The 2009 WHC Session added 13 Sites bringing the total to 889.

Inscriptions in 2009

The following sites were inscribed in the 2009 WHC Session.

Extensions in 2009

The following sites were extended:

• Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
• Spissky Hrad and Levoca
• Tubbataha Reefs

Complete List in 2009

In 2009 the World Heritage list consisted of 889 sites.

• Aachen Cathedral
• Aapravasi Ghat
• Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
• Abbey of St Gall
• Abu Mena
• Acropolis
• Aflaj irrigation system
• Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
• Agra Fort
• Agrigento
• Air and Téneré
• Ajanta Caves
• Aksum
• Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad
• Alcala de Henares
• Aldabra Atoll
• Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
• Aleppo
• Altamira Cave
• Alto Douro
• Ambohimanga
• Amiens Cathedral
• Amphitheater of El Jem
• Ancient ksours
• Ancient Kyoto
• Ancient Merv
• Ancient Nara
• Ancient Thebes
• Angkor
• Angra do Heroismo
• Anjar
• Antigua Guatemala
• Anuradhapura
• Aquileia
• Arabian Oryx Sanctuary
• Aranjuez
• Archaeological Site of Aigai
• Archaeological Site of Delphi
• Arequipa
• Arles
• Armenian Monastic Ensembles
• Asante Traditional Buildings
• Ashur
• Assisi
• Asturian Monuments
• Atapuerca
• Atlantic Forest South-East
• Auschwitz Birkenau
• Australian Fossil Mammal Sites
• Avignon
• Avila
• Ayutthaya
• Baalbek
• Bagerhat
• Bahá’i Holy Places
• Bahla Fort
• Bam Cultural Landscape
• Bamberg
• Bamiyan Valley
• Ban Chiang
• Banc d'Arguin
• Banska Stiavnica
• Bardejov Town
• Baroque Churches
• Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
• Bauhaus Sites
• Beemster Polder
• Belem
• Belfries
• Belize Barrier Reef
• Bellinzone
• Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Bialowieza Forest
• Benedictine Convent of St. John
• Berat and Gjirokastra
• Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
• Biblical Tells
• Birka and Hovgarden
• Bisotun
• Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
• Blenheim Palace
• Bordeaux
• Borobudur
• Bosra
• Botanical Garden, Padua
• Bourges Cathedral
• Boyana Church
• Brasilia
• Brazilian Atlantic Islands
• Brimstone Hill Fortress
• Brú na Bóinne
• Brugge
• Bryggen
• Budapest
• Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur
• Bukhara
• Burgos Cathedral
• Butrint
• Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
• Byblos
• Caceres
• Cahokia Mounds
• Calakmul
• Camagüey
• Campeche
• Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
• Canaima National Park
• Canal du Midi
• Canterbury
• Cape Floral Region
• Caral-Supe
• Carlsbad Caverns
• Cartagena
• Carthage
• Castel del Monte
• Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
• Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
• Centennial Hall
• Central Amazon Conservation Complex
• Central Sikhote-Alin
• Central Suriname Nature Reserve
• Central University City Campus of the UNAM
• Cerrado Protected Areas
• Cesky Krumlov
• Chaco Culture
• Champaner-Pavagadh
• Chan Chan
• Changdeokgung Palace Complex
• Chartres Cathedral
• Chavin
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
• Chichen-Itza
• Chief Roi Mata's Domain
• Chitwan National Park
• Choirokoitia
• Chola Temples
• Chongoni Rock Art
• Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
• Churches and Convents of Goa
• Churches of Chiloé
• Churches of Moldavia
• Churches of Peace
• Cidade Velha
• Cienfuegos
• Cilento and Vallo di Diano
• Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
• City of Bath
• City of Luxembourg
• Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
• Classical Gardens of Suzhou
• Classical Weimar
• Cliff of Bandiagara
• Coa Valley and Siega Verde
• Cocos Island
• Coiba National Park
• Cologne Cathedral
• Colonia del Sacramento
• Comoé National Park
• Congonhas
• Convent of Christ in Tomar
• Copán
• Cordoba
• Corfu
• Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
• Coro and its Port
• Costiera Amalfitana
• Crac des Chevaliers
• Crespi d'Adda
• Cuenca
• Cueva de las Manos
• Curonian Spit
• Cuzco
• Cyrene
• Dacian Fortresses
• Damascus
• Danube Delta
• Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
• Darien National Park
• Dazu Rock Carvings
• Delos
• Derbent
• Derwent Valley Mills
• Desembarco del Granma National Park
• Diamantina
• Dinosaur Provincial Park
• Discovery Coast
• Divrigi
• Dja Faunal Reserve
• Djémila
• Djenné
• Djoudj
• Dolomites
• Donana National Park
• Dong Phayayen
• Dorset and East Devon Coast
• Dougga/Thugga
• Dresden Elbe Valley
• Drottningholm
• Dubrovnik
• Durham Castle and Cathedral
• Durmitor National Park
• Dutch Water Defence Lines
• Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
• East Rennell
• Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
• Edinburgh
• El Escurial
• El Fuerte de Samaipata
• El Tajin
• Elephanta Caves
• Ellora Caves
• Engelsberg Ironworks
• Epidaurus
• Etruscan Necropolises
• Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
• Everglades
• Evora
• Falun Great Copper Mountain
• Fasil Ghebbi
• Fatehpur Sikri
• Ferapontov Monastery
• Ferrara
• Fertö/Neusiedlersee
• First Coffee Plantations
• Flemish Béguinages
• Florence
• Fontainebleau
• Fort and Shalamar Gardens
• Fortifications of Vauban
• Fortified City of Carcassonne
• Fortress of Suomenlinna
• Forts and Castles Gold Coast
• Fossil Hominid Sites
• Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda
• Fraser Island
• Frontiers of the Roman Empire
• Fujian Tulou
• Galapagos Islands
• Gammelstad
• Gamzigrad-Romuliana
• Garajonay
• Garamba National Park
• Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
• Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
• Gebel Barkal
• Gelati Monastery
• Genbaku Dome
• Genoa
• Ghadames
• Giant's Causeway
• Glacier parks
• Gobustan Rock Art
• Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
• Goias
• Golden Mountains of Altai
• Gondwana Rainforests
• Göreme NP
• Gough and Inaccessible Islands
• Granada
• Grand Canyon
• Grand Place, Brussels
• Graz
• Great Barrier Reef
• Great Smoky Mountains
• Great Wall
• Great Zimbabwe Ruins
• Greater Blue Mountains
• Grimeton Radio Station
• Gros Morne National Park
• Guanacaste
• Guanajuato
• Guimarães
• Gulf of California
• Gulf of Porto
• Gunung Mulu
• Gusuku of Ryukyu
• Gwynedd Castles
• Gyeongju
• Ha Long Bay
• Haeinsa Temple
• Haghpat and Sanahin
• Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
• Hallstatt-Dachstein
• Hampi
• Harar
• Hatra
• Hattusha
• Hawaii Volcanoes
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
• Heard and McDonald Islands
• Henderson Island
• Hierapolis-Pamukkale
• High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
• Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
• Himeji-jo
• Historic Cairo
• Hoi An
• Holasovice
• Hollókö
• Holy Trinity Column
• Hortobágy
• Horyu-ji Area
• Hospicio Cabañas
• Huanglong
• Huangshan
• Huascaran National Park
• Hué
• Humayun's Tomb
• Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
• Hwaseong Fortress
• Ibiza
• Ichkeul National Park
• Iguacu
• Iguazu National Park
• Ilulissat Icefjord
• Imperial Palace
• Imperial Tombs
• Incense Route of the Negev
• Independence Hall
• Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
• Ironbridge Gorge
• Ischigualasto / Talampaya
• iSimangaliso Wetland Park
• Island of Gorée
• Island of Mozambique
• Island of Patmos
• Island of Saint-Louis
• Isole Eolie
• Istanbul
• Itchan Kala
• Itsukushima Shrine
• Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
• Jeju
• Jelling
• Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
• Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
• Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
• Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
• Jiuzhaigou Valley
• Joggins Fossil Cliffs
• Jongmyo Shrine
• Joya de Ceren
• Kahuzi-Biega National Park
• Kaiping Diaolou
• Kairouan
• Kakadu National Park
• Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
• Kandy
• Karlskrona
• Kasbah of Algiers
• Kathmandu Valley
• Kazan Kremlin
• Kaziranga National Park
• Keoladeo National Park
• Kerkuane
• Kernavė
• Kew Gardens
• Khajuraho Group of Monuments
• Khami Ruins
• Kii Mountain Range
• Kilimanjaro National Park
• Kinabalu Park
• Kinderdijk
• Kizhi Pogost
• Koguryo Kingdom
• Koguryo Tombs
• Komodo National Park
• Kondoa
• Kotor
• Koutammakou
• Kraków
• Kremlin and Red Square
• Kronborg Castle
• Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
• Kuk
• Kunta Kinteh Island
• Kunya-Urgench
• Kutna Hora
• Kyiv
• L'Anse aux Meadows
• L'viv
• La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
• La Fortaleza
• La Lonja de la Seda
• Lagoons of New Caledonia
• Lake Baikal
• Lake Malawi
• Lake Turkana
• Lalibela
• Lamu Old Town
• Land of Frankincense
• Laponian Area
• Las Medulas
• Laurisilva of Madeira
• Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
• Le Havre
• Le Morne
• Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
• Leptis Magna
• Lima
• Litomysl Castle
• Liverpool
• Loire Valley
• Longmen Grottoes
• Lopé-Okanda
• Lord Howe Island
• Lorentz National Park
• Los Glaciares
• Los Katios National Park
• Lower Valley of the Awash
• Lower Valley of the Omo
• Luang Prabang
• Lübeck
• Luis Barragán House and Studio
• Lumbini
• Lushan National Park
• Luther Memorials
• Lyon
• M'Zab Valley
• Macao
• Machu Picchu
• Macquarie Island
• Madā ͐ in Ṣāliḥ
• Madara Rider
• Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
• Mahabalipuram
• Mahabodhi Temple Complex
• Major Town Houses
• Makli, Thatta
• Malbork Castle
• Maloti Drakensberg
• Malpelo
• Mammoth Cave
• Mana Pools
• Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
• Manovo-Gounda St. Floris
• Mantua and Sabbioneta
• Manu National Park
• Mapungubwe
• Maritime Greenwich
• Masada
• Matera
• Matobo Hills
• Maulbronn Monastery
• Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
• Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
• Mazagan
• Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
• Medina of Essaouira
• Medina of Fez
• Medina of Marrakesh
• Medina of Sousse
• Medina of Tétouan
• Medina of Tunis
• Megalithic Temples of Malta
• Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge
• Meidan Emam, Esfahan
• Meknes
• Melaka and George Town
• Mérida
• Mesa Verde
• Messel Pit
• Meteora
• Mexico City and Xochimilco
• Miguasha National Park
• Mijikenda Kaya Forests
• Minaret of Jam
• Mir Castle
• Modena
• Moenjodaro
• Mogao Caves
• Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
• Monastery of Alcobaça
• Monastery of Batalha
• Monastery of Geghard
• Monastery of Horezu
• Mont-Saint-Michel
• Monte San Giorgio
• Monticello
• Morelia
• Morne Trois Pitons
• Mostar
• Mount Athos
• Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
• Mount Kenya
• Mount Nimba
• Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan
• Mount Sanqingshan
• Mount Taishan
• Mount Wutai
• Mount Wuyi
• Mountain Railways of India
• Mountain Resort, Chengde
• Mtskheta
• Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
• Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
• Muskauer Park
• My Son
• Mycenae and Tiryns
• Mystras
• Nahanni National Park
• Nancy
• Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers
• Naples
• Nasca Lines
• National History Park
• Nemrut Dag
• Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
• Neolithic Orkney
• Nessebar
• Nesvizh
• New Lanark
• Ngorongoro
• Nikko
• Niokolo-Koba National Park
• Nisa
• Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
• Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
• Novgorod
• Novodevichy Convent
• Nubian Monuments
• Oaxaca and Monte Alban
• Ohrid Region
• Okapi Wildlife Reserve
• Old City of Acre
• Old City of Berne
• Old City of Jerusalem
• Old Havana
• Old Rauma
• Old Town Lunenburg
• Old Town of Galle
• Old Town of Lijiang
• Olinda
• Olympia
• Olympic National Park
• Oporto
• Orange
• Orkhon Valley
• Osun-Osogbo
• Ouro Preto
• Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
• Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
• Palenque
• Palmeral of Elche
• Palmyra
• Panamá
• Pannonhalma
• Pantanal
• Paphos
• Paquimé
• Paramaribo
• Paris, Banks of the Seine
• Pasargadae
• Pattadakal
• Peking Man Site
• Peninsula Valdes
• Persepolis
• Petäjävesi Old Church
• Petra
• Phong Nha - Ke Bang
• Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
• Pico Island
• Pienza
• Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
• Pilgrimage Church of Wies
• Ping Yao
• Pirin National Park
• Pitons Management Area
• Plantin-Moretus Museum
• Plitvice Lakes
• Poblet Monastery
• Polonnaruva
• Pompei
• Pont du Gard
• Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
• Popocatepetl monasteries
• Portobelo-San Lorenzo
• Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
• Potala Palace
• Potosi
• Potsdam
• Prague
• Prambanan
• Preah Vihear Temple
• Primeval Beech Forests
• Provins
• Puebla
• Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
• Purnululu National Park
• Pyramids (Memphis)
• Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
• Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
• Qadisha Valley
• Qal'at al-Bahrain
• Québec
• Quebrada de Humahuaca
• Quedlinburg
• Querétaro
• Quirigua
• Quito
• Quseir Amra
• Qutb Minar
• Rainforests of the Atsinanana
• Rammelsberg and Goslar
• Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
• Rapa Nui
• Ravenna
• Red Fort
• Redwood
• Regensburg
• Reichenau
• Reims
• Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
• Rhaetian Railway
• Rhodes
• Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
• Richtersveld
• Rideau Canal
• Rietveld Schröderhuis
• Riga
• Rila Monastery
• Rio Abiseo National Park
• Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
• Robben Island
• Rock Art of Alta
• Rock Carvings in Tanum
• Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
• Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
• Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
• Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin
• Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
• Rohtas Fort
• Roman Walls of Lugo
• Rome
• Roskilde Cathedral
• Route of Santiago de Compostela
• Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
• Royal Exhibition Building
• Royal Joseon Tombs
• Royal Palace at Caserta
• Royal Palaces of Abomey
• Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
• Røros
• Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara
• Ruins of León Viejo
• Ruins of Loropéni
• Rwenzori Mountains
• Sabratha
• Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
• Safranbolu
• Sagarmatha National Park
• Saint Catherine Area
• Saint-Emilion
• Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
• Salamanca
• Salonga National Park
• Saltaire
• Salvador de Bahia
• Salzburg
• Samarkand
• Samarra
• Sammallahdenmäki
• San Agustín
• San Cristobal de La Laguna
• San Gimignano
• San Marino and Mount Titano
• San Miguel de Allende
• San Pedro de la Roca Castle
• Sana'a
• Sanchi
• Sangay National Park
• Sangiran Early Man Site
• Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
• Santa Cruz de Mompox
• Santa Maria de Guadalupe
• Santa Maria delle Grazie
• Santiago de Compostela
• Santo Domingo
• São Luis
• Saryarka
• Sceilg Mhichíl
• Schokland
• Schönbrunn
• Segovia
• Selous Game Reserve
• Semmering Railway
• Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
• Serengeti
• Serra da Capivara
• Seville
• Sewell Mining Town
• SGang Gwaay
• Shakhrisyabz
• Shark Bay
• Shibam
• Shirakami-Sanchi
• Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
• Shiretoko
• Shushtar
• Sian Ka'an
• Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
• Siena
• Sighisoara
• Sigiriya
• Simien National Park
• Sinharaja Forest
• Sintra
• Skocjan Caves
• Skogskyrkogarden
• Socotra Archipelago
• Solovetsky Islands
• Soltaniyeh
• South China Karst
• Southern Öland
• Speyer Cathedral
• Spissky Hrad and Levoca
• Split
• Srebarna Nature Reserve
• St. George, Bermuda
• St. Kilda
• St. Petersburg
• Stari Grad Plain
• Stari Ras and Sopocani
• Statue of Liberty
• Stoclet House
• Stone Circles of Senegambia
• Stone Town of Zanzibar
• Stonehenge
• Stralsund and Wismar
• Strasbourg
• Struve Geodetic Arc
• Studenica Monastery
• Studley Royal Park
• Su Nuraxi di Barumini
• Sub-Antarctic Islands
• Sucre
• Sukhothai
• Sukur
• Sulaiman-Too
• Summer Palace
• Sun Temple, Konarak
• Sundarbans National Park
• Surtsey
• Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
• Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
• Sydney Opera House
• Syracuse
• Tadrart Acacus
• Taï National Park
• Taj Mahal
• Takht-e Soleyman
• Takht-i-Bahi
• Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
• Tallinn
• Tanbaly
• Taos Pueblo
• Tarraco
• Tasmanian Wilderness
• Tassili n'Ajjer
• Taxila
• Tchogha Zanbil
• Te Wahipounamu
• Teide National Park
• Telc
• Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
• Temple of Heaven
• Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius
• Teotihuacan
• Tequila
• The Four Lifts
• The Sundarbans
• The trulli of Alberobello
• Thessalonika
• Thingvellir
• Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
• Thracian tomb of Sveshtari
• Three parallel rivers of Yunnan
• Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
• Tierradentro
• Tikal National Park
• Timbuktu
• Timgad
• Tipasa
• Tiwanaku
• Tiya
• Tlacotalpan
• Tokaji Wine Region
• Toledo
• Tomb of Askia
• Tombs of Buganda Kings
• Tongariro National Park
• Torun
• Tower of Hercules
• Tower of London
• Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
• Trebic
• Trier
• Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
• Trinity Sergius Lavra
• Trogir
• Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
• Troy
• Tsingy de Bemaraha
• Tsodilo
• Tubbataha Reefs
• Tugendhat Villa
• Twyfelfontein
• Tyre
• Úbeda and Baeza
• Ujung Kulon National Park
• Uluru
• Um er-Rasas
• Upper Middle Rhine Valley
• Upper Svaneti
• Urbino
• Urnes Stave Church
• Uvs Nuur Basin
• Uxmal
• Val d'Orcia
• Val di Noto
• Vall de Boi
• Vallée de Mai
• Valletta
• Valparaiso
• Vat Phou
• Vatican City
• Vegaøyan
• Venice and its Lagoon
• Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
• Verona
• Versailles
• Vézelay
• Vézère Valley
• Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
• Victoria Falls
• Vienna
• Vigan
• Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
• Villa d'Este
• Villa Romana del Casale
• Villages with Fortified Churches
• Vilnius
• Viñales Valley
• Virgin Komi Forests
• Virunga National Park
• Visby
• Vizcaya Bridge
• Vlkolinec
• Volcanoes of Kamchatka
• Völklingen Ironworks
• Volubilis
• Vredefort Dome
• W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
• Wachau Cultural Landscape
• Wadden Sea
• Wadi Al-Hitan
• Walled City of Baku
• Warsaw
• Wartburg Castle
• Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
• West Norwegian Fjords
• Western Caucasus
• Westminster
• Wet Tropics of Queensland
• Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
• White City of Tel-Aviv
• White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
• Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
• Willandra Lakes
• Willemstad
• Wood Buffalo National Park
• Wooden Churches of Maramures
• Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
• Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
• Works of Antoni Gaudí
• Wrangel Island
• Wudang Mountains
• Wulingyuan
• Würzburg Residence
• Xanthos-Letoon
• Xidi and Hongcun
• Xochicalco
• Yakushima
• Yaroslavl
• Yellowstone
• Yin Xu
• Yosemite National Park
• Yungang Grottoes
• Yuso and Suso Monasteries
• Zabid
• Zacatecas
• Zamosc
• Zollverein