World Heritage Site

place of significance listed by UNESCO
Event heritage_designation Q9259
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World Heritage Site

Summary

World Heritage Site is a heritage designation[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of heritage_designation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,184 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • World Heritage Site's instance of is recorded as heritage designation[3].
  • World Heritage Site's instance of is recorded as conservation designation[4].
  • World Heritage Site's maintained by is recorded as UNESCO[5].
  • World Heritage Site is a type of natural heritage[6].
  • World Heritage Site is a type of cultural heritage[7].
  • World Heritage Site is part of World Heritage List[8].
  • World Heritage Site's Commons category is recorded as World Heritage Sites[9].
  • World Heritage Site comprises World Heritage Site id[10].
  • World Heritage Site comprises World Heritage Convention[11].
  • World Heritage Site comprises Q2144255[12].
  • World Heritage Site comprises natural heritage[13].
  • World Heritage Site's official website is recorded as https://whc.unesco.org[14].
  • World Heritage Site's topic's main category is recorded as Category:World Heritage Sites[15].
  • World Heritage Site's Commons gallery is recorded as UNESCO World Heritage Sites[16].
  • World Heritage Site's described at URL is recorded as https://www.unesco.de/kultur-und-natur/welterbe/welterbe-weltweit/welterbeliste[17].
  • World Heritage Site's described at URL is recorded as http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/[18].
  • World Heritage Site's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:World Heritage Site[19].
  • World Heritage Site's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as heritage:operator=whc[20].
  • World Heritage Site's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • World Heritage Site's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • World Heritage Site's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site[23].
  • World Heritage Site's topic has template is recorded as Template:Lists of World Heritage Sites[24].
  • World Heritage Site's main Wikidata property is recorded as P757[25].
  • World Heritage Site's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/WorldHeritageSite[26].
  • World Heritage Site's different from is recorded as intangible cultural heritage[27].

Body

Context

World Heritage Site is part of World Heritage List[8]. Recorded instance of include heritage designation[3] and conservation designation[4].

Why It Matters

World Heritage Site ranks in the top 3% of heritage_designation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,184 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · JhowieNitnek · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) World Heritage Site id, World Heritage Convention, Q2144255 +1
    Subclass of
    Topic has template Template:Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site, Template:Lists of World Heritage Sites
    Instance of heritage designation, conservation designation
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P2238]]: [[Q127412052]]"
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