25 new properties inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List (June 2011)

The World Heritage Committee has inscribed a total of 25 sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, including three natural properties, 21 cultural and one mixed site. Twor properties were added to the World Heritage List in Danger and one was removed from that list. The World Heritage List now number 936 properties: 183 natural; 725 cultural; and 28 mixed

Natural properties:

Ningaloo Coast (Australia)
Ogasawara Islands (Japan)
Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya)

Mixed natural and cultural properties:
Wadi Rum Protected Area (Jordan)

Cultural properties:
Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison (Barbados)
West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou (China)
Konso Cultural Landscape (Ethiopia)
The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean Agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape (France)
Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana (Spain)
The Persian Garden (Iran)
Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaelogical Sites Representing The Buddhist Pure Land (Japan)
Fort Jesus Mombasa (Kenya)
Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia (Colombia)
Petroglyphs Complexes of the Mongolian Altai (Mongolia)
Fagus Factory in Alfeld (Germany)
Léon Cathedral (Nicaragua)
Saloum Delta (Senegal)
Archaelogical Sites of the Islands of Meroe (Sudan)
Ancient Villages of Northern Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps (Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia)
Selimiye Mosque Complex at Edirne (Turkey)
The Residence of the Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans (Ukraine)
Longobardzi in Italy, Places of power (568 – 774 A.D.) (Italy)
Citadel of the Ho Dynasty (Viet Nam)
Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas) (United Arab Emirates)

Extensions:
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancien Beech Forests of Germany (Slovakia, Ukraine, Germany)

Additions to the World Heritage List in Danger:
Rio Plátano Biosphere Reserve (Honduras)
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (Indonesia)

Removed from the World Heritage List in Danger:
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary (India)