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UNESCO World Heritage Sites

All 1,273 properties on the World Heritage List as of the 2026 Committee session. Every site is a pin on the world map below; pick a continent to work through the checklist and mark what you've seen (click again for “want to go”).

Europe0 / 502Asia & Middle East0 / 368Africa0 / 161North America0 / 123South America0 / 81Oceania0 / 38
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The World Heritage List

Since 1978 UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has met every year to add places of "outstanding universal value" to a single list. It started with twelve sites — Yellowstone, the Galápagos, Kraków, Aachen Cathedral among them — and now runs to 1,273 properties in 170-odd countries after the 2026 session in Busan. Roughly three-quarters are cultural, a fifth natural, and a few dozen are both. It's the closest thing the world has to an official list of places worth seeing, and collecting them has become a travel project in its own right.

The range is enormous: the Pyramids, the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, and the Great Barrier Reef share the list with a 1920s housing estate in Berlin, the Rideau Canal, a Chilean nitrate works, and the beech forests of eighteen European countries counted as a single site. Italy has the most, with 61; China is close behind. The United States has 26, Canada 22, and the UK 35.

Tracking 1,273 places

That's too many for one badge grid, so this page is the overview — every site as a pin on the world map — and the checklists are split by continent: Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Africa, North America and the Caribbean, South America, and Oceania. Mark a site on any of those pages and it shows here too, and your world total counts across all six.

Keeping the list honest takes some care. Sites are identified by their official World Heritage id, so a property that gets extended or renamed keeps your tick. Overseas territories are placed where they actually are — Réunion in Africa, New Caledonia in Oceania, Greenland's three sites in North America — rather than with the country that administers them. Transnational serial sites like the Struve Geodetic Arc count once. Click a pin to mark a site visited, again for want-to-go, and zoom in where the pins pile up.

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