The program aims to catalogue, name, and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind (exact criteria). Listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund under certain conditions. The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage that was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972.
As of 2003, a total of 754 sites have been included in the list.
List of World Heritage Sites
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Argentina/Brazil
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Austria/Hungary
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belarus/Poland
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Costa Rica/Panama
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Ethiopia
Finland
France
France/Spain
Georgia
Gambia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala
Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
Haiti
Holy See
Honduras
Hungary
Hungary and Slovakia
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Italy/Holy See
Japan
Jerusalem
(The Old City of Jerusalem is within East Jerusalem, which has been under Israeli control since 1967, but is not recognized as Israeli territory by the UN and many countries. The site was proposed as a World Heritage site in 1981 by Jordan, which withdrew its claims to the city in 1988.)Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Latvia
Lebanon
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Lithuania
Lithuania / Russian Federation
Luxembourg
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mexico
Mongolia / Russian Federation
Morocco
Mozambique
Nepal
Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Republic of Korea
Romania
Russian Federation
Senegal
Serbia and Montenegro
Seychelles
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tanzania
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States of America
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Viet Nam
Yemen
Zimbabwe
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