News & Updates

Announcements, changes, and known issues for the UNESCO Heritage Tracker.

We're beginning the process of localizing the Tracker! For now, we're targeting the same languages that UNESCO translates their official information into. Translating the UNESCO information is probably too big of a task…

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UNESCO recently added new sites to the register. This site now holds all 1,273 inscribed properties, up from 1,248. The 25 sites added at the most recent World Heritage Committee session are all here, you'll find them…

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We're excited to introduce a new way to relive your travels: fly through your timeline on the globe! Use the controls in the lower left to guide your journey as the globe takes you from site to site. As you move through…

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There's a new way to explore the World Heritage List: a fully interactive 3D globe, now live under Globe in the menu. Every one of the 1,200+ inscribed sites appears as a glowing beacon on a spinning Earth; amber for…

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We've given the site a fresh new look and feel! The navigation has changed, so be sure to poke around and get familiar with where everything lives now. We've also fixed an issue with Google logins that popped up after…

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