Mixed World Heritage Sites

The official website state that the mixed world heritage sites are 29. The mixed sites are based on natural heritage attributes and cultural heritage attributes. Cultural heritage contains the tangible and intangible cultural attributes like a group or society that are inherited from past generations and maintain in the present and giving for future generations. Tangible assets include like works of art, books, artefacts, buildings, landscapes, monuments etc. Intangible assets are folklore, language, traditions and more. Cultural heritage is unique and irreplaceable, which places the responsibility of conservation the current generation.

Mixed World Heritage Sites

Natural and Cultural Heritage Machu Picchu Natural site is also an important part of a society's heritage, encompassing the countryside and natural environment, including flora and fauna, scientifically known as biodiversity, as well as geological elements including mineralogical, geomorphological, paleontological, etc. These kinds of heritage sites often serve as an important component in a country's tourist industry, attracting many visitors from abroad as well as locally. Heritage can also include cultural landscapes (natural features that may have cultural attributes). The site which has natural and cultural attributes in one place that will be consider as a mixed world heritage site.

Asian Mixed World Heritage Sites

China
Mount Taishan
Mount Huangshan
Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
Mount Wuyi
Jordan
Wadi Rum Protected Area
Turkey
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
Hierapolis-Pamukkale

European Mixed World Heritage Sites


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France
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
Greece
Meteora
Mount Athos
Macedonia
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region
Spain
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture
Sweden
Laponian Area
United Kingdom
St Kilda

African Mixed World Heritage Sites

Algeria
Tassili n'Ajjer
Gabon
Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda
Mali
Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)
South Africa
uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park
Tanzania
Ngorongoro Conservation Area

North American Mixed World Heritage Sites

Guatemala
Tikal National Park
United States
Papahānaumokuākea

North American Mixed World Heritage Sites

Peru
Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
Río Abiseo National Park

Oceania Mixed World Heritage Sites

Australia
Kakadu National Park
Willandra Lakes Region
Tasmanian Wilderness
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
New Zealand
Tongariro National Park

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