Jurre

I also got the same information when I visited the petroglyph site and talked with museum curator last week!!

WHC 2025

Trying to make sense of what might be ready for 2025. There were many incomplete nominations, delayed nominations, and now double entries by certain states. Perhaps, this can be a starting point to add or delete nominations that are likely official submissions for 2025.

Africa (3)
- The Diy Gid Biy Cultural Landscape of the Mandara Mountains (Cameroon)
- Bijagos Archipelago Biosphere Reserve (Guinea-Bissau)
- Gola-Tiwai Complex (Sierra Leone)

Arab States (1)
- Gebel Qatrani Area (Egypt)

Asia and the Pacific (7)
- Flinders Ranges (Australia)
- Silk Roads: Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan & Uzbekistan)
- Tilaurakot, the Archaeological remains of Ancient Shakya Kingdom (Nepal)
- Petroglyphs of Bangucheon (Republic of Korea)
- The Andaman Sea Nature Reserves of Thailand (Thailand)
- Koytendag Mountain Ecosystem (Turkmenistan)
- The Complex of Relics and Landscapes of Yen Tu - Con Son, Kiep Bac (Vietnam)

Europe and North America (9)
- Wanuskewin (Canada)
- European Paper Mills (Czechia, Poland)
- The Ringed Seal Archipelagos of Lake Saimaa (Finland)
- The Megaliths of Carnac and the Banks of Morbihan (France)
- City of Carcassonne and its sentinel mountain castles [extension] (France)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (Greece)
- Via Francigena (Italy)
- Vila Viçosa (Portugal)
- Civil Rights Movement Sites (United States)

Latin America and the Caribbean (1)
- Isla de Flores Cultural Landscape (Uruguay)

Incomplete for 2024 (10)
- Bagh-e Babur, The Garden of Babur (De Babur Bun) (Afghanistan)
- Murujuga Cultural Landscape (Australia)
- Complex of travertine waterfalls and cascades on the river Una in Martin Brod (Bosnia)
- Mount Olympus (Greece)
- Sunken City of Port Royal (Jamaica)
- Hin Nam No National Park [extension] (Laos)
- Huichol Route through Sacred Sites to Huiricuta (Mexico)
- Modernist Centre of Gdynia (Poland)
- Cultural Landscape of the Andalusian Olive Grove (Spain)
- Wadi Wurayah (UAE)

Delayed Nominations (4)
- Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble (Brazil)
- Mrauk-U (Myanmar)
- Ancient Port of Banbhore (Pakistan)
- Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (South Africa)

Thanks for keeping track of nominations for upcoming years! One small note: Khinalig is being inscribed this year, as "Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and "Köç Yolu" Transhumance Route".

Nice catch, I missed it with the long name!

Let's try to update this and the 2025 page with what we know after the 2023 WHC. Still 1 nomination per country allowed.


Extension was rejected by ICOMOS in 2023, advised to go independently. However, 2025 seems short notice (= Feb 1, 2024)


Replaced by Capital Fortifications of Hanyang


I don't think we have heard anything about it in ages. And who will head the Silk Road nomination? Kazakhstan?


It seems France will choose Carnac over this.


Gdansk has been floating around for a while as well, as it was Postponed Sine Die. May quickly resurface as a site of memory. D-Day beaches as well.


The Álvaro Siza sites are also a candidate. Maybe Portugal will have to choose, somehow I think the Siza nomination is more likely.
https://westobserver.com/news/europe/eight-projects-by-alvaro-siza-candidate-for-unesco-world-heritage/

Germany will go for Neuschwanstein in 2025.

And China possibly for Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen, or Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China [Phase II] (they will not waste their 1 nomination on this extension I guess), or The Ancient Waterfront Towns in the South of Yangtze River

India could go for the Kashmir Gardens as they apparently have finished their dossier already (source). However, this choice might be controversial and there always seems to be a lot of domestic rivalry between the Indian nominations.

China already did submit Migratory Bird Sanctuaries Phase 2 this year but pushed to next year due to covid-related restrictions. It seems that they followed their commutment even if it meant foregoeing submitting a new site. For 2025, it should be a natural site. They follow alternating cultural-natural nominations per year. So most likely to be Hainan Rainforests.

Vietnam's Yen Tu-Vinh Nghiem-Con Son, Kiep Bac complex

CONFIRMED The official dossier will also be submitted to the UNESCO by December 31 this year.

https://vietnamnet.vn/en/yen-tu-vinh-nghiem-con-son-kiep-bac-complex-seeks-unesco-title-2197042.html

Faya Palaeolandscape (UAE)

"the site of the prehistoric cultural landscape of Al-Faya as an alternative to The cultural landscape file for the Central Region in preparation for the final submission of the nomination file in February 2024" - Article March 2023

According to this link, it's happening today for the date and place of the 46th session

https://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/19EXTCOM/

Murujuga Cultural Landscape (Australia)

Apparently, Murujuga was submitted for 2024 and has now been deemed 'incomplete'. so the aim now is for 2025.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-27/unesco-world-heritage-list-application-delay-burrup-peninsula/103153778

As we approach January we should get more confirmations of completed dossiers submitted to UNESCO.

Korea's nomination for 2025 seems on schedule.

https://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0115_202312022240402525


France's nomination for 2025 seems on schedule.

"The file has indeed just reached a new stage. The French state has issued a favorable opinion for the submission of the application file. A new appointment has been made in January 2024 for the official submission of the application file for the Breton site to UNESCO. The files submitted will then be evaluated and appraised until the summer of 2025."

https://www.alouette.fr/les-megalithes-de-carnac-au-patrimoine-mondial-de-l-unesco-l-etat-donne-un-avis-favorable

They're trying again: https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/news/port-royal-jamaica-on-list-unesco-world-heritage-sites/

Still expecting this one: https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/doa-prepares-draft-for-listing-tilaurakot-in-the-list-of-world-heritage-site/?categoryId=81

The list for 2025 seems long, as most mentioned above are still aiming to submit before Feb 1 2024.

Bangu Stream Petroglyphs (Korea) for 2025 (nomination file will be submitted before February 1st)

http://www.ujeil.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=339777