Located about 30 km northeast of Copenhagen, this cultural landscape encompasses the two hunting forests of Store Dyrehave and Gribskov, as ...
Lübeck – the former capital and Queen City of the Hanseatic League – was founded in the 12th century and prospered ...
The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic ...
Founded in 1773 in South Jutland, the site is an example of a planned settlement of the Moravian Church, a Lutheran ...
The archaeological site of Hedeby consists of the remains of an emporium – or trading town – containing traces of roads, ...
Speicherstadt and the adjacent Kontorhaus district are two densely built urban areas in the centre of the port city of Hamburg. ...
The Wadden Sea is the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world. The site covers the ...
The Town Hall and the statue of Roland on the marketplace of Bremen in north-west Germany are outstanding representations of civic ...
Situated in the north-western Congo Basin, where Cameroon, Central African Republic and Congo meet, the site encompasses three contiguous national parks ...
The site includes eighteen interconnected lakes in the hyper arid Ennedi region of the Sahara desert covering an area of 62,808 ha. ...
The Koutammakou landscape in north-eastern Togo, which extends into neighbouring Benin, is home to the Batammariba whose remarkable mud tower-houses (Takienta) ...
In the northeast of the country, the sandstone Ennedi Massif has been sculpted over time by water and wind erosion into ...
This property is composed of five elements located in different provinces of the country. It includes about fifteen standing, natural-draught furnaces, ...
Known as the gateway to the desert, Agadez, on the southern edge of the Sahara desert, developed in the 15th and 16th centuries ...
This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering some 7.7 million ha, though the area considered a protected sanctuary constitutes ...
The Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi constitute a site embracing almost 30 ha of hillside within Kampala district. Most of ...
Virunga National Park (covering an area of 790,000 ha) comprises an outstanding diversity of habitats, ranging from swamps and steppes to ...
The Rwenzori Mountains National Park covers nearly 100,000 ha in western Uganda and comprises the main part of the Rwenzori mountain ...
Located in south-western Uganda, at the junction of the plain and mountain forests, Bwindi Park covers 32,000 ha and is known ...
On the eastern slopes of the Masai escarpment bordering the Great Rift Valley are natural rock shelters, overhanging slabs of sedimentary ...
The fortified historic town of Harar is located in the eastern part of the country on a plateau with deep gorges ...
The Awash valley contains one of the most important groupings of palaeontological sites on the African continent. The remains found at ...
Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s onwards as a military outpost ...
Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, in the Western Desert of Egypt, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder ...