Famous UNESCO World Heritage Sites

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• 01·This 15th-century Inca citadel is located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru, on a mountain ridge 2,430 metres above sea level.
• 02·This series of fortifications, stretching over 13,000 miles, was built across the historical northern borders of Imperial China as protection against nomadic groups.
• 03·This archaeological site on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, is most famous for its three large pyramids and the Great Sphinx.
• 04·This ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in Agra, India was commissioned by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his favourite wife.
• 05·Originally a Hindu temple for the Khmer Empire, this massive temple complex in Cambodia gradually transformed into a Buddhist temple towards the end of the 12th century.
• 06·This ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above Athens, Greece, contains the remains of several ancient buildings, the most famous being the Parthenon.
• 07·This prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, consists of a ring of standing stones, with each stone around 13 feet high and weighing around 25 tons.
• 08·This volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, a province of Ecuador, was crucial to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
• 09·This Tanzanian national park is famous for its annual migration of over 1.5 million white-bearded wildebeest and 250,000 zebra.
• 10·Located in Arizona, this national park features a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River which is 277 miles long and over a mile deep.
• 11·Founded in the 5th century and spread over 118 small islands, this Italian city became a major maritime power and is considered an extraordinary architectural masterpiece.
• 12·A gift from France to the United States in 1886, this colossal sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is a universal symbol of freedom.