Switzerland’s 13 UNESCO World Heritage Sites span Carolingian abbeys, precision-engineered railway lines, glacier-carved alpine massifs, and one of the world’s richest Triassic fossil records.
The Netherlands has 13 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — from windmill networks and 17th-century canal rings to a working 18th-century planetarium and the vast Wadden Sea — all shaped by centuries of human ingenuity against water.
Belgium’s 16 UNESCO World Heritage Sites range from medieval beguine convents and Baroque market squares to a primeval beech forest and the cemeteries of the Western Front — a compact list that spans more than six thousand years of human presence.
Sweden holds fifteen UNESCO World Heritage Sites — from Bronze Age rock carvings in Tanum and a medieval walled Hanseatic town on Gotland to subarctic Sami landscapes and a still-operational 1920s radio station.
Peru’s 13 UNESCO World Heritage Sites span Inca cities, pre-Columbian desert calendars, cloud-forest citadels, and Amazonian parks — a complete guide from Cultural Heritage Online.
Morocco holds nine UNESCO World Heritage Sites — all cultural — ranging from the medieval labyrinth of Fez to Roman Volubilis, Portuguese-built El Jadida, and the layered capital Rabat, inscribed in 2012.
Turkey’s 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites span Cappadocia’s rock-cut churches, Istanbul’s Byzantine and Ottoman monuments, Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Lycian ruins, and Lydian royal tombs — one of the densest archaeological landscapes on earth.
Iran holds 29 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, spanning Achaemenid ceremonial capitals, Bronze Age cities, living cave settlements, and two exceptional natural landscapes along the Caspian coast and in the arid south-east.
Portugal’s 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites span prehistoric Palaeolithic rock art, Manueline monasteries, Atlantic island vineyards, and the only surviving laurel forest of its kind in the world.
