Where are the places with Ha Long?

On the first day of voting, the new heritage sites included notable names. The US news agency CNN listed the special names recognized on the first day of voting on Saturday, including the heritage of Vietnam. The newspaper wrote that the existing world heritage - Ha Long Bay in Vietnam - was expanded to include the Cat Ba archipelago, the country's largest limestone archipelago. It is now listed as one location: Ha Long Bay - Cat Ba archipelago. Ha Long Bay was first recognized as a world heritage by UNESCO in 1994.

Aerial view of Cat Ba archipelago

Discussions and voting begin on Saturday to consider 50 sites nominated for inclusion on the prestigious World Heritage list.

The Odzala-Kokoua forest in the Congo and the Pelée and Pitons volcanoes and forests on the French island of Martinique were selected for inscription on the world heritage list on the first day.

Odzala-Kokoua Forest in Congo was recorded on Saturday. It is one of the oldest natural parks in Africa and one of the largest tropical rainforests in the world.

Madagascar's Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, which includes five protected areas, has also expanded to include the Andrefana dry forest, found only on the Indian Ocean island.

Over the next few days, the committee will consider the remaining nominations, which include a Viking-era ring fort in Denmark and a 2,000-year-old earthwork in Ohio. The list of 50 candidates also includes Si Thep Ancient Town in Thailand, the ruins of an ancient city that once flourished into a powerful nation. Or Gaya Tumuli, made up of seven clusters of tombs from the ancient Gaya Confederacy in Korea…

According to UNESCO, sites must have “outstanding universal value” to be added to the World Heritage List. To qualify, a site must meet at least one of a specific list of criteria, which is “regularly revised by the committee to reflect the evolution of the World Heritage concept itself.”

To date, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has inscribed some 1,157 sites in 167 different countries on its World Heritage List.

The ancient temple in Nimes, France, is also considered to become a world heritage site in 2023.

In addition, UNESCO also announced a list of world heritages in danger, including heritages threatened by armed conflicts, natural disasters, pollution, etc.

Sites in Ukraine such as St. Sophia Cathedral and the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery complex, both located in the capital Kyiv and the historic center of Lviv in western Ukraine - are considered "at risk" in this wave.

Source link: https://thanhnien.vn/nhung-noi-nao-cung-ha-long-cat-ba-thanh-di-san-the-gioi-moi-nhat-185230917081303549.htm