World Heritage · Curated list
Vatican City, Brasília, Great Wall of China and 47 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 place'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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Series of fortifications in northern China
A chain of fortifications in China, built along the historical northern frontiers of ancient Chinese states and of Imperial China to guard against nomadic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe.
Wikidata · Photo: Severin.stalder, CC BY-SA 3.0
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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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Freshwater rift lake in Russia
The deepest lake on Earth, a rift lake in southern Siberia, Russia, lying between the Republic of Buryatia on its southeast side and Irkutsk Oblast on its northwest.
Wikidata · Photo: Jason Rogers, CC BY 2.0
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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 city of Ecuador
Ecuador's capital, officially San Francisco de Quito, and its second city by size. Some 1.7 million people are estimated to live in the city itself and 2.8 million across the wider urban area; Pichincha province is governed from here too.
Wikidata · Photo: Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Coral reef system in Queensland, Australia
The largest coral reef system in the world: more than 2,900 separate reefs and 900 islands, stretching over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) and covering about 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 mi²). It lies in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
Wikidata · Photo: NASA, by MISR, Public domain
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Colossal sculpture in New York Harbor
A huge neoclassical sculpture of a crowned woman in robes, standing on Liberty Island, in New York Harbor, part of New York City. The people of France gave the copper-covered statue to the United States; the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed it, and Gustave Eiffel built its metal framework.
Wikidata · Photo: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0
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15th-century Inca citadel in Peru
An Inca citadel of the 15th century, on a mountain ridge 2,430 meters (7,970 ft) up in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru. It lies in Urubamba Province's Machupicchu District, roughly 80 kilometers northwest of Cusco, high over the Sacred Valley, beside the Urubamba, whose deep canyon has a subtropical mountain climate.
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Ancient Roman amphitheater in Rome
An oval amphitheatre in the centre of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. No ancient amphitheatre ever built was larger, and none still standing in the world is as large.
Wikidata · Photo: FeaturedPics, CC BY-SA 4.0
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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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Capital city of Bahia, Brazil
A Brazilian municipality and capital of the state of Bahia, in the Zona da Mata of Brazil's Northeast Region, known at home and abroad for its architecture, music and cuisine.
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Buddhist temple complex in Cambodia
A temple complex in Siem Reap, Cambodia, first built as a Vaishnava Hindu temple and now Theravada Buddhist: the largest religious complex in the world.
Wikidata · Photo: The original uploader was Fuzheado at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 2.0
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Prehistoric monument in England
A prehistoric monument of great stones on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. Its outer circle is made of upright sarsens, each weighing about 25 tons and measuring roughly 13 feet (4.0 m) in height by seven feet (2.1 m) in width, with horizontal lintels on top held by mortise and tenon joints, which no other monument of its time has.
Wikidata · Photo: Stefan Kühn, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Ecuadorian volcanic archipelago
Volcanic islands of the Eastern Pacific, straddling the equator some 485 nautical miles off South America's mainland, to the west. As Ecuador's Galápagos Province they were home to just over 33,000 people in 2020.
Wikidata · Photo: European Space Agency, Attribution
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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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Nazi concentration camp in Poland (1940–1945)
Also called Oświęcim, a complex of more than 40 concentration and extermination camps that Nazi Germany ran in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. Its parts were the main camp (Stammlager), Auschwitz I, in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, where prisoners were both held and killed in gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, where they were forced to labour for IG Farben, the chemicals conglomerate; and dozens of smaller subcamps.
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UNESCO World Heritage Site in Vietnam
A Vietnamese national park, listed by UNESCO as World Heritage, in the communes of Minh Hóa and Bố Trạch in the centre of Quảng Trị Province, on the North Central Coast, some 500 km south of Hanoi. On the west it borders Laos's Hin Namno National Park, in Khammouane Province, and from its border point it is 42 km east of the East Sea.
Wikidata · Photo: Genghiskhanviet, Public domain
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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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National park in the western United States
A US national park mainly in the northwest corner of Wyoming, with small parts in Idaho and Montana. Its animals and its abundance of geothermal features draw visitors, above all Old Faithful, one of its most popular geysers.
Wikidata · Photo: James St. John from Newark, Ohio, CC BY 2.0
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City in Peru
Also written Cuzco, a city in southeastern Peru near the Andes' Sacred Valley and the Urubamba and Huatanay rivers. Both Cusco Province and Cusco Department, which share its name, are governed from it, and it is the biggest city in each.
Wikidata · Photo: gertrudis2010, 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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Waterfall on the Zambezi River in Zambia and Zimbabwe
A waterfall of the Zambezi River on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia, and one of the biggest in the world, 1,708 m (5,604 ft) wide.
Wikidata · Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
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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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Former royal residence in Versailles, France
A château and historic monument in Versailles, in France's Yvelines department, southwest of Paris, the main home of the French kings Louis XVI, Louis XV and Louis XIV.
Wikidata · Photo: ToucanWings, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Basilica under construction since 1882 in Barcelona, Spain
The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, known simply as the Sagrada Família: a Catholic church in Barcelona's Eixample district, in Catalonia, Spain. Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect, designed it, and no church anywhere is taller.
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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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Imperial palace complex in Beijing, China
The imperial palace complex at the centre of the Imperial City in Beijing, China. Home to 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was the centre of political power in China for more than 500 years, from 1420 to 1924.
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Congregation mosque in Jerusalem
Also called the Qibli Mosque, the main congregational mosque, or prayer hall, of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City. Some sources also call the building al-Masjid al-Aqṣā, but that name belongs mainly to the whole compound around it, which is itself also called 'al-Aqsa Mosque', 'al-Aqsa' or 'Haram al-Sharif'.
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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 the Republic of Dagestan, Russia
A city in the Republic of Dagestan, called Albana until the 3rd century, Chor until the 6th and Bab al-Abwab until the 12th, and also known as Darband or Derbend. Russia's southernmost city, it holds the narrow passage between the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea, linking the Eurasian Steppe to the north with the Iranian Plateau to the south.
Wikidata · Photo: Аль-Гимравий, 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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External territory of Australia
Sub-Antarctic volcanic islands on the Kerguelen Plateau, in the south of the Indian Ocean, found in the mid-19th century and now an external territory of Australia.
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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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Archaeological site near Cairo, Egypt
The site in Egypt of the Great Pyramid and the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, with their pyramid complexes and the Great Sphinx. All were built in the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom, between c. 2600 – c. 2500 BC.
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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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Islamic building in Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem
An eight-sided Islamic shrine at the centre of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City. It is the oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture in the world, the earliest religious building by a Muslim ruler known from archaeology, and holds the earliest inscriptions proclaiming Islam and the prophet Muhammad.
Wikidata · Photo: Ralf Roletschek, GFDL 1.2
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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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National park in California, United States
A US national park in California, bordered by Stanislaus National Forest on the northwest and the Sierra National Forest on the southeast.
Wikidata · Photo: Thomas Wolf , www.foto-tw.de, 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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