Natural UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Explore 240 natural UNESCO World Heritage Sites across 100 countries. Landscapes, ecosystems and geological places recognized for their outstanding natural…

Sites: 240
Countries: 100
Cultural: 0
Natural: 240
Mixed: 0
Inscription years: 1978–2026

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240 UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks — Argentina · Natural · 2000
Los Alerces National Park — Argentina · Natural · 2017
Los Glaciares National Park — Argentina · Natural · 1981
Península Valdés — Argentina · Natural · 1999
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte) — Australia · Natural · 1994
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia — Australia · Natural · 1986
Great Barrier Reef — Australia · Natural · 1981
Greater Blue Mountains Area — Australia · Natural · 2000
Heard and McDonald Islands — Australia · Natural · 1997
K’gari — Australia · Natural · 1992
Lord Howe Island Group — Australia · Natural · 1982
Macquarie Island — Australia · Natural · 1997
Ningaloo Coast — Australia · Natural · 2011
Purnululu National Park — Australia · Natural · 2003
Shark Bay, Western Australia — Australia · Natural · 1991
Wet Tropics of Queensland — Australia · Natural · 1988
Hyrcanian Forests — Azerbaijan · Natural · 2019
The Sundarbans — Bangladesh · Natural · 1997
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System — Belize · Natural · 1996
W-Arly-Pendjari Complex — Benin · Natural · 1996
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park — Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Natural · 2000
Vjetrenica Cave, Ravno — Bosnia and Herzegovina · Natural · 2024
Okavango Delta — Botswana · Natural · 2014
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves — Brazil · Natural · 1999
Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves — Brazil · Natural · 2001
Central Amazon Conservation Complex — Brazil · Natural · 2000
Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks — Brazil · Natural · 2001
Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves — Brazil · Natural · 1999
Iguaçu National Park — Brazil · Natural · 1986
Iguaçu National Park — Brazil · Natural · 1984
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park — Brazil · Natural · 2024
Pantanal Conservation Area — Brazil · Natural · 2000
Peruaçu River Canyon — Brazil · Natural · 2025
Pirin National Park — Bulgaria · Natural · 1983
Srebarna Nature Reserve — Bulgaria · Natural · 1983
Dja Faunal Reserve — Cameroon · Natural · 1987
Anticosti — Canada · Natural · 2023
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks — Canada · Natural · 1984
Dinosaur Provincial Park — Canada · Natural · 1979
Gros Morne National Park — Canada · Natural · 1987
Joggins Fossil Cliffs — Canada · Natural · 2008
Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek — Canada · Natural · 1979
Miguasha National Park — Canada · Natural · 1999
Mistaken Point — Canada · Natural · 2016
Nahanni National Park — Canada · Natural · 1978
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park — Canada · Natural · 1995
Wood Buffalo National Park — Canada · Natural · 1983
Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park — Central African Republic · Natural · 1988
Lakes of Ounianga — Chad · Natural · 2012
Badain Jaran Desert - Towers of Sand and Lakes — China · Natural · 2024
Chengjiang Fossil Site — China · Natural · 2012
China Danxia — China · Natural · 2010
Fanjingshan — China · Natural · 2018
Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area — China · Natural · 1992
Hubei Shennongjia — China · Natural · 2016
Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area — China · Natural · 1992
Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China — China · Natural · 2019
Mount Sanqingshan National Park — China · Natural · 2008
Qinghai Hoh Xil — China · Natural · 2017
Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains — China · Natural · 2006
South China Karst — China · Natural · 2007
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas — China · Natural · 2003
Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area — China · Natural · 1992
Xinjiang Tianshan — China · Natural · 2013
Los Katíos National Park — Colombia · Natural · 1994
Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary — Colombia · Natural · 2006
Forest Massif of Odzala-Kokoua — Congo · Natural · 2023
Sangha Trinational — Congo · Natural · 2012
Area de Conservación Guanacaste — Costa Rica · Natural · 1999
Cocos Island National Park — Costa Rica · Natural · 1997
Comoé National Park — Côte d'Ivoire · Natural · 1983
Taï National Park — Côte d'Ivoire · Natural · 1982
Plitvice Lakes National Park — Croatia · Natural · 1979
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park — Cuba · Natural · 2001
Desembarco del Granma National Park — Cuba · Natural · 1999
Garamba National Park — Democratic Republic of the Congo · Natural · 2026
Kahuzi-Biega National Park — Democratic Republic of the Congo · Natural · 1980
Okapi Wildlife Reserve — Democratic Republic of the Congo · Natural · 1996
Salonga National Park — Democratic Republic of the Congo · Natural · 1984
Virunga National Park — Democratic Republic of the Congo · Natural · 1979
Ilulissat Icefjord — Denmark · Natural · 2004
Møns Klint — Denmark · Natural · 2025
Stevns Klint — Denmark · Natural · 2014
The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfjord – Evolution and Climate Adaptation in the Earliest Eocene — Denmark · Natural · 2026
Wadden Sea — Denmark · Natural · 2009
Morne Trois Pitons National Park — Dominica · Natural · 1997
Galápagos Islands — Ecuador · Natural · 1978
Sangay National Park — Ecuador · Natural · 1983
Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley) — Egypt · Natural · 2005
Bale Mountains National Park — Ethiopia · Natural · 2023
Simien National Park — Ethiopia · Natural · 1978
Chaîne des Puys - Limagne fault tectonic arena — France · Natural · 2018
French Austral Lands and Seas — France · Natural · 2019
Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve — France · Natural · 1983
Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems — France · Natural · 2008
Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island — France · Natural · 2010
Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique — France · Natural · 2023
Ivindo National Park — Gabon · Natural · 2021
Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands — Georgia · Natural · 2021
Messel Pit Fossil Site — Germany · Natural · 1995
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve — Guinea · Natural · 1981
Coastal and Marine Ecosystems of the Bijagós Archipelago – Omatí Minhô — Guinea-Bissau · Natural · 2025
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve — Honduras · Natural · 1982
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst — Hungary · Natural · 1995
Surtsey — Iceland · Natural · 2008
Vatnajökull National Park - Dynamic Nature of Fire and Ice — Iceland · Natural · 2019
Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area — India · Natural · 2014
Kaziranga National Park — India · Natural · 1985
Keoladeo National Park — India · Natural · 1985
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary — India · Natural · 1985
Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks — India · Natural · 1988
Sundarbans National Park — India · Natural · 1987
Western Ghats — India · Natural · 2012
Komodo National Park — Indonesia · Natural · 1991
Lorentz National Park — Indonesia · Natural · 1999
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra — Indonesia · Natural · 2004
Ujung Kulon National Park — Indonesia · Natural · 1991
Lut Desert — Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Natural · 2016
Evaporitic Karst and Caves of Northern Apennines — Italy · Natural · 2023
Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands) — Italy · Natural · 2000
Monte San Giorgio — Italy · Natural · 2003
Mount Etna — Italy · Natural · 2013
The Dolomites — Italy · Natural · 2009
Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, Northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island — Japan · Natural · 2021
Ogasawara Islands — Japan · Natural · 2011
Shirakami-Sanchi — Japan · Natural · 1993
Shiretoko — Japan · Natural · 2005
Yakushima — Japan · Natural · 1993
Aqaba Marine Reserve — Jordan · Natural · 2026
Cold Winter Deserts of Turan — Kazakhstan · Natural · 2023
Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan · Natural · 2008
Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley — Kenya · Natural · 2011
Lake Turkana National Parks — Kenya · Natural · 1997
Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest — Kenya · Natural · 1997
Phoenix Islands Protected Area — Kiribati · Natural · 2010
Western Tien-Shan — Kyrgyzstan · Natural · 2016
Andrefana Dry Forests — Madagascar · Natural · 1990
Rainforests of the Atsinanana — Madagascar · Natural · 2007
Lake Malawi National Park — Malawi · Natural · 1984
Gunung Mulu National Park — Malaysia · Natural · 2000
Kinabalu Park — Malaysia · Natural · 2000
Banc d'Arguin National Park — Mauritania · Natural · 1989
Archipiélago de Revillagigedo — Mexico · Natural · 2016
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve — Mexico · Natural · 2013
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California — Mexico · Natural · 2005
Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve — Mexico · Natural · 2008
Sian Ka'an — Mexico · Natural · 1987
Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino — Mexico · Natural · 1993
Landscapes of Dauria — Mongolia · Natural · 2017
Uvs Nuur Basin — Mongolia · Natural · 2003
Durmitor National Park — Montenegro · Natural · 1980
iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo National Park — Mozambique · Natural · 1999
Namib Sand Sea — Namibia · Natural · 2013
Chitwan National Park — Nepal · Natural · 1984
Sagarmatha National Park — Nepal · Natural · 1979
New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands — New Zealand · Natural · 1998
Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand — New Zealand · Natural · 1990
Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves — Niger · Natural · 1991
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe — North Macedonia · Natural · 2007
West Norwegian Fjords — Norway · Natural · 2005
Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection — Panama · Natural · 2005
Darien National Park — Panama · Natural · 1981
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park — Panama · Natural · 1983
Huascarán National Park — Peru · Natural · 1985
Manú National Park — Peru · Natural · 1987
Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary — Philippines · Natural · 2014
Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park — Philippines · Natural · 1999
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park — Philippines · Natural · 1993
Białowieża Forest — Poland · Natural · 1979
Laurisilva of Madeira — Portugal · Natural · 1999
Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats (Phase II) — Republic of Korea · Natural · 2021
Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes — Republic of Korea · Natural · 2007
Danube Delta — Romania · Natural · 1991
Central Sikhote-Alin — Russian Federation · Natural · 2001
Golden Mountains of Altai — Russian Federation · Natural · 1998
Lake Baikal — Russian Federation · Natural · 1996
Lena Pillars Nature Park — Russian Federation · Natural · 2012
Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve — Russian Federation · Natural · 2004
Putorana Plateau — Russian Federation · Natural · 2010
Virgin Komi Forests — Russian Federation · Natural · 1995
Volcanoes of Kamchatka — Russian Federation · Natural · 1996
Western Caucasus — Russian Federation · Natural · 1999
Nyungwe National Park — Rwanda · Natural · 2023
Pitons Management Area — Saint Lucia · Natural · 2004
‘Uruq Bani Ma’arid — Saudi Arabia · Natural · 2023
Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary — Senegal · Natural · 1981
Niokolo-Koba National Park — Senegal · Natural · 1981
Aldabra Atoll — Seychelles · Natural · 1982
Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve — Seychelles · Natural · 1983
Gola-Tiwai Complex — Sierra Leone · Natural · 2025
Škocjan Caves — Slovenia · Natural · 1986
East Rennell — Solomon Islands · Natural · 1998
Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains — South Africa · Natural · 2018
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas — South Africa · Natural · 2004
Vredefort Dome — South Africa · Natural · 2005
Boma–Badingilo Migratory Landscape — South Sudan · Natural · 2026
Doñana National Park — Spain · Natural · 1994
Garajonay National Park — Spain · Natural · 1986
Teide National Park — Spain · Natural · 2007
Central Highlands of Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka · Natural · 2010
Sinharaja Forest Reserve — Sri Lanka · Natural · 1988
Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay – Mukkawar Island Marine National Park — Sudan · Natural · 2016
Central Suriname Nature Reserve — Suriname · Natural · 2000
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago — Sweden · Natural · 2000
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch — Switzerland · Natural · 2001
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona — Switzerland · Natural · 2008
Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs) — Tajikistan · Natural · 2013
Tugay forests of the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve — Tajikistan · Natural · 2023
Serengeti National Park — Tanzania · Natural · 1981
Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex — Thailand · Natural · 2005
Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex — Thailand · Natural · 2021
Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries — Thailand · Natural · 1991
Ichkeul National Park — Tunisia · Natural · 1980
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park — Uganda · Natural · 1994
Rwenzori Mountains National Park — Uganda · Natural · 1994
Wadi Wurayah — United Arab Emirates · Natural · 2026
Dorset and East Devon Coast — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Natural · 2001
Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Natural · 1986
Gough and Inaccessible Islands — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Natural · 1995
Henderson Island — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Natural · 1988
The Flow Country — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Natural · 2024
Kilimanjaro National Park — United Republic of Tanzania · Natural · 1987
Selous Game Reserve — United Republic of Tanzania · Natural · 1982
Carlsbad Caverns National Park — United States of America · Natural · 1995
Everglades National Park — United States of America · Natural · 1979
Grand Canyon National Park — United States of America · Natural · 1979
Great Smoky Mountains National Park — United States of America · Natural · 1983
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park — United States of America · Natural · 1987
Mammoth Cave National Park — United States of America · Natural · 1981
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge — United States of America · Natural · 2026
Olympic National Park — United States of America · Natural · 1981
Redwood National and State Parks — United States of America · Natural · 1980
Yellowstone National Park — United States of America · Natural · 1978
Yosemite National Park — United States of America · Natural · 1984
Canaima National Park — Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Natural · 1994
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park and Hin Nam No National Park — Viet Nam · Natural · 2003
Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago — Vietnam · Natural · 1994
Socotra Archipelago — Yemen · Natural · 2008
Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls — Zambia · Natural · 1989
Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas — Zimbabwe · Natural · 1984