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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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Christopher Chan

Christopher Chan
Sydney

Can't add to this list

Hi everyone,

I get the following error message when I try to add a place to this list :

Application error (Rails)

I tried using both Firefox 1.5.1 and Safari.

regards,

Chris

rangutan

rangutan
München

Get that too when hasty.

When during sorting I sometimes got that error too but usually when I click on the next point too quickly. Waiting a fewseconds during uploads seems to help. There was no data loss due to the error that I noticed. RR

TheBeaver

TheBeaver
Montreal

Missing site

You guys are missing Goree Island in Senegal. Should really add it, it’s a must see !

Christopher Chan

Christopher Chan
Sydney

You can add it to the list as well ! :)

The list is finally allowing me to add things to it.

Chris

Daniel Spils

Daniel Spils
Seattle

Added Island of Gorée

Thanks.

Daniel Spils

Daniel Spils
Seattle

missing site & error

Anybody can adopt this list and add missing sites — go for it!

As for the errors, that’s not good. I’ll have Ivan look into it. Looks like we’ve also got a numbering issue to deal with. Thanks for pointing it out.

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Apr 16, 2006, 09:13AM PDT

rangutan

rangutan
München

19 new sites in 2007!

http://whc.unesco.org/en/newproperties/

“19 NEWSITESHAVEBEENANNOUNCEDJUNE 2007 ANDCANNOW BE ADDED. WHOWOULDLIKE TO HELP? Add to the end of the list, I don’t mind doing the sorting”

“Rangutan” Rudi

kawaiianme

kawaiianme
Los Angeles

Vigan - Philippines

It’s a World Heritage Site and it’s not on this list.

rangutan

rangutan
München

Philippines sites added now

I have added all five heritage sites for the Philippines, currently #89 to #93

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May 10, 2006, 11:43AM PDT

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May 10, 2006, 12:05PM PDT

rangutan

rangutan
München

"Great Wall"

Iv’e deleted Badaling and added “Great Wall”. During sorting I came across 3 double entries. Since we have also added so many sites, i’m sure users will go through the list again. Sorted by country and with pictures added, it is easier to identify sites that were visited. Apologies to those that might have marked those 4 deleted entries but it was nessecary to make the list better. RR

Marjolein Katsma

Marjolein Katsma
Amsterdam

Ordering is a pain...

I started to order the list a bit – alphabetically by country, as the UNESCO list is ordered – to make it easier to find places on the list.

But what a pain! If you just enter numbers for the new locations, it gets totally confused, so you can only use the arrow thingies, which is very slow.

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May 17, 2006, 02:59AM PDT

rangutan

rangutan
München

Ordering OK

I found the numbering way to order and have tested it. It works well. Using a MS-Excell tabell with the complette ~900 entries and have added all the current www.bestsoflists.com (LoB)numbers to it. I have this on my monitor during sorting to keep track of things. I will be adding some UNESCO sites of countries A,B,Y & Z moving them to the correct position together with the already uploaded sites to test/time progress. The table helps, without it FORGET IT! Anyone can create it to help DEVELOPE the list. The shuffling works by both numbers and arrows, just pacience and concentration is needed!

Now that the list is ROUGHLY sorted ALL can add or/and maintain it easier! Please help – we still have 400 UNESCO sites to add!!!!

Thanks to all past and future contributers, hope this works out eventually! That needs some increadible patience and endurance over time – the list is NEVERENDING :-) RR

rangutan

rangutan
München

Ordering IS EXTREAMLY frustrating!

I was on the verge of splitting this list but we are more than halfway done. Now, when one adds a string of new places withinin the same country they somehow get muddled up and a LOT of fine tuning has to be done.

I hope I can manage the rest: if things get really bad I want to split this list into continents:

UNESCO Heritage sites in AMERICA
UNESCO Heritage sites in EUROPE
UNESCO Heritage sites in AFRICA
UNESCO Heritage sites in ASIA
UNESCO Heritage sites in AUSTRALPACIFICO (includes south Pacific islands & Antarctica)

What do members think?

I will attempt anyway to get a WHOLE list together called:

“All 850 UNESCO Heritage Sites”

The advantage of a main list is that a sublist (eg. CONTINENTS) is very easy then to create :-)

RR

rangutan

rangutan
München

Want to help too?

New: we are looking for a programmer that can help us change the colour of text (eg. red or pink or even just bold). This is necessary for the clickable index where we have three entries for Korea, the Vatican is hidden under “Holy Sea” and also for the Congo countries problem! [RR 2007-09-22]

This list is never complete, anyone can help by making this list better, correct and add (more & better) pictures and the coordinates for mapping and satellite images, a fantastic feature at 43places.com!

Sadly by making improvements (specially renaming) sometimes user marks are lost. Users please check and update your “been there” or “want to go there” settings occasionaly for modified entries.

We have tried to keep most names simple. A simple city name in the list usually means the “old city”, “city center” or even specifically monuments and structures or parts of a city as determined by UNESCO. eg Istanbul.

Marjolein Katsma

Marjolein Katsma
Amsterdam

Great job!

That’s a wonderful job you did – I can well believe it took 8 hours to sort after the parts I sorted!

I also note you added just the Great Wall in China – people who visited one particular part will now just have to mark the whole as well; I tried to avoid that but didn’t know how.

Some problems belong on the “multiple parents” problem list – for each you find, please report a problem, note both parents, and note it belongs on the discussion list. By reporting all those cases we come across we can help to make the full scale of the problem can become visible.

Obviously Jerusalem is such a case, as as are a number of national parks in the US; Tibet is a already on the list.

I’ll add more as and when I have the time – my most poplular first ;-)

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

rangutan

rangutan
München

19 new sites, June 2007

19 new sites were added in June 2007 and appeared on page 18. I have now sorted them alphabetically.

Thanks “Teitur” for adding them to our list with very suitable pictures too :-) Fantastic!

R’Rudi

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May 14, 2006, 08:38PM PDT

Marjolein Katsma

Marjolein Katsma
Amsterdam

Deleting and sorting

Go to “edit” the list, find one of the entries (hard sometimes because the country isn’t listed! you need to go by number) and from there you can delete it from the list.

(Cross-state, Cross-country, Cross-province entries are a problem in in 43places: until it reorganizes so entities can have multiple parents – as many need to have – we’ll have to kluge here…)

Thanks for pitching in and reducing my percentage to a more realistic one. :)

I made a start with sorting, doing it country by country. That works (I worked out a method that doesn’t get it totally confused), but it’s slow…

hydra

hydra
London

added a bunch of photos

Having some procrastination time at work helped in that I added some photos from the UNESCO website to the list. Not fun, but mindless and numbing – which was exactly what I wanted… Great start to the list thus far!!!

Heidi

rangutan

rangutan
München

Thanks Heidi

…thanks for beautifing the list by adding so many of your colourful photos. I will try get the list up to dated soon, well before they declare new sites! R’Rudi

Josh Petersen

Josh Petersen
Seattle

The photos are great

I’ve been adding map coordinates for all the places. I’ve made it through China so far. I’ve also been creating lists for specific countries with more than 1 UNESCO site, just to make it a littel easier to edit/navigate.

This is a great list!

rangutan

rangutan
München

Go for it Josh!

I like your other lists too and your UNESCO series will be of use to a lot of people who travel only regionaly. To make your series complete, how about creating two more lists;

“Countries without a UNESCO Heritage Site” and “Countries with a single UNESCO Heritage Site”?

Rudi

rangutan

rangutan
München

Co-ordinates

Josh, only today do I see the purpose of co-ordinates and where they are! once every site has atleast one picture, I might start from Z and work backwards with designating co-ordinates for the newly discovered zoomable map and satellite imagery, brilliant and thanks!

Eg:

http://www.43places.com/places/map/917670?map_show=1

rangutan

rangutan
München

Accuracy of co-ordinates

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

rangutan

rangutan
München

Contents, New Sites, Irregularities and Complaints

The list includes the current 848 (2007)cultural and natural sites (“properties”) which are considered as special and irreplaceable heritage assets to mankind. They include 644 cultural, 162 natural and 24 mixed properties in 138 countries. Some sites are listed twice of more if they straddle borders making a total of 857 entries here.

Some UNESCO sites are repeated when shared between nations, so the 830 officially recognised properties make up 857 different places here. Example, the “Geodetic Arc” runs from the Black Sea to the Arctic so is thus listed here 10 times under the various countries! Some National Parks are shared across international borders, a lot of sites across state/provincial borders!

See also “Comments” here for new entries awarded by UNESCO occasionaly and some irregularities. For inaccuracies please post here under comments rather than opening a new thread.

rangutan

rangutan
München

18 New Sites were announced & added in July 2006

Aflaj Irrigation Systems, Oman.

Aapravasi Ghat, Mauritius

Agave & Facilities Tequila, Mexico

Centennial Hall in Wroclaw, Poland

Chongoni Rock Art Area, Malawi

Cornwall & West Devon Mining Landscape, UK

Crac des Chevaliers & Qal’at Salah El-Din, Syria

Genoa: Le Strade Nuove & Palazzi dei Rolli, Italy

Harar Jugol, Ethiopia

Kondoa Rock Art Sites, Tanzania

Regensburg & Stadtamhof, Germany

Sewell Mining Town, Chile

Stone Circles of Senegambia, Gambia

Stone Circles of Senegambia, Senegal

Vizcaya Bridge, Spain

Yin Xu, China

Malpelo Sanctuary, Colombia

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, China

Medieval Monuments in Kosovo, Sebia

Kvarken Archipelago & Coast, Sweden

Kvarken Archipelago & Coast, Finnland

rangutan

rangutan
München

Irregularities in country name:

Confusion may arise in the list for cases where a name is Also-Known-As, “aka” another; Dem.Rep of Korea aka North Korea, Rep. of Korea aka South Korea, Rep. of Moldovia aka Moldovia, United R.o.Tanzania aka Tanzania, F.R.O.T.Y.M. aka Macedonia, Denmark’s Greenland aka Kalaalit Nunat, China(Tibet) aka Tibet(China), Vatican aka Holy See, Palestine aka Israel, Zaire aka Congo. For a lot of islands, protectorates & dependancies, generally see the ruling “mother” nation!

Serbia and Montenegro split into two countries 2006

Marjolein Katsma

Marjolein Katsma
Amsterdam

DPRK - North Korea

I had some trouble finding North Korea (DPRK) on the list since 1) it’s not in the countries list and 2) (unlike South Korea (ROK)) its listed alphabetically by it’s *un*official rather than official name (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea).

I wanted to find it, of course, since I’ve just visited that site!

rangutan

rangutan
München

Korea, North and Korea, South

I’m pleased you found “Koguryo Tombs” eventually (page 11) and thanks for the perfect picture. You are so lucky to visit an unusual place.

Most members would personally prefere “Korea, North” and “Korea, South” to find them easier but the politicians choose funny long names so that deligates do not have to sit next to each other at the UN and other meetings! (Like Britain, Zaire, Tanzania and Taiwan do, try remember their official names or the otherway, FROTYM!)

Here at listsofbests we are stuck with the definitions and names at www.43places.com until they are eventually changed. Example Greenland is officially “Kalaallit Nunaat” since 1979!

rangutan

rangutan
München

19 new sites in 2007!

19 new sites were added in June 2007 and appear on page 18. I will do the sorting alphabetically soon.

Thanks “Teitur” for adding them to our list with suitable pictures too :-)

RR

MarieProze

MarieProze
Fontainebleau Forest

About Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris...

It’s not a Unesco WHS! Notre-Dame Cathedral of REIMS is!

(I know, it’s confusing…) ;)

rangutan

rangutan
München

Ooops! That happens but fixed

Thank you so much for pointing out an error that it may be corrected quickly. That is just what we need on this site, co-operation, together we can create something quite special. I have added the rest of the french UNESCO sites, please check those too, it is a very difficult language and region to add…..

I see there is a UNESCO “Notre Dame” in Belgium too! So it’s like in the English world “St. Mary’s” or better “Our Lady”. The PLACE is important.

RRudi

ardilla

ardilla
Florida

Ischigualasto & Talampaya Natural Parks

I’m trying to clean up Argentina at 43 Places, sorting places into their respective provinces. Unfortunately, these 2 parks are in separate provinces, and before I rename it and create a separate entity I thought I’d consult with you guys first since it’s part of this master list. Any chance you can break up the two parks into separate entries so that they can be classified on their respective province?

Thanks in advance.

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Jun 28, 2007, 08:01AM PDT

deepikaramachandran

deepikaramachandran
Muscat

unesco

Pls add muscat fort as unesco sites

deepikaramachandran

deepikaramachandran
Muscat

unesco

Pls add muscat fort as unesco sites

rangutan

rangutan
München

Muscat Fort = Bahla Fort

UNESCO name the the site “Bahla Fort”. It can be found here on page 12, item 554

and for more info see

http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=433

R’Rudi

rangutan

rangutan
München

Double entry

This query shows twice, can one or both be deleted?

Rudi


 
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