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World Heritage Site

place of significance listed by UNESCO
Event heritage_designation Q9259
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Summary

World Heritage Site is a heritage designation[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of heritage designation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34,344 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: conservation designation[3]
  • Maintained by: UNESCO[4]
  • Subclass of: natural heritage[5], cultural heritage[6]
  • Commons category: World Heritage Sites[7]
  • Has part(s): World Heritage Site id[8], World Heritage Convention[9], Cultuurerfgoed[10], natural heritage[11]
  • Official website: https://whc.unesco.org[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:World Heritage Sites[13]
  • Commons gallery: UNESCO World Heritage Sites[14]
  • Described at URL: https://www.unesco.de/kultur-und-natur/welterbe/welterbe-weltweit/welterbeliste[15], http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/[16]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:World Heritage Site[17]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: heritage:operator=whc[18]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site[21], Template:Lists of World Heritage Sites[22]
  • Main Wikidata property: P757[23]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/WorldHeritageSite[24]
  • Different from: intangible cultural heritage[25], IUGS Geological Heritage Site[26], UNESCO World Heritage Site buffer zone[27]
  • Official symbol: World Heritage Emblem[28]
  • Hashtag: PatrimoineMondial[29]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[30]
  • Category for eponymous categories: Category:Wikipedia categories named after World Heritage Sites[31]
  • Category for maps or plans: Category:Maps of World Heritage Sites[32]

Why It Matters

World Heritage Site has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] It is known by 78 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  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.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 179
    Environment ontology id → 00000375
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'af', 'als', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'avk', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'b
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Environment ontology id: 00000375, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143354074|world heritage site (#143354074)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5484|Enviro"
  2. 23d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bibliothèque nationale de france id → 120105617
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Bibliothèque nationale de france id: 120105617"
  3. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C19506
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C19506, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  4. 9w ago · David Osipov · 2026-08-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → intangible cultural heritage, IUGS Geological Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site buffer zone
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: UNESCO World Heritage Site buffer zone"
  5. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → WlERN
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 18w ago · Théo Vansteenkeste · 2026-06-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Part of: World Heritage List"
  7. 22w ago · JhowieNitnek · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → World Heritage Site id, World Heritage Convention, Cultuurerfgoed +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 */ Official symbol: World Heritage Emblem"
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