Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy
A World Heritage Site in Bahrain, inscribed in 2012 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Bahrain
- Region
- Arab States
- Inscribed
- 2012
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (iii)
- Property area
- approx. 351 km² (35,087 ha)
- Component parts
- 20
- Coordinates
- 26.2413, 50.6135
- UNESCO ID
- 1364
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
- Activités perlières, témoignage d’une économie insulaire
- Spanish
- Industria perlífera tradicional, testimonio de una economía insular
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