UNESCO: World Heritage Site

By Color Smart

A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area which has been officially recognized by the United Nations, specifically by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Sites are selected on the basis of having cultural, historical, scientific or some other form of significance, and they are legally protected by international treaties. UNESCO regards these sites as being important to the collective interests of humanity.More specifically, a World Heritage Site is an already classified landmark, which by way of being unique in some respect as a geographically and historically identifiable piece is of special cultural or physical significance (such as either due to hosting an ancient ruins or some historical structure, building, city, complex, desert, forest, island, lake, monument, or mountain) and symbolizes a remarkable footprint of extreme human endeavour often coupled with some act of indisputable accomplishment of humanity which then serves as a surviving evidence of its intellectual existence on the planet.As of May 2017, 1052 sites are listed: 814 cultural, 203 natural, and 35 mixed properties, in 165 states.[4][5] According to the sites ranked by country, Italy is home to the greatest number of World Heritage Sites with 51 sites, followed by China (50), Spain (45), France (42), Germany (41), India (35), Mexico (34) and United Kingdom and British Overseas Territories (30) .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521344906
• ISBN13: 9781521344903
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"