The UNESCO ( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ) has designated almost 51 World heritage sites in South Asia.
Each year UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee may inscribe new sites or delist them.
Selection is based on 10 criterias : Six for cultural Heritage and Four for Natural Heritage, with some sites representing “mixed sites”. It also recommends “Endangered Sites ” which are facing conditions which threaten the characteristics of the property – Kathmandu valley has been previously listed in this.
Selection is based on 10 criterias : Six for cultural Heritage and Four for Natural Heritage, with some sites representing “mixed sites”. It also recommends “Endangered Sites ” which are facing conditions which threaten the characteristics of the property – Kathmandu valley has been previously listed in this.
South Asia has 41 cultural and 10 Natural worldf heritage sites (with No Mixed Sites).The first sites from the region were Sagarmatha National Park and Kathmandu Valley, both in Nepal.
- Boudhanath Stupa
The countries in this region are : Afganistan , Pakistan , India , Nepal , Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.(Bhutan does not have any of world heritage sites). India is home to most of these inscribed sites in the region (32 sites). Nepal has 10 sites / 4 (Including 7 sites in one - as Kathmandu Valley).
These sites are main tourism places in Nepal.
Nidhi KM
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