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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 ...
    14 KB (2,079 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
  • ) or Terracotta Warriors and Horses is a collection of 8,099 life ... ). The figures were discovered in 1974 near Xi'an, Shaanxi province ...
    13 KB (1,945 words) - 14:58, 30 April 2023
  • ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand ... Samarkand revolted against its Mongol rulers in 1365, and became the ...
    15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
  • The Historic Center of Macau ( O Centro Histórico de Macau ... ) is a collection of more than twenty monuments and sites in Macao ...
    18 KB (2,756 words) - 21:51, 31 January 2024
  • ), 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
  • (also known as the Black Pagoda), built in Orissa red sandstone (Khandolite ... The Konark Sun Temple had been built as one of the finest examples ...
    14 KB (2,242 words) - 03:34, 8 June 2024
  • ; lit. "Valley of Nine Villages;" Tibetan: Sicadêgu) designates ... The Giant Panda population in Jiuzhaigou Valley, which numbers around ...
    16 KB (2,461 words) - 13:25, 1 August 2022
  • Anuradhapura, one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, has earned ... Founded in the fourth century B.C.E., Anuradhapura served as of the ...
    16 KB (2,446 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
  • ), 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 ...
    14 KB (2,150 words) - 00:44, 25 March 2024
  • Hermitage") is considered to be one of the most remarkable art treasures ... Located on Mt. Tohamsan, in Gyeongju, South Korea, about one hour ...
    13 KB (1,917 words) - 09:48, 26 January 2023
  • The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area is a contiguous network ... parks, forest reserves, state reserves, and conservation areas extending ...
    24 KB (3,392 words) - 04:34, 27 February 2023
  • to a National Park, Tiger Reserve, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a Biosphere ... The Sundarbans had been declared the core area of Sundarbans Tiger ...
    14 KB (1,909 words) - 23:31, 26 February 2023
  • ; 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 ...
    24 KB (3,013 words) - 00:31, 27 February 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
  • Galle (காலி in Tamil) (pronounced as one syllable in English, ... , the same as "Gaul," and in Sinhalese, gaːlːə ...
    17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
  • Tongariro National Park, established in 1887, was the first national ... In 1993 Tongariro became the first property to be inscribed on the ...
    17 KB (2,639 words) - 03:58, 1 May 2023
  • The Nanda Devi National Park, a national park situated around the ... , located in the state of Uttarakhand in northern India. The park ...
    20 KB (2,980 words) - 01:17, 11 November 2022
  • Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India are a Buddhist monastery complex ... and "universal pictorial art" [http://whc.unesco.org/archive/advis ...
    19 KB (2,978 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
  • 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 ...
    23 KB (3,412 words) - 23:56, 18 September 2023

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