The Seychelles has 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, both inscribed in the early 1980s and both recognised for natural heritage of global importance. Across a…

The Gambia has two UNESCO World Heritage Sites — both cultural, both carrying histories that reach far beyond West Africa’s smallest mainland country.…

Mauritius has 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, both cultural, both rooted in histories of coerced migration and resistance that shaped the modern Indian Ocean…

Côte d’Ivoire has 5 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, ranging from some of West Africa’s last intact primary rainforests to a French colonial capital shaped by…

Singapore has 1 UNESCO World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2015: the Singapore Botanic Gardens, a 160-year-old living institution that shaped tropical…

Eritrea has one UNESCO World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2017: the capital Asmara, recognised as an exceptional document of early modernist urbanism…

Haiti has one UNESCO World Heritage Site: a grouping of early-independence monuments in the northern highlands that carries a weight of historical…

Zambia has one UNESCO World Heritage Site — a record that belies the country’s extraordinary depth of natural landscape and prehistoric archaeology. That…

Qatar has one UNESCO World Heritage Site — a number that belies the depth of history compressed into the country’s single inscription. That site, a ruined…

Botswana has 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — one cultural, one natural — spanning ancient rock art sanctuaries and one of Africa’s most extraordinary wetland…