World Heritage · Curated list
Marquesas Islands, Meteora, Mount Tai and 22 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
Most written-about first. Each description summarises the site's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
1
Archipelago in French Polynesia
Volcanic islands belonging to French Polynesia, France's overseas collectivity in the South Pacific. Mount Oave, on Ua Pou, rises highest, 1,230 m (4,035 ft) above the sea.
Wikidata · Photo: Sémhur · ✉ · ✍ ·, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Rock formations and monasteries in Thessaly, Greece
Rock towers more than 20 metres (66 ft) high in Trikala, a regional unit of Thessaly, northwestern Greece, crowned by one of Orthodoxy's best-known groups of monasteries, which local people rank second only to Mount Athos.
3
Mountain in Shandong, China
Shandong province's highest point, a mountain rich in history and culture that rises to the north of Tai'an, a city in China.
Wikidata · Photo: Charlie fong, Public domain
4
Sandstone massif in Algeria's central Sahara Desert
A mountain range of the Sahara in south-eastern Algeria, covering more than 72,000 km² (28,000 sq mi) and holding one of the world's most important groups of prehistoric cave art.
Wikidata · Photo: magharebia, CC BY 2.0
5
Protected area and a World Heritage Site in Arusha Region, Tanzania
A UNESCO World Heritage Site and protected area in Tanzania's northeastern Crater Highlands, in Ngorongoro District of Arusha Region, lying 180 km (110 mi) west of Arusha City. It takes its name from Ngorongoro Crater, the big volcanic caldera within it.
Wikidata · Photo: Jantjeerkamp at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
6
Mountain range in southern Anhui, China
A mountain range in the south of Anhui province, eastern China, whose name means Yellow Mountain(s). First called "Yishan", it was renamed after a legend that the Yellow Emperor once practised alchemy there.
7
Valley in southern Jordan
Known in Arabic as Wādī Ramm or Wādī al-Ramm (وادي رم), and also as the Valley of the Moon or the Red mountains, a valley carved into granite and sandstone in the south of Jordan, close to the Saudi Arabian border, some 60 km east of Aqaba. Covering 720 km², it is Jordan's largest wadi.
Wikidata · Photo: Raya Sharbain, CC BY-SA 4.0
8
Mountain range in China
Also called Wuyishan, a mountain range in Nanping prefecture, in northern Fujian province near the Jiangxi border, China. Its highest peak, Mount Huanggang, at 2,158 metres (7,080 ft) on the Fujian–Jiangxi border, is the highest point of both provinces; its lowest ground is around 200 metres (660 ft).
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9
Ancient Mayan city in Campeche, Mexico
The ruins of a Maya city in Campeche, Mexico, deep in the jungle of the wider Petén Basin, 35 kilometres (22 mi) from the Guatemalan border.
Wikidata · Photo: Pavel Kirillov from St.Petersburg, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0
10
Archipelago in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom
Remote islands of the North Atlantic, lying 35 nautical miles west-northwest of North Uist; they are the most westerly of Scotland's Outer Hebrides.
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Protected area in the Northern Territory, Australia
A protected area in Australia's Northern Territory, home to both Kata Tjuta and Uluru.
Wikidata · Photo: Leonard G., Public domain
12
National park in New Zealand
A park in the centre of New Zealand's North Island, the oldest national park in the country and the sixth to be created anywhere. UNESCO lists it as a World Heritage Site for its mixed natural and cultural values.
13
Escarpment in Dogon country of Mali
A sandstone cliff in the Dogon country of Mali, rising about 500 m (1,600 ft) above the low sandy plains to its south and running for about 150 km (90 mi).
Wikidata · Photo: Ferdinand Reus from Arnhem, the Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0
14
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tasmania
Usually shortened to TWWHA, a World Heritage Site in Tasmania, Australia, and one of Australia's biggest conservation areas, covering 15,800 km² (6,100 mi²), almost 25 per cent of Tasmania.
Wikidata · Photo: Jörn Brauns, Public domain
15
Lake in the state of New South Wales, Australia
A World Heritage Site in the Far West region of New South Wales, Australia, and the traditional meeting place of three Aboriginal peoples, the Paakantyi, Ngiyampaa and Muthi Muthi.
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16
Mountain range in North Korea
Also called the Kumgang Mountains, a mountain massif with a peak 1,638-metre-high (5,374 ft), in Kangwŏn Province, North Korea. On the country's east coast, in the area of Kangwŏn once called the Mount Kumgang Tourist Region, it is part of the Taebaek range, which runs down the east of the Korean Peninsula.
Wikidata · Photo: Uwe Brodrecht, CC BY-SA 2.0
17
US protected region of ocean and islands
A US national monument and World Heritage Site covering 582,578 square miles of ocean, with ten islands and atolls of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. President George W. Bush first created it in 2006, at an initial 140,000 square miles (360,000 km²).
Wikidata · Photo: Claire Fackler, CINMS, NOAA., Public domain
18
Protected area and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sikkim, India
A national park in Sikkim, India, part of the Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve. Added to UNESCO's World Heritage list in July 2016, it became India's first "Mixed Heritage" site.
Wikidata · Photo: Abhishek532, CC BY-SA 4.0
19
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Latin America and the Caribbean
A national park in Peru's San Martín department, declared Natural and Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 1990.
20
Wildlife area in the Lapland province in northern Sweden
Also called the Laponian Area, a big wildlife area of mountains in northern Sweden's Lapland province, in the municipalities of Jokkmokk, Arjeplog and Gällivare. Its name comes from the Latin for Lapland.
Wikidata · Photo: Photographer: Mg-k ., CC BY-SA 3.0
21
National park in Colombia
Chiribiquete National Natural Park, Colombia's largest national park and the largest tropical rainforest national park on Earth. Established on 21 September 1989, it has been enlarged twice, in August 2013 and in July 2018.
Wikidata · Photo: Carlos Castaño Uribe, CC BY-SA 3.0
22
Plateau located in the northeast of Chad
A plateau in northeastern Chad, in the Ennedi-Est and Ennedi-Ouest regions, counted as part of the Ennedi Massif. Chad is one of the nine countries of the Sahelian belt, which reaches from the Atlantic Ocean to Sudan.
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UNESCO World Heritage Site in Red River Delta, Vietnam
A scenic area in Ninh Bình Province, near Hoa Lư, Vietnam, famous for boat trips through caves. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as the Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex, on 23 June 2014, at the World Heritage Committee's 38th session in Doha.
Wikidata · Photo: Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, CC BY 2.0
24
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Iraq
A UNESCO World Heritage Site in Southern Iraq, in full “The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities”, which some Biblical scholars call the "Garden of Eden". It is made up of marshes and ancient cities fed by the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
Wikidata · Photo: M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA., CC BY-SA 2.0
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Biosphere reserve in Mexico
A protected natural area in southeastern Mexico, named after its two main places, Tehuacán, where its offices are, and Cuicatlán. It covers 490,186 hectares across 21 municipalities in the states of Oaxaca and Puebla.
Wikidata · Photo: Luistlatoani, Public domain
Every Wikidata item that is a site on UNESCO's World Heritage List inscribed for both its culture and its nature, 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 25 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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