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Open the live mapWorld Heritage in Danger
The sites on UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger in the 2021 edition of the World Heritage List, from ancient cities to national parks.
What you see
- Each site as a blue mark at the site itself.
- A page for each, with the site’s Wikipedia summary.
- Opened from this page, the map shows History in 2021.
Where the data comes from
- UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe World Heritage List as UNESCO published it in 2021, with the sites it marks as in danger.
A snapshot of 2021: sites taken off the list before then, or put on it since, are not here.
Good to know
- Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Libya hold about one in five of the sites.
- The list says a site is in danger, not why; the article and UNESCO’s page do.
The first recorded here in each decade
- Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary: removed from the danger list1988 · World Heritage in danger
- Plitvice Lakes National Park: removed from the danger list1997 · World Heritage in danger
- Iguaçu National Park: removed from the danger list2001 · World Heritage in danger
- Galápagos Islands: removed from the danger list2010 · World Heritage in danger
- Virunga National Park: in danger2021 · World Heritage in danger
Goes well with
Wars in historyWars, civil wars, rebellions and armed conflicts from 2600 BCE to today on one map, from Wikidata, the Correlates of War and the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.
The world through historyAn interactive historical atlas: the world’s borders year by year from 3400 BCE, with wars, battles and other events from 7500 BCE, on a 3D globe.
The world through historyAn interactive historical atlas: the world’s borders year by year from 3400 BCE, with wars, battles and other events from 7500 BCE, on a 3D globe.