Twenty-five New Properties Inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List

 

The World Heritage Committee has inscribed a total of 25 sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List, including three natural properties, 21 cultural and one mixed site, according to a statement issued by the Paris-based UN cultural branch on Tuesday.

After days of consultation and consideration, the World Heritage List is prolonged this year to number 936 properties, including 183 natural sites, 725 cultural sites and 28 mixed.

The World Heritage Committee, responsible for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention, adds new sites to the List each year.

This year, a total of 35 nominations, including natural, cultural and mixed properties have been reviewed by the Committee during the 10-day meeting starting from June 19.

As to the World Heritage List in Danger, Indonesia's Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra and Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve in Honduras were added to it and India's Manas Wildlife Sanctuary was removed from that list thanks for its improved conservation.

 

The following is the complete list of 25 new sites inscribed by UNESCO's World Heritage Committee during its 35th session at the Paris-based UN cultural branch.

The new names totaled properties on the World Heritage List to 936, including 183 natural sites, 725 cultural sites and 28 mixed.

Three Natural Properties:

Ningaloo Coast (Australia)

Ogasawara Islands (Japan)

Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya)

One Mixed natural and cultural properties:

Wadi Rum Protected Area (Jordan)

21 Cultural Properties

Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison (Barbados)

West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou (China)

Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia (Colombia)

The Persian Garden (Iran)

Konso Cultural Landscape (Ethiopia)

The Causses and the Cevennes, Mediterranean Agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape (France)

Fagus Factory in Alfeld (Germany)

Longobards in Italy. Places of the power (568-774 A.D.) (Italy)

Hiraizumi - Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land (Japan)

Fort Jesus, Mombasa (Kenya)

Petroglyphs Complexes of the Mongolian Altai (Mongolia)

Leon Cathedral (Nicaragua)

Saloum Delta (Senegal)

Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana (Spain)

Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe (Sudan)

Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps (Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia)

Ancient Villages of Northern Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)

Selimiye Mosque Complex at Edirne (Turkey)

Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas), (United Arab Emirates)

The Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans (Ukraine)

Citadel of the Ho Dynasty (Vietnam)

Extensions:

Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (Slovakia, Ukraine, Germany)

Additions to the World Heritage List in Danger:

Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve (Honduras)

Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (Indonesia)

Removed from World Heritage List in Danger:

Manas Wildlife Sanctuary (India)