See, this is the great thing about having Every World Heritage Site as your bucket list; if on the off chance you do, somehow, manage to visit them all …
… just wait ’til the next annual World Heritage Committee session, and you’ll have another dozen or two to keep you busy for that year!
And the new additions for 2017 are out now:
Krakow, Poland, 12 July—The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Krakow since 2 July, closed its annual session today. During the session, the Committee inscribed 21 new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. It also extended or modified the boundaries of five sites already on the List.
The new inscriptions bring to 1,073 the total number of sites on the World Heritage List. Angola and Eritrea saw their first sites joint the List during the present session…
Read the whole thing if you want details on the 4 that had boundaries extended, 1 that had them reduced, and the various changes to the World Heritage in Danger list; we’ll just list the new ones for you here —
The new natural sites are:
- Los Alerces National Park (Argentina)
- Qinghai Hoh Xil (China)
- Landscapes of Dauria (Mongolia/Russian Federation)
The new cultural sites are:
- Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo (Angola)
- Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site (Brazil)
- Temple Zone of Sambor Prei Kuk, Archaeological Site of Ancient Ishanapura (Cambodia)
- Kulangsu: a Historic International Settlement (China)
- Venetian Works of Defence between 16th and 17th centuries: Stato da Terra – western Stato da Mar (Croatia, Italy, Montenegro)
- Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap (Denmark)
- Asmara: a Modernist City of Africa (Eritrea)
- Taputapuātea (France)
- Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura (Germany)
- Historic City of Ahmadabad (India)
- Historic City of Yazd (Islamic Republic of Iran)
- Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region (Japan)
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town (Palestine)
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System(Poland)
- Assumption Cathedral and Monastery of the town-island of Sviyazhsk (Russian Federation)
- ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape (South Africa)
- Aphrodisias (Turkey)
- The English Lake District (United Kingdom)
— of those, we’ve been to six so far:
- Qinghai Hoh Xil (China)
- Venetian Works of Defence between 16th and 17th centuries: Stato da Terra – western Stato da Mar (Croatia, Italy, Montenegro)
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town (Palestine)
- Historic City of Ahmadabad (India)
- Aphrodisias (Turkey)
- The English Lake District (United Kingdom)
So that’ll raise our overall percentage a bit once we get our inscribed + tentative Master Sitelist generator working with the latest updates. Which we must get around to soon, now that it’s out of date and all.
But first, we’ll have a couple posts about new inscriptions here that are politically controversial in some quarters…
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