World Heritage Site

[[Image:Elabana Falls.jpg|right|thumb|Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia.]] A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain range, lake, desert, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated for the international World Heritage program administered by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The program aims to catalogue, name, and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind ([http://whc.unesco.org/criteria.htm#debut exact criteria]). Listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund under certain conditions. The program was founded with the ''Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage'' that was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972. As of 2004, a total of 788 sites have been included in the list (611 cultural, 154 natural and 23 mixed properties in 134 States Parties). ==List of World Heritage Sites == *List of World Heritage Sites in Africa *List of World Heritage Sites in Asia and Australasia *List of World Heritage Sites in Europe *List of World Heritage Sites in the Americas *List of World Heritage Sites in danger ==See also== * List of conservation topics == External links == *[http://whc.unesco.org UNESCO World Heritage Sites] - Official site *[http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31 List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites] - Official site *[http://www.world-heritage-tour.org WHTour] - The World Heritage List in panographies and virtual tours *[http://www.vrheritage.org VRheritage.org] - documentation of World Heritage Sites *[http://worldheritage-forum.net/en/ Worldheritage-Forum] - Weblog and Information on World Heritage Issues *[http://www.find-croatia.com/unesco-heritage.html Croatia World Heritage] - World Heritage in Croatia - UNESCO's sites *[http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/world.heritage.html UNESCO World Heritage List] - complete list with links *[http://law-ref.org/HERITAGE/index.html Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage at Law-Ref.org] - fully indexed and crosslinked with other documents Archaeological sites UN World Heritage Sites gd:L�rach Dhualchas na Cruinne zh-min-nan:UNESCO S�-k�i �i-s�n vi:Di sản thế giới

World Heritage Site

While this is an interesting page, the way certain items are linked seems odd. For example, Syria has "The Historic City of Damascus'', which links nowhere, but there is an article on the city of Damascus, etc. Should these links be rconfigured to conform to Wikipedia links, or should they be left as is until an article on the specific World Heritage site appears? User:Danny I suggest, as I have done for the sites of China and France, to link what is linkable to Wikipedia articles. In the case you are mentioning, the result would be : The Historic City of Damascus. If in the future, if someone feels like writing a specific article on The Historic City of Damascus, then this author will make the link change. In the meantime, linking what is linkable alows the readers to gather as much information as possible about the Site. - User:Olivier == Selection process == It would be nice to add a little about the selection process to this article - I imagine there is a good deal of politics involved. And perhaps some explaination on why some countried are choc-a-block with Unesco sites (like List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Europe#France) while others are near devoid of them (eg List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Africa#Nigeria). I doubt it has much to do with different amounts of history in each country. User:Seabhcan 12:47, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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