Paraty and Ilha Grande – Culture and Biodiversity - Brazil

This natural-cultural landscape encompasses the historic centre of Paraty, one of Brazil's best-preserved coastal towns, four Brazilian Atlantic Forest protected natural areas, one of the world’s five key biodiversity hotspots, as well as part of the Serra da Bocaina mountain range and the Atlantic coastal region. 

Serra do Mar and Ilha Grande Bay is home to an impressive diversity of animal species, some of which are threatened, such as the jaguar (Panthera onca), the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) and several primate species, including the Southern Muriqui (Brachyteles arachnoides), which are emblematic of the property. 

In the late 17th century, Paraty was the end-point of the Caminho do Ouro (Gold Route), along which gold was shipped to Europe. 

Its port also served as an entry point for tools and African slaves, sent to work in the mines. 

A defence system was built to protect the wealth of the port and the town. 

The historic centre of Paraty has retained its 18th century plan and much of its colonial architecture dating from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a country in Western Europe with Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, Austria and Liechtenstein to the east as its neighbors.

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Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto - Indonesia

Built for the extraction, processing and transport of high-quality coal in an inaccessible region of Sumatra, this industrial site was developed by the Netherlands East Indies’ government in the globally important period of industrialisation from the late 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. 

The workforce was recruited from the local Minangkabau people and supplemented by Javanese and Chinese contract workers, and convict labourers from Dutch-controlled areas. 

It comprises the mining site and company town, coal storage facilities at the port of Emmahaven and the railway network linking the mines to the coastal facilities. 

The Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage was built as an integrated system that enabled the efficient deep-bore extraction, processing, transport and shipment of coal. 

It is also an outstanding testimony of exchange and fusion between local knowledge and practices and European technology.

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Watusi

The Watusi is a cattle native to Africa. 

They have enormous horns. 

The Watusi is a descendant of the aurochs, which became extinct in the 17th century. 

Cattle have played an important role in the lives of various African tribes such as the Tutsi and Ankole for about 6,000 years.

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Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan

Located on a plateau above the Osaka Plain, this property includes 49 kofun (“old mounds” in Japanese). These tombs were for members of the elite. 

These kofun have been selected from among a total of 160,000 in Japan and form the richest material representation of the Kofun period, from the 3rd to the 6th century CE. 

They demonstrate the differences in social classes of that period and show evidence of a highly sophisticated funerary system. 

Burial mounds of significant variations in size, kofun take the geometrically elaborate design forms of keyhole, scallop, square or circle. 

They were decorated with paving stones and clay figures. 

The kofun demonstrate exceptional technical achievements of earthen constructions.

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Kyushu

Kyushu and the near islands are divided into the seven prefectures of Fukuoka, Kagoshima (including a portion of the Ryukyus), Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Ōita, and Saga. 

In addition, the region includes the portion of the Ryukyus within Okinawa prefecture.

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Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China - China

The Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China is a serial extension of the property of the same name already inscribed on the World Heritage List. 

As part of the world’s largest intertidal wetland system, this area within the Yellow Sea Ecoregion supports crucial habitats for birds migrating on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway which spans some 25 countries from the Arctic to South-East Asia and Australasia. 

The wetlands serve a unique ecological function as indispensable stopover sites for many millions of waterbirds and represent a significant example of the shared natural heritage embodied in migratory birds.

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Molise

Molise is a region in south-central Italy, the second smallest region in the country. 

Until 1963, Molise was part of the region "Abruzzo and Molise" together with Abruzzo, but then it became a separate entity. 

The region borders Abruzzo to the northwest, Lazio to the west, Campania to the south, Apulia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the northeast.

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Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars - Laos

The Plain of Jars, located on a plateau in central Laos, gets its name from more than 2,100 tubular-shaped megalithic stone jars used for funerary practices in the Iron Age. 

This serial property of 15 components contains large carved stone jars, stone discs, secondary burials, tombstones, quarries and funerary objects dating from 500 BCE to 500 CE. 

The jars and associated elements are the most prominent evidence of the Iron Age civilization that made and used them until it disappeared, around 500 CE.

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West Sulawesi

West Sulawesi, formerly known as West Celebes, is the 33rd province of Indonesia, established on October 16, 2004. 

It is located on the island of Sulawesi and was previously part of the province of South Sulawesi.

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