Heritage

Namibia has 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, one cultural and one natural, inscribed between 2007 and 2013. That compact figure belies a country of…

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

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…

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

El Salvador has one UNESCO World Heritage Site — and the story of how a buried Mayan village came to hold that distinction alone tells you a great deal about…

Nicaragua has 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, both anchored in the colonial city of León and its surroundings — a compact but historically dense list that…

Uruguay has three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, each one registering a different layer of the country’s past: Portuguese colonial urbanism on the Río de la…

Mozambique has 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — one cultural, one natural and transnational — spread across a coastline that once anchored the Indian Ocean…

Madagascar has three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, a number that reflects both the island’s extraordinary ecological isolation and the scale of the…