Search results for "List of World Heritage Sites in Africa" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest ... The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection ...
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  • Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...
    13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
  • Cataratas del Iguazú) is a majestic area of cataracts on the Iguazu River ... The area consists of a network of 275 waterfalls spanning an area ...
    10 KB (1,592 words) - 13:42, 4 February 2023
  • The Serengeti Plain, located in north-central Tanzania, (Africa) is ... A significant portion of the Serengeti Plain is protected and preserved ...
    11 KB (1,686 words) - 09:56, 26 January 2023
  • tenth century, Timbuktu is an African city in the modern day nation of Mali ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...
    16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
  • Robben Island (Afrikaans Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, ... Initially a stopping point for passing ships in the sixteenth and ...
    18 KB (2,791 words) - 21:08, 16 April 2023
  • Saint-Louis, or Ndar as it is called in Wolof (the most widely spoken ... north of Senegal's capital city Dakar, it has a population officially ...
    21 KB (2,973 words) - 18:57, 22 December 2022
  • The Bandiagara Escarpment is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country ... In 1989 UNESCO listed the Bandiagara Escarpment as a World Heritage ...
    14 KB (2,194 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
  • Wat Phou (Vat Phu) is a Khmer ruined temple complex in southern Laos ... from the Mekong river in Champassak province. Previously named Shrestapura ...
    11 KB (1,724 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
  • Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site ... Cannons were first mounted on Brimstone Hill in 1690, when the British ...
    12 KB (1,806 words) - 23:08, 20 November 2023
  • Mountain") mountains are the tallest in Southern Africa, rising at ... The mountains contain a diversity of habitats which protect a large ...
    17 KB (2,547 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
  • Cyrene (Greek Κυρήνη, Kurene) was an ancient Greek colony in ... Cyrene became one of the great intellectual centers of the classical ...
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  • and commercially important small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south ... architecture, most notably the Great Mosque of Djenné, considered by many ...
    20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
  • Goa Velha ("Velha" means old in Portuguese), referring to ... Evidence hints that Christians have been in India almost for as long as ...
    14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:24, 31 December 2023
  • Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surfaces ... theories hold that they may have been a way of transmitting information, while ...
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  • ) sits in Southern Siberia in Russia, located between Irkutsk Oblast ... , Lake Baikal constitutes the deepest lake in the world, and the largest ...
    14 KB (2,082 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
  • ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... by the Romans. It became the capital city of the Arab Aghlabid dynasty and ...
    17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
  • ), denotes an archeological site located in Nong Han district, Udon ... Radiocarbon tests in the 1970s revised that date to 2100 B.C.E. to ...
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  • Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was born out of a union of four villages ... crime-free environment, and for being one of the cleanest cities of Africa ...
    18 KB (2,473 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2023
  • Kampala, the largest city of Uganda, became that nation's capital ... Beginning with the end of colonialism, Uganda had suffered an era ...
    20 KB (2,883 words) - 07:05, 28 February 2023

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