The World Heritage List includes 1223 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. These include 952 cultural, 231 natural and 40 mixed properties in 168 States Parties .

The World Heritage emblem represents the interdependence of the world’s natural and cultural diversity. It is used to identify properties protected by the World Heritage Convention and inscribed on the official World Heritage List, and represents the universal values for which the Convention stands. The Emblem

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World Heritage Committee inscribes four cultural and one natural site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List

World Heritage List reaches 1000 sites with inscription of Okavango Delta in Botswana

Attime of inscription, the IUCN evaluation stated "… if only one coral reef site in the world were to be chosen for the World Heritage List, the Great Barrier Reef is the site to be chosen". Criterion (vii): The GBR is of superlative natural beauty above and below the water, and provides some of the most spectacular scenery on earth.

Five sites in the Arab and Europe regions inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List

List of World Heritage in Danger. Inscription Year on the List of World Heritage in Danger. 1989 -1998

The ancient Citadel and surrounding cultural landscape of the Iranian city of Bam, where 26,000 people lost their lives in the earthquake of December 2003, was simultaneously inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List and on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2004. Important international efforts are mobilized to salvage the cultural ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.