Key facts
- Location
- Mongolia
- Includes
- Kharkhorum Moiltyn Am Orkhon-7 Khar Balgas Erdene Zuu Monastery Tuvkhun Hermitage Shankh Western Monastery Doit Hill palace Orkhon inscriptions
- Criteria
- Cultural: (ii), (iii), (iv)
- Reference
- 1081rev
- Inscription
- 2004 (28th Session )
- Area
- 121,967 ha (301,390 acres)
- Buffer zone
- 61,044 ha (150,840 acres)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- valley
- Has part
- Orkhon inscriptions
- Country
- Mongolia
- Area
- 61044
- Image
- Orchon-mongolei.JPG
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- Commons category
- Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- native label
- Культурный ландшафт долины реки Орхон
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape sprawls along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, some 320 km west from the capital Ulaanbaatar. It was inscribed by UNESCO in the World Heritage List as representing the development of nomadic pastoral traditions spanning more than two millennia.
Significance
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orkhon Valley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.