Statistics[edit]

See also: Table of World Heritage Sites by country, List of World

Heritage Sites, List of World Heritage in Danger and List of World
Heritage Sites by year of inscription

The center of Bardejov in Slovakia an example of cultural heritage site

There are 981 World Heritage Sites located in 160 States Party. Of
these, 759 are cultural, 193 are natural and 29 are mixed properties. The
World Heritage Committee has divided the world into five geographic
zones which it calls regions: Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Russia and the Caucasus states are classified as European, while
Mexico is classified as belonging to the Latin America & Caribbean zone,
despite its location in North America. The UNESCO geographic zones
also give greater emphasis on administrative, rather than geographic
associations. Hence, Gough Island, located in the South Atlantic, is part
of the Europe & North America region because the government of the
United Kingdom nominated the site.
The table below includes a breakdown of the sites according to these
zones and their classification:[12][13]
Zone/region
Europe and North
America

Natur
al

Cultur
al

Mixe
d

68

417

11

Tot
al
496[14]

Asia and the Pacific

55

148

10

213[14]

Latin America and the

Caribbean

36

91

130

Africa

39

48

91

Arab States

67

74

Sub-total

203

771

30

1004

less duplicates*

15

26

42

* Because many sites belong to more than one country, duplicates exist
when counting them by country and within a region.

Territorial division[edit]

The following overview lists only countries with ten or more World
Heritage Sites.

See also[edit]

List of conservation articles

List of World Heritage Sites

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists

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