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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Island of Saint-Louis
The Island of Saint-Louis — two kilometres long, four hundred metres wide, at the mouth of the Senegal River — was the first permanent…
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Lopé-Okanda, Gabon
The Lopé-Okanda mixed UNESCO site in Gabon combines one of Central Africa's last intact forest-savanna mosaics with more than 1,800 ancient rock engravings left…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Ambohimanga, Madagascar
The Royal Hill of Ambohimanga in Madagascar's central highlands is the most sacred site in the country — a forested hilltop enclosure where the…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Tsodilo, Botswana
Tsodilo in Botswana is a group of four quartzite hills bearing more than 4,500 San rock paintings made over approximately 24,000 years — the…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali
The Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali is a 150-kilometre sandstone cliff where Dogon communities have lived for more than 700 years, preserving one of Africa's…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Thimlich Ohinga, Kenya
Thimlich Ohinga in Migori County, western Kenya, is the largest and best-preserved dry-stone enclosure of the ohinga tradition built by Iron Age Luo-ancestral communities…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Mapungubwe, South Africa
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape in South Africa's Limpopo Province preserves the capital of southern Africa's first hierarchically organized Bantu-speaking kingdom (c. 1000–1290 CE), which grew…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Kondoa Rock Art, Tanzania
The Kondoa Rock Art Sites in central Tanzania's Dodoma Region contain more than 150 painted rock shelters spanning at least 19,000 years of continuous…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Koutammakou, Togo
Koutammakou in northeastern Togo is a UNESCO-inscribed living cultural landscape (2004) where the Batammariba people continue to build and inhabit the Takienta — fortified…
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