The keen TWHS counters in this community will have noticed that since the migration, their total of visited TWHS as shown in their profile has been lower than before (mine was about 10% less)

I have finally narrowed this down to the following issues, and I come close to explaining all now, at least in my own count.
1. Of course we have just had the WHC. 26 sites were inscribed, the ones you ticked already have to be deducted from your total.
2. We have 8 TWHS not migrated yet (listed below): adding the TWHS isn't much of an issue, but we have to do a mini-migration for them as we want all related data, reviews etc to come with it. On our to do list.
3. We have made the design choice for the new website to show nominated sites for 2026-2028 as a little bit different from normal tentative sites. Every nominated site still equals one tentative site, but serial transnational nominated sites show and count as one.
4. We had an issue during the migration with "former nominated sites" : sites we once had at the old website listed as nominated, but at a certain point in time reverted to normal tentative sites. The 'ticks' for these have not been migrated (list will follow in the next message).

Let's see what the impact is of all 4 items. If you keep meticulous track of your TWHS count and are willing to help with testing, please reach out to me via els@worldheritagesite.org.

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The 8 totally missing were:
Lake Chad Cultural Landscape (Nigeria and others, serial transnational)
Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate
The Danube Limes in Bulgaria
Danube Limes (Serbia)
Vestfold Ship Burials and Hyllestad Quernstone Quarries
Beech forests extension / Beech Forests (Montenegro)
Augustow Canal (Belarus)
The Chinese Section of the Silk Roads (China) (note: China has 2 TWHS with virtually the same name on the Tentative List)

So if you have ticked one or more of these, they will not be in your TWHS count at the moment. The core data of these WHS has been added now (the reviews and locations will follow), you are requested to 'tick' these again if you have been there.

Text updated July 21 - we're now at the same count as UNESCO again

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The transnational nominations for 2026-2028 are:
- China-Egypt hydrological sites (China, Egypt)
- Memorials to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War (Belarus, Russia)
- European Paper Mills (Czechia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain)
- Silk Roads: Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)
- The State of the Pyrenees (Andorra, Spain, France)
- Workers' Assembly Halls (Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Denmark)

So if you have visited components of those in more than one country, these will not count anymore towards the total.

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The "former nominated sites" that caused trouble are:
Abraj Al-Kuwait
Aire du Dragonnier Ajgal
Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes
Arasbaran Protected Area
Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble
Cal Orck'o: Footprints of time
Cienaga de Zapata National Park
Classical Karst
Coral Stone Mosques of Maldives
Cultural landscape of Bac
Ed-Dur Site
Fortress of Spinalonga
Grobina archaeological ensemble
Highlands of Mongol Altai
Historic Guild Town of Mudurnu
Hoge Kempen
Kizilirmak Delta Wetland and Bird Sanctuary
Khor Dubai
Le Charolais-Brionnais
Le Lac Assal
Mértola
Mole National Park
Mrauk-U
Mughal Gardens in Kashmir
Nyero Rockpaintings
Parc national de Zakouma
Partie nigerienne du lac Tchad
Pharaon Island
Plovdiv
Port of Banbhore
Priorat-Montsant-Siurana
Royal Belum State Park
Sabalan
Semarang Old Town
Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States
Sites of the Busan Wartime Capital
Sitio Arqueológico de la Villa La Isabela
Tana Toraja Traditional Settlement
The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio
The Danube Limes (Croatia)
The Historical City of Masouleh
The Historical City of Maybod
The Historical Port City of Izmir
The Old Town of Jakarta
The Qutb Shahi Monuments of Hyderabad
The Rise of Systematic Biology
The Tombstones of Ahlat
Transatlantic Cable Ensemble (CAN)
Transatlantic Cable Ensemble (IE)
VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park
Zadar - Episcopal complex

Regarding these, we would kindly ask you to 'tick' them again yourself, as it would be a great pain for us to retrieve those.

You can do so via Add a New Visit from your WHS Traveller menu on the dashboard after logging in.
When you choose a date in the clear past for "Visited on", they will not be shown on the homepage as recently visited.
You may cluster them all together in one administrative visit cluster.
If you remember the exact dates, you may of course add those too.

After saving, wait an hour or two before the counts are updated on your profile page.

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I found some more in category 4. By adding these, you will get very close. I will now stop my efforts in finding more as due to the low twhs count overall, it's hard to do compares and I don't want to spend any more time on it.

You can re-tick these as well, you could edit the administrative visit you created in the step above:

Capital Fortifications of Hanyang
Cetinje
China-Egypt hydrological sites
City of Granada (Nicaragua)
Coastal Forests of Kenya
Delhi - A Heritage City
Dirre Sheikh Hussein
European Paper Mills
Iles volcaniques de Sao Tomé et Principe
Jinggangshan--North Wuyishan
Memorials to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War (Belarus, Russia)
Orheiul Vechi
Patzcuaro
Riijal Almaa
Silk Roads: Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor
SS. Boris and Gleb (Kalozha) Church in the city of Hrodna
State of the Pyrenees
The Augustow Canal
The Jewish cemetery of Altona
The Olive Landscapes of Andalucia
The ringed seal archipelagos
Wadi Al-Salam Cemetery in Najaf
Workers' Assembly Halls
Zaruma Ciudad minera

P.S.: (update 17-7, stumbled upon a few more):
Calouste gulbenkian
Levadas de Madeira
Gdansk
Auckland Volcanic fields

23-7: one more
Padang Civic Ensemble

There's also one missing from my inscribed sites... It was there two days ago (total 827, now it reads 826). And I cannot check which one cos I have no access to my account although I'm logged in. I think it is one from the new ones - I ticked 8 during this year session...

warwass
I will have a look at your data. And also the account issue.

In general, my perception is that the WHS counts are correct. It has been verified with those of Thomas Buechler and those of me, so a good coverage.

The plus one minus one over the past days was due to getting Panama's Colonial Transisthmian shenanigans in.

elsslots
The missing one is Maputo NP

warwass
Aha. And you had not visited iSimangaliso?
-> I see in the Wayback Machine that you did not

So we have to think about how we handle mergers before the next WHC (for most people it won't be an issue as many more will have visited the original site already and very few maputo np). Will put it in the to do list

To clarify the consequences of the finding of warwass for the WHS count of the WHC 2025, as it extends to all extended WHS:
- If you visited Maputo NP but did not visit the WHS of iSimangaliso beforehand, you must tick iSimangaliso yourself
- If you visited Hin Nam No NP but did not visit the WHS of Phong Nha Ke Bang beforehand, you must tick Phong Nha Ke Bang yourself

We will try to handle this specific situation better for next year's WHC.

Have you already fixed the problem? My tentative count is even lower now compared to the day when new website launched.

csarica
Have you gone through and added the items listed under 1 to 4 above?

I found my missing sites. In addition to the ones on this page, Padang Singapore was also missing

Thanks for reporting! I will add it to the list