National Parks of China
Cultural 103Natural 49Mixed 6
Africa has 158 World Heritage Sites (103 cultural, 49 natural, 6 mixed). Below are its 158 sites in 48 countries. Hover over or tap a dot to see its name; click a name in the list to show it on the map. Listed by year of inscription.
- Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
- Island of Gorée
- Simien National Park
- Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region
- Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
- Medina of Tunis
- Archaeological Site of Carthage
- Amphitheatre of El Jem
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Virunga National Park
- Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
- Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
- Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
- Historic Cairo
- Abu Mena
- Lower Valley of the Awash
- Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad
- Tiya
- Garamba National Park
- Kahuzi-Biega National Park
- Aksum
- Lower Valley of the Omo
- Asante Traditional Buildings
- Ichkeul National Park
- Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
- Niokolo-Koba National Park
- Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
- Serengeti National Park
- Medina of Fez
- Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary
- Tassili n'Ajjer
- Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna
- Archaeological Site of Sabratha
- Aldabra Atoll
- M'Zab Valley
- Archaeological Site of Cyrene
- Djémila
- Tipasa
- Timgad
- Taï National Park
- Selous Game Reserve
- Comoé National Park
- Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve
- Salonga National Park
- Lake Malawi National Park
- Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas
- Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus
- Royal Palaces of Abomey
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis
- Old Town of Ghadamès
- Great Zimbabwe National Monument
- Khami Ruins National Monument
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Dja Faunal Reserve
- Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou
- Old Towns of Djenné
- Timbuktu
- Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park
- Medina of Sousse
- Kairouan
- Banc d'Arguin National Park
- Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls
- Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)
- Andrefana Dry Forests
- Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves
- Island of Mozambique
- Kasbah of Algiers
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Rwenzori Mountains National Park
- Okapi Wildlife Reserve
- W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
- Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata
- Historic City of Meknes
- Dougga / Thugga
- Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest
- Lake Turkana National Parks
- Archaeological Site of Volubilis
- Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin)
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo National Park
- Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa
- Robben Island
- Sukur Cultural Landscape
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- Island of Saint-Louis
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park
- Tsodilo
- Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi
- Lamu Old Town
- Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)
- Royal Hill of Ambohimanga
- Saint Catherine Area
- Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region
- Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
- Matobo Hills
- Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites
- Cape Floral Region Protected Areas
- Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida)
- Tomb of Askia
- Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba
- Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
- Vredefort Dome
- Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)
- Kondoa Rock-Art Sites
- Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town
- Stone Circles of Senegambia
- Aapravasi Ghat
- Chongoni Rock-Art Area
- Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda
- Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana
- Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape
- Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests
- Le Morne Cultural Landscape
- Ruins of Loropéni
- Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande
- Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley
- Fort Jesus, Mombasa
- Konso Cultural Landscape
- Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe
- Saloum Delta
- Historic Town of Grand-Bassam
- Sangha Trinational
- Lakes of Ounianga
- Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage
- Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes
- Historic Centre of Agadez
- Namib Sand Sea
- Okavango Delta
- Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape
- Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay – Mukkawar Island Marine National Park
- Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo
- ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape
- Asmara: A Modernist African City
- Thimlich Ohinga Archaeological Site
- Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains
- Ancient Ferrous Metallurgy Sites of Burkina Faso
- Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’Ivoire
- Ivindo National Park
- Bale Mountains National Park
- Memorial sites of the Genocide: Nyamata, Murambi, Gisozi and Bisesero
- Djerba: Testimony to a settlement pattern in an island territory
- The Gedeo Cultural Landscape
- Nyungwe National Park
- Forest Massif of Odzala-Kokoua
- Melka Kunture and Balchit: Archaeological and Palaeontological Sites in the Highland Area of Ethiopia
- Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites
- Royal Court of Tiébélé
- The Historic Town and Archaeological Site of Gedi
- The Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour: The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa
- Mount Mulanje Cultural Landscape
- Coastal and Marine Ecosystems of the Bijagós Archipelago – Omatí Minhô
- Diy-Gid-Biy Cultural Landscape of the Mandara Mountains
- Gola-Tiwai Complex
- The Roças of Sao Tome and Principe: Colonial Agricultural System and Forced Migration
- The Medinas of the Historic Sultanates of the Comoros
- Village of Sidi Bou Saïd
- Boma–Badingilo Migratory Landscape