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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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