Heritage

New Zealand has three UNESCO World Heritage Sites — a small number for a country of such extraordinary ecological and cultural range, but each inscription…

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…

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…

Pakistan has six UNESCO World Heritage Sites, each one spanning a different chapter of human civilisation on the subcontinent — from the planned grid cities…

Sri Lanka has 8 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — six cultural and two natural — spanning ancient hydraulic capitals, a Portuguese-Dutch fortified harbour…

Syria has 6 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, all of them cultural, spanning a continuous arc of civilisation that stretches from the Nabataean trade routes of…

Colombia has 9 UNESCO World Heritage Sites: a tightly curated list that moves from Caribbean colonial fortifications to Amazonian rock art, from pre-Hispanic…

Cuba has 9 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, spanning fortified colonial cities, sugar-industry landscapes, tobacco valleys, and two ecologically exceptional…

Ethiopia has 12 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, a number that spans prehistoric fossil beds, medieval rock churches, walled Islamic cities, and high-altitude…