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UNESCO World Heritage Site website The World Heritage List includes over 800 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. United States of America Redwood National and State Parks Carlsbad Caverns National Park Waterton Glacier International Peace Park Canada
Historic District of Old Québec
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
Mexico
Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza Guatamala
Tikal National Park Belize Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System Educador
Peru Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
United Kingdom
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church
Portugal
Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon
Spain Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada
Italy
Venice and its Lagoon
Croatia
Old City of Dubrovnik
Tanzania
Egypt Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
Tunisia
Israel Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls
Turkey Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadoci
Thailand
Historic
City of Ayutthaya
Indonesia
Komodo National Park
Korea, Republic of Changdeokgung Palace Complex Philippines Baroque Churches of the Philippines
Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
China, Macao
Historic Centre of Macao
Hawaii (USA)
The World Heritage List includes over 800 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.
The following shall be considered as "cultural heritage": Monuments: architectural works, works of monumental sculpture and painting, elements or structures of an archaeological nature, inscriptions, cave dwellings and combinations of features, which are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science; Groups of buildings: groups of separate or connected buildings which, because of their architecture, their homogeneity or their place in the landscape, are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science; Sites: works of man or the combined works of nature and man, and areas including archaeological sites which are of outstanding universal value from the historical, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological point of view. The following shall be considered as "natural heritage": Natural features consisting of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations, which are of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view; Geological and physiographical formations and precisely delineated areas which constitute the habitat of threatened species of animals and plants of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation; Natural sites or precisely delineated natural areas of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science, conservation or natural beauty.
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