List of World Heritage Sites in Malaysia
The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has designated four World Heritage Sites in Malaysia.[1] The UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention.
Location of sites
Inscribed sites
Site | Image | Location | Criteria | Area ha (acre) |
Year | Description | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley | Perak, Malay Peninsula, Malaysia 5°4′N 100°58′E / 5.067°N 100.967°E |
Cultural: (iii), (iv) |
399 (990) | 2012 | [2] | ||
Gunung Mulu National Park | northern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia 4°8′N 114°55′E / 4.133°N 114.917°E |
Natural: (vii), (viii), (ix), (x) |
52,864 (130,630) | 2000 | [3] | ||
Kinabalu Park | Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia 6°15′N 116°30′E / 6.250°N 116.500°E |
Natural: (ix), (x) |
75,370 (186,200) | 2000 | [4] | ||
Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca | Malacca Town and George Town, Penang, Malay Peninsula, Malaysia 5°25′17″N 100°20′45″E / 5.42139°N 100.34583°E |
Cultural: (ii), (iii), (iv) |
148 (370); buffer zone 284 (700) | 2008 | [5] |
Tentative List
There is only one site on the Tentative List for Malaysia, meaning that the government intends to consider it for nomination in the future:[6]
Site | Image | Location | Criteria | Area ha (acre) |
Year | Description | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
National Park (Taman Negara) of Peninsular Malaysia | |
Pahang, Kelantan and Terengganu 4°12′N 102°28′E / 4.200°N 102.467°E |
Natural: (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (vi) |
434,300 (1,073,000) |
See also
- List of World Heritage Sites in Indonesia
- List of World Heritage Sites in Thailand
- List of World Heritage Sites in the Philippines
- List of World Heritage Sites in Singapore
References
- ↑ "World Heritage Properties in Thailand". UNESCO. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
- ↑ "Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley". UNESCO. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
- ↑ "Gunung Mulu National Park". UNESCO. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
- ↑ "Kinabalu Park". UNESCO. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
- ↑ "Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca". UNESCO. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
- ↑ "Tentative Lists: Malaysia". UNESCO. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
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