Hoi An Ancient Town
A World Heritage Site in Vietnam, inscribed in 1999 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
Your records are saved only inside your own browser. No sign-up required.
Key facts
- Country
- Vietnam
- Region
- Asia and the Pacific
- Inscribed
- 1999
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (ii)(v)
- Property area
- approx. 30 ha
- Component parts
- 1
- Coordinates
- 15.8833, 108.3333
- UNESCO ID
- 948
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
- Vieille ville de Hoi An
- Spanish
- Ciudad vieja de Hoi An
- Chinese
- 会安古镇
Other World Heritage Sites in Vietnam
- Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long - Hanoi (2010)
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty (2011)
- Complex of Hué Monuments (1993)
- Ha Long Bay - Cat Ba Archipelago (1994)
- My Son Sanctuary (1999)
- Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park and Hin Nam No National Park (2003)
- Trang An Landscape Complex (2014)
- Yen Tu-Vinh Nghiem-Con Son, Kiep Bac Complex of Monuments and Landscapes (2025)
About World Heritage Passport
World Heritage Passport is a free personal travel log where you can record the World Heritage Sites you have visited as photo stamps. It covers all 1,273 sites, and every visit, photo and note is stored only inside your own browser.
This is not an official UNESCO/WHC website. The information here is based on public data but is not guaranteed to be complete or current. Please refer to the official pages when planning travel or confirming details.