The Stone Town of Zanzibar is a fine example of the Swahili coastal trading towns of East Africa. It retains its ...
Ha Long Bay, in the Gulf of Tonkin, includes some 1,600 islands and islets, forming a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars. ...
The Thang Long Imperial Citadel was built in the 11th century by the Ly Viet Dynasty, marking the independence of the ...
Situated near the southern margin of the Red River Delta, the Trang An Landscape Complex is a spectacular landscape of limestone ...
Established as the capital of unified Viet Nam in 1802, Hué was not only the political but also the cultural and ...
An immense mausoleum of white marble, built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan ...
Near the gardens of the Taj Mahal stands the important 16th-century Mughal monument known as the Red Fort of Agra. This ...
Built during the second half of the 16th century by the Emperor Akbar, Fatehpur Sikri (the City of Victory) was the ...
This tomb, built in 1570, is of particular cultural significance as it was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent. It ...
The Red Fort Complex was built as the palace fort of Shahjahanabad – the new capital of the fifth Mughal Emperor ...
The Jantar Mantar, in Jaipur, is an astronomical observation site built in the early 18th century. It includes a set of ...
The serial site, situated in the state of Rajastahan, includes six majestic forts in Chittorgarh; Kumbhalgarh; Sawai Madhopur; Jhalawar; Jaipur, and ...
This group of sanctuaries, founded by the Pallava kings, was carved out of rock along the Coromandel coast in the 7th ...
The Great Living Chola Temples were built by kings of the Chola Empire, which stretched over all of south India and ...
This site includes three railways. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was the first, and is still the most outstanding, example of a ...
Older than the Himalaya mountains, the mountain chain of the Western Ghats represents geomorphic features of immense importance with unique biophysical ...