World Heritage Site

Also known as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site, WHS, World Heritage List Site, Patrimonio de la Humanidad

place of significance listed by UNESCO

AI overview

A World Heritage Site is a place—like a historic city, natural landscape, or cultural monument—that UNESCO (a United Nations organization) recognizes as being so important and unique that it deserves protection and preservation for all of humanity. These designations matter because they bring international attention and support to help keep these irreplaceable places safe for future generations.

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Official website

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

whc.unesco.org →

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Described at

Welterbeliste - Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission

Welterbeliste - Die Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission ist die zentrale Ansprechpartnerin für alle UNESCO-Belange in Deutschland und Mittlerorganisation der Auswärtigen Kultur- und Bildungspolitik.

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: cultural heritage
Has part: natural heritage
Official website: whc.unesco.org
Image: Canal du Centre - Ascenseur no 2, Houdeng-Aimeries (DSCF7937).jpg

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topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:World Heritage Site
hashtag: PatrimoineMondial
Commons category: World Heritage Sites
topic's main category: Category:World Heritage Sites
equivalent class: dbpedia.org/ontology/WorldHeritageSite
Commons gallery: UNESCO World Heritage Sites
topic has template: Template:Lists of World Heritage Sites
maintained by: UNESCO
OpenStreetMap tag: heritage:operator=whc
described at URL: whc.unesco.org/en/list
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

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Encyclopedic overview

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection under an international treaty administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity".

To be selected, a World Heritage Site is nominated by its host country and determined by the UNESCO's World Heritage Committee to be a unique landmark which is geographically and historically identifiable, having a special cultural or physical significance, and to be under a sufficient system of legal protection. World Heritage Sites might be ancient ruins or historical structures, buildings, cities, deserts, forests, islands, lakes, monuments, mountains, wilderness areas, memorial sites and others.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “World Heritage Site” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.