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.
Austria’s 12 UNESCO World Heritage Sites span Habsburg palaces, a pioneering mountain railway, a Bronze Age salt-mining lake district, Roman Danube frontier fortifications, and primeval beech forests shared across seventeen European countries.
Russia holds 33 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, from the timber churches of Kizhi and the monasteries of the European north to Lake Baikal, the volcanoes of Kamchatka, and a newly inscribed Ice Age cave in the southern Urals.
The United States holds 26 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, from Yellowstone’s geothermal basin and the Grand Canyon’s layered geology to pre-Columbian earthwork cities and a 2024 Moravian settlement in Pennsylvania.
Brazil’s 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites range from the Baroque hilltop towns of Minas Gerais and a landmark site of Atlantic slave memory to Amazonian reserves and a newly inscribed karst canyon with prehistoric rock art.
