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Site #86: Memphis and

its Necropolis, including

the Pyramids of Giza

(Egypt).

Site #174: Historic

center of Florence

(Italy).

Site #202: Sigiriya (Sri

Lanka).

Site #307: The Statue of

Liberty (United States).

Site #483: Chichen Itza

in Yucatn (Mexico).

Pre-convention

In 1954, the government of Egypt decided to build the Aswan Dam (Aswan

High Dam), an event that would flood a valley containing treasures of

ancient Egypt such as the Abu Simbel temples. UNESCO then launched a

worldwide safeguarding campaign. The Abu Simbel and Philae templeswere taken apart, moved to a higher location, and put back together piece

by piece.[6]

The cost of the project was US$80 million, about $40 million of which was

collected from 50 countries. The project was regarded as a success, and led

to other safeguarding campaigns, saving Venice and its lagoon in Italy, the

ruins of Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan, and the Borobodur Temple Compounds

in Indonesia. UNESCO then initiated, with the International Council on

Monuments and Sites, a draft convention to protect the common cultural

heritage of humanity.

Convention and background

See also: World Heritage Committee

The United States initiated the idea of combining cultural conservation with

nature conservation. A White House conference in 1965 called for a World

Heritage Trustto preserve "the world's superb natural and scenic areas and

historic sites for the present and the future of the entire world citizenry."

The International Union for Conservation of Nature developed similar

proposals in 1968, and they were presented in 1972 to the United Nations

conference on Human Environment in Stockholm.

A single text was agreed on by all parties, and the Convention Concerning

the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage was adopted by

the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972.

Nominating process

A country must first take an inventory of its significant cultural and natural

properties. This is called the Tentative List, and is important because a

country may not nominate properties that have not already been included

on the Tentative List. Next, it can select a property from this list to place

into a Nomination File. The World Heritage Centre offers advice and help

in preparing this file.

At this point, the file is evaluated by the International Council on

Monuments and Sites and the World Conservation Union. These bodies

then make their recommendations to the World Heritage Committee. TheCommittee meets once per year to determine whether or not to inscribe

each nominated property on the World Heritage List, and sometimes defers

the decision to request more information from the country who nominated


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Zone Natural Cultural Mixed Total

Africa 33 42 3 78

Arab States 4 60 1 65

Asia-Pacific 48 129 9 186|[9]

Europe & North America 56 375 9 440

Latin America & Caribbean 35 83 3 121

Total 176 689 25 890

Statistics

See also: Table of World Heritage Sites by country

There are 890 World Heritage Sites located in 148 countries (state parties). Of these, 689 are cultural,

176 are natural and 25 are mixed properties. The World Heritage Committee has divided the countriesinto five geographic zones: Africa, Arab States (composed of North Africa and the Middle East), Asia-

Pacific (includes Australia and Oceania), Europe & North America, and Latin America & the

Caribbean.

Russia and the Caucasus states are classified as European, while Mexico is classified as belonging to

the Latin America & Caribbean zone. The UNESCO geographic zones also give greater emphasis on

administrative, rather than geographic associations. Hence, Gough Island, located in the South Atlantic,

is part of the Europe & North America region because the government of the United Kingdom

nominated the site.

The table below includes a breakdown of the sites according to these zones and their classification:[8]

Lists of World Heritage Sites

List of World Heritage Sites in AfricaList of World Heritage Sites in the AmericasList of World Heritage Sites in the Arab States

List of World Heritage Sites in Asia and AustralasiaList of World Heritage Sites in EuropeList of World Heritage Sites in dangerFormer UNESCO World Heritage SitesTable of World Heritage Sites by countryWonders of the World

References

1. ^ According to the UNESCO World Heritage website, States Parties (http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/)

are countries that signed and ratified The World Heritage Convention (http://whc.unesco.org/en/convention/) .

As of November 2007, there are a total of 186 state parties.

2. ^ "The World Heritage Committee" (http://whc.unesco.org/en/comittee/) . UNESCO World Heritage Site.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/comittee/. Retrieved 2006-10-14.

3. ^ Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage


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(http://whc.unesco.org/archive/convention-en.pdf)

4. ^ World Heritage List (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list) , UNESCO World Heritage Sites official sites.

5. ^ Twenty-seven new sites inscribed (http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/453) , UNESCO World Heritage Sites

official sites.

6. ^ Brief History (http://whc.unesco.org/en/169/) , UNESCO World Heritage Sites official sites.

7. ^ "Criteria for Selection" (http://whc.unesco.org/en/criteria/) . World Heritage.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/criteria/. Retrieved 2006-10-14.8. ^ Stats (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/stat)

9. ^ The Uvs Nuur basin located in Russia and Mongolia is here included in Asia-Pacific zone.

External links

UNESCO World Heritage portal (http://whc.unesco.org) Official website (English) and(French)

The World Heritage List (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list) Official searchable list of allInscribed Properties

KML file of the World Heritage List (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/kml) Official KMLversion of the list for Google Earth and NASA Worldwindwhc.unesco.org/en/forests (http://whc.unesco.org/en/forests) Official overview of theWorld Heritage Forest ProgramConvention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage(http://whc.unesco.org/en/conventiontext) Official 1972 Convention Text in 7 languages

The 1972 Convention at Law-Ref.org (http://law-ref.org/HERITAGE/index.html) Fully indexed and crosslinked with other documents

TIME magazine. The Oscars of the Environment - UNESCO World Heritage Site(http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1636166,00.html)

World Heritage Institute of Training and Research (http://www.whitrap.org/index.aspx?Nav=1) -UNESCO category 2 institute devoting to World Heritage in Asia-Pacific regionwww.greatarchaeology.com (http://www.greatarchaeology.com/heritage_sites.php) Commercial site of World Heritage 'Archaeological Places'WHTour.org (http://www.world-heritage-tour.org) World Heritage sites in panographies - 360

degreeWorld Heritage Site (http://www.worldheritagesite.org) Private website of World Heritagethesalmons.org's world heritage list (http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/world.heritage.html) Unofficial list with links and map of sitesWorldHeritageProject.org (http://www.worldheritageproject.org) Photography, film, music and

other artistic expressions.Friends of World Heritage (http://www.friendsofworldheritage.org/) An non-profitorganization that works with UNESCO to identify projects that support local tourism enterprisesthat can help alleviate poverty and conserve World Heritage sites.

Organization of World Heritage Cities (http://ovpm.org/?newlang=eng) UNESCO-affiliatedorganization dealing with urban sites onlyVRheritage.org (http://www.vrheritage.org) Documentation of World Heritage Sites (inactivesince 2002)The World Heritage Sites at night (http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/galleries.asp?page=1&Sort=Gallery&Value=World%20Heritage%20Sites&des=1&bID=8)World Heritage Magazine (http://www.worldheritage.tw) Published by a non-profit

organization, in Chinese only

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