Wood Buffalo National Park
A World Heritage Site in Canada, inscribed in 1983 as a Natural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Canada
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Inscribed
- 1983
- Category
- Natural Site
- Criteria
- (vii)(ix)(x)
- Property area
- approx. 44,800 km² (4,480,000 ha)
- Component parts
- 1
- Coordinates
- 59.3583, -112.2933
- UNESCO ID
- 256
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
- Parc national Wood Buffalo
- Spanish
- Parque Nacional de Wood Buffalo
- Chinese
- 伍德布法罗国家公园
Other World Heritage Sites in Canada
- Anticosti (2023)
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (1984)
- Dinosaur Provincial Park (1979)
- Gros Morne National Park (1987)
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (1981)
- Historic District of Old Québec (1985)
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs (2008)
- Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek (1979)
- L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site (1978)
- Landscape of Grand Pré (2012)
- Miguasha National Park (1999)
- Mistaken Point (2016)
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