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Core Zones of WHS

 
 
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Author nfmungard
Partaker
#31 | Posted: 25 Aug 2025 09:15 
Corvey core zone seems to extend beyond the Westwork. The core zone on the Unesco map covers the whole monastery area.

Author elsslots
Admin
#32 | Posted: 26 Aug 2025 05:17 
An update, after New Zealand, I did a mix of sites:
Amsterdam Canal Ring
Ancient City of Aleppo
Ancient City of Bosra
Ancient City of Damascus
Site of Palmyra
Surtsey
Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra. (c) Protected Planet
Ujung Kulon
Lorentz National Park. (c) Protected Planet
Komodo National Park
Dholavira

Author elsslots
Admin
#33 | Posted: 26 Aug 2025 05:19 
Regarding the Amsterdam Canal Ring, I am always amazed by how specific it is.
I have removed the Botanical Garden connection, as the Hortus Botanicus lies just outside.
We can use more POIs here, but none of the reviewers, except Hubert, have indicated any that are actually within the core zone.

Author elsslots
Admin
#34 | Posted: 27 Aug 2025 06:42 | Edited by: elsslots 
Lots of India in today's crop. Overall Indian map quality is poor; some locations, such as the Taj Mahal or Agra Fort, don't even have an official map.

Ajanta Caves
Rani-ki-Vav
Kakatiya Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple
The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
Red Fort Complex
Keoladeo National Park
Yosemite National Park
Khangchendzonga National Park
Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey

Author mmarqz
Partaker
#35 | Posted: 27 Aug 2025 07:14 
How can I help? I have my own maps, very accurate

Author elsslots
Admin
#36 | Posted: 27 Aug 2025 07:17 
mmarqz
I will send you a pm

Author elsslots
Admin
#37 | Posted: 28 Aug 2025 13:49 
Roamed around Asia today, but it was hard (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, pfff). More happy with Uzbekistan, where they provided satellite maps with the core zone pencilled in.

Bukhara
Itchan Kala
Shakhrisyabz
Makli
Rohtas Fort
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park and Hin Nam No National Park
The Sundarbans
Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha

Author elsslots
Admin
#38 | Posted: 29 Aug 2025 04:34 | Edited by: elsslots 
Another case of Incorrect UNESCO number of locations: Saryarka
The list shows 5 locations, of which one is: "Naurzum State Nature Reserve – NSNR Eco-Corridor linking the upper cluster (only buffer zone)"
On the map it is clearly shown as separate and in a different colour from the core zone and the number of hectares in the core zones according to the AB ev is 0, so this is not an official component as we see it. It is only a special kind of buffer zone

Author elsslots
Admin
#39 | Posted: 29 Aug 2025 05:08 
For Sulaiman-Too the core zone is straightforward, except for a little detour the boundaries make across the street to include The Mosque of Mohammed Yusuf Bai Haji Ogli (Boqiy). It dates from the early 20th century (see this link). Will add it to the "Contains significant structures from the 20th Century" connection

Author elsslots
Admin
#40 | Posted: 30 Aug 2025 03:49 | Edited by: elsslots 
Yesterday's batch. The Gulf/Middle Eastern ones often use satellite maps which are quite reasonable to work with:

Walled City of Baku
Erbil Citadel
Ashur
Kinderdijk (thanks Frédéric! his first...)
Hatra
Babylon (large core zone)
Al Zubarah Archaeological Site
Ancient City of Qalhat (larger than I expected)
Bahla Fort (huge! includes much more than the fort, the whole oasis and beyond)
'Uruq Bani Ma'arid
At-Turaif District in ad-Dir'iyah
Hegra
Petra (interesting to see with the POIs added how large the actual area is)
Parthian Fortresses of Nisa
Kunya-Urgench
Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
Saryarka
Tajik National Park
Proto-urban Site of Sarazm
Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve
Beemster Polder

Author elsslots
Admin
#41 | Posted: 30 Aug 2025 08:46 | Edited by: elsslots 
Current standings (all done):
'Uruq Bani Ma'arid
Aachen Core
Aapravasi Ghat
Ajanta Caves
Al Zubarah Archaeological Site
Aldabra Atoll
Amsterdam Canal Ring
Ancient City of Aleppo
Ancient City of Bosra
Ancient City of Damascus
Ancient City of Qalhat
Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua
Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
Ashur
Asmara
Atapuerca
At-Turaif District in ad-Dir'iyah
Babylon
Bahla Fort
Bale Mountains NP
Banc d'Arguin National Park
Beemster Polder
Borobudur
Bru na Boinne
Bukhara
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Canaima National Park
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey
Central Amazon Conservation Complex
Central Suriname Nature Reserve
Cerrado Protected Areas
Cesky Krumlov
Chongoni Rock-Art Area
Coiba National Park
Comoé National Park
Crac des Chevaliers and Qal'at Salah El-Din
Darien National Park
Dholavira
Eisinga Planetarium
Ennedi
Erbil Citadel
ESMA Museum and Site of Memory
FRIM
Galapagos Islands
Garamba National Park
Gardens and Castle at KromerÝz
Genbaku Dome
Giant's Causeway
Gola Tiwai Complex
Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area
Gros Morne NP
Harar Jugol
Hatra
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Heard and McDonald Islands
Hegra
Himeji-jo
Historic District of Old Quebec
Historic Town of Grand-Bassam
Holasovice
Holy Trinity Column
Huascaran National Park
Iguaçu National Park
Iguazu National Park
Independence Hall
Ischigualasto Talampaya Natural Parks
Island of Mozambique
Itchan Kala
Ivindo National Park
Jewish Erfurt
Joggins Fossil Cliffs
Jongmyo Shrine
Kakadu National Park
Kakatiya Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple
Kazanka tomb
Kaziranga NP
Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley
Keoladeo National Park
K'gari
Khangchendzonga National Park
Kinabalu Park
Kinderdijk
Kladruby nad Labem
Komodo National Park
Kulangsu
Kunya-Urgench
Kutna Hora
Lake Turkana Parks
Landscape of Grand Pré
Le Morne
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park
Litomysl
Lord Howe Island Group
Lorentz National Park
Los Alerces NP
Los Glaciares
Los Katios National Park
Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha
Macquarie Island
Makli
Maloti-Drakensberg Park
Mana Pools NP
Manas
Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park
Manu National Park
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
Maya Site of Copan
Mbanza Kongo
Miguasha National Park
Mistaken Point
Moidams – the Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty
Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
Mount Kenya
New Lanark
Ngorongoro
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
Nyungwe National Park
Odzala-Kokoua NP
Okapi Wildlife Reserve
Old Town Lunenburg
Pampulha Modern Ensemble
Pantanal Conservation Area
Paraty and Ilha Grande
Parthian Fortresses of Nisa
Peninsula Valdes
Peruaçu River Canyon
Petra
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park and Hin Nam No National Park
Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
Pimachiowin Aki
Prague
Proto-urban Site of Sarazm
Purnululu National Park
Qal'at al-Bahrain
Rachid Karimi Fair
Rani-ki-Vav
Red Bay
Red Fort Complex
Rio Abiseo National Park
Rio de Janeiro
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
Rohtas Fort
Royal Court of Tiebele
Ruins of Loropéni
Rwenzori Mountains
Salonga National Park
Saloum Delta
Sangay National Park
Sangha Trinational
Santiniketan
Saryarka
Shakhrisyabz
Site of Palmyra
Skellig
Speicherstadt
Statue of Liberty
Stone Circles of Senegambia
Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain
Surtsey
Sydney Opera House
Tai National Park
Tajik National Park
Talamanca Range La Amistad
Tallinn
Telc
The Historic Town and Archaeological Site of Gedi
The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
The Sundarbans
Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve
Tikal National Park
Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi
Tongariro National Park
Trebic
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
Tsodilo
Tugendhat Villa
Twyfelfontein
Ujung Kulon
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
Umm Al Jimal
Vallée de Mai
Van Nellefabriek
Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai
Walled City of Baku
W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
Willandra Lakes Region
Willemstad
Wood Buffalo National Park
Yosemite National Park

Author elsslots
Admin
#42 | Posted: 31 Aug 2025 05:39 
Thanks to Frédéric for adding:
Wadi Rum
Quseir Amra
Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
As-Salt

Author elsslots
Admin
#43 | Posted: 1 Sep 2025 08:45 
Added in the last 24 hours:
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve
Moravian Church Settlements
Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis
Kairouan
Dougga/Thugga
Medina of Tunis
Amphitheater of El Jem
Ichkeul National Park

Author elsslots
Admin
#44 | Posted: 2 Sep 2025 05:36 
More core zones done:
Las Medulas (thanks to Catoplayer)
Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape
Neolithic Site of Catalhöyük
Archaeological Site of Troy
Great Mosque and Hospital of Divrigi
Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex
Arslantepe Mound
Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou
Archaeological Site of Volubilis

Roaming around in North Africa and Turkey. Morocco's maps are very poor and the Turkish ones are hard to interpret as well. Remarkably, both at Troy and Catalhoyuk, surrounding agricultural fields are included: maybe they see archeological potential here, or are the maps just imprecise? And Diyarbakir has the big enclave of course.

Author elsslots
Admin
#45 | Posted: 2 Sep 2025 15:39 
Thanks to meltwaterfalls for rediscovering his advanced mapping skills:
- Bamiyan Valley (with adjusted coordinates for virtually all locations, they are very wrong at the UNESCO website)
- Minaret of Jam (including new location for Jewish cemetery)

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