UNESCO World Heritage List: Introduction

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A UNESCO World Heritage Site whc.unesco.org is a site that has been nominated for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's International World Heritage program. The program aims to catalogue and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind.

See also UNESCO Creative Cities, describing a recently instituted program recognizing entire cities with some similar characteristics, and the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network, for parks of great geological interest.

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UNESCO World Heritage List: Introduction
UNESCO World Heritage List: Africa: Algeria
UNESCO World Heritage List: The Americas: Argentina
UNESCO World Heritage List: Asia: Afghanistan

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Bobala, in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Boloto Bol'shoye Pavino, a swamp in Kurganskaya Oblast', Russia
Bouverie Islands, an island in Nunavut
Diba, a wadi in Prefecture du Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti, Chad
Lake Vida, a reservoir in Perry County, Alabama
Lanfiera, in Region de Mopti, Mali
Malaya Lipovitsa, in Tambovskaya Oblast', Russia

Markam, in Semnān Province, Iran
Migongo, in Province de Makamba, Burundi
Rabanal, in Estado Monagas, Venezuela
Vypolzovo, in Perm Krai, Russia
Zou, an intermittent stream in Region du Moyen-Cavally, Ivory Coast

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