Golden Mountains of Altai
A World Heritage Site in Russia, inscribed in 1998 as a Natural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Inscribed
- 1998
- Category
- Natural Site
- Criteria
- (x)
- Property area
- approx. 16,115 km² (1,611,457 ha)
- Component parts
- 3
- Coordinates
- 50.4667, 86.0000
- UNESCO ID
- 768
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
- Montagnes dorées de l'Altaï
- Spanish
- Montañas Doradas del Altai
- Chinese
- 金山-阿尔泰山
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- Astronomical Observatories of Kazan Federal University (2023)
- Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex (2014)
- Central Sikhote-Alin (2001)
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye (1994)
- Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture (2019)
- Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent (2003)
- Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands (1992)
- Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake (2024)
- Curonian Spit (2000)
- Ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery (2000)
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