All 911 UNESCO Heritage Sites

******* PLEASE, ONLY INTELLIGENT CHANGES TO THE LIST ! Who put their personal favorites first? Very hard work to compile, sort and maintain, the list includes both current cultural & natural 'properties' awarded as being irreplaceable assets to all mankind, SORTED ALPHABETICALLY by country. Some sites straddle boundaries, listed under both (or more) countries bringing the sum to 878 items here. Some images for this list are used with permission of UNESCO, additional images are greatly appreciated, your own images are gratefully appreciated. Also, learn more about how you can help to participant in the preservation of heritage at http://whc.unesco.org/en/69

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rangutan

rangutan
München

History of Progress for this list

History of progress & members contributing or using this list:

2005-11-16: first entries by Josh, Dan, Blaine, Chris & Matt

2006-05-12: 118 users, 120 places(16%)

2006-05-20: 125 users, 280 places(33%)

2006-06-16: 148 users, 404 places(50%)

2006-07-24: 166 users, 555 places(67%), 37% pics

2006-08-02: 178 users, 642 places(75%), 46% pics

2006-08-07: 186 users, 734 places(86%), 56% pics

2006-08-10: 190 users, ALL places (100%), 71% pics

2006-09-19: 227 users, 81% pics, little % mapped?

2007-03-21: 377 users, 90% pics, some % mapped?

2007-08-05: 499 users, 94% pics, more % mapped?

rangutan

rangutan
München

Adding photos and co-ordinates

1) Please add you own photos if possible. There is a copywright issue to be observed, if the picture is not yours, please at least credit the source of the image. Please never upload the work of professional photographers neither companies and corporations without their permission. Images, specially thumbnails from organisations and governments (.org & .gov) sites are easier tolerated legaly.

2) The UNESCO site gives coordinates in D.M.S. (degrees, minutes and seconds)but 43places.com uses decimal degrees! Josh correctly converts exactly, see http://www.43places.com/places/map/716106 where one can zoom exactly into the Bahrain archeological site seeing even cars and people visiting it.

One degree represents about 55 kilometers (35 miles) so just guessing the coordinates is not doing anyone a favour!

There are conversion tools online if needed:

http://sundials.org/links/local/pages/dd_dms.htm

or

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html