Contiguous National Sites

Connected Sites: 16

WHS which "abut" each other within the same country (ie excluding "Transnational" abutting sites which already have their own "connection"). Different from "Inscribed twice or more" because the 2 sites are exclusive from each other.

Connected Sites

  • Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.68
    31
    6
    Abuts Rock Paintings of Sierra San Francisco
  • Serengeti
    Serengeti
    Tanzania
    Inscribed: 1981
    4.41
    122
    5
    Abuts Ngorongoro Conservation Area
  • Pienza
    Pienza
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.07
    192
    9
    With Val d'Orcia
  • Bassari Country
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.09
    12
    2
    Bassari Country (Bassari Salémata), via the buffer area, with Niokolo-Koba National Park
  • Wet Tropics of Queensland
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.50
    140
    8
    With Great Barrier Reef, off Cape Tribulation
  • Great Barrier Reef
    Inscribed: 1981
    4.20
    184
    8
    With Wet Tropics of Queensland, off Cape Tribulation
  • Al-Faw
    Al-Faw
    Saudi Arabia
    Inscribed: 2024
    1.29
    4
    3
    Located in the buffer zone of 'Uruq Bani Ma'arid.
  • Val d'Orcia
    Inscribed: 2004
    3.23
    199
    11
    With Pienza
  • Upper Middle Rhine Valley
    Inscribed: 2002
    3.67
    319
    12
    With Frontiers of the Roman Empire
  • Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
    Inscribed: 1993
    2.72
    22
    4
    Is completely surrounded by the land area of the Vizcaino site but was extracted from that nomination at the evaluation/inscription stage "Following the recommendation of the Bureau, the original nomination of the mixed site of El Vizcaino was resubmitted as separate cultural and natural nominations" (Report of the 17th session of the WHC). Its evaluation document is however still titled "Vizcaino"!
  • Ngorongoro
    Ngorongoro
    Tanzania
    Inscribed: 1979
    4.36
    129
    4
    Abuts Serengeti NP
  • Frontiers of the Roman Empire
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire
    Germany, United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    2.81
    348
    20
    In Germany, with Upper Middle Rhine Valley
  • Danube Limes
    Danube Limes
    Austria, Germany, Slovakia
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.06
    246
    6
    In Germany, with "Frontiers of the Roman Empire": "The Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes started at Bad Gögging (...). At Eining it was connected with the Upper German‐Raetian Limes in the existing WHS "Frontier of the Roman Empire"." (Nomination file, p. 54)
  • Changdeokgung Palace Complex
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.15
    231
    7
    Changdeokgung Palace Complex & Jongmyo Shrine
    See english.chosun.com
  • Niokolo-Koba National Park
    Inscribed: 1981
    2.16
    21
    2
    Bassari Country (Bassari Salémata), via the buffer area, with Niokolo-Koba National Park
  • Jongmyo Shrine
    Jongmyo Shrine
    Republic of Korea
    Inscribed: 1995
    2.56
    181
    11
    Changdeokgung Palace Complex & Jongmyo Shrine
    See english.chosun.com