Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley
A World Heritage Site in Afghanistan, inscribed in 2003 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Region
- Asia and the Pacific
- Inscribed
- 2003
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
- Property area
- approx. 158.9 ha
- Component parts
- 8
- Coordinates
- 34.8469, 67.8252
- UNESCO ID
- 208
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
- Paysage culturel et vestiges archéologiques de la vallée de Bamiyan
- Spanish
- Paisaje cultural y vestigios arqueológicos del Valle de Bamiyán
- Chinese
- 巴米扬山谷的文化景观和考古遗迹
Other World Heritage Sites in Afghanistan
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