Asmara: A Modernist African City - Eritrea

Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s onwards as a military outpost for the Italian colonial power. 

After 1935, Asmara underwent a large scale programme of construction applying the Italian rationalist idiom of the time to governmental edifices, residential and commercial buildings, churches, mosques, synagogues, cinemas, hotels, etc. 

The property encompasses the area of the city that resulted from various phases of planning between 1893 and 1941, as well as the indigenous unplanned neighbourhoods of Arbate Asmera and Abbashawel. 

It is an exceptional example of early modernist urbanism at the beginning of the 20th century and its application in an African context.

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Tasmania

Tasmania is an island and state of the Commonwealth of Australia. 

It is located 240 km SE of the Australian mainland and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. 

The capital of Tasmania is Hobart. 

The island is considered a separation between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

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Flevoland

Flevoland is a province in the middle of the Netherlands.

It is the youngest and smallest in terms of land area of ​​the twelve provinces.

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Aphrodisias - Turkey

Located in southwestern Turkey, in the upper valley of the Morsynus River, the site consists of two components: the archaeological site of Aphrodisias and the marble quarries northeast of the city. 

The temple of Aphrodite dates from the 3rd century BC and the city was built one century later. 

The wealth of Aphrodisias came from the marble quarries and the art produced by its sculptors. 

The city streets are arranged around several large civic structures, which include temples, a theatre, an agora and two bath complexes.

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Zurna

The zurna is a double reed wind instrument played in central Eurasia, western Asia, and parts of North Africa. 

It is usually accompanied by a davul in Armenian, Anatolian, and Assyrian folk music.

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Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape - China

Located on the steep cliffs in the border regions of southwest China, these 38 sites of rock art illustrate the life and rituals of the Luoyue people. 

They date from the period around the 5th century BCE to the 2nd century CE. 

In a surrounding landscape of karst, rivers and plateaux, they depict ceremonies that have been interpreted as portraying the bronze drum culture once prevalent across southern China. 

This cultural landscape is the only remains of this culture today.

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Kavango East

Kavango East is an administrative region in Namibia that was created in August 2013 when the former Kavango region was split into Kavango East and Kavango West. 

The name of the region is derived from the Okavango River.

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Western Tien-Shan

The transnational property is located in the Tien-Shan mountain system, one of the largest mountain ranges in the world. 

Western Tien-Shan ranges in altitude from 700 to 4,503 m. 

It features diverse landscapes, which are home to exceptionally rich biodiversity. 

It is of global importance as a centre of origin for a number of cultivated fruit crops and is home to a great diversity of forest types and unique plant community associations.

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Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz

Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz was a region in Morocco until 2015. 

The capital was Marrakech. 

The region is located south of the Doukala-Abda region and north of the Souss-Massa-Draa region and in the far west is the Atlantic Ocean.

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The Persian Qanat - Iran

Throughout the arid regions of Iran, agricultural and permanent settlements are supported by the ancient qanat system of tapping alluvial aquifers at the heads of valleys and conducting the water along underground tunnels by gravity, often over many kilometres. 

The eleven qanats representing this system include rest areas for workers, water reservoirs and watermills. 

The traditional communal management system still in place allows equitable and sustainable water sharing and distribution. 

The qanats provide exceptional testimony to cultural traditions and civilizations in desert areas with an arid climate.

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