UNESCO just added 40+ locations to its World Heritage Sites, See list

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee just added 42 sites to its World Heritage List this month, commemorating cultural and natural treasures spanning Europe and Africa to the United States.

According to the organization, the list, which was amended as part of the World Heritage Committee’s 45th session in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, now includes 33 new cultural sites and nine new natural sites. There are now 1,199 World Heritage sites spread across 168 nations.

“These sites will now benefit from the highest level of heritage protection available anywhere in the world,” UNESCO said in a statement. “They will also have access to new opportunities for technical and financial assistance from UNESCO.”

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In the United States, the organization added the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, which are part of the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Ohio, to the list. The area has “eight monumental earthen enclosure complexes built between 2,000 and 1,600 years ago along the central tributaries of the Ohio River.”

New UNESCO World Heritage Sites

• Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan (State of Palestine)
• Astronomical Observatories of Kazan Federal University (Russian Federation)
• Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and “Köç Yolu” Transhumance Route (Azerbaijan)
• Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er (China)
• Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites (Mongolia)
• Djerba: Testimony to a settlement pattern in an island territory (Tunisia)
• ESMA Museum and Site of Memory – Former Clandestine Center of Detention, Torture and Extermination (Argentina)
• Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker (Netherlands)
• Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) (Belgium, France)
• Gaya Tumuli (Republic of Korea)
• Gordion (Türkiye)
• Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks (United States of America)
• Jewish-Medieval Heritage of Erfurt (Germany)
• Jodensavanne Archaeological Site: Jodensavanne Settlement and Cassipora Creek Cemetery (Suriname)
• Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Lingapura or Chok Gargyar (Cambodia)
• Memorial sites of the Genocide: Nyamata, Murambi, Gisozi and Bisesero (Rwanda)
• Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919-1939 (Lithuania)
• National Archaeological Park Tak’alik Ab’aj (Guatemala)
• Old town of Kuldīga (Latvia)
• Prehistoric Sites of Talayotic Menorca (Spain)
• Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas (India)
• Santiniketan (India)
• Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor (Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
• The Ancient Town of Si Thep and its Associated Dvaravati Monuments (Thailand)
• The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and its Historic Landmarks (Indonesia)
• The Gedeo Cultural Landscape (Ethiopia)
• The Maison Carrée of Nîmes (France)
• The Persian Caravanserai (Iran (Islamic Republic of))
• Tr’ondëk-Klondike (Canada)
• Viking-Age Ring Fortresses (Denmark)
• Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia (Türkiye)
• Zagori Cultural Landscape (Greece)
• Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops (Czechia)

Natural properties:

• Anticosti (Canada)
• Bale Mountains National Park (Ethiopia)
• Cold Winter Deserts of Turan (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
• Evaporitic Karst and Caves of Northern Apennines (Italy)
• Forest Massif of Odzala-Kokoua (Congo)
• Nyungwe National Park (Rwanda)
• Tugay forests of the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve (Tajikistan)
• Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique (France)
• ‘Uruq Bani Ma’arid (Saudi Arabia)