Heritage

Nepal has 4 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — a count that belies the country’s extraordinary concentration of civilisational significance, from the snows of the…

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…

Australia has 21 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, a roster that stretches from tropical reef systems and ancient rainforests to sacred Aboriginal landscapes and…

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…