICA/PANAMA
1983 Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves/ La Amistad National Park

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COTE D'IVOIRE
1982 Taï National Park
1983 Comoé National Park
See also Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire

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CROATIA
1979, 1994 Old City of Dubrovnik
1979 Historic Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian
1979, 2000 Plitvice Lakes National Park
1997 Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Porec
1997 Historic City of Trogir
2000 Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik

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CUBA
1982 Old Havana and its Fortifications
1988 Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
1997 San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba
1999 Desembarco del Granma National Park
1999 Viñales Valley
2000 Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the Southeast of Cuba
2001 Alejandro de Humboldt National Park

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CYPRUS
1980 Paphos
1985, 2001 Painted Churches in the Troodos Region
1998 Choirokoitia

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CZECH REPUBLIC
1992 Historic Centre of Prague
1992 Historic Centre of Ceský Krumlov
1992 Historic Centre of Telc
1994 Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk at Zelena Hora
1995 Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of Saint Barbara and the Cathedral of our Lady at Sedlec
1996 Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
1998 Holašovice Historical Village Reservation
1998 Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
1999 Litomyšl Castle
2000 Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
2001 Tugendhat Villa in Brno
2003 Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica in Trebíc
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
2004 Complex of Koguryo Tombs

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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
1979 Virunga National Park
1980 Kahuzi-Biega National Park
1980 Garamba National Park
1984 Salonga National Park
1996 Okapi Wildlife Reserve

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Versailles ~ France

DENMARK
1994 Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church
1995 Roskilde Cathedral
2000 Kronborg Castle
2004 Ilulissat Icefjord

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DOMINICA
1997 Morne Trois Pitons National Park

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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1990 Colonial City of Santo Domingo

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ECUADOR
1978, 2001 Galápagos Islands
1978 City of Quito
1983 Sangay National Park
1999 Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca

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EGYPT
1979 Memphis and its Necropolis - the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
1979 Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
1979 Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
1979 Islamic Cairo
1979 Abu Mena
2002 Saint Catherine Area

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EL SALVADOR
1993 Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site

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ESTONIA
1997 Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn

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ETHIOPIA
1978 Rock-hewn Churches, Lalibela
1978 Simien National Park
1979 Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region
1980 Aksum
1980 Lower Valley of the Awash
1980 Lower Valley of the Omo
1980 Tiya

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FINLAND
1991 Old Rauma
1991 Fortress of Suomenlinna
1994 Petäjävesi Old Church
1996 Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
1999 Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki

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FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF MACEDONIA
1979 Ohrid Region with its Cultural and Historic Aspect and its Natural Environment

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FRANCE
1979 Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay
1979 Chartres Cathedral
1979 Palace and Park of Versailles
1979 Vézelay, Church and Hill
1979 Decorated Grottoes of the Vézère Valley
1981 Palace and Park of Fontainebleau
1981 Amiens Cathedral
1981 Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange
1981 Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles
1981 Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
1982 Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
1983 Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière, and Place d'Alliance in Nancy
1983 Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
1983 Cape Girolata, Cape Porto, Scandola Nature Reserve and the Piana Calanches in Corsica
1985 Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)
1988 Strasbourg-Grande île
1991 Paris, Banks of the Seine
1991 Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Palace of Tau, Reims
1992 Bourges Cathedral
1995 Historic Centre of Avignon
1996 Canal du Midi
1997 Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne
1998 Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
1998 Historic Site of Lyons
1999 Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion
2000 The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes*
2001 Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs
*The Chateau and Estate of Chambord, previously inscribed on the WHL, is part of the The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes.

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Budapest ~ Hungary

FRANCE / SPAIN
1997 Pyrénées - Mont Perdu

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GAMBIA
2003 James Island and Related Sites

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GEORGIA
1994 City-Museum Reserve of Mtskheta
1994 Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery
1996 Upper Svaneti

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GERMANY
1978 Aachen Cathedral
1981 Speyer Cathedral
1981 Würzburg Residence, with the Court Gardens and Residence Square
1983 Pilgrimage Church of Wies
1984 Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl
1985 St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim
1986 Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier
1987 Hanseatic City of Lübeck
1990 Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
1991 Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
1992 Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar
1993 Town of Bamberg
1993 Maulbronn Monastery Complex
1994 Collegiate Church, Castle, and old Town of Quedlinburg
1994 Völklingen Ironworks
1995 Messel Pit Fossil site
1996 Cologne Cathedral
1996 Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau
1996 Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg
1998 Classical Weimar
1999 Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
1999 Wartburg Castle
2000 Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
2000 Monastic Island of Reichenau
2001 Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
2002 Upper Middle Rhine Valley
2002 Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar
2004 Muskauer Park / Park Muzakowski
2004 Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen
2004 Dresden Elbe Valley

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GHANA
1979 Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
1980 Asante Traditional Buildings

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GREECE
1986 Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
1987 Archaeological Site of Delphi
1987 Acropolis, Athens
1988 Mount Athos
1988 Meteora
1988 Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika
1988 Archaeological Site of Epidaurus
1988 Medieval City of Rhodes
1989 Mystras
1989 Archaeological Site of Olympia
1990 Delos
1990 Monasteries of Daphni, Hossios Luckas and Nea Moni of Chios
1992 Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
1996 Archaeological Site of Vergina
1999 Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns
1999 Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint John "the Theologian" and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos

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GUATEMALA
1979 Tikal National Park
1979 Antigua Guatemala
1981 Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua

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GUINEA AND COTE D'IVOIRE
1981 Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve

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HAITI
1982 National History Park -- Citadel, Sans-Souci, Ramiers

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HOLY SEE
1984 Vatican City
See also Italy and the Holy See

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HONDURAS
1980 Maya Site of Copan
1982 Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve

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HUNGARY
1987, 2002 Budapest, the Banks of the Danube and the Buda Castle Quarter
1987 Hollokö
1996 Millenary Benedictine Monastery of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment
1999 Hortobágy National Park
2000 Pécs (Sopianae) Early Christian Cemetery
2002 Tokaji Wine Region Cultural Landscape
See also Austria and Hungary

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HUNGARY AND SLOVAKIA
1995, 2000 Caves of the Aggtelek and Slovak Karst

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ICELAND
2004 Þingvellir National Park

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Vienna ~ Austria

INDIA
1983 Ajanta Caves
1983 Ellora Caves
1983 Agra Fort
1983 Taj Mahal
1984 Sun Temple, Konarak
1985 Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
1985 Kaziranga National Park
1985 Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
1985 Keoladeo National Park
1986 Churches and Convents of Goa
1986 Khajuraho Group of Monuments
1986 Group of Monuments at Hampi
1986 Fatehpur Sikri
1987 Group of Monuments at Pattadakal
1987 Elephanta Caves
1987 Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur
1987 Sundarbans National Park
1988 Nanda Devi National Park
1989 Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi
1993 Humayun's Tomb, Delhi
1993 Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi
1999 Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
2002 Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya
2003 Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
2004 Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)
2004 Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park

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INDONESIA
1991 Borobudur Temple Compounds
1991 Ujung Kulon National Park
1991 Komodo National Park
1991 Prambanan Temple Compounds
1996 Sangiran Early Man Site
1999 Lorentz National Park
2004 Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra

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IRAN
1979 Tchogha Zanbil
1979 Persepolis
1979 Meidan Emam, Esfahan
2003 Takht-e Soleyman
2004 Bam and its Cultural Landscape
2004 Bam and its Cultural Landscape

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IRAQ
1985 Hatra
2003 Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)

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IRELAND
1993 Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne
1996 Skellig Michael

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ISRAEL
2001 Masada
2001 Old City of Acre
2003 White City of Tel-Aviv -- the Modern Movement

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ITALY
1979 Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
1980 Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci
1982 Historic Centre of Florence
1987 Venice and its Lagoon
1987 Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
1990 Historic Centre of San Gimignano
1993 I Sassi di Matera
1994 City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
1995 Historic Centre of Siena
1995 Historic Centre of Naples
1995 Crespi d'Adda
1995 Ferrara, City of the Renaissance and its Po Delta
1996 Castel del Monte
1996 The trulli of Alberobello
1996 Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
1996 Historic Centre of the City of Pienza
1997 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and the San Leucio Complex
1997 Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
1997 Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
1997 Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
1997 Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena
1997 Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum, and Torre Annunziata
1997 Costiera Amalfitana
1997 Archaeological Area of Agrigento
1997 Villa Romana del Casale
1997 Su Nuraxi di Barumini
1998 Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
1998 Historic Centre of Urbino
1998 Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
1999 Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
2000 Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
2000 Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
2000 City of Verona
2001 Villa d'Este, Tivoli
2002 Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-eastern Sicily)
2003 Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
2004 Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
2004 Val d'Orcia

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ITALY/HOLY SEE
1980, 1990 Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights, and San Paolo Fuori le Mura

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Meteora ~ Greece

JAPAN
1993 Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area
1993 Himeji-jo
1993 Yakushima
1993 Shirakami-Sanchi
1994 Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)
1995 Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
1996 Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
1996 Itsukushima Shinto Shrine
1998 Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
1999 Shrines and Temples of Nikko
2000 Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu
2004 Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range

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JERUSALEM
1981 Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls (site proposed by Jordan)

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JORDAN
1985 Petra
1985 Quseir Amra
2004 Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a)

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KENYA
1997 Mount Kenya National Park / Natural Forest
1997, 2001 Lake Turkana National Parks
2001 Lamu Old Town

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LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
1995 Town of Luang Prabang
2001 Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape

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LATVIA
1997 Historic Centre of Riga

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LEBANON
1984 Anjar
1984 Baalbek
1984 Byblos
1984 Tyre
1998 Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)

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LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA
1982 Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna
1982 Archaeological Site of Sabratha
1982 Archaeological Site of Cyrene
1985 Rock-art Sites of Tadrart Acacus
1988 Old Town of Ghadames

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LITHUANIA
1994 Vilnius Historic Centre
2004 Kernave Archaeological Site (Cultural Reserve of Kernave)

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LITHUANIA / RUSSIAN FEDERATION
2000 Curonian Spit

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LUXEMBOURG
1994 City of Luxemburg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications

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MADAGASCAR
1990 Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve
2001 The Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

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MALAWI
1984 Lake Malawi National Park

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MALAYSIA
2000 Gunung Mulu National Park
2000 Kinabalu Park

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MALI
1988 Old Towns of Djenné
988 Timbuktu
1989 Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)
2004 Tomb of Askia

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MALTA
1980 Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
1980 City of Valetta
1980 Megalithic Temples of Malta

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MAURITANIA
1989 Banc d'Arguin National Park
1996 Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata

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MEXICO
1987 Sian Ka'an
1987 Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque
1987 Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco
1987 Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan
1987 Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Alban
1987 Historic Centre of Puebla
1988 Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines
1988 Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
1991 Historic Centre of Morelia
1992 El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City
1993 Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
1993 Historic Centre of Zacatecas
1993 Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
1994 Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl
1996 Prehispanic Town of Uxmal
1996 Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro
1997 Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara
1998 Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan
1998 Archeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes
1999 Historic Fortified Town of Campeche
1999 Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco
2002 Ancient Maya City of Calakmul, Campeche
2003 Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro
2004 Luis Barragán House and Studio

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Kinderdijk ~ Netherlands

MONGOLIA
2003 Uvs Nuur Basin
2004 Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape

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MOROCCO
1981 Medina of Fez
1985 Medina of Marrakesh
1987 Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou
1996 Historic City of Meknes
1997 Archaeological Site of Volubilis
1997 Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin)
2001 Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)
2004 Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida)

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MOZAMBIQUE
1991 Island of Mozambique

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NEPAL
1979 Sagarmatha National Park
1979 Kathmandu Valley
1984 Royal Chitwan National Park
1997 Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha

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NETHERLANDS
1995 Schokland and Surroundings
1996 Defense Line of Amsterdam
1997 Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout
1997 Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City, and Harbour, Netherlands Antilles
1998 Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station)
1999 Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder)
2000 Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House)

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NEW ZEALAND
1990 Tongariro National Park
1990 Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand*
1998 New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands
* Westland/Mount Cook National Park and Fiordland National Park, previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of this site.

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NICARAGUA
2000 Ruins of León Viejo

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NIGER
1991 Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves
1996 W National Park of Niger

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NIGERIA
1999 Sukur Cultural Landscape

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NORWAY
1979 Urnes Stave Church
1979 Bryggen
1980 Røros
1985 Rock Drawings of Alta
2004 Vegaøyan -- The Vega Archipelago

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OMAN
1987 Bahla Fort
1988 Archaeological sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
1994 Arabian Oryx Sanctuary
2000 The Frankincense Trail

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