Anticosti Island in Quebec named a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Anticosti Island is a large island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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- Ohio is the first to be named a World Heritage Site, making it the 25th in the United States and one of approximately 1,000 World Heritage Sites worldwide.
- The African country of Rwanda has its first two sites on the World Heritage List.
- According to UNESCO, three new “sites of memory” were added during the festival, which are places where events occurred that a nation, its people, or a particular community would like to commemorate.
The World Heritage List lists 42 world treasures designated by UNESCO. world heritage site, According to a statement released on Monday.
Since its establishment in 1972The World Heritage Convention registers sites of “outstanding universal value,” and after its 45th session held this month, the total number now stands at 1,199.
The listing of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, Ohio’s first World Heritage Site and the 25th World Heritage Site in the United States, marks the first time a cultural site has been added to the World Heritage List since the United States rejoined UNESCO earlier this year. The paper announced that. newark defenderpart of the USA TODAY Network.
Only countries that have signed the treaty The World Heritage Committee was established to create a list and be able to recommend heritage sites, and former President Donald Trump officially withdrew from the United States in 2017, citing “anti-Israel bias” as a result of UNESCO’s decision to recognize Palestine. did. Trump’s decision was largely symbolic, USA TODAY previously reported, as funding to the group was cut off under the Obama administration after it voted to include Palestine as a member state in 2011. .
What does UNESCO stand for?
UNESCO is United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
What is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
UNESCO aims to protect archaeological sites by encouraging “the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage sites around the world that are considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.” According to the website.
The website states: “World Heritage Sites belong to all the peoples of the world, regardless of their location.”
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United States
Here are the 25 archaeological sites in the United States on the World Heritage List, chronologically from 1978 to 2023.