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WHC-03/14.GA/INF.9A Paris, 4 August 2003 Original : English/French
UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
FOURTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF STATES PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE
Paris, UNESCO Headquarters, Room XII 14-15 October 2003
Item 9 of the Provisional Agenda: Elections to the World Heritage Committee List of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention and distribution of World Heritage properties in States Parties
SUMMARY This document is divided in two sections: Section A: List of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention Section B: Distribution of World Heritage properties in States Parties The geographic distribution of the 754 World Heritage properties is shown in three tables: I. II. III. Number of properties in each State Party World Heritage properties arranged in order by greatest number World Heritage properties arranged in order by region and greatest number
The following regional abbreviations are used: AF Africa EUR Europe and North America AP Asia/Pacific LAC Latin America and the Caribbean AR Arab States
SECTION A: List of the 176 States which have signed the World Heritage Convention as of 1 August 2003
Table shows the Name of the State Party and the Date of deposit of ratification (R), acceptance (Ac), accession (A) or of the notification of succession (S) 1
STATE PARTY Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Andorra Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Rep. Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo, Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Rep. of the Congo Denmark Democratic People's Rep. of Korea Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland Former Yugoslav Rep. of Macedonia France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany 2 Date 20/03/79 (R) 10/07/89 (R) 24/06/74 (R) 07/11/91 (R) 03/01/97 (Ac) 01/11/83 (Ac) 23/08/78 (Ac) 05/09/93 (S) 22/08/74 (R) 18/12/92 (R) 16/12/93 (R) 28/05/91 (R) 03/08/83 (Ac) 09/04/02 (Ac) 12/10/88 (R) 24/07/96 (R) 06/11/90 (R) 14/06/82 (R) 22/10/01 (R) 04/10/76 (R) 12/07/93 (S) 23/11/98 (Ac) 01/09/77 (Ac) 07/03/74 (Ac) 02/04/87 (R) 19/05/82 (R) 28/11/91 (Ac) 07/12/82 (R) 23/07/76 (Ac) 28/04/88 (Ac) 22/12/80 (R) 23/06/99 (R) 20/02/80 (R) 12/12/85 (R) 24/05/83 (Ac) 27/09/00 (R) 23/09/74 (R) 23/08/77 (R) 09/01/81 (R) 06/07/92 (S) 24/03/81 (R) 14/08/75 (Ac) 26/03/93 (S) 10/12/87 (R) 25/07/79 (R) 21/07/98 (Ac) 04/04/95 (R) 12/02/85 (R) 16/06/75 (Ac) 07/02/74 (R) 08/10/91 (Ac) 24/10/01 (Ac) 27/10/95 (R) 06/07/77 (R) 21/11/90 (R) 04/03/87 (R) 30/04/97 (S) 27/06/75 (Ac) 30/12/86 (R) 01/07/87 (R) 04/11/92 (S) 23/08/76 (R) STATE PARTY Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guyana Haiti Holy See Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran (Islamic Rep. of) Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lao People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia (Federated States of) Monaco Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Netherlands 3 New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Date 04/07/75 (R) 17/07/81 (R) 13/08/98 (Ac) 16/01/79 (R) 18/03/79 (R) 20/06/77 (Ac) 18/01/80 (R) 07/10/82 (A) 08/06/79 (R) 15/07/85 (Ac) 19/12/95 (R) 14/11/77 (R) 06/07/89 (Ac) 26/02/75 (Ac) 05/03/74 (Ac) 16/09/91 (R) 06/10/99 (Ac) 23/06/78 (R) 14/06/83 (Ac) 30/06/92 (Ac) 05/05/75 (R) 29/04/94 (Ac) 05/06/91 (Ac) 12/05/00 (Ac) 06/06/02 (R) 03/07/95 (Ac) 20/03/87 (R) 10/01/95 (Ac) 03/02/83 (R) 28/03/02 (Ac) 13/10/78 (R) 31/03/92 (Ac) 28/09/83 (R) 19/07/83 (R) 05/01/82 (R) 07/12/88 (R) 22/05/86 (Ac) 05/04/77 (Ac) 14/11/78 (Ac) 24/04/02 (Ac) 02/03/81 (R) 19/09/95 (R) 23/02/84 (Ac) 22/07/02 (Ac) 07/11/78 (R) 02/02/90 (Ac) 28/10/75 (R) 27/11/82 (R) 29/04/94 (Ac) 06/04/00 (Ac) 20/06/78 (Ac) 26/08/92 (Ac) 22/11/84 (R) 17/12/79 (Ac) 23/12/74 (Ac) 23/10/74 (R) 23/01/01 (Ac) 12/05/77 (R) 06/10/81 (Ac) 23/07/76 (R) 11/06/02 (Ac) 03/03/78 (R) 23/07/97 (Ac) 27/04/88 (R) STATE PARTY Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Republic of Korea Republic of Moldova Romania Russian Federation 4 Rwanda Saint Christopher and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia and Montenegro
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Date 24/02/82 (R) 19/09/85 (R) 29/06/76 (R) 30/09/80 (R) 12/09/84 (Ac) 14/09/88 (Ac) 23/09/02 (R) 16/05/90 (Ac) 12/10/88 (R) 28/12/00 (Ac) 10/07/86 (Ac) 14/10/91 (R) 03/02/03 (R) 28/08/01 (Ac) 18/10/91 (R) 07/08/78 (Ac) 13/02/76 (R) 11/09/01 (S) 09/04/80 (Ac) 31/03/93 (S) 05/11/92 (S) 10/06/92 (A) 10/07/97 (R) 04/05/82 (Ac) 06/06/80 (Ac) 06/06/74 (R) 23/10/97 (Ac) 22/01/85 (R) 17/09/75 (R) 13/08/75 (Ac) 28/08/92 (S) 17/09/87 (Ac) 15/04/98 (Ac) 10/03/75 (R) 16/03/83 (R) 30/09/94 (S) 20/11/87 (Ac) 12/10/88 (R) 11/05/01 (A) 29/05/84 (R)
Seychelles Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan Thailand Togo Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United Republic of Tanzania United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Viet Nam Yemen 5 Zambia Zimbabwe
02/08/77 (R) 07/12/73 (R) 09/03/89 (Ac) 13/01/93 (S) 13/06/02 (R) 30/10/90 (Ac) 19/10/87 (Ac) 07/10/80 (R) 04/06/84 (R) 16/08/82 (R)
List of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention and distribution of World Heritage properties in States Parties
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Notes:
1. This Convention entered into force on 17 December 1975. It subsequently entered into force for each State three months after the date of deposit of that State's instrument, except in cases of declarations of succession (indicated by the letter (S)), where the entry into force occurred on the date on which the State assumed responsibility for conducting its international relations. 2. Through the accession of the German Democratic Republic to the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, with effect from 3 October 1990, the two German States have united to form one Sovereign State. The Contracting Parties to the Unification Treaty "have agreed that the treaties and agreements to which the Federal Republic of Germany is a contracting party ... remain in force and that their respective rights and obligations ... be applied" to the whole territory of Germany. The German Democratic Republic acceeded to this Convention on 12 December 1988. 3. With an extension to the Netherlands Antilles. 4. The instrument of ratification was deposited by the U.S.S.R., on 12 October 1988. 5. The unification of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen into a single Sovereign State, the Republic of Yemen, was proclaimed on 22 May 1990. 6. As from 4 February 2003. Formerly: "The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" until 3 February 2003.The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia deposited on 11 September 2001 a notification of succession of States and undertakes "faithfully to perform and carry out the stipulations therein contained [in the World Heritage Convention] as from 27, April 1992, the date upon which the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia assumed responsibility for its international relations." [Original: English]
4 August 2003
See also: http://whc.unesco.org/wldrat.htm
List of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention and distribution of World Heritage properties in States Parties
WHC-03/14.GA/INF.9A, p. 2
SECTION B: DISTRIBUTION OF WORLD HERITAGE PROPERTIES IN STATES PARTIES I. Number of properties in each State Party
State Party Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Argentina / Brazil Armenia Australia Austria Austria / Hungary Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belarus / Poland Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Canada / United States Cape Verde Reg. No. AP EUR AR EUR AF LAC LAC LAC EUR AP EUR EUR EUR AR AP LAC EUR EUR EUR LAC AF AP LAC EUR AF LAC EUR AF AF AP AF EUR EUR AF 1 1 1 11 2 1 16 9 6 1 1 8 1 1 3 7 1 3 15 7 1 1 2 1 7 State Party Democratic Rep. of the Congo Denmark Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea / Cote d'Ivoire Guyana Haiti Holy See Honduras Hungary Hungary / Slovakia Iceland India Indonesia 3 29 5 Iran (Islamic Rep. of) Iraq Ireland Israel Italy 2 1 2 6 7 3 12 Jamaica Japan AF EUR LAC EUR EUR AP Jerusalem Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgystan Lao People's Democratic Republic Reg. No. AF 5 State Party Latvia Lebanon EUR LAC LAC LAC AR LAC AF EUR AF AP EUR EUR 5 1 1 7 3 1 1 4 6 1 Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Lithuania Lithuania / Russian Federation Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia (Federated States of) Monaco Mongolia Mongolia / Russian Federation Morocco Mozambique 1 Myanmar Namibia 1 1 2 6 1 Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue 24 6 4 2 2 3 36 1 11 1 2 1 3 Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Republic of Korea Republic of Moldova Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Reg. No. EUR AR AF AR EUR EUR 5 1 1 1 5 State Party Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal EUR AF AF AP AP AF EUR AP AR AF LAC AP 23 2 3 3 1 2 1 2 Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan Thailand 1 Togo Tunisia AR AF AP AF AP EUR AP LAC AF AF AP EUR AR AP AP LAC AP LAC LAC AP EUR EUR AR AP EUR EUR EUR AF 1 7 17 7 1 10 5 10 12 TOTAL 754 3 4 4 6 4 7 3 1 2 1 7 1 Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United Republic of Tanzania United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Viet Nam Yemen Zambia Zambia / Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Reg. No. LAC LAC
AP EUR AR AF EUR AF EUR EUR AP AF EUR AP AR LAC EUR EUR AR AP AP AF AR EUR AP AF EUR AR EUR AF 25 6 8 9 1 3 2 4 4 4 2 4 1 1 5 37 7 1 2 12 6 4
EUR AF AF EUR EUR AF EUR LAC LAC AF AF LAC LAC EUR LAC EUR EUR EUR AP AP AP AR EUR EUR EUR LAC AP AR AR AP AF AP AR AP AP
27 1 1 3 27 2 16 3
France / Spain EUR
EUR AP EUR
EUR LAC AP AP LAC AP AR AF AF AF
18 1 4 3 5 3 1 4
Central African AF Republic Chad AF Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo Costa Rica Costa Rica / Panama Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic People's Republic of Korea LAC AP LAC AF AF LAC LAC
Italy / Holy See EUR
2
Saint Kitts and LAC Nevis
List of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention and distribution of World Heritage properties in States Parties
WHC-03/14.GA/INF.9A, p. 3
II.
Spain Italy China France Germany United Kingdom India Mexico
World Heritage properties arranged in order by greatest number
Reg. No EUR EUR AP EUR EUR EUR AP LAC EUR EUR LAC EUR AP EUR EUR EUR EUR AP LAC EUR EUR EUR EUR AR AR LAC EUR LAC AF AR EUR AP EUR AP LAC EUR AR EUR AP AP EUR AF 37 36 29 27 27 25 24 23 18 17 16 16 15 12 12 12 11 11 10 10 9 9 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 StateParty Iran (Islamic Rep. of) Nepal Norway Oman Senegal Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia Syrian Arab Republic Thailand Uzbekistan Zimbabwe Armenia Bangladesh Chile Cyprus Denmark Georgia Guatemala Israel Kenya Mali Malta New Zealand Panama Uganda Venezuela Yemen Afghanistan Canada / United States Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Ghana Honduras Iraq Ireland Jordan Lao People's Democratic Republic Madagascar Malaysia Mauritania Niger Seychelles Suriname LAC AF 5 5 Ukraine Albania Argentina / Brazil Austria / Hungary Azerbaijan Belarus Belarus / Poland Belize Benin Reg. No AP AP EUR AR AF EUR EUR AR AP AP AF EUR AP LAC EUR EUR EUR LAC EUR AF AF EUR AP LAC AF LAC AR AP EUR LAC AF AF LAC AR EUR AR AP 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 StateParty Botswana Cambodia Cameroon Reg. No AF AP AF 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 StateParty Comoros Congo Democratic People's Republic of Korea Eritrea Fiji Gabon Grenada Guinea Guyana Iceland Jamaica Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgystan Liberia Maldives Marshall Islands Mauritius Micronesia (Federated States of) Monaco Mongolia EUR EUR 1 1 Myanmar Namibia Niue Palau AF EUR 1 1 Papua New Guinea Qatar Republic of Moldova Rwanda Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Saudi Arabia Tajikistan Togo United Arab Emirates Vanuatu Zambia TOTAL Reg. No AF AF AP
StateParty
Central African AF Republic Costa Rica / LAC Panama Dominica LAC Dominican Republic El Salvador Estonia Gambia Guinea / Cote d'Ivoire Haiti Holy See LAC LAC EUR AF AF LAC EUR
AF AP AF LAC AF LAC EUR LAC AP AR AP AF AP AP AF AP
United States of America Russian Federation Brazil Greece Australia Czech Republic Portugal Sweden Canada Japan Peru Poland Bulgaria Turkey Belgium Tunisia Algeria Argentina Austria Cuba Ethiopia Morocco Netherlands Republic of Korea Romania Sri Lanka Bolivia Croatia Egypt Hungary Indonesia Pakistan Switzerland United Republic of Tanzania Colombia Democratic Rep. of the Congo Finland Lebanon Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Philippines South Africa Viet Nam Ecuador
France / Spain EUR
Hungary / EUR Slovakia Italy / Holy See EUR Jerusalem Kazakhstan Latvia Lithuania Lithuania / Russian Federation Luxembourg Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Malawi Mongolia / Russian Federation Mozambique Nicaragua Nigeria Paraguay AR AP EUR EUR EUR
EUR AP AP AF AP AP AP AR EUR AF LAC LAC
AF LAC AF LAC
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Saint Kitts and LAC Nevis Slovenia EUR Solomon Islands Sudan Turkmenistan Uruguay Zambia / Zimbabwe Afghanistan Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Bahrain Barbados Bhutan Bosnia and Herzegovina Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Chad AP AR AP LAC AF AP EUR AF LAC AR LAC AP EUR AF AF AF AF
AP EUR AR AP AF AR AP AF 754
AF AP AR AF AF LAC EUR EUR LAC EUR EUR EUR EUR LAC AF
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
EUR AR AR AP AF AP LAC
5 5 5 5 5 5 4
List of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention and distribution of World Heritage properties in States Parties
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III.
AFRICA Ethiopia
World Heritage properties arranged in order by region and greatest number
Nepal 7 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Thailand Uzbekistan Bangladesh New Zealand Afghanistan Lao People's Democratic Republic Malaysia Cambodia Kazakhstan Solomon Islands Turkmenistan Afghanistan Bhutan Democratic People's Republic of Korea Fiji Kiribati Kyrgystan Maldives Marshall Islands Micronesia (Federated States of) Mongolia Myanmar Niue Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Tajikistan Vanuatu TOTAL 147 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 EUROPE & NORTH AMERICA Spain Italy France Germany United Kingdom United States of America Russian Federation Greece Czech Republic Portugal Sweden Canada Poland Bulgaria Turkey Belgium Austria Netherlands Romania Croatia Hungary Switzerland Finland Norway Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia Armenia Cyprus Denmark Georgia Israel Malta ARAB STATES Tunisia Algeria Morocco Egypt Lebanon Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Oman 60 Syrian Arab Republic Yemen Iraq 29 24 15 11 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 Jordan Mauritania Jerusalem Sudan Bahrain Kuwait Qatar Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates TOTAL Canada / United States of America Ireland Ukraine Albania Austria / Hungary Azerbaijan Belarus Belarus / Poland Estonia France / Spain Holy See Hungary / Slovakia Italy / Holy See Latvia Lithuania Lithuania / Russian Federation Luxembourg Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Mongolia / Russian Federation Slovenia Andorra Bosnia and Herzegovina Iceland Monaco Republic of Moldova San Marino TOTAL 383
37 36 27 27 25 18 17 16 12 12 12 11 10 9 9 8 7 7 7 6 6 6 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
United Republic of Tanzania Democratic Rep. of the Congo South Africa Senegal Zimbabwe Kenya Mali Uganda Côte d'Ivoire Ghana Madagascar Niger Seychelles Benin Botswana Cameroon Central African Republic Gambia Guinea / Cote d'Ivoire Malawi Mozambique Nigeria Zambia / Zimbabwe Angola Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Chad Comoros Congo Eritrea Gabon Guinea Liberia Mauritius Namibia Rwanda Togo Zambia TOTAL
2 1 1 1 1
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN Mexico 23 Brazil Peru Argentina Cuba Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Chile Guatemala Panama Venezuela Costa Rica Honduras Suriname Argentina / Brazil Belize Costa Rica / Panama Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Haiti Nicaragua Paraguay Saint Kitts and Nevis Uruguay Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Grenada Guyana Jamaica Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines TOTAL 16 10 7 7 6 5 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
8 7 7 6 5 5 4 4 3 2 2 2 1 1
107
ASIA / PACIFIC China India Australia Japan Republic of Korea Sri Lanka Indonesia Pakistan Philippines Viet Nam Iran (Islamic Rep. of)
1 1
57
List of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention and distribution of World Heritage properties in States Parties
WHC-03/14.GA/INF.9A, p. 5