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Ecology (99)
Geography (120)
History (139)
Human Activity (116)
Individual People (125)
Religion and Belief (93)
Timeline (52)
Trivia (134)
WHS Hotspots (84)
WHS on Other Lists (42)
World Heritage Process (53)

Architecture

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Damaged

'Threatened' by bridges (3)
'Threatened' by Dams (24)
'Threatened' by Drought/Desertification (6)
'Threatened' by Infestation of Rats (8)
'Threatened' by Roads (4)
'Threatened' by Skyscrapers (8)
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Affected by El Niño (6)
Blown up (10)
Bombarded by the British Navy (12)
Controversial museum plans (4)
Covered by volcanic ash (9)
Cultural sites damaged by fire since inscription (32)
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Damaged in World War I (11)
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Iconoclasm (12)
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Landmines (5)
Meteorite impact (7)
Oil Spill (3)
Poaching (6)
Rangers killed by poachers (5)
Terrorist Attacks (16)
Thefts since inscription (9)
Wildfires (4)

Ecology

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Trivia

Around the World in Eighty Days (5)
Asterix (5)
Best seen from the sky (8)
Buildable in Lego (8)
Built elsewhere as a full size replica (12)
Built or owned by Americans (10)
Built or owned by British (47)
Built or Owned by Chinese (7)
Built or owned by Dutch (22)
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Built or owned by Swedes (5)
Cities of Three Cultures (5)
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Covers more than 5% of country (9)
Cryptozoology (8)
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Cultural sites taking up an entire island (48)
Customary ownership (7)
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Depicted on National Flag (4)
Discovered from the Air (5)
Discriminatory Entry Policies (12)
Disputed territories (20)
Dragon (24)
Dubbed 'White City' (6)
Dubbed as another WHS (75)
Epic Subtitles (20)
Exact locations inscribed twice (or more) (47)
Excavated by American Universities (12)
Excavated by Centro Scavi Torino (3)
Famous Love Stories (20)
Fatal Accidents or 'disasters' (25)
First inscriptions (119)
Foreigner prices (94)
Former Largest Cities (12)
Free entrance (77)
Furthest distance apart (15)
Game of Thrones (Filming Locations) (9)
Golf Courses (6)
Greatest Altitude Variations (12)
Guided Tour Only (20)
Gypsies (7)
High entrance fees (8)
History of the World in 100 objects (20)
Hot Air Balloon rides (8)
Hotels in Historic Buildings (16)
In private ownership (15)
In the British museum (12)
In the Istanbul museum (5)
In the Louvre (7)
In the Pergamon museum (8)
In Video Games (23)
Indiana Jones movie (14)
Isolated WHS (20)
James Bond in books (11)
James Bond in Movies (31)
Leprosy (4)
Located in a Capital City (85)
Located in a Former Capital (188)
Located in a microstate (18)
Location for a classic movie (85)
Locations of famous/infamous drownings (4)
Longest WHS names (4)
Major City Centres (12)
Minority communities (58)
Modelled after (61)
More than 500 steps/stairs to climb (12)
Moved from location of original construction (13)
Named after a different location (4)
Named after individual people (83)
No road access (9)
Not open to tourists (9)
Not under control of the nominating state (7)
Nudist beaches (5)
Oldest cultural WHS (4)
On Banknotes (130)
On Euro coins (23)
On Passports (11)
Once the tallest freestanding structure in the World (6)
One million visitors or more (90)
Only portion of building inscribed (5)
Opera (26)
Patrimonito's World Heritage Adventures (13)
Peace (5)
Poetic Quotations (17)
Preservation assisted by Getty Trust (10)
Protective Shelters (31)
Purpose Built Visitor Centre (23)
Recently discovered (18)
Red Fort (3)
Registered when architect was alive (3)
Repainted in a different colour (5)
Replica cultural sites (5)
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Replica in Legoland (14)
Replica in Mini-Europe (31)
Replicas in Las Vegas (4)
Reportedly haunted locations (15)
Role of Women (26)
Roman monuments converted into churches (5)
Seasonal WHS (6)
Serial sites with the greatest number of locations (11)
Shakespearean plays (11)
Shortest WHS names (8)
Situated in an administrative exclave of a city (3)
Slow Food Movement (7)
Smallest cultural WHS (19)
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Sound and Light Show (22)
Star Wars (8)
Subterranean Cultural Sites (13)
Swan songs (9)
Takes more than 5 days to visit (10)
The Beatles (4)
Tintin (13)
Tobu World Square (30)
Total Solar Eclipse since Inscription (75)
Tourist Treks (20)
Twin Towns (16)
Undergoing Restoration or Repair (31)
Unusual Entry Requirements or Restrictions (7)
Used in film as another WHS (9)
Versions of Da Vinci's last supper (3)
Viewable from another WHS (15)
Visitor Limits (10)
Voyager Golden Record (4)
WHS within walking distance (28)
Works by Nobel Prize winning authors (25)

WHS Hotspots

WHS on Other Lists

Aga Khan Award for Architecture (8)
Alliance for Zero Extinction (22)
ASEAN Heritage Parks (7)
ASM Historical Landmarks (9)
Biodiversity hotspot (104)
Cultural WHS set within an IUCN recognised protected area (19)
Decade Volcanoes (4)
Europa Nostra 7 Most Endangered (3)
Europa Nostra Award (24)
European Capital of Culture (46)
European Destinations of excellence (5)
European Diploma of Protected Areas (7)
European Heritage Label (6)
European Museum of the Year Award (5)
European Route of Brick Gothic (3)
European Route of Industrial Heritage (11)
Global Geoparks (22)
Global Heritage Fund (33)
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) (8)
Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks (16)
IUCN Conservation Outlook Assessment - 'Critical' (19)
IUCN Green List (3)
Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible heritage (30)
Melina Mercouri Prize (6)
Memory of the World (71)
Natura 2000 (29)
New 7 Wonders of Nature (8)
New Seven Wonders of the World (8)
Part of Our Top 50 Missing (8)
Pritzker Architecture Prize (5)
PSSA (5)
Ramsar Wetlands (62)
Seven Wonders of the World (5)
U.S. Ambassadors Fund (79)
UN list of Non-Self-Governing Territories (6)
UNESCO 'LEAP' program (7)
ViTour (10)
World Biosphere Reserves (113)
World Heritage Forest Programme (98)
World Monuments Watch (6)
World Monuments Watch (past) (168)
WWF Global 200 (28)

World Heritage Process

Already inscribed, still on T List (16)
Controversial at inscription (27)
Cultural landscape not recognized (26)
Cultural sites rejected for Natural criteria (19)
Derived from more than one TWHS (31)
Developed since inscription (11)
Directly in Danger (13)
Extended from a single national inscription (9)
Extended from original TWHS (35)
Extended more than once (7)
Extensions on Tentative List (56)
First sites filling gaps cited by ICOMOS (36)
Former In Danger List sites (36)
Incorrect UNESCO 'Number of locations' (27)
Industrial Landscapes (5)
Inscribed at third attempt or more (31)
Inscribed element(s) removed (3)
Inscribed on a single criterion only (150)
Inscribed on all 4 Natural criteria (21)
Inscribed on all 6 Cultural Criteria (3)
Locations added by Advisory body (3)
Minor modifications after inscription (93)
Mixed sites inscribed on 5 or more criteria (11)
Mixed sites which became so after original inscription (7)
Name changes (81)
Natural sites filling gaps cited by IUCN (25)
Natural sites rejected for cultural criteria (6)
Need for a Comparative Study (14)
No Buffer Zone (6)
On T List for a different nomination (13)
Only WHS in their country (33)
OUV provided by Reconstructions (3)
Part of Cultural nomination rejected (9)
Potential Transboundary sites (12)
Recommended for combination by AB (8)
Reconstruction regarded as unsatisfactory by UNESCO/ICOMOS (5)
Reduced from broader TWHS (35)
Rejected, and then inscribed (14)
Serial Transnational Sites (17)
Single Monuments (52)
Sites for which a reduction is or was planned (4)
Sites once situated in a non acceding country (6)
Situated in a UNESCO associate member state (3)
Slow Starters (39)
Ten years or more to inscribe (26)
Trans-regional WHS (3)
Transboundary only (5)
Transboundary sites (20)
Twice on the endangered list (5)
Upstream process (3)
WHC locations (36)
WHS inscribed solely on Criterion VI (12)
WHS with enclave (11)

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