Connections

Many WHS are connected with others in surprising ways. A Connection should
a. not be "self evident"
b. link at least 3 different sites
c. not duplicate or merely subdivide the "Category" assignment already identified on this site.
d. add some knowledge or insight (whether significant or trivial!) about WHS for the users of this site
e. be explained, with reference to a source

10 most recent new Connections:
- Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - - Atlantis - - Cultural Inscriptions rejected as Cultural Landscapes - - Continuing Cultural Landscape - - Clearly defined landscapes - - Le Corbusier - - Seal Hunting - - Sea Stacks - - Transromanica - - Toulouse Hotspot -

Latest connected WHS:
Victoria Falls : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Statue of Liberty : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Mesa Verde : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Grand Canyon : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Glacier parks : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Istanbul : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Segovia : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Hwaseong Fortress : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Oporto : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Machu Picchu : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Queretaro : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Petra : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Paris, Banks of the Seine : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Ironbridge Gorge : Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - Hal Saflieni Hypogeum : Atlantis - Megalithic Temples of Malta : Atlantis - Su Nuraxi di Barumini : Atlantis - Troy : Atlantis - Donana National Park : Atlantis -

Quick links to the groups of connections:
Architecture . Constructions . Damaged . Ecology . Geography . History . Human Activity . Individual People . Religion and Belief . Timeline . Trivia . WHS Hotspots . WHS on Other Lists . World Heritage Process .



Architecture
Architectural design competitions (5)
Art Deco (9)
Art Nouveau (18)
Baroque (67)
Beehive tombs (5)
Brick architecture (57)
Built in Laterite (8)
Cave dwellings (13)
Cave Temples/Churches (14)
Cenotaph (7)
Chinese Garden (12)
Chinoiserie (9)
Churrigueresque (12)
Coral Masonry (9)
Designed by Belgian architects (3)
Designed by famous architects (59)
Double Helix (7)
Dry Stone Construction (20)
Early Under-floor Heating (6)
English garden (22)
Feng Shui (16)
Freestanding Bell Tower (30)
French (formal) garden (17)
Georgian Architecture (9)
Gold Surfaces (48)
Gothic (54)
Gothic Revival (19)
Grotesques (8)
Hyperboloid Structure (5)
Ideal City (21)
Indo-Islamic architecture (11)
International style (9)
Iron Structures (6)
Isabelline style (4)
Italian Architects outside Italy (20)
Italian Renaissance garden (4)
Japanese garden (9)
Mannerism (14)
Manueline style (13)
Medina (12)
Moorish revival (7)
Mud / Earth Architecture (23)
Mudejar style (21)
Neo-Baroque (3)
Neoclassical architecture (43)
Norman architecture (5)
Palladio / Palladian (13)
Parkitecture (5)
Persian Garden (6)
Plateresque (8)
Pre-Romanesque (8)
Reinforced Concrete (12)
Renaissance (50)
Restored by anastylosis (19)
Rock Cut Architecture (21)
Rococo (23)
Romanesque (48)
Sgraffito (7)
Steel-Framed construction (5)
Timber framing (18)
Timurid Architecture (7)
Vernacular architecture (64)
Wooden architecture (65)


Constructions
19th century shopping arcades (4)
Aqueduct (30)
Astronomical clocks (8)
Bandstand (11)
Baths (69)
Bixi (9)
Boats (14)
Brothels (5)
Cable cars (32)
Canals (30)
Caravanserai (21)
Carillons (8)
Casemates (4)
Catacombs (8)
Cemeteries (49)
Chariots (9)
Cisterns (28)
Clock Tower (24)
Conical roofs (17)
Coronelli globes (9)
Crown Jewels (14)
Cryptoporticus (4)
Cultural sites connected to Cliffs (24)
Cycoliths (Stone circles) (8)
Domes (38)
Dovecotes (9)
Dynastic Burial Places (38)
Elevators (16)
Equestrian Statues (36)
Famous Bells (8)
Famous Palimpsests (4)
Famous tapestries (16)
Frontier walls (6)
Funiculars (16)
Gates depicting Lions (17)
Giant Buddha statues (12)
Glazed tiles (36)
Harem (10)
Historic Pharmacies (15)
Historical cafés (8)
Historical Organs (6)
Historical zoos (6)
Horse Stables (25)
Hospitals (57)
Hypogea (6)
Large squares (25)
Latrines (18)
Leaning Tower (10)
Libraries (64)
Lighthouses (36)
Loggia (17)
Magic Squares (4)
Market Halls (13)
Mausolea (44)
Mazes (4)
Monumental Fountains (42)
Monumental Monoliths (12)
Mosaic art (58)
Music Academies (16)
Necropolises (31)
Notable Bridges (45)
Notable Hotels (10)
Notable minarets (10)
Obelisk (25)
Octagons (49)
Ossuary (10)
Passage of the Sun (15)
Petroglyphs (35)
Pictographs (26)
Pillars (7)
Pillories (5)
Plague Column (14)
Portuguese forts (16)
Prayer Labyrinth (7)
Prison (58)
Pyramids (33)
Railways (39)
Roland statue (5)
Significant Follies (4)
Sites of Parliament (24)
Sphinx (22)
Stelae (27)
Stepwells (8)
Sundial (22)
Tell (9)
Tetrapylon (6)
Theatres (88)
Tombs (52)
Tower-houses (13)
Triumphal Arches (25)
Tumuli (23)
Tunnels (43)
Unfinished constructions (26)
Universities (48)
Via Ferrata (5)
Vineyards (26)
Walled cities (64)
Water wheels (7)
Windmills (12)
Zero Mile/Kilometer Markers (6)


Damaged
"Threatened" by bridges (3)
"Threatened" by Dams (19)
"Threatened" by Drought/Desertification (6)
"Threatened" by Infestation of Rats (8)
"Threatened" by Roads (4)
"Threatened" by Skyscrapers (7)
"Threatened" by Tunnels (6)
Blown up (12)
Covered by volcanic ash (8)
Cultural sites damaged by fire since inscription (26)
Damaged by Landslide (5)
Damaged in World War I (6)
Damaged in World War II (49)
Destroyed by Hurricanes or Typhoons (4)
Destroyed during invasion (48)
Destroyed or damaged by Earthquake (51)
Hit by Tsunami (10)
Iconoclasm (6)
Islands threatened by inundation (5)
Landmines (5)
Meteorite impact (4)
Terrorist Attacks (12)
Thefts since inscription (6)


Ecology
"Recently" Extinct Mammals (5)
Anchialine Habitats (4)
Animal Migrations (28)
Bears (50)
Beech Forests (12)
Big Five (6)
Big Waterfalls (13)
Blue Holes (3)
Boreal Forest (13)
Bovines (19)
Cacao (3)
Carnivorous plants (10)
Chimpanzee habitat (8)
Cloud forest (16)
Columnar Jointing (3)
Coral (28)
Critically endangered fauna species (75)
Crocodiles (37)
Dinosaur Remains (3)
Dripstone (21)
Dunes (22)
Elephants (31)
Endemic Bird Species (48)
Eucalypts (11)
Feral Animals (5)
Gorilla habitat (6)
Granite rock formations (10)
Gray Wolf (20)
Hoodoo (12)
Ice cave (4)
Icebergs (6)
Inselbergs (18)
Lagoons (24)
Lava tubes (7)
Living Fossils (11)
Living Stromatolites (4)
Mangroves (26)
Natural Arches and Bridges (18)
Non-Carbonate Karst Landscapes (3)
Notable examples of island gigantism (10)
Notable examples of multiple speciation in one site (5)
Notable Extremophiles (5)
Orchids (27)
Otters (58)
Oxbow lakes (9)
Peat (21)
Penguins (11)
Permafrost Mounds (3)
Protection of a single named species (5)
Rainforests (62)
Ratites (41)
Reintroduced Species (9)
Rhino habitat (15)
Rias (3)
River Dolphins (6)
Salamanders (11)
Salt Flats (5)
Sea Stacks (5)
Seals (37)
Siraneans (16)
Snow leopard (6)
Steppe (7)
Stratovolcanoes (10)
Table Mountain (8)
Tidal effects (10)
Tiger habitat (12)
Tombolos (4)
Travertine pools (7)
Tundra (6)
Turtles and tortoises (55)
Underground river (7)
Volcanic Hotspots (8)
Whales (23)


Geography
Adriatic Sea (12)
Alps (14)
Amazon Basin (9)
Andes (20)
Antipodes points (22)
Archipelagos (17)
Arctic (6)
Arctic Ocean (3)
Atlantic Ocean (32)
Atoll (7)
Baltic Sea (17)
Basque Country (3)
Black Sea (3)
Caldera (9)
Canyons (22)
Cape (15)
Caribbean Sea (14)
Carpathians (8)
Caspian Sea (3)
Caucasus (10)
Cirques (7)
Congo River Basin (7)
Contiguous National Sites (12)
Coral Sea (3)
Crater Lakes (3)
Danube (6)
Deepest (5)
Dependent territories (13)
Dinaric Alps (8)
East Sea / Sea of Japan (4)
Equator (3)
Fjords (8)
Former Islands (8)
Formerly inhabited islands (12)
Ganges (9)
Glaciers (29)
Guadalquivir River (4)
Gulf of Mexico (4)
Highest cultural WHS (17)
Himalaya (5)
Hot Springs (15)
In former GDR (12)
Indian Ocean (24)
Individual Mountains (19)
Individual Rivers (23)
Isostatic Rebound (8)
Lakes located in Rift Valleys (6)
Lapland (3)
Largest area (4)
Linear inscriptions (23)
Located at an "extreme point" of Latitude/Longitude (7)
Macaronesia (7)
Manchuria (4)
Marine sites (13)
Mediterranean shore (49)
Mekong (3)
Melanesia (5)
Mid-Atlantic Ridge (4)
Nile (7)
Notable lakes (20)
Offshore of a major city (8)
On National Border (45)
Pacific Ocean (43)
Pacific Ring of Fire (7)
Pan-American Highway (16)
Patagonia (3)
Polynesia (8)
Pyrenees (6)
Recently Active Volcanoes (13)
Rhine (7)
Rhone (6)
River deltas (18)
Sahara (11)
Sahel (11)
Seamount (3)
Siberia (5)
Situated in one of the "SIDS" (33)
Situated on a "Continental Divide" (11)
South China Sea (6)
Southernmost (5)
Spice Route (8)
Straits (11)
Tagus (3)
Territorial Highest points (23)
Type of volcanic eruptions (3)
Uninhabited islands (14)
Vistula (4)
Volcanic Cone (6)
Volcanic plugs (8)
World's Highest Topographically isolated summits (9)
World's most prominant mountains (9)


History
Abbasid Caliphate (7)
Achaemenid Empire (5)
Almohads (4)
Amarna Letters (6)
Ancient Greek colonies (8)
Ancient Roman colonies (24)
Anglo-Chinese Relations (4)
Archaeological "Type Sites". (12)
Archaic Greece (5)
Assassinations (15)
Assyrian Empire (11)
Atlantis (5)
Aztec Empire (4)
Babylonian Empire (8)
Baltic Way (3)
British Military victories over France (4)
Bronze Age (28)
Built over the ruins of an Incan city (3)
Buried treasures (11)
Byzantine Empire and Civilization (43)
Carolingian Empire (8)
Castaways/shipwrecked mariners (7)
Celtic history (10)
Chinese Porcelain in Africa (3)
Chola Dynasty (3)
Cold War (5)
Congresses and Conferences (7)
Contains significant structures from the 20th Century (12)
Contains significant structures from the 21st Century (8)
Coronation Locations (21)
Declarations of Independence (7)
Diplomatic Missions of Joseon Envoy Min Yonghwan (9)
Drifting Across the Sea: A Record of Ming China (4)
Early Hominid Remains (11)
Etruscans (5)
Eunuchs (17)
Famous suicides (13)
Feudalism (7)
Forbidden City (7)
Formative stage (5)
Fusion (22)
Golden Age of India (5)
Golden Horde (7)
Habsburgs (Austrian) (12)
Hanseatic League (14)
Helladic Greece (3)
Historical events (13)
Historical Food Remains (13)
History of Aviation (6)
Holy Roman Empire (9)
Homeric Locations (6)
Human Migration (8)
Inscribed in connection with an anniversary (6)
Insurrections (8)
International Exhibitions (5)
Iron Age (7)
Joseon Dynasty (6)
Judensau (5)
Khmer Empire (5)
Khorezm empire (3)
Knights Hospitaller (6)
Knights Templar (7)
Mamluk Sultanate (5)
Mayan culture (10)
Mughal Empire (8)
Nabatean culture (6)
Neolithic age (44)
Normans (3)
Omani Sultanate of Zanzibar (Zanj) (3)
Ottoman Empire (20)
Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (22)
Paleo-Indian (6)
Parthian Empire (7)
Pentapolis (4)
Phoenician world (12)
Pisan colonies (6)
Places of Execution (15)
Popes (4)
Pre-Inca cultures (8)
Pueblo People (4)
Punic Empire (4)
Qhapaq Nan (Inca) (11)
Recorded discoveries (36)
Republic of Genoa (10)
Republic of Venice (13)
Sassanid Empire (5)
Seljuk Empire (5)
Shell Mounds (Middens) (9)
Sieges and Battles (54)
Silk Road (23)
Slavery (40)
Songhai Empire (4)
Spanish Royal Residences (4)
Specified on Herodotus' Oikumene (4)
Strikes (3)
Summer residences (9)
Tatars (7)
Teutonic Knights (9)
The Crusades (19)
The Inquisition (7)
The Tetrarchy (5)
Thirty Years' War (5)
Thomas Cook Round the World tour 1872-1873 (10)
Thracians (3)
Three Kingdoms of Korea (4)
Trans Saharan trade routes (6)
Treaties (11)
Umayyad Caliphate (9)
Underwater Archaeology (6)
Via Francigena (6)
Via Maris (5)
VOC (5)
WIC (6)
Women Explorers (3)
Zapotec (3)


Human Activity
Amber (5)
Armouries (12)
Art Colonies (7)
Artificial Islands (11)
Astronomy and Astrology (36)
Ateliers (6)
Board Games (3)
Botanical Gardens (27)
Breweries (12)
Canopy Walkways (6)
Coal Mining (6)
Coffee (8)
Communism (7)
Copper production (8)
Cremation (6)
Cuzco School of Painting (5)
Early Printing (15)
Erotic art (12)
Experimental Archaeology (5)
Festivals (43)
Frescoes / murals by famous painters (28)
Geoglyphs (5)
Gilded Lacquer/Urushi (12)
Gold production (17)
Grand Tour (26)
Guarani (6)
Hand Paintings/Prints (5)
Hermitage Museum (4)
Historical Financial Institutions (8)
Historical Graffiti (17)
Human Sacrifice (11)
Hunting Lodge or Castle (9)
Hunting/Harvesting of Birds (4)
Incense Route (6)
Innovations in Agriculture (4)
Invention of sweets (10)
Iron production (9)
Irrigation and drainage (64)
Kings Highway (4)
Language isolate (10)
Literature (7)
Locations for playing sport (62)
Man-made Terraces (48)
Masks (9)
Mints (8)
Multilingual inscriptions (8)
Mummies (18)
Museum History (9)
Musical Notation (4)
Natural sites with indigenous human population (41)
Oldest companies (5)
Olympic Venues (11)
Ongoing/Recent Archaeological digs (7)
Paintings by Venetian Vedutisti (12)
Paper Manufacture (4)
Pastoralism (12)
Petrosomatoglyphs (9)
Piracy (21)
Polders (8)
Protective engineering works against flooding (12)
Pygmy Peoples (7)
Re-routed rivers (5)
River Ports (7)
Rock Cut Art (8)
Royal Hunting Grounds (7)
Salt (10)
Scientific Developments (12)
Sea Ports (60)
Seal Hunting (4)
Secret Locations (10)
Shipyards (5)
Siemens AG (3)
Silk Manufacture (6)
Silver production (11)
Steam technology (5)
Sugar (8)
Tea (8)
Tea Horse Road (3)
Textiles (13)
Thanatourist destination (9)
Time Balls and Guns (4)
Tobacco (5)
Traditional Hunting (7)
Tramways (26)
Transromanica (4)
University of Chicago Oriental Institute (3)
Uranium Mining (3)
Viking settlements (8)
Writing systems (31)
Zero Meridians (3)


Individual People
Alexander the Great (10)
Alfonso de Albuquerque (3)
André Malraux (3)
Attila the Hun (4)
Bahaiulla (4)
Baibars (7)
Captain James Cook (9)
Caravaggio (5)
Charles Darwin (19)
Charles Montagu Doughty (3)
Charles V (10)
Che Guevara (4)
Christopher Columbus (10)
Da Cunha Family (3)
David Chipperfield (3)
David Livingstone (4)
Earls of Elgin (3)
Edward I (5)
Ekai Kawaguchi (5)
Emperor Ashoka (4)
Emperor Hadrian (7)
Emperor Justininian (3)
Emperor Nero (4)
Emperor Trajan (5)
Erich von Däniken (8)
Ernest Hemingway (4)
Francisco Pizarro (6)
Frederick II (6)
Galileo Galilei (4)
Galla Placidia (3)
Garibaldi (3)
General Gordon (4)
Genghis Khan (4)
Gertrude Bell (38)
Giovanni Belzoni (5)
Goethe (12)
Gustave Eiffel (6)
Heinrich Schliemann (4)
Helen of Constantinople (6)
Hendrick Hamel (4)
Henry Morton Stanley (5)
Hernán Cortés (6)
Hitler was here (7)
Homer B. Hulbert (6)
Ibn Battuta (21)
Ibn Khaldun (6)
Isabella Bird (6)
Ivan the Terrible (4)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (10)
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (7)
Johannes Kepler (4)
John Muir (8)
King Chulalongkorn of Siam (Rama V) (36)
King Solomon (8)
Lawrence of Arabia (9)
Le Corbusier (8)
Leakey Family (6)
Lenin (4)
Leo Africanus (6)
Leonardo da Vinci (12)
Liechtenstein Family (5)
Life of Mozart (10)
Lord Byron (5)
Lord George Macartney (5)
Louis XIV outside France (3)
Magellan (6)
Mao was here (8)
Mapped or Illustrated by Blaeu (25)
Marco Polo (8)
Marianne North (9)
Matteo Ricci (5)
Michelangelo (5)
Mies Van Der Rohe (3)
Moctezuma Family (3)
Named after Adolf Hitler (8)
Napoleon was here (15)
Nicolaus Copernicus (3)
Once named after Stalin (3)
Oscar Niemeyer (4)
Painted by JMW Turner (13)
Peter Paul Rubens (7)
Peter the Great (8)
Pompey the Great (3)
Prince Charles (6)
Prince Henry the Navigator (4)
Prince Pückler (3)
Queen Victoria (13)
Queens and Empresses (15)
Rabban Bar Sauma (6)
Radziwill Family (4)
Restored by Viollet-le-Duc (7)
Richard Lionheart (7)
Saladin (6)
Shah Jahan (5)
Sir Francis Drake (6)
Sir John Marshall (3)
Sir Richard Francis Burton (8)
Sir Robert Holmes (4)
Sir Stamford Raffles (5)
Sir Wilfred Thesiger (4)
Sir William Matthews Flinders Petrie (3)
Thomas Telford (3)
Timur (8)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (7)
Travels of Hyecho (9)
Travels of Xuanzang (5)
Tupac Inca Yupanqui (6)
Vasco da Gama (6)
Vauban (6)
Visited by Alexander von Humboldt on his travels (20)
William Bligh (3)
Winston Churchill (5)
Zheng He (5)


Religion and Belief
"Referenced" in the Koran (4)
12 Apostles (6)
Armenian Orthodox Church (9)
Augustinian Order (8)
Axis Mundi (15)
Beatified Persons (4)
Benedictines (23)
Buddhist Pure Land (5)
Buddhist sites in non-Buddhist countries (11)
Calvary (6)
Carmelites (4)
Cathedrals (147)
Catholic missions (6)
Christian Churches in non Christian countries (4)
Christian Pilgrimage Sites (37)
Cistercian (10)
Confucianism (16)
Coptic Orthodox Church (3)
Dominican Order (15)
Early Christianity (5)
Eastern Catholic Churches (9)
Ethiopian Orthodox (5)
Fortified religious buildings (17)
Franciscans (25)
Goddesses (31)
Greek Orthodox churches outside Greece (7)
Hercules (8)
Hiberno-Scottish Mission (4)
Hieronymites (3)
Hindu pilgrimage sites (7)
Hindu Sites in non Hindu countries (9)
Holiest place (13)
Holy Tunic (5)
Horse Burials (3)
Hospitaler Bethlehemites (3)
Introduction of Christianity (7)
Islamic pilgrimage sites (6)
Jainism (3)
Jesuits (30)
Jewish religion and culture (63)
Karaites (5)
Legends and Folk Myths (59)
Living indigenous religions (12)
Marian Shrines (9)
Mentioned in the Bible (19)
Mercedarians (8)
Mithraism (5)
Mosque (75)
Mosques converted from churches / cathedrals / synagogues (8)
Nymphaeum (6)
Pagoda (19)
Phoenix (9)
Pilgrimage route (9)
Prophecies (9)
Protestantism (28)
Relics from John the Baptist (8)
Religious Relics (21)
Religious sites connected to fishermen (8)
Russian Orthodox churches outside Russia (7)
Sacred Forests or Groves (15)
Sacred Mountains (32)
Secret Societies (4)
Shia Islam (3)
Sikhism (3)
Stupa (21)
Sufism (9)
Syriac Churches (7)
Taoism (19)
The Magi/Three Kings (4)
Theravada Buddhism (10)
Tibetan Buddhism (9)
Virginity (3)
Zen (6)
Zoroastrianism (6)


Timeline
Paleozoic (5)
Mesozoic (4)
Pliocene (2)
Pleistocene (21)
Built in the 9th millennium BC (2)
Built in the 8th millennium BC (2)
Built in the 7th millennium BC (2)
Built in the 6th millennium BC (2)
Built in the 5th millennium BC (5)
Built in the 4th millennium BC (4)
Built in the 3rd Millennium BC (12)
Built in the 2nd Millennium BC (21)
Built in the 9th century BC (1)
Built in the 8th century BC (3)
Built in the 6th century BC (12)
Built in the 7th century BC (3)
Built in the 5th century BC (5)
Built in the 4th century BC (9)
Built in the 3rd century BC (15)
Built in the 2nd century BC (4)
Built in the 1st century BC (14)
Built in the 1st century (22)
Built in the 2nd century (10)
Built in the 3rd century (9)
Built in the 4th century (17)
Built in the 5th century (9)
Built in the 6th century (18)
Built in the 7th century (13)
Built in the 8th century (25)
Built in the 9th century (16)
Built in the 10th century (14)
Built in the 11th century (39)
Built in the 12th century (45)
Built in the 13th century (52)
Built in the 14th century (38)
Built in the 15th century (48)
Built in the 16th century (81)
Built in the 17th century (60)
Built in the 18th century (64)
Built in the 19th Century (55)
Built in the 20th century (33)


Trivia
Around the World in Eighty Days (5)
Books by Nobel Prize winning authors (17)
Built elsewhere as a full size replica (10)
Built or owned by Americans (7)
Built or owned by British (37)
Built or Owned by Chinese (6)
Built or owned by Dutch (21)
Built or owned by French (27)
Built or owned by Germans (38)
Built or owned by Hungarians (3)
Built or owned by Japanese (11)
Built or owned by Poles (5)
Built or owned by Swedes (4)
Cities of Three Cultures (4)
Company town (8)
Country named after them (5)
Cryptozoology (5)
Cultural sites taking up an entire island (41)
Cultural WHS set within an IUCN recognised protected area (16)
Depicted on National Coat of Arms (10)
Depicted on National Flag (4)
Discovered from the Air (3)
Discriminatory Entry Policies (9)
Disputed territories (11)
Dragon (18)
Dubbed "White City" (5)
Dubbed as another WHS (52)
Exact locations inscribed twice (or more) (29)
Excavated by American Universities (8)
Excavated by Centro Scavi Torino (3)
Famous Love Stories (18)
Fatal Accidents or "disasters" (19)
First inscriptions (108)
Former Largest Cities (12)
Free entrance (77)
Furthest distance apart (10)
Greatest Altitude Variations (7)
Guided Tour Only (16)
Gypsies (6)
High entrance fees (6)
Highest (over 5000m) (7)
History of the World in 100 objects (18)
Hotels in Historic Buildings (14)
In private ownership (10)
In the British museum (7)
In the Istanbul museum (5)
In the Pergamon museum (5)
Indiana Jones movie (13)
Isolated WHS (19)
James Bond in books (10)
Leprosy (3)
Located in a Capital City (77)
Located in a Former Capital (172)
Located in a microstate (15)
Location for a classic movie (52)
Longest WHS names (4)
Lowest (below sea level) (6)
Major City Centres (12)
Minority communities (43)
Modelled after (52)
More than 500 steps/stairs to climb (11)
Moved from location of original construction (10)
Named after a local Christian saint (8)
Named after individual people (69)
Not open to tourists (6)
Nudist beaches (5)
Oldest cultural WHS (3)
On Banknotes (96)
On Euro coins (22)
On Passports (11)
Once the tallest freestanding structure in the World (6)
One million visitors or more (61)
Opera (26)
Poetic Quotations (13)
Preservation assisted by Getty Trust (10)
Protective Shelters (23)
Recently discovered (15)
Red Fort (3)
Registered when architect was alive (3)
Replica cultural sites (3)
Replica in Epcot (12)
Replica in Legoland (13)
Replica in Mini-Europe (13)
Replicas in Las Vegas (4)
Role of Women (24)
Roman monuments converted into churches (4)
Seasonal WHS (4)
Serial sites with the greatest number of locations (8)
Shakespearean plays (11)
Shortest WHS names (8)
Slow Food Movement (7)
Smallest cultural WHS (19)
Smallest natural WHS (10)
Sound and Light Show (20)
Subterranean Cultural Sites (7)
Swan songs (11)
Tintin (8)
Tobu World Square (30)
Tourist Treks (19)
Twin Towns (12)
Unusual Entry Requirements/Restrictions (6)
Used in film as another WHS (8)
Versions of Da Vinci's last supper (3)
Visited by Nicolas Hulot (6)
Voyager Golden Record (4)
WHS within walking distance (24)


WHS Hotspots
Aegean Islands hotspot (4)
Agra / Delhi hotspot (7)
Amsterdam hotspot (8)
Andalusia hotspot (6)
Apulia hotspot (4)
Aquitania hotspot (4)
Bardejov hotspot (7)
Bavaria hotspot (6)
Beijing hotspot (6)
Berlin hotspot (4)
Bilbao hotspot (6)
Brussels hotspot (16)
Budapest hotspot (6)
Busan hotspot (5)
Campania hotspot (6)
Catalonia hotspot (5)
Central Sri Lanka hotspot (5)
Chernivtsi hotspot (4)
Cracow hotspot (5)
Eastern Bulgaria hotspot (7)
Emilia-Romagna and Marche Hotspot (4)
Frankfurt hotspot (12)
Hamburg Hotspot (5)
Hangzhou Hotspot (4)
Helsinki Hotspot (4)
Hué Hotspot (4)
Ile-de-France Hotspot (7)
Ioannina Hotspot (4)
Israel Hotspot (7)
Jura/Swiss Alps hotspot (7)
Kyoto hotspot (5)
Lebanon hotspot (5)
Lisbon hotspot (6)
London hotspot (8)
Madrid hotspot (6)
Mexico City hotspot (8)
Milan hotspot (11)
Moravia hotspot (7)
Moscow hotspot (4)
Nancy hotspot (7)
North Portugal hotspot (4)
North Rhine-Westphalia hotspot (4)
Northern England hotspot (7)
Northwestern Spain hotspot (6)
Peloponnese hotspot (5)
Persian Gulf hotspot (4)
Provence hotspot (4)
Rhineland-Palatinate hotspot (4)
Rome hotspot (5)
Saxony Anhalt hotspot (5)
Seoul hotspot (5)
Sicily hotspot (5)
Silesia hotspot (4)
Southern Levant hotspot (5)
Split hotspot (6)
Stockholm hotspot (4)
Thessaloniki hotspot (5)
Toulouse Hotspot (5)
Transylvania hotspot (4)
Trieste hotspot (5)
Tunisia hotspot (8)
Tuscany hotspot (6)
Veneto hotspot (4)
Vienna hotspot (9)
Wales hotspot (5)


WHS on Other Lists
ASEAN Heritage Parks (15)
Biodiversity hotspot (6)
Decade Volcanoes (3)
Europa Nostra Award (15)
European Destinations of excellence (4)
European Heritage Label (6)
European Museum of the Year Award (5)
European Route of Brick Gothic (4)
European Route of Industrial Heritage (10)
Global Geoparks (10)
Global Heritage Fund (27)
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) (5)
Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks (15)
Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible heritage (19)
Melina Mercouri Prize (5)
Memory of the World (28)
New 7 Wonders of Nature (8)
New Seven Wonders of the World (8)
Pritzker Architecture Prize (4)
Ramsar Wetlands (48)
Seven Wonders of the World (4)
UNESCO "LEAP" program (7)
ViTour (10)
World Biosphere Reserves (92)
World Heritage Forest Programme (98)
World Monuments Watch (12)
World Monuments Watch (past) (136)


World Heritage Process
"Extended" Sites (55)
Already inscribed, still on T List (8)
Associative Cultural Landscape (29)
Clearly defined landscapes (8)
Contiguous Separate Site on T List (4)
Contiguous Sites inscribed twice (24)
Continuing Cultural Landscape (32)
Controversial at inscription (22)
Cultural Inscriptions rejected as Cultural Landscapes (10)
Cultural sites rejected for Natural criteria (16)
Developed since inscription (10)
Extensions on Tentative List (46)
First sites filling gaps cited by ICOMOS (40)
Former In Danger List sites (27)
Inscribed on a single criterion only (147)
Inscribed on all 4 Natural criteria (20)
Inscribed on all 6 Cultural Criteria (3)
Late registrations (3)
Minor modifications after inscription (49)
Mixed sites inscribed on 5 or more criteria (11)
Name changes (56)
Natural sites filling gaps cited by IUCN (17)
Natural sites rejected for cultural criteria (6)
On T List for a different nomination (10)
Only WHS in their country (33)
Part of Cultural nomination rejected (4)
Processed on an emergency basis (8)
Reconstruction regarded as unsatisfactory by UNESCO/ICOMOS (5)
Rejected, and then inscribed (13)
Relict Cultural Landscapes (23)
Sites once situated in a non acceding country (6)
Transboundary only (4)
Transboundary sites across more than 2 countries (4)
WHC locations (34)
WHS inscribed solely on Criterion VI (9)