UNESCO World Heritage Sites are some places that are classified by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as being of unique cultural or physical importance. Buildings, cities, complex, desert, forest, island, lake, monument, or mountain Can be placed on the list.Iran is the home to a considerable number of such treasures as an ancient country in the Asia. Also, Iran has got several already inscribed there and many more on the waiting list. These legacies are inherited from our ancestors since several centuries ago. Iran has 24 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including 22 cultural sites and two natural that are listed in the table below.

 

No

Site

Location

Criteria

1

Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran

West Azerbaijan Province

Cultural

2

Bam and its Cultural Landscape

Kerman Province

Cultural

3

Bisotun

Kermanshah Province

Cultural

4

Cultural Landscape of Maymand

Kerman Province

Cultural

5

Golestan Palace

Tehran Province

Cultural

6

Gonbad-e Qābus

Golestan Province

Cultural

7

Historic City of Yazd

Yazd Province

Cultural

8

Masjed-e Jame of Isfahan

Isfahan Province

Cultural

9

Naqsh-e Jahan Square

Isfahan Province

Cultural

10

Pasargadae

Shiraz Province

Cultural

11

Persepolis

Shiraz Province

Cultural

12

Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region

Fars Province

Cultural

13

Shahr-i Sokhteh

Sistan-Baluchestan Province

Cultural

14

Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil

Ardabil Province

Cultural

15

Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System

Khuzestan Province

Cultural

16

Soltaniyeh

Zanjan Province

Cultural

17

Susa

Khuzestan Province

Cultural

18

Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex

East Azerbaijan Province

Cultural

19

Takht-e Soleyman

West Azerbaijan Province

Cultural

20

Tchogha Zanbil

Khuzestan Province

Cultural

21

The Persian Garden

Fars, Kerman, Razavi Khorasan, Yazd, Mazandaran and Isfahan Provinces)

Cultural

22

The Persian Qanat

Razavi Khorasan, South Khorasan, Yazd, Kerman, Markazi and Isfahan Provinces

Cultural

23

Hyrcanian Forests

Mazandaran Province, Gilan Province and Ardabil Province

Natural

24

Lut Desert

Kerman and Sistan-Baluchestan Province

Natural