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A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain range, lake, desert, building,
complex, or city) that has been nominated for the international World Heritage program administered by UNESCO.
The program aims to catalogue, name, and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common
heritage of humankind (exact criteria ). Listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage
Fund under certain conditions. The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and
Natural Heritage that was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972.
As of 2003, a total of 754 sites have been included in the list.
List of World Heritage Sites
- List of World Heritage
Sites in Africa
- List of World Heritage
Sites in Asia, including Australasia
- List of World Heritage
Sites in Europe
- List of
World Heritage Sites in the Americas
See also
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