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  • , literally towering Eyebrow Mountain) is located in Sichuan province ... Buddhist monasteries built during the Ming and Qing dynasties are located ...
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  • The Ancient City of Polonnaruwa, designated a World Heritage Site ... A great deal of the credit for establishing the Polonnaruwa kingdom ...
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  • Huế (化 in chữ Nôm), the capital city of Thừa Thiên-Huế ... Chinese Neo-Confucianism had become a powerful influence in Vietnam ...
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  • Nanping. It runs along the northern border of Fujian (Hok-kian) province ... The mountains cover an area of 60 km². In 1999, UNESCO designated ...
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  • The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven ( t=天壇|s=天坛 ... ; Manchu: Abkai mukdehun) is a complex of Taoist buildings situated ...
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  • Sigiriya (Lion's rock) is a rock fortress and ruins of a palace ... appearance. The site has tremendous cultural and historical significance. Its ...
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  • ), located in southwest Sichuan province of China, serves as the home ... Approximately 1,600 Panda, a revered national symbol of China, live ...
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  • )—a city of the Indus Valley Civilization built around 2600 B.C ... The discovery of Mohenjo-daro led to tremendous excitement in the ...
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  • Agra Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Agra, India, has ... Agra Fort represents a blend of Hindu and Islamic civilization and ...
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  • Goa Velha ("Velha" means old in Portuguese), referring to ... third-largest religion, following Hinduism and Islam. Evidence hints that ...
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  • terraces, had been carved into the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines by ... The rice culture of the Ifugao people requires tremendous skill and ...
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  • or Lal Qila, meaning the Red Fort, located in Delhi, India, has been awarded ... Shahjahanabad, the seventh Muslim city in the Delhi site. ...
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  • , in Sinhala, கண்டி kaṇṭi, ˈkaɳɖi , in Tamil), constitutes the English rendering for Maha Nuvara (Senkadagalapura ...
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  • Borneo, encompasses remarkable caves and karst formations in a mountainous ... the expeditions conducted to explore them and their surrounding rain forest ...
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  • Temple") refers to a Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya, the location where ... The Mahabodhi Temple marks the most holy spot in creation for Buddhism ...
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  • National Park (RCNP)" ), covers an area of 932 km², constituting the ... The Royal Chitwan National Park is the best example of a pristine ...
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  • Khajuraho (Hindi खजुराहो), a village in the Indian state ... thirteenth century C.E. until rediscovered in the jungles of northern India ...
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  • Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple compound in Indonesia, and one ... east of Yogyakarta in Central Java. Characterized by tall and pointed ...
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  • Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park since 1982 ... . The Valley of Flowers has enshrined in Hindu Mythology. It won international ...
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  • The Greater Blue Mountains Area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ... The Area is comprised of seven contiguous national parks and one protected ...
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  • The Qutb complex refers to an array of monuments and buildings at ... In addition to the most famous monument in the complex, Qutub Minar ...
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  • ) or Terracotta Warriors and Horses is a collection of 8,099 life ... ). The figures were discovered in 1974 near Xi'an, Shaanxi province ...
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  • ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand ... Samarkand revolted against its Mongol rulers in 1365, and became the ...
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  • The Historic Center of Macau ( O Centro Histórico de Macau ... ) is a collection of more than twenty monuments and sites in Macao ...
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  • ), 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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  • ; lit. "Valley of Nine Villages;" Tibetan: Sicadêgu) designates ... The Giant Panda population in Jiuzhaigou Valley, which numbers around ...
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  • Anuradhapura, one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, has earned ... Founded in the fourth century B.C.E., Anuradhapura served as of the ...
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  • ), a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state of Uttar ... Mughal Emperor Akbar had a penchant for displaying his values and ...
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  • Hermitage") is considered to be one of the most remarkable art treasures ... Located on Mt. Tohamsan, in Gyeongju, South Korea, about one hour ...
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  • The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area is a contiguous network ... parks, forest reserves, state reserves, and conservation areas extending ...
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  • to a National Park, Tiger Reserve, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a Biosphere ... The Sundarbans had been declared the core area of Sundarbans Tiger ...
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  • ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze ... Suzhou reached its golden age with the Ming Dynasty in 1368 C.E. During ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Galle (காலி in Tamil) (pronounced as one syllable in English, ... , the same as "Gaul," and in Sinhalese, gaːlːə ...
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  • Tongariro National Park, established in 1887, was the first national ... In 1993 Tongariro became the first property to be inscribed on the ...
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  • The Nanda Devi National Park, a national park situated around the ... , located in the state of Uttarakhand in northern India. The park ...
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  • Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India are a Buddhist monastery complex ... and "universal pictorial art" [http://whc.unesco.org/archive/advis ...
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  • quốc gia Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng) is one of the world's largest karst ... with the world's longest underground river, as well as the largest ...
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  • ::This article is about the traditional culture of Korea. For the ... The traditional culture of Korea has its mythical beginnings 5000 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site ...
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  • The Baroque Churches of the Philippines refers to four Spanish-era ... The Spanish had been the greatest power in the world during the late ...
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  • Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties hold the royal remains ... , patterned in an arc-shape at the foot of the Jundu Mountains south ...
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  • Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon ... west from the capital Ulaanbaatar. The Orkhon Valley was the site ...
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  • Buddhism has been a major force in the creation of Korean culture ... One of the foremost Buddhist temples in South Korea, Haeinsa has housed ...
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  • ), also spelled as Bukhoro and Bokhara, from the Soghdian βuxārak ... been inhabited for at least five millennia and the city itself has existed ...
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  • known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, in Rajasthan, India, has become ... has been endemic to wildlife environments in nations rapidly developing ...
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  • Hōryū-ji (法隆寺; Temple of the Flourishing Law) is a Buddhist ... June Kinoshita and Nicholas Palevsky, Gateway to Japan (Kodansha International ...
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  • Bulguksa, one of Korea's largest and most often visited temples ... The temple area is the home of six Korean National Treasures, including ...
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  • The Great Living Chola Temples were built during the Chola rule in ... The temples display the tremendous power, wealth, imperial domain ...
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  • Suri. The fort measures approximately 4 km in circumference displaying the ... Rohtasgarh, situated on the upper course of the river Son, 20 37’ ...
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  • Southeast Asia [[Image:Southeast asia.jpg|180px|center|Topography of ... * List of World Heritage Sites in Asia and Australasia * Overseas Chinese ...
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  • The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park lies in Australia's Northern ... The Park is majestic and serene and covers 1,326 square kilometers ...
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  • Angkor refers to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the ... Angkor and the Khmer Empire practiced Hinduism, most likely the largest ...
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  • (also known as Mamallapuram), a town in Kancheepuram district in the ... UNESCO designated the Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram in 1984 ...
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  • Kakadu National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 ... , extending nearly 200 km (125 mi) from north to south and over 100 ...
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  • Emperor, ruled modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from ... He succeeded his father in India in 1530, while his half-brother Kamran ...
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  • Several railways had been built in the mountainous regions of India ... to nominate a representative example of its historic railways to UNESCO ...
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  • mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911 ... Since 1924, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace ...
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  • Parrot is the common name for any of the tropical and subtropical ... There are roughly 350 species in 85 genera making up the order. These ...
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