South Korea’s 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites span 8th-century Buddhist grottoes, living Confucian shrines, a fortress-capital, two natural sites, and a 2025 prehistoric petroglyph inscription along the Bangucheon Stream.
Ghana has two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, both cultural, both inscribed within a year of each other in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Together they tell a…
Nigeria has 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, each safeguarding a layer of the country’s long cultural history — one a mountain-top landscape shaped by…
New Zealand has three UNESCO World Heritage Sites — a small number for a country of such extraordinary ecological and cultural range, but each inscription…
Australia has 21 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, a roster that stretches from tropical reef systems and ancient rainforests to sacred Aboriginal landscapes and…
Myanmar has two UNESCO World Heritage Sites as of 2022 — a figure that seems modest for a country whose landscape is layered with ancient cities, sacred…
Nepal has 4 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — a count that belies the country’s extraordinary concentration of civilisational significance, from the snows of the…
Sri Lanka has 8 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — six cultural and two natural — spanning ancient hydraulic capitals, a Portuguese-Dutch fortified harbour…
Pakistan has six UNESCO World Heritage Sites, each one spanning a different chapter of human civilisation on the subcontinent — from the planned grid cities…
Kenya has eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites, a list that ranges from ancient Swahili trading towns on the Indian Ocean shore to vast highland forests and…
