World Heritage · Curated list
Vatican City, Brasília, Rabat and 27 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
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Most written-about first. Each description summarises the site's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
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Enclaved Holy See's independent city-state
Officially the Vatican City State, and often just the Vatican, a landlocked, sovereign city-state of Southern Europe ruled by the pope. An enclave inside Rome, Italy, it is the administrative centre of the Catholic Church.
Wikidata · Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Federal capital of Brazil
The capital of Brazil and of its Federal District, on the Brazilian Highlands in the Central-West. President Juscelino Kubitschek founded it on 21 April 1960 to take over from Rio de Janeiro as the country's capital.
Wikidata · Photo: Arturdiasr, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Marble mausoleum in Agra, India
A mausoleum of ivory-white marble on the right bank of the Yamuna river in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, commissioned it in 1631 for the tomb of his late wife, Mumtaz Mahal; his own tomb is there too.
Wikidata · Photo: Taj_Mahal,_Agra,_India_edit2.jpg : Yann ; edited by King of Hearts derivative work: Jbarta ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0
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Capital of Malta
Also called Città Umilissima, the capital of Malta and one of the country's 68 council areas, between Marsamxett Harbour on its west and the Grand Harbour on its east. In 2021 it had 5,157 inhabitants.
Wikidata · Photo: Bengt Nyman, CC BY 3.0
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Capital of Rajasthan, India
The capital and biggest city of Rajasthan, a state in north-western India. With 3.1 million people as of 2011, it was the country's tenth most populous city.
Wikidata · Photo: see above. Compilation: Indianhilbilly, CC BY-SA 4.0
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City in Veneto, Italy
The biggest city of Italy's Veneto region, with 255,139 people as of 2026. One of the region's seven provincial capitals, it is also the 2nd-largest city of northeast Italy.
Wikidata · Photo: Guglielmo Giambartolomei, CC BY-SA 4.0
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City in Tombouctou Region, Mali
An ancient Malian city lying 20 kilometres north of the Niger River. It governs the Tombouctou Region, one of the 19 regions into which Mali is divided, and counted around eighty four thousand inhabitants in the 2023 census.
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Ancient rock-cut historical city in Jordan
Called Raqmu by the people who lived there, a city of antiquity in the south of Jordan, now an archaeological site. Renowned for buildings cut straight into the rock and for its water channels, it is nicknamed the "Rose City" after the colour of its sandstone.
Wikidata · Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0
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City in Somerset, England
A city in Somerset, England, that takes its name from the baths the Romans built there, for which it is famous. UNESCO listed it as World Heritage in 1987, and it was later named one of the "Great Spa Towns of Europe".
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Pre-Columbian Maya city in Mexico
A big city from before Columbus, built by the Maya in the Terminal Classic period, whose remains are an archaeological site in Yucatán, Mexico, in the municipality of Tinúm.
Wikidata · Photo: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Ancient city in central Syria
An ancient city in central Syria, in the eastern Levant. Archaeological finds there go back to the Neolithic, and documents first mention the city early in the second millennium BCE.
Wikidata · Photo: Quim Bahí from Catalunya, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire
Also called Parseh, and in modern Persian Takht-e Jamshid, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire. It stands on the plains of Marvdasht, ringed by the southern Zagros Mountains, in Iran's Fars province.
Wikidata · Photo: Alborzagros, CC BY-SA 3.0
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City in Israel
Called Akko in Hebrew and Akka in Arabic, a city on the coastal plain of Israel's Northern District.
Wikidata · Photo: israeltourism from Israel, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Performing arts centre in Australia
A performing arts centre with several venues in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on the shore of Sydney Harbour. It is widely counted among the most famous and distinctive buildings on Earth, and among the masterpieces of architecture of the 20th century.
Wikidata · Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Roybb95~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
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Archaeological site in Sindh, Pakistan
An archaeological site in Sindh's Larkana District, Pakistan. Built c. 2500 BCE, it was one of the Indus Valley Civilisation's biggest settlements and among the first great cities anywhere, at the same time as the civilisations of Norte Chico, Minoa, Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt.
Wikidata · Photo: The original uploader was M.Imran at English Wikipedia ., CC SA 1.0
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Ancient citadel above the city of Athens
An ancient citadel on a rocky outcrop over Athens, Greece, where the ruins of several ancient buildings stand, important for both history and architecture, the Parthenon the most famous. The name joins two Greek words: akron (ἄκρον), meaning the highest point or extremity, and polis (πόλις), meaning city.
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City in Saladin Governorate, Iraq
An Iraqi city on the Tigris's eastern bank, in Saladin Governorate, 125 kilometers (78 mi) north of Baghdad.
Wikidata · Photo: Jim Gordon, CC BY 2.0
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Town in Elis, Greece
Officially Archaia Olympia, a small town in Elis, on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula, famous for the archaeological site of the same name nearby. That site was one of ancient Greece's great Panhellenic sanctuaries, where the ancient Olympic Games were staged once in four years all through classical antiquity, from the 8th century BC until the 4th century AD.
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Castle in London, England
A historic fortress and castle beside the Thames, on the river's north bank in London, officially called His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London. It is in Tower Hamlets, a London borough cut off from the eastern edge of the City of London's square mile by an open space, Tower Hill.
Wikidata · Photo: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Municipality and city in Canary Islands, Spain
A city and municipality in the north of Tenerife, in the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Once the capital of the Canary Islands, it is the archipelago's third-largest city and the island's second-largest.
Wikidata · Photo: Thomas Wolf , www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
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District and municipality in Laos
The capital of Luang Prabang Province, in the north-central part of Laos, formerly Xieng Thong and also written Luang Phabang or Louangphabang. The name means “Royal Buddha Image,” after the Phra Bang, a statue that stands for Lao sovereignty.
Wikidata · Photo: Shelly Zohar, CC BY-SA 4.0
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City in Baalbek-Hermel, Lebanon
A city in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, east of the Litani River, lying roughly 67 km (42 mi) northeast of Beirut. It governs Baalbek-Hermel Governorate as its capital.
Wikidata · Photo: Saadedine AL SAIDI, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Town in Uttar Pradesh, India
A town in the Agra District of Uttar Pradesh, India, 35.7 kilometres (22.2 mi) from Agra, the district headquarters. Emperor Akbar founded it in 1571 as the Mughal capital, and it served as such until 1585, when Akbar left it for a campaign in Punjab; it was abandoned completely in 1610.
Wikidata · Photo: HibaSiddiqui, CC BY-SA 4.0
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City in Bolivia
Called Villa Imperial de Potosí in colonial times, a municipality and the capital of Bolivia's Department of Potosí. Standing at a nominal 4,067 m (13,343 ft), few cities on Earth are higher.
Wikidata · Photo: Parallelepiped09, CC BY-SA 4.0
Every Wikidata item that is a site on UNESCO's World Heritage List inscribed for its culture alone — under criteria (i) to (vi), and none of (vii) to (x), and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 30 are shown.
Fetched from Wikidata on 2026-09-25. Each description is this site's summary of the entry's Wikipedia article, which its name links to: the wording is ours, the facts are Wikipedia's, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. To correct an entry, correct it there; the next refresh carries the change.
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