UNESCO World Heritage Site

Sukur Cultural Landscape

Sukur Cultural Landscape is a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nigeria, inscribed in 1999.

The Sukur Cultural Landscape, with the Palace of the Hidi (Chief) on a hill dominating the villages below, the terraced fields and their sacred symbols, and the extensive remains of a former flourishing iron industry, is a remarkably intact physical expression of a society and it

The Sukur Cultural Landscape, with the Palace of the Hidi (Chief) on a hill dominating the villages below, the terraced fields and their sacred symbols, and the extensive remains of a former flourishing iron industry, is a remarkably intact physical expression of a society and its spiritual and material culture.

Country
Nigeria
Region
Africa
Category
Cultural
Inscribed
1999
UNESCO reference
938
Area
764.4 ha

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