Cold Winter Deserts of Turan
A World Heritage Site in Kazakhstan / Uzbekistan / Turkmenistan, inscribed in 2023 as a Natural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Kazakhstan / Uzbekistan / Turkmenistan
- Region
- Asia and the Pacific
- Inscribed
- 2023
- Category
- Natural Site
- Criteria
- (ix)(x)
- Property area
- approx. 33,664 km² (3,366,441 ha)
- Component parts
- 14
- Transboundary property
- Yes
- Coordinates
- 44.0258, 79.0342
- UNESCO ID
- 1693
Source: factual data from UNESCO DataHub (whc001 / CC BY-SA 4.0). This site uses only factual information such as names, countries, inscription years and categories. No official UNESCO/WHC descriptions, photographs or logos are used.
Names in other languages
- French
- Déserts turaniens à hiver froid
- Spanish
- Desiertos invernales fríos de Turán
- Chinese
- 图兰的冷冬沙漠
Other World Heritage Sites in Kazakhstan / Uzbekistan / Turkmenistan
- Historic Centre of Bukhara (1993)
- Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz (2000)
- Itchan Kala (1990)
- Kunya-Urgench (2005)
- Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (2003)
- Parthian Fortresses of Nisa (2007)
- Petroglyphs of the Archaeological Landscape of Tanbaly (2004)
- Rock Mosques and Associated Sacred Sites of Mangystau (2026)
- Samarkand – Crossroad of Cultures (2001)
- Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan (2008)
- Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor (2014)
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor (2023)
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