UNESCO Sites in India
Ancient Wonders
Religious & Sacred Sites
Natural World Heritage Sites
UNESCO Sites by Their Nickname
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Taj Mahal
400
This city in Jordan is famous for its rock-cut Treasury carved into rose-colored cliffs
Petra
Once an important Nabataean trading center, this site is often called the "Rose City."
400
This vast temple complex in Cambodia is the largest religious monument in the world
Angkor Wat
400
This East African national park hosts the world's largest annual land-animal migration
Serengeti National Park
400
Called the "Lost City of the Incas," this UNESCO site is located in Peru
Machu Picchu
600
These rock-cut caves near Aurangabad contain some of India's finest surviving Buddhist paintings
Ajanta Caves
600
This Peruvian Incan citadel was built high in the Andes and rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911.
Machu Picchu
600
Vatican City
600
Located in Australia, this site is the world's largest coral reef system
Great Barrier Reef
600
Known as the "City of Canals," this Italian UNESCO site is built on more than 100 islands
Venice
800
Known for its erotic sculptures and Nagara-style architecture, this temple complex is located in Madhya Pradesh
Khajuraho Group of Monuments
800
This archaeological site in Greece is home to the Parthenon.
Acropolis of Athens
800
This sacred Buddhist temple in Indonesia is the world's largest Buddhist monument
Borobudur
800
This transboundary UNESCO site spans Argentina and Brazil and contains one of the world's largest waterfall systems
Iguazu National Park
800
Often called the "Pink City,"
Jaipur
1000
This group of 7th and 8th century rock-cut monuments is located on the Coromandel Coast of Tamil Nadu
Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
1000
This UNESCO World Heritage Site stretches across 11 countries and is the longest mountain range in the world
Andes
1000
Built between the 12th and 13th centuries, this Gothic cathedral in France is associated with Victor Hugo's famous novel
Notre-Dame de Paris
1000
This Himalayan national park in Nepal contains Mount Everest
Sagarmatha National Park
1000
Nicknamed the "Rose City" because of its pink sandstone cliffs and architecture
Petra
1500
This Rajasthan hill fort is associated with Maharana Pratap and has the second-longest continuous wall in the world
Kumbhalgarh Fort
1500
This Roman city was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE
Pompeii
1500
This holy city in Sri Lanka houses the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic
Kandy
1500
Charles Darwin's observations on these Ecuadorian islands helped inspire the theory of evolution
Galápagos Islands
1500
Known as the "City of a Thousand Minarets," this UNESCO-listed historic city lies on the Nile
Historic Cairo