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 ...15 KB (2,151 words) - 22:17, 6 October 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- 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 (2,118 words) - 03:56, 24 May 2024
- Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surfaces ... theories hold that they may have been a way of transmitting information, while ...25 KB (3,776 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- ) 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 ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- Kampala, the largest city of Uganda, became that nation's capital ... Beginning with the end of colonialism, Uganda had suffered an era ...19 KB (2,830 words) - 17:26, 14 May 2024
- 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