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 (2,129 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 ...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 ...20 KB (2,883 words) - 07:05, 28 February 2023
- 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
- The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das ... Located in the open ocean between the South American and African continents ...21 KB (2,904 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024
- ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- Potosí is a city in southern Bolivia, 56 miles (90 km) southwest ... Potosí is a city deeply reflective of the pain of colonialism. From ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 05:55, 30 November 2022
- Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal ... it was built by Cronus as the first city in Phoenicia. Today it is believed ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, in Rajasthan, India, has become ... has been endemic to wildlife environments in nations rapidly developing ...24 KB (3,401 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- metal and jade-inlaid pot. Qianlong reign in the Qing dynasty of China ... archeology outside the United States) is one of the four sub-fields of anthropology ...28 KB (4,112 words) - 06:15, 12 August 2023
- [[Image:Stećak.jpg|thumb|250px|Radimlja necropolis of stećak in ... place. Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries ...26 KB (3,983 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- Madeira is an archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean, and is one ... is considered to be the first discovery of the exploratory period initiated ...32 KB (4,286 words) - 10:48, 9 March 2023
- The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... depth and has been subjected to a number of external influences and migrations ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- megalithic monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire ... The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list ...37 KB (5,831 words) - 02:27, 26 February 2023
- ) is a large seaport city on the northern coast of Colombia. Founded ... slave market. It saw expansive development in the eighteenth century as the ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- [[Image:Louvre at night centered.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Louvre ... later made public. There are different types of museums all over the world ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- Kaziranga National Park, a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon ... Kaziranga hosts a vast expanse of tall elephant grass, marshland and ...31 KB (4,349 words) - 22:14, 15 September 2023
- Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United ... to the early culture at Poverty Point, one of the largest and most important ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, and the westernmost ... Over the course of its existence, Lisbon has both flourished and suffered ...34 KB (4,753 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean ... The U.S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
- A basilica, in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, is a church building ... building, usually located at the center of a Roman town (forum). Public ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 03:32, 1 January 2022
- , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- ) is the capital city and the economic and communications hub of Padova ... the poet Dante lived, where Saint Anthony of Padua is buried, and as the ...25 KB (3,594 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... famous dye Tyrian purple. The dye was used in ancient textile trade, and ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
- city, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. human habitation more than 7,000 years ago. In the modern era, Spanish settlement ...29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- as the commercial and industrial center, of Peru. It is located in the ... Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded the city in 1535, as ...28 KB (4,030 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- is the capital and most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany ... more than 2000 years. Initially a small city of moneylenders and textile merchants ...28 KB (4,082 words) - 17:40, 28 March 2024
- The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island ... Auckland has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world ...35 KB (5,077 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- [[Image:Japanese internment camp in British Columbia.jpg|thumb|250px ... ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ...40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Memphis and its Necropolis ...33 KB (5,140 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- ; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... Since its establishment in 723 B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital ...59 KB (8,054 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
