This is a list of lists of World Heritage Sites. A World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as having special cultural or physical significance.

World Heritage Sites by country. As of July 2018, there are a total of 1,092 World Heritage sites located in 167 States Parties, of which 845 are cultural, 209 are natural and 38 are mixed properties. The countries have been divided by the World Heritage Committee into five geographic zones: Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific,...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. The United States of America ratified the convention on December 7, 1973, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. The first sites in the United States added to the list were Mesa Verde National Park and Yellowstone National Park, both at the Second Sessi

Yellowstone National Park is a World Heritage Site World Heritage Sites are places in the world which are very important from the cultural or natural point of view. These places are selected by UNESCO , a part of the United Nations .

The first sites in the UK to be added to the World Heritage List, in 1986, were: Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast. Durham Castle and Cathedral. Ironbridge Gorge. Studley Royal Park and the Ruins of Fountains Abbey. Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites. Castles and Town Walls of King ...

Current status. The request was considered by the World Heritage Committee at its 37th session in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in September, 2013. ICOMOS recommended not inscribing the Kamakura site, stating that the historical aspects of the site had largely been supplanted by the modern city that grew up around it and thus the site lacked...

It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004 as a cultural site. There is a concentration of largely unexcavated archaeological, historic and living cultural heritage properties cradled in an impressive landscape which includes prehistoric ( chalcolithic ) sites, a hill fortress of an early Hindu capital, and remains of the 16th-century capital of the state of Gujarat .

In addition to the sites inscribed on the World Heritage list, member states can maintain a list of tentative sites that they may consider for nomination. Nominations for the World Heritage list are only accepted if the site was previously listed on the tentative list.