The discussion on 'multi location inscription' made me have a look at the location images for
St. Petersburg. To the long-term members here, this may not be anything new, but I couldn't find that the following is already mentioned elsewhere on the forum:
While there are 112 different locations recognised, a number are subzones or maybe even 'point locations' within a larger core zone. To illustrate my confusion: I first noticed how the location photo of Catharina Palace was not connected to the location 24
"Historical Centre of the Town of Pushkin, including the Catherine Palace", but instead to location 94
"The Palaces and Parks Ensembles of the Town of Pushkin (Tzarskoe Selo)". So my first thoughts were: something must be wrong here. But then I saw that location 94 is 'element 540-006' on the Unesco-map, which – among a few others – includes 'element 540-006a', that is our location 24.
So then, to stick with this example, is it fair to say that the current five locations 540-006, 540-006a, 540-006b, 540-006c and 540-006d, are actually only four locations? Or should this even count as just one? Five definitely seems at least one too many, but when we go with 'just one', there is a chance that St. Petersburg will drop from the list with more than 50 locations.
I think I will leave the complete check and decision to the designated future core-zone-mapper.