Wikipedia:WikiProject World Heritage Sites/Tables of WHS Sites EUR region

Discussion
(not part of proposed article)
 * This table composed first from Table view version, sorted by region of the WHS list. By Sept 2009, that list has been updated to show WHS current total of 890, since article started.  Updated here for additions and one subtraction, and transboundary duplications noted.  Cross-checked in totals, now matches 442 unique items in WHS current table list. doncram (talk) 20:08, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * This work in progress has been slow. Was announced at wt:HSITES and perhaps indicated also at wt:WHS.  As of 9/2009, has been developed by User:Lvklock and User:Doncram
 * List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Europe and North America is suggested title, seems most consistent with UNESCO webpages. This includes most of Europe, the United States, Israel, more.
 * Compare this draft article to mainspace articles:
 * List of World Heritage Sites in the Americas
 * List of World Heritage Sites in Europe
 * There was draft WikiProject World Heritage Sites/Tables of WHS Sites, which maybe is what became this: Table of World Heritage Sites by country. (Thanks Nev1!)
 * See also Nev1 discussion

A checkoff list from before (not sure all need to be done):
 * Search for and bluelink to articles that already have the WHS infobox
 * Add at least a few coordinates for each country
 * Convert country abbreviations to full names
 * Remove UNESCO area column (ie EUR)
 * Convert type from letter to word - C=Cultural N=Natural M=Mixed
 * Number
 * Descriptions?

Former discrepancies to check:
 * count was thought to need to be 441, from stats source at WHS site. Source there says 440 but as noted in footnote excludes Uvs Basin natural one which needs to be included, making 441.  However, the main source list of 890, in table view, includes 442 unique EUR items.  Apparently the stats source tally is wrong.
 * Should new 2009 one Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande in Cape Verde, island off of Africa, be included in EUR or AFR list? Where does UNESCO include it.  It is listed in AFR, per table view.

top stuff draft
This is a list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in UNESCO's Europe and North America administrative zone. The area covered includes all of the continent of Europe, Canada and the United States, and portions of other areas. The zone is defined in a partition of the world into five reporting regions: Europe and North America, Arab States, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asian-Pacific, and Africa. As such, it includes some sites actually located outside of the continent of Europe and of the continent of North America, and it omits some sites which are physically located in the two continents. (which of the latter type? Mexico at least)

There are 442 sites in the Europe and North America zone, of which 375 are cultural, 57 are natural, and 9 are mixed. This comprises 49% of the worldwide total of 892. Sixteen of these are "transnational" ("transboundary"?) sites, extending into more than one country.

The sites are distributed over 49 countries overall. Italy has the most WHS sites of any nation, with 41(?).

The Europe list includes many (all?) of the earliest designated WHS sites.

This list, covering 442 sites, is almost half of all 890 World Heritage Sites world-wide. "The World Heritage List includes 890 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value."

Included are a total of 442 sites. Of these, there are:
 * ___ in Europe proper
 * ___ in Asia, all of Russia, including its vast presence in Asia
 * ___ in North America, __ sites in Canada and the United States
 * ___ in the Middle East, __ sites in Israel
 * ___ in other overseas associated places, such as the Netherlands Antilles in the Carribbean
 * ___ includes Azores one, but not Cape Verde one further south

Notable not included are :
 * Mexico, which is included instead in Latin American and the Caribbean list
 * the WHS listings in Kazakhstan and some other countries which are partly in Europe, but WHS listings are in their Asia portions...

What about Turkey, Cyprus, other?

(text from other articles, to modify for use here maybe) This is a specific list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe. Cyprus, Israel, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Caucasian and Siberian parts of Russia are included both in this list and in the list of sites in Asia. Overseas sites of France, the Netherlands, UK and Denmark are included here, but are also repeated in the geographically relevant lists. Kazakhstan, despite having a small portion lying in Europe is to be found under Asia, where both its world heritage sites are listed. Israeli sites are listed here, since the alternative "Arab States" grouping is politically unacceptable.

, 890 sites are listed on the World Heritage Sites worldwid: 689 cultural, 176 natural, and 25 mixed properties, in 148 states. Italy is home to the greatest number of World Heritage Sites to date with 44 sites inscribed on the list.

Each World Heritage Site is the property of the state on whose territory the site is located, but it is considered in the interest of the international community to preserve each site.

Worldwide, there are 890 World Heritage Sites located in 148 countries (state parties). Of these, 689 are cultural, 176 are natural and 25 are mixed properties. The World Heritage Committee has divided the countries into five geographic zones: Africa, Arab States (composed of North Africa and the Middle East), Asia-Pacific (includes Australia and Oceania), Europe & North America, and Latin America & the Caribbean.

Russia and the Caucasus states are classified as European, while Mexico is classified as belonging to the Latin America & Caribbean zone. The UNESCO geographic zones also give greater emphasis on administrative, rather than geographic associations. Hence, Gough Island, located in the South Atlantic, is part of the Europe & North America region because the government of the United Kingdom nominated the site.

Transboundary sites

 * 1) Belfries of Belgium and France — shared between Belgium (mostly for the former Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia) and France. Besides civic belfries, or buildings such as city halls that rather obviously may serve a similar purpose, the list includes: Cathedral of Our Lady [Notre-Dame], Antwerp; St. Rumbolds Tower, Mechelen; St. Leonard Church, Zoutleeuw — all three in Flanders, Belgium.
 * 2) Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park/Białowieża Forest (1979, 1992) — shared between Poland and Belarus.
 * 3) Caves of Aggtelek and Slovak Karst (Slovenský Kras) (1995, 2000) — shared between Hungary and Slovakia
 * 4) Cultural Landscape of Fertő/Neusiedlersee (2001) — shared between Austria and Hungary
 * 5) Curonian Spit — shared between Lithuania and Russia
 * 6) Frontiers of the Roman Empire: Upper German & Rhætian Limes, Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall — shared between Germany and the United Kingdom (ref. whc.unesco.org ID 430bis)
 * 7) High Coast and Kvarken Archipelago — shared between Sweden and Finland
 * 8) Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights (Vatican City) and Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls — shared between the Holy See and Italy
 * 9) Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek — shared between Canada and the United States
 * 10) Muskauer Park/Park Muzakowski on both sides of the Nysa/Neisse River — shared between Germany and Poland
 * 11) Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians, shared between Sweden and Ukraine
 * 12) Pyrénées/Pirineos: Monte Perdido/Mont Perdu (1997, 1999) — shared between France and Spain
 * 13) Struve Geodetic Arc (2005) — shared between Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Sweden, Russia and Ukraine
 * 14) Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes - shared between Italy and Switzerland
 * 15) Waddenzee (2009) — coastal tidal region in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, though only parts of the sea in the Netherlands and Germany are on the list.
 * 16) Waterton Glacier International Peace Park — shared between Canada and U.S.

Related list-articles with more detail on the current and proposed sites associated with certain countries are:
 * UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria
 * List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the United Kingdom
 * List of World Heritage Sites in the Netherlands