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Since 1997, I have traveled extensively with a focus on World Heritage Sites (WHS) while working in ICT management. I quit in 2022, and since then, I have been dedicating all my time to WHS (including running this website) and WH travel.

Plans for 2025

Azerbaijan, Georgia and Germany in May

Kenya in June

Big Trip to #1,000 (November/December)

The Netherlands Last Update 25.04.25 966 WHS Visited 1087 Reviews 966 WHS Rated 293 TWHS Visited

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Ahwar of Southern Iraq

Els Slots The Netherlands - 23-Apr-25

This should have been split into two WHS: one for the sites of the Ancient Sumerian civilization, one for the “New” Marshes. ICOMOS and IUCN suggested to do so and saw OUV in both, but inscription was rushed through and now we’re stuck with a messy inscription and an unrecognizable site name.

I will focus my review on the Marshes and not on the archaeological sites

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Wadi Al-Salam Cemetery in Najaf (T)

Els Slots The Netherlands - 16-Apr-25

Najaf in Southern Iraq is the holiest city for Shia Islam as it holds the Tomb of Ali – “the” Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed and with whom the Shia split from the lineage as recognized by the Sunni. He was assassinated in 661 in nearby Kufa and buried in Najaf (though some believe his remains are elsewhere, the Caliphs since the 8th century have recognized Najaf as the place and it developed into a huge pilgrimage site).

The Tomb of Ali is now housed in a glitzy mausoleum, rebuilt and embellished over and over again

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Babylon

Els Slots The Netherlands - 15-Apr-25

I made it to Babylon in April 2025. There’s a lot to explain here – we’re missing a Solivagant-style PhD review, so I have tried my best to cover a few subjects to better be able to understand this WHS. I based myself on the official nomination documents, web searches, and the wonderful book “Mesopotamia, Ancient Art and Architecture”.

First, the Babylonian Empire itself. We had a connection here already. I’ve redone it to distinguish between the “Old” or “First” Babylonian Empire and the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Remains of the first (2nd millennium BCE) are hardly existent at the Babylon WHS. It focuses on the Neo-Babylonian empire, about 1,000 years younger and a relatively late stage in the history of Mesopotamia overall (it is Chapter 12 of 14 in the aforementioned, chronologically ordered book). The King of Babylon (most notably Nebuchadnezzar II) regained regional power and started a monumental building scheme that centered on his capital, Babylon and included the famous Ishtar Gate

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Old City of Mosul (T)

Els Slots The Netherlands - 22-Apr-25

The northern city of Mosul is the odd one out among the Iraqi (T)WHS. On the one hand, it is probably the one most severely damaged during the recent conflicts (though nearby Nimrud has been hit hard as well). On the other hand, it is the only one that has been subject to a full-scale international rescue mission, which has also brought in internationally accepted restoration and conservation standards.

The Old City of Mosul stands for a thus far unrepresented part of Iraqi history: that of the Turkic-Mongol invasions (though a nomination will also include its Ottoman remains). The Turkic Zengid Dynasty ruled the area of northern Iraq and Syria from Mosul from 1127–1222

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Baghdad Rusafa (T)

Els Slots The Netherlands - 14-Apr-25

Behind this long site name hides what could be called “Old Baghdad”, the area from which the Abassid Caliphate (762–1258) ruled and where the Ottomans later had their headquarters as well. It is closely tied to its position on the eastern river bank of the Tigris, and the Tentative Description also proposes it as a City of the River, like Paris and Budapest. Baghdad nowadays markets itself as the ‘Capital of Arab Tourism 2025,’ and this is a focus area in the city for tourists. The area has been in a rehabilitation process since 2017 (it had been neglected and damaged in the decades before) and is bustling again

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Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

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Arab-Norman Palermo 4

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Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4

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Chichen-Itza 4

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Churches of Chiloé 4

Churches of Moldavia 4

Churches of Peace 4

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Cordoba 4

Dazu Rock Carvings 4

Djenné 4

Djoudj 4

Dougga/Thugga 4

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Etruscan Necropolises 4

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Hattusha 4

Hué 4

Iguazu National Park 4

Imperial Palace 4

Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos 4

Kandy 4

Kaziranga National Park 4

Khajuraho Group of Monuments 4

Kraków 4

Kremlin and Red Square 4

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 4

Kunya-Urgench 4

Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4

Lake Baikal 4

Lakes of Ounianga 4

Lalibela 4

Loire Valley 4

Los Glaciares 4

Mahabalipuram 4

Mana Pools 4

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 4

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4

Medina of Fez 4

Medina of Marrakesh 4

Mesa Verde 4

Meteora 4

Mogao Caves 4

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Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4

Namib Sand Sea 4

Nemrut Dag 4

Nubian Monuments 4

Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4

Ogasawara Islands 4

Okavango Delta 4

Orkhon Valley 4

Ouro Preto 4

Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4

Palenque 4

Pantanal 4

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4

Pattadakal 4

Peninsula Valdes 4

Phong Nha - Ke Bang 4

Ping Yao 4

Plantin-Moretus Museum 4

Pompei 4

Potala Palace 4

Prague 4

Puebla 4

Pyramids (Memphis) 4

Rainforests of the Atsinanana 4

Ravenna 4

Rila Monastery 4

Rock Islands 4

Samarkand 4

Sangha Trinational 4

Sceilg Mhichíl 4

Selimiye Mosque 4

Serengeti 4

Serra da Capivara 4

Seville 4

St. Petersburg 4

Stone Town of Zanzibar 4

Sukhothai 4

Sun Temple, Konarak 4

Surtsey 4

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 4

São Luis 4

Takht-e Soleyman 4

Taxila 4

Teide National Park 4

The trulli of Alberobello 4

Tikal National Park 4

Toledo 4

Upper Svaneti 4

Val di Noto 4

Vatnajökull National Park 4

Victoria Falls 4

Vilnius 4

Viñales Valley 4

Wadi Al-Hitan 4

Wadi Rum 4

Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 4

West Norwegian Fjords 4

Western Tien-Shan 4

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4

Wulingyuan 4

Yakushima 4

Agrigento 3.5

Amami-Oshima Island 3.5

Amphitheater of El Jem 3.5

Ancient Ksour 3.5

Andrefana Dry Forests 3.5

Angra do Heroismo 3.5

Ani 3.5

Anjar 3.5

Anuradhapura 3.5

Aphrodisias 3.5

Aquileia 3.5

Aranjuez 3.5

Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5

Armenian Monastic Ensembles 3.5

Auschwitz Birkenau 3.5

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3.5

Ayutthaya 3.5

Baroque Churches 3.5

Bassari Country 3.5

Bauhaus Sites 3.5

Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.5

Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5

Białowieża Forest 3.5

Bolgar 3.5

Bourges Cathedral 3.5

Brugge 3.5

Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.5

Butrint 3.5

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 3.5

Byblos 3.5

Cape Floral Region 3.5

Carthage 3.5

Causses and Cévennes 3.5

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.5

Cesky Krumlov 3.5

Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5

Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5

Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.5

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5

Classical Weimar 3.5

Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.5

Congonhas 3.5

Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5

Copán 3.5

Costiera Amalfitana 3.5

Cueva de las Manos 3.5

Curonian Spit 3.5

Dacian Fortresses 3.5

Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5

Delos 3.5

Diamantina 3.5

Dinosaur Provincial Park 3.5

Discovery Coast 3.5

Divrigi 3.5

Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 3.5

Edinburgh 3.5

El Fuerte de Samaipata 3.5

El Pinacate 3.5

Elephanta Caves 3.5

Ellora Caves 3.5

Ephesus 3.5

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.5

Everglades 3.5

Fagus Factory 3.5

Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.5

Fasil Ghebbi 3.5

Fatehpur Sikri 3.5

Fontainebleau 3.5

Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.5

Gamzigrad-Romuliana 3.5

Gelati Monastery 3.5

Golestan Palace 3.5

Gordion 3.5

Great Wall 3.5

Guanajuato 3.5

Gulf of Porto 3.5

Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5

Göbekli Tepe 3.5

Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 3.5

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5

Hatra 3.5

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3.5

Hegra 3.5

Heritage of Mercury 3.5

High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3.5

Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5

Hiraizumi 3.5

Historic Cairo 3.5

Hoi An 3.5

Huanglong 3.5

Huascaran National Park 3.5

Humayun's Tomb 3.5

Iguacu 3.5

Ischigualasto / Talampaya 3.5

Island of Patmos 3.5

Itchan Kala 3.5

Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus 3.5

Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.5

Jiuzhaigou Valley 3.5

Kairouan 3.5

Khami Ruins 3.5

Kilimanjaro National Park 3.5

Kinderdijk 3.5

Kutna Hora 3.5

L'viv 3.5

Land of Frankincense 3.5

Laponian Area 3.5

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.5

Lençóis Maranhenses National Park 3.5

León Cathedral 3.5

Lima 3.5

Longmen Grottoes 3.5

Longobards in Italy 3.5

Los Alerces National Park 3.5

Luang Prabang 3.5

Lyon 3.5

Makli, Thatta 3.5

Malbork Castle 3.5

Maloti-Drakensberg Park 3.5

Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5

Mapungubwe 3.5

Matera 3.5

Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3.5

Medina of Tétouan 3.5

Mistaken Point 3.5

Moenjodaro 3.5

Monastery of Batalha 3.5

Monastery of Geghard 3.5

Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5

Mount Etna 3.5

Mount Taishan 3.5

Mount Wuyi 3.5

Mtskheta 3.5

My Son 3.5

Mystras 3.5

Nessebar 3.5

Nikko 3.5

Ohrid Region 3.5

Old Havana 3.5

Old Town of Lijiang 3.5

Olympia 3.5

Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5

Panamá 3.5

Paquimé 3.5

Paramaribo 3.5

Pearling 3.5

Pico Island 3.5

Pitons of Reunion 3.5

Plain of Jars 3.5

Plitvice Lakes 3.5

Polonnaruva 3.5

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5

Portobelo-San Lorenzo 3.5

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5

Potosi 3.5

Prambanan 3.5

Preah Vihear Temple 3.5

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5

Qadisha Valley 3.5

Quanzhou 3.5

Quebrada de Humahuaca 3.5

Quirigua 3.5

Quito 3.5

Quseir Amra 3.5

Qutb Minar 3.5

Québec 3.5

Rani-ki-Vav 3.5

Rhodes 3.5

Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 3.5

Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.5

Robben Island 3.5

Rock Art of Alta 3.5

Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka 3.5

Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5

Royal Joseon Tombs 3.5

Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple 3.5

Rwenzori Mountains 3.5

Safi al-Din Ensemble in Ardabil 3.5

Saint-Emilion 3.5

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5

Saloum Delta 3.5

Salvador de Bahia 3.5

Samarra 3.5

Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5

San Agustín 3.5

Sanchi 3.5

Sangay National Park 3.5

Santa Cruz de Mompox 3.5

Segovia 3.5

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5

Sewell Mining Town 3.5

Sheki 3.5

Shirakami-Sanchi 3.5

Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5

Siena 3.5

Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 3.5

Simien National Park 3.5

Sintra 3.5

Soltaniyeh 3.5

South China Karst 3.5

Split 3.5

St. George, Bermuda 3.5

Stone Spheres of the Diquís 3.5

Studenica Monastery 3.5

Studley Royal Park 3.5

Summer Palace 3.5

Sundarbans National Park 3.5

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 3.5

Syracuse 3.5

Tak'alik Ab'aj 3.5

Takht-i-Bahi 3.5

Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 3.5

Tallinn 3.5

Tasmanian Wilderness 3.5

Temple of Heaven 3.5

Teotihuacan 3.5

The Sundarbans 3.5

Thingvellir 3.5

Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 3.5

Tierradentro 3.5

Timbuktu 3.5

Tiwanaku 3.5

Torun 3.5

Tower of London 3.5

Trang An 3.5

Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios 3.5

Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5

Tsodilo 3.5

Tyre 3.5

Um er-Rasas 3.5

Urnes Stave Church 3.5

Uxmal 3.5

Vall de Boi 3.5

Vat Phou 3.5

Vatican City 3.5

Verona 3.5

Vienna 3.5

Vigan 3.5

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5

Villa Romana del Casale 3.5

Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5

Visby 3.5

Volubilis 3.5

Vézère Valley 3.5

Westminster 3.5

Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino 3.5

Willemstad 3.5

Wooden Churches of Maramures 3.5

Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.5

Xochicalco 3.5

Yin Xu 3.5

Yogyakarta 3.5

Yungang Grottoes 3.5

Yuso and Suso Monasteries 3.5

Zagori Cultural Landscape 3.5

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 3

Abbey of St Gall 3

Aflaj irrigation system 3

Agra Fort 3

Al Ain 3

Albi 3

Antequera Dolmens Site 3

Antigua Guatemala 3

Archaeological site of Philippi 3

Arles 3

Asante Traditional Buildings 3

Asturian Monuments 3

Atlantic Forest South-East 3

Australian Convict Sites 3

Avignon 3

Babylon 3

Baekje Historic Areas 3

Bamberg 3

Ban Chiang 3

Banc d'Arguin 3

Banska Stiavnica 3

Bardejov Town 3

Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3

Belem 3

Belfries 3

Belize Barrier Reef 3

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3

Birka and Hovgarden 3

Blue and John Crow Mountains 3

Bom Jesus do Monte 3

Bordeaux 3

Brasilia 3

Bryggen 3

Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 3

Brú na Bóinne 3

Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur 3

Burgundy 3

Cahokia Mounds 3

Canal du Midi 3

Carlsbad Caverns 3

Cartagena 3

Castel del Monte 3

Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3

Caves and Ice Age Art 3

Champaner-Pavagadh 3

Chartres Cathedral 3

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 3

Cidade Velha 3

Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 3

City of Bath 3

City of Luxembourg 3

Classical Gardens of Suzhou 3

Coffee Cultural Landscape 3

Colonia del Sacramento 3

Cordouan Lighthouse 3

Corfu 3

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3

Corvey 3

Crespi d'Adda 3

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3

Derwent Valley Mills 3

Dolomites 3

Donana National Park 3

Durmitor National Park 3

Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3

Eisinga Planetarium 3

El Escurial 3

El Tajin 3

Engelsberg Ironworks 3

Ferrara 3

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 3

Flemish Béguinages 3

Fort and Shalamar Gardens 3

Forth Bridge 3

Fortifications of Vauban 3

Forts and Castles Gold Coast 3

Fossil Hominid Sites 3

Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda 3

Fray Bentos 3

Fujisan 3

Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3

Gammelstad 3

Garajonay 3

Genoa 3

Gobustan Rock Art 3

Grand Canal 3

Graz 3

Great Spa Towns of Europe 3

Guimarães 3

Gwynedd Castles 3

Gyeongju 3

Hahoe and Yangdong 3

Himeji-jo 3

Holy Trinity Column 3

Hortobágy 3

Horyu-ji Area 3

Hospicio Cabañas 3

Huangshan 3

Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works 3

Imperial Tombs 3

Ironbridge Gorge 3

Island of Gorée 3

Isole Eolie 3

Itsukushima Shrine 3

Ivrea 3

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 3

Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3

Jantar Mantar 3

Jeju 3

Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3

Jomon Prehistoric Sites 3

Jongmyo Shrine 3

Joya de Ceren 3

Kaeng Krachan Forest 3

Kaiping Diaolou 3

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 3

Kerkuane 3

Kernavė 3

Kii Mountain Range 3

Kinabalu Park 3

Koh Ker 3

Kotor 3

Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 3

Kulangsu 3

Kunta Kinteh Island 3

L'Anse aux Meadows 3

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 3

La Lonja de la Seda 3

Le Havre 3

Litomysl Castle 3

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 3

Mahabodhi Temple Complex 3

Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3

Major Town Houses 3

Manas Wildlife Sanctuary 3

Matobo Hills 3

Maulbronn Monastery 3

Mazagan 3

Medici Villas and Gardens 3

Medina Azahara 3

Medina of Sousse 3

Megalithic Temples of Malta 3

Melaka and George Town 3

Memorial Sites of Genocide 3

Messel Pit 3

Miguasha National Park 3

Mir Castle 3

Monastery of Alcobaça 3

Monastery of Horezu 3

Monticello 3

Morelia 3

Mountain Resort, Chengde 3

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3

Mérida 3

Nalanda 3

Namhansanseong 3

Naples 3

Naumburg Cathedral 3

Nesvizh 3

New Lanark 3

Niah Caves 3

Nisa 3

Novodevichy Convent 3

Old Town Lunenburg 3

Old Town of Galle 3

Olinda 3

Oporto 3

Pampulha 3

Paphos 3

Paraty and Ilha Grande 3

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3

Pergamon 3

Petäjävesi Old Church 3

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3

Pirin National Park 3

Pont du Gard 3

Potsdam 3

Poverty Point 3

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 3

Pyu Ancient Cities 3

Qal'at al-Bahrain 3

Quedlinburg 3

Rabat 3

Rammelsberg and Goslar 3

Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3

Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 3

Red Fort 3

Reichenau 3

Rhaetian Railway 3

Riga 3

Rio de Janeiro 3

Rjukan / Notodden 3

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3

Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco 3

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3

Rohtas Fort 3

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3

Roșia Montană 3

Ruins of León Viejo 3

Røros 3

Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 3

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3

Safranbolu 3

Salamanca 3

Salzburg 3

San Cristobal de La Laguna 3

San Gimignano 3

San Miguel de Allende 3

Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3

Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3

Santa Maria delle Grazie 3

Santiago de Compostela 3

Santo Domingo 3

Saryarka 3

Schönbrunn 3

Semmering Railway 3

Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 3

Serra de Tramuntana 3

Shakhrisyabz 3

Shiretoko 3

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 3

Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3

Singapore Botanic Gardens 3

Southern Öland 3

Speyer Cathedral 3

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3

Stari Ras and Sopocani 3

Statue of Liberty 3

Stevns Klint 3

Stećci 3

Stone Circles of Senegambia 3

Stonehenge 3

Strasbourg 3

Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3

Sucre 3

Sulaiman-Too 3

Sviyazhsk 3

Sydney Opera House 3

Tabriz Bazaar 3

Talayotic Menorca 3

Tanbaly 3

Taos Pueblo 3

Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley 3

Tequila 3

Thang Long 3

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3

The Porticoes of Bologna 3

Thessalonika 3

Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 3

Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 3

Tombs of Buganda Kings 3

Tower of Hercules 3

Trier 3

Tusi Sites 3

Twyfelfontein 3

Umm Al-Jimāl 3

University of Coimbra 3

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3

Urbino 3

Van Nellefabriek 3

Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3

Versailles 3

Via Appia 3

Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3

Villa d'Este 3

Vredefort Dome 3

Völklingen Ironworks 3

Wachau Cultural Landscape 3

Wadden Sea 3

Walled City of Baku 3

West Lake 3

Western Ghats 3

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3

Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3

Xanthos-Letoon 3

Xidi and Hongcun 3

Zollverein 3

iSimangaliso Wetland Park 3

Arslantepe Mound 2.5

Avila 2.5

Bagerhat 2.5

Bellinzone 2.5

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5

Boyana Church 2.5

Camagüey 2.5

Canterbury 2.5

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5

Champagne 2.5

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5

Church of Atlántida 2.5

Cienfuegos 2.5

Cologne Cathedral 2.5

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