At the 37th Session of the UNESCO meeting held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 19 new sites were added to the World Heritage list for 2013. China and Italy took top honors with the most new sites at each, Xinjiang Tianshan and Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces in China, Mount Etna and Medici Villas and Gardens in Italy.
Exciting news for Qatar and Fiji, both adding their first UNESCO sites Al Zubarah Archaeological Site and Levuka Historical Port Town respectively.
The UNESCO World Heritage list features 981 sites from over 160 countries. The list numbers 759 cultural, 193 natural and 29 mixed properties.
New Inscribed Properties
- Al Zubarah Archaeological Site
- Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
- Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration
- Golestan Palace
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Historic Centre of Agadez
- Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong
- Levuka Historical Port Town
- Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
- University of Coimbra – Alta and Sofia
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine
- El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve
- Mount Etna
- Namib Sand Sea
- Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs)
- Xinjiang Tianshan
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest
- Maloti Drakensberg Tranboundary World Heritage Site