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228 relations: Altai Mountains, Anhui, Anyang, Baiheliang, Beijing, Binzhou, Shaanxi, Bohai Sea, Cang Mountain, Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom, Changbai Mountains, Chengde, Chengdu, Chenggu County, Chengjiang County, China, China Danxia, Chinese alligator, Chinese Liquor Making Sites, Chongqing, Classical Gardens of Suzhou, Creative Cities Network, Datong, Dazu District, Dazu Rock Carvings, Dengfeng, Diaolou, Dongzhai Port Nature Reserve, Dujiangyan, Dujiangyan City, Dunhuang, Eastern Qing tombs, Emeishan City, Erhai Lake, Fengguo Temple, Fenghuang County, Forbidden City, Fujian, Fujian Tulou, Fuling Mausoleum, Gansu, Global Geoparks Network, Grand Canal (China), Great Wall of China, Guangdong, Guanghan, Guangxi, Guazhou County, Guge, Guizhou, Gulangyu, ..., Gurla Mandhata, Hailongtun, Hangzhou, Hebei, Henan, Historic Centre of Macau, Hoh Xil, Hongcun, Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, Hongshan culture, Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area, Huangshan, Huangshan City, Hubei, Hulunbuir, Hunan, Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Inner Mongolia, Ji'an, Jilin, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Jimsar County, Jinggang Mountains, Jinsha site, Jiuzhaigou, Jiuzhaigou County, Jokhang, Kaiping, Kam people, Karakorum, Kuqa County, Lake Manasarovar, Laosicheng, Leshan, Leshan Giant Buddha, Lhasa, Li River, Liangzhu culture, Lianxi District, Liao dynasty, Liaoning, Lijiang, Lingbao City, Lingqu, Lists of World Heritage Sites in Asia, Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang, Luzhi, Macau, Maijishan Grottoes, Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level, Maotianshan Shales, Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Memory of the World Programme, Miao people, Ming dynasty, Ming tombs, Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Mogao Caves, Mount Danxia, Mount Emei, Mount Hua, Mount Jianglang, Mount Jinfo, Mount Kailash, Mount Longhu, Mount Lu, Mount Qingcheng, Mount Sanqing, Mount Tai, Mount Tianzhu, Mount Wutai, Mountain resort, Mukden Palace, Nanjing, Nanxi River (Zhejiang), Nanyue, Niuheliang, Norbulingka, Old Town of Lijiang, Pagoda of Fogong Temple, Pamir Mountains, Peking Man, Pingtan Island, Pingyao, Pingyao County, Populus euphratica, Potala Palace, Poyang Lake, Principles for the Conservation of Heritage Sites in China, Pu'er City, Qanat, Qiang people, Qing dynasty, Qinghai, Qinghai Lake, Quanzhou, Qufu, Sacred Mountains of China, Sanfang Qixiang, Sanxingdui, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shangdu, Shanxi, Shennongjia, Shenyang, Shu (state), Shudao, Sichuan, Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, Silk Road, Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor, Slender West Lake, Songpan County, South China Karst, Stone Forest, Summer Palace, Suzhou, Tai'an, Taihang Mountains, Taklamakan Desert, Tangya Tusi City, Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu, Temple of Heaven, Three Gorges, Three Parallel Rivers, Tian Shan, Tianjin, Tianshui, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibetan people, Tourism in China, Turpan, Tusi Sites, UNESCO, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, West Lake, Western Qing tombs, Western Xia mausoleums, World Heritage Committee, World Heritage site, World Heritage Sites by country, World Network of Biosphere Reserves, World Network of Biosphere Reserves in Asia and the Pacific, Wudalianchi, Wudang Mountains, Wuling Mountains, Wulingyuan, Wulong Karst, Wutai County, Wuyi Mountains, Wuzhen, Xi'an, Xiaozhai Tiankeng, Xidi, Xilingol League, Xinjiang, Xitang, Yandang Mountains, Yangtze, Yangzhou, Yardang, Yi County, Anhui, Yinxu, Yongjing County, Yuanyang County, Yunnan, Yungang Grottoes, Yunnan, Yushan County, Zhangjiajie, Zhao Mausoleum (Qing dynasty), Zhejiang, Zhoukoudian, Zhouzhuang, Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art. Expand index (178 more) »
Altai Mountains
The Altai Mountains (also spelled Altay Mountains; Altai: Алтай туулар, Altay tuular; Mongolian:, Altai-yin niruɣu (Chakhar) / Алтайн нуруу, Altain nuruu (Khalkha); Kazakh: Алтай таулары, Altai’ tay’lary, التاي تاۋلارى Алтайские горы, Altajskije gory; Chinese; 阿尔泰山脉, Ā'ěrtài Shānmài, Xiao'erjing: اَعَرتَىْ شًامَىْ; Dungan: Артэ Шанмэ) are a mountain range in Central and East Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan come together, and are where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters.
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Anhui
Anhui is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the eastern region of the country.
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Anyang
Anyang is a prefecture-level city in Henan province, China.
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Baiheliang
Baiheliang (Simplified: 白鹤梁, Traditional: 白鶴梁, Pinyin: Báihèliáng, lit. "White Crane Ridge") is a rock outcrop in Fuling District, Chongqing, People's Republic of China, that parallels the flow of the Yangtze River.
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Beijing
Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.
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Binzhou, Shaanxi
Binzhou is a county-level city of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China formerly known as Bin County or Binxian.
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Bohai Sea
The Bohai Sea or Bo Sea, also known as Bohai Gulf, Bo Gulf or Pohai Bay, is the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay on the coast of Northeastern and North China.
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Cang Mountain
Cangshan or Cang Mountain is a mountain range immediately west of Dali City in Yunnan province of Southwest China.
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Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom
Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which includes a number of archaeological sites in Ji'an, Jilin Province and Huanren, Liaoning Province in Northeast China.
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Changbai Mountains
The Changbai Mountains are a major mountain range in Northeast Asia.
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Chengde
Chengde, previously known as Jehol or Rehe, is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, situated northeast of Beijing.
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Chengdu
Chengdu, formerly romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of China's Sichuan province.
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Chenggu County
Chenggu County is a county of Hanzhong, in the southwest of Shaanxi province, China.
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Chengjiang County
Chengjiang County (Chinese: officially 澂江县; often spelled 澄江县;; earlier Tchinkiang) is in Yuxi, Yunnan Province, China, just north of Fuxian Lake.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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China Danxia
China Danxia, or Danxia landform of China, is the general name of the unique type of landscapes, Danxia landform, formed from red sandstone and characterised by steep cliffs, which are caused by endogenous forces (including uplift) and exogenous forces (including weathering and erosion).
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Chinese alligator
The Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) (yáng zǐ è), also known as the Yangtze alligator, is one of two known living species of Alligator and is the smaller of the two, a genus in the family Alligatoridae.
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Chinese Liquor Making Sites
Various locations of liquor making in the People's Republic of China served to facilitate some local cultural forms into flourishing, such as literature, calligraphy and music.
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Chongqing
Chongqing, formerly romanized as Chungking, is a major city in southwest China.
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Classical Gardens of Suzhou
The Classical Gardens of Suzhou are a group of gardens in Suzhou region, Jiangsu province which have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Creative Cities Network
The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) is a project of UNESCO launched in 2004 to promote cooperation among cities which recognized creativity as a major factor in their urban development.
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Datong
Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China.
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Dazu District
Dazu District is a district of Chongqing, China.
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Dazu Rock Carvings
The Dazu Rock Carvings are a series of Chinese religious sculptures and carvings located in Dazu District, Chongqing, China.
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Dengfeng
Dengfeng (postal: Tengfeng) is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, China.
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Diaolou
Diaolous formerly romanized as Clock Towers, are fortified multi-storey watchtowers in village countryside, generally made of reinforced concrete.
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Dongzhai Port Nature Reserve
Dongzhai Port Nature Reserve, also called the Hainan Dongzhai Bay National Nature Reserve, Dongzhai Harbor Mangrove, and Dongzhai Harbor Mangrove Natural Reserve Area, is located within Dongzhai Harbor, in the area of Yanfeng Town, Meilan District, Haikou, Hainan, China.
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Dujiangyan
The Dujiangyan is an ancient irrigation system in Dujiangyan City, Sichuan, China.
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Dujiangyan City
Dujiangyan is a county-level city, a subdivision of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China.
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Dunhuang
Dunhuang is a county-level city in northwestern Gansu Province, Western China.
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Eastern Qing tombs
The Eastern Qing tombs are an imperial mausoleum complex of the Qing dynasty located in Zunhua, northeast of Beijing.
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Emeishan City
Emeishan is a county-level city in Sichuan province, China.
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Erhai Lake
Erhai or Er Lake, is an alpine fault lake in Yunnan province, China.
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Fengguo Temple
Fengguo Temple is a Buddhist temple located in Yixian, Liaoning Province, China.
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Fenghuang County
Fenghuang County is a county of Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture.
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Forbidden City
The Forbidden City is a palace complex in central Beijing, China.
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Fujian
Fujian (pronounced), formerly romanised as Foken, Fouken, Fukien, and Hokkien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China.
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Fujian Tulou
The Fujian tulou are Chinese rural dwellings unique to the Hakka in the mountainous areas in southeastern Fujian, China.
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Fuling Mausoleum
The Fuling or Fu Mausoleum (ᡥᡡᡨᡠᡵᡳᠩᡤᠠ ᠮᡠᠩᡤᠠᠨ|v.
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Gansu
Gansu (Tibetan: ཀན་སུའུ་ Kan su'u) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northwest of the country.
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Global Geoparks Network
The Global Geoparks Network (GGN) (also known as the Global Network of National Geoparks) is a UNESCO assisted network established in 1998.
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Grand Canal (China)
The Grand Canal, known to the Chinese as the Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal (Jīng-Háng Dà Yùnhé), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the longest as well as one of the oldest canal or artificial river in the world and a famous tourist destination.
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Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe with an eye to expansion.
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Guangdong
Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.
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Guanghan
Guanghan is a county-level city in Deyang, Sichuan province, China, and only from Chengdu.
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Guangxi
Guangxi (pronounced; Zhuang: Gvangjsih), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a Chinese autonomous region in South Central China, bordering Vietnam.
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Guazhou County
Guazhou County, formerly (until 2006) Anxi County, is a county in the northwest of Gansu province, the People's Republic of China.
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Guge
Guge was an ancient kingdom in Western Tibet.
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Guizhou
Guizhou, formerly romanized as Kweichow, is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country.
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Gulangyu
The Gulangyu, Gulang Island or Kulangsu is a pedestrian-only island off the coast of Xiamen, Fujian Province in southerneastern China.
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Gurla Mandhata
Gurla Mandhata, or Naimona'nyi or Memo Nani() is the highest peak of the Nalakankar Himal, a small subrange of the Himalaya.
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Hailongtun
Hailongtun is a ruined fortress on the Longyan Mountain, in Hailongtun Village, Gaoping Town, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, China.
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Hangzhou
Hangzhou (Mandarin:; local dialect: /ɦɑŋ tseɪ/) formerly romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang Province in East China.
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Hebei
Hebei (postal: Hopeh) is a province of China in the North China region.
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Henan
Henan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country.
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Historic Centre of Macau
The Historic Centre of Macao, Centro Histórico de Macau,, is a collection of over twenty locations that witness the unique assimilation and co-existence of Chinese and Portuguese cultures in Macau, a former Portuguese colony.
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Hoh Xil
Hoh Xil or Kekexili, (Mongolian for "Blue Ridge", also Aqênganggyai for "Lord of Ten Thousand Mountains"), is an isolated region in the northwestern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China.
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Hongcun
Hongcun (lit. "Hong village") is a village in Yi County in the historical Huizhou region of southern Anhui Province, China, near the southwest slope of Mount Huangshan.
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Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
The Honghe Hani Rice Terraces are the system of Hani rice-growing terraces located in Honghe Prefecture, Yuanyang County, Yunnan, China.
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Hongshan culture
The Hongshan culture was a Neolithic culture in northeastern China.
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Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area
Huanglong is a scenic and historic interest area in the northwest part of Sichuan, China.
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Huangshan
Huangshan (Bernstein, pp. 125–127., literal meaning: Yellow Mountain) is a mountain range in southern Anhui province in eastern China.
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Huangshan City
Huangshan, is a prefecture-level city in southern Anhui province, People's Republic of China.
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Hubei
Hubei is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the Central China region.
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Hulunbuir
Hulunbuir or Hulun Buir (style, Kölün buyir, Cyrillic: Хөлөнбуйр, Khölönbuir;, Hūlúnbèi'ěr) is a region that is governed as a prefecture-level city in northeastern Inner Mongolia, in China.
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Hunan
Hunan is the 7th most populous province of China and the 10th most extensive by area.
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Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties is the designation under which the UNESCO has included several tombs and burial complexes into the list of World Heritage Sites (WHS).
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Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region or Nei Mongol Autonomous Region (Ѳвѳр Монголын Ѳѳртѳѳ Засах Орон in Mongolian Cyrillic), is one of the autonomous regions of China, located in the north of the country.
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Ji'an, Jilin
Ji'an (formerly) is a county-level city in southwestern part of Jilin province, People's Republic of China.
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Jiangsu
Jiangsu, formerly romanized as Kiangsu, is an eastern-central coastal province of the People's Republic of China.
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Jiangxi
Jiangxi, formerly spelled as Kiangsi Gan: Kongsi) is a province in the People's Republic of China, located in the southeast of the country. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to the northwest. The name "Jiangxi" derives from the circuit administrated under the Tang dynasty in 733, Jiangnanxidao (道, Circuit of Western Jiangnan; Gan: Kongnomsitau). The short name for Jiangxi is 赣 (pinyin: Gàn; Gan: Gōm), for the Gan River which runs across from the south to the north and flows into the Yangtze River. Jiangxi is also alternately called Ganpo Dadi (贛鄱大地) which literally means the "Great Land of Gan and Po".
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Jilin
Jilin, formerly romanized as Kirin is one of the three provinces of Northeast China.
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Jimsar County
Jimsar County (Xiao'erjing: کِمُوسَاعَر ﺷِﯿًﺎ) is a county in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
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Jinggang Mountains
The Jinggang Mountains are a mountain range of the Luoxiao Mountains System (罗霄山), in the remote border region of Jiangxi and Hunan Provinces.
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Jinsha site
Jinsha is an archaeological site in Chengdu, capital of China's Sichuan Province.
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Jiuzhaigou
Jiuzhaigou is a nature reserve and national park located in the north of Sichuan Province in the southwestern region of China.
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Jiuzhaigou County
Jiuzhaigou County is a county of Sichuan Province, China.
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Jokhang
The Jokhang, also known as the Qoikang Monastery, Jokang, Jokhang Temple, Jokhang Monastery and Zuglagkang (or Tsuklakang), is a Buddhist temple in Barkhor Square in Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet.
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Kaiping
Kaiping (開平), formerly romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping, is a county-level city in Guangdong Province, China.
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Kam people
The Dong people, also known as Kam people (endonym), a Kam–Sui people of southern China, are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.
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Karakorum
Karakorum (Khalkha Mongolian: Хархорум Kharkhorum) was the capital of the Mongol Empire between 1235 and 1260, and of the Northern Yuan in the 14–15th centuries.
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Kuqa County
Kuqa County is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the administration of the Aksu Prefecture.
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Lake Manasarovar
Lake Manasarovar (Chinese: -zh玛旁雍錯 (simplified), -zh瑪旁雍錯(traditional)), also called Mapam Yumtso, is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers near Mount Kailash in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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Laosicheng
Laosicheng is an archaeological site in Sicheng Village of Lingxi Town, Yongshun County, Hunan Province, China.
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Leshan
Leshan, formerly known as Jiading, is a prefecture-level city located at the confluence of the Dadu and Min rivers in Sichuan Province, China.
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Leshan Giant Buddha
The Leshan Giant Buddha is a tall stone statue, built between 713 and 803 (during the Tang Dynasty), depicting Maitreya.
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Lhasa
Lhasa is a city and administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
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Li River
The Li River or Li Jiang is a river in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
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Liangzhu culture
The Liangzhu culture (3400–2250 BC) was the last Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River Delta of China.
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Lianxi District
Lianxi is a district in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China.
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Liao dynasty
The Liao dynasty (Khitan: Mos Jælud), also known as the Liao Empire, officially the Great Liao, or the Khitan (Qidan) State (Khitan: Mos diau-d kitai huldʒi gur), was an empire in East Asia that ruled from 907 to 1125 over present-day Mongolia and portions of the Russian Far East, northern China, and northeastern Korea.
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Liaoning
Liaoning is a province of China, located in the northeast of the country.
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Lijiang
Lijiang is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan province, China.
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Lingbao City
Lingbao city (postal: Lingpao) is located in Henan Province, China.
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Lingqu
The Lingqu is a canal in Xing'an County, near Guilin, in the northwestern corner of Guangxi, China.
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Lists of World Heritage Sites in Asia
The following are lists of World Heritage Sites in Asia.
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Longmen Grottoes
The Longmen Grottoes (literally Dragon's Gate Grottoes) or Longmen Caves are some of the finest examples of Chinese Buddhist art.
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Luoyang
Luoyang, formerly romanized as Loyang, is a city located in the confluence area of Luo River and Yellow River in the west of Henan province.
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Luzhi
Luzhi Town (甪直镇) is a famous historic old town located in the Wuzhong District, 18 km east of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China.
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Macau
Macau, officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.
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Maijishan Grottoes
The Maijishan Grottoes, formerly romanized as Maichishan, are a series of 194 caves cut in the side of the hill of Majishan in Tianshui, Gansu Province, northwest China.
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Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level
A Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National LevelEnglish translation for "全国重点文物保护单位" varies, it includes Major Site (to Be) Protected for Its Historical and Cultural Value at the National Level, Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level (both are official translations in the and the), Cultural Heritage Sites under State-level Protection (by Atlas of Chinese Cultural Relics series), Key Cultural Relic Unit under State Protection (semi-literal translation), etc.
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Maotianshan Shales
The Maotianshan Shales are a series of Early Cambrian deposits in the Chiungchussu Formation, famous for their Konservat Lagerstätten, deposits known for the exceptional preservation of fossilized organisms or traces.
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Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
The Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity was made by the Director-General of UNESCO starting in 2001 to raise awareness of intangible cultural heritage and encourage local communities to protect them and the local people who sustain these forms of cultural expressions.
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Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (Qin Shi Huang) is located in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province of China.
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Memory of the World Programme
UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme is an international initiative launched to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, the ravages of time and climatic conditions, and willful and deliberate destruction.
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Miao people
The Miao is an ethnic group belonging to South China, and is recognized by the government of China as one of the 55 official minority groups.
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Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
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Ming tombs
The Ming tombs are a collection of mausoleums built by the emperors of the Ming dynasty of China.
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Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum
The Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is the tomb of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming dynasty.
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Mogao Caves
The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes or Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, form a system of 492 temples southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China.
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Mount Danxia
Mount Danxia is a noted scenic mountainous area near Shaoguan city in the northern part of Guangdong, People's Republic of China.
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Mount Emei
Mount Emei is a mountain in Sichuan Province, China, and is one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China.
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Mount Hua
Mount Hua is a mountain located near the city of Huayin in Shaanxi province, about east of Xi'an.
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Mount Jianglang
Jianglangshan or Mount Jianglang is a mountain in Jiangshan, Zhejiang, China.
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Mount Jinfo
Jinfo Shan (Golden Buddha Mountain, Jinfoshan, Chin Shan, Jinfushan, Chin fu shan, chin fo shan, Chinese: 金佛山), the highest peak of Dalou Mountains, located in the upper reach of the Yangtze River, is situated in Nanchuan District, the Municipality of Chongqing.
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Mount Kailash
Mount Kailash (also Mount Kailasa; Kangrinboqê or Gang Rinpoche (Tibetan: གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ; s (simplified); t (traditional)), is a 6,638 m (21,778 ft) high peak in the Kailash Range (Gangdisê Mountains), which forms part of Transhimalaya in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The mountain is located near Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal, close to the source of some of the longest Asian rivers: the Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra, and Karnali also known as Ghaghara (a tributary of the Ganges) in India. Mount Kailash is considered to be sacred in four religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Bön and Jainism.
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Mount Longhu
Mount Longhu (Gan: Lung-fu San), is located in Jiangxi, China.
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Mount Lu
Mount Lu or Lushan (Gan: Lu-san), also known as Kuanglu (匡庐) in ancient times, is situated in the northern part of Jiangxi province in Central China, and is one of the most renowned mountains in the country.
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Mount Qingcheng
Mount Qingcheng is a mountain in Dujiangyan, Sichuan, China.
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Mount Sanqing
Mount Sanqing is a renowned Taoist sacred mountain located north of Yushan County in Jiangxi Province, China with outstanding scenery.
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Mount Tai
Mount Tai is a mountain of historical and cultural significance located north of the city of Tai'an, in Shandong province, China.
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Mount Tianzhu
Tianzhu Mountain or Mount Tianzhu is a mountain in Anhui, China.
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Mount Wutai
Mount Wutai, also known by its Chinese name Wutaishan and as is a sacred Buddhist site at the headwaters of the Qingshui in Shanxi Province, China.
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Mountain resort
A mountain resort is a place to holiday or vacation located in a mountainous area.
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Mukden Palace
The Mukden Palace, or Shenyang Imperial Palace, was the former imperial palace of the early Manchu-led Qing dynasty.
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Nanjing
Nanjing, formerly romanized as Nanking and Nankin, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China and the second largest city in the East China region, with an administrative area of and a total population of 8,270,500.
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Nanxi River (Zhejiang)
The Nanxi River is located in Yongjia County of the Zhejiang Province in eastern China, and is a major tributary of the Ou River.
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Nanyue
Nanyue or, or Nam Viet (Nam Việt) was an ancient kingdom that covered parts of northern Vietnam and the modern Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan.
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Niuheliang
Niuheliang is a Neolithic archaeological site in Liaoning Province, Northeast China, along the middle and upper reaches of the Laoha River and the Yingjin River (presently on the border of Chaoyang and Jianping County).
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Norbulingka
Norbulingka (ནོར་བུ་གླིང་ཀ་; Wylie: Nor-bu-gling-ka;; literally "The Jewelled Park") is a palace and surrounding park in Lhasa, Tibet, China, built from 1755.
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Old Town of Lijiang
Dayan, commonly called the Old Town of Lijiang is the historical center of Lijiang City, in Yunnan, China.
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Pagoda of Fogong Temple
The Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple of Ying County, Shanxi province, China, is a wooden Chinese pagoda built in 1056, during the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty.
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Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains, or the Pamirs, are a mountain range in Central Asia at the junction of the Himalayas with the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush, Suleman and Hindu Raj ranges.
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Peking Man
Peking Man, Homo erectus pekinensis (formerly known by the junior synonym Sinanthropus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus.
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Pingtan Island
Pingtan Island also called Haitan Island (海坛岛, Hǎitán dǎo) is off the east coast of Fujian province, China.
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Pingyao
Pingyao, officially Pingyao Ancient City, is a settlement in central Shanxi, China, famed for its importance in Chinese economic history and for its well-preserved Ming and Qing urban planning and architecture.
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Pingyao County
Pingyao County is a county in Jinzhong Prefecture in central Shanxi Province, China.
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Populus euphratica
Populus euphratica, commonly known as the Euphrates poplar or desert poplar, is a species of poplar tree in the willow family.
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Potala Palace
The Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China was the residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to India during the 1959 Tibetan uprising.
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Poyang Lake
Poyang Lake (Gan: Po-yong U), located in Jiangxi Province, is the largest freshwater lake in China.
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Principles for the Conservation of Heritage Sites in China
The Principles for the Conservation of Heritage Sites in China is a conservation charter promulgated in 2000 by China ICOMOS with the approval of State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH). It provides a methodological approach to the conservation of heritage sites in China.
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Pu'er City
Pu'er is a prefecture-level city in southern Yunnan Province, China.
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Qanat
A qanāt (قنات) is a gently sloping underground channel to transport water from an aquifer or water well to surface for irrigation and drinking.
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Qiang people
The Qiang people are an ethnic group in China.
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.
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Qinghai
Qinghai, formerly known in English as Kokonur, is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northwest of the country.
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Qinghai Lake
Qinghai Lake, Koko Nor (Mongolian: Хөх нуур) or Tso Ngonpo (Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོན་པོ།) is the largest lake in China.
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Quanzhou
Quanzhou, formerly known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city beside the Taiwan Strait in Fujian Province, China.
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Qufu
Qufu is a city in southwestern Shandong Province, China.
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Sacred Mountains of China
The Sacred Mountains of China are divided into several groups.
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Sanfang Qixiang
Sanfang Qixiang, literally Three Lanes and Seven Alleys, is a historic and cultural area in the city of Fuzhou.
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Sanxingdui
Sanxingdui is the name of an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Sichuan, China.
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Shaanxi
Shaanxi is a province of the People's Republic of China.
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Shandong
Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.
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Shangdu
Shangdu, also known as Xanadu (Mongolian: Šandu), was the capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty in China, before he decided to move his throne to the Jin dynasty capital of Zhōngdū, which he renamed Khanbaliq, present-day Beijing.
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Shanxi
Shanxi (postal: Shansi) is a province of China, located in the North China region.
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Shennongjia
Shennongjia Forestry District is a county-level administrative unit (a "forestry district") in northwestern Hubei province, People's Republic of China, directly subordinated to the provincial government.
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Shenyang
Shenyang, formerly known by its Manchu name Mukden or Fengtian, is the provincial capital and the largest city of Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China, as well as the largest city in Northeast China by urban population.
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Shu (state)
The State of Shu was an ancient state in what is now Sichuan Province.
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Shudao
The Shudao, or the Road(s) to Shu, is a system of mountain roads linking the Chinese province of Shaanxi with Sichuan (Shu), built and maintained since the 4th century BC.
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Sichuan
Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
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Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries located in southwest Sichuan province of China, is the home to more than 30% of the world's highly endangered giant pandas and is among the most important sites for the captive breeding of these pandas.
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Silk Road
The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and West.
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Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which covers the Chang'an-Tianshan portion of the ancient Silk Road and historical sites along the route.
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Slender West Lake
Slender West Lake is a scenic lake and national park in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China.
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Songpan County
Songpan; former Songzhou, is a county of northwestern Sichuan province, China, and is one of the 13 counties administered by the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.
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South China Karst
The South China Karst, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since June 2007, spans the provinces of Chongqing, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan.
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Stone Forest
The Stone Forest or Shilin is a notable set of limestone formations about 500 km2 located in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China, near Shilin approximately from the provincial capital Kunming.
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Summer Palace
The Summer Palace, is a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing.
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Suzhou
Suzhou (Wu Chinese), formerly romanized as Soochow, is a major city located in southeastern Jiangsu Province of East China, about northwest of Shanghai.
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Tai'an
Tai'an is a prefecture-level city in western Shandong province of the People's Republic of China.
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Taihang Mountains
The Taihang Mountains are a Chinese mountain range running down the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau in Shanxi, Henan and Hebei provinces.
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Taklamakan Desert
The Taklamakan Desert (Xiao'erjing: تَاكْلامَاقًا شَاموْ; تەكلىماكان قۇملۇقى; Такәламаган Шамә), also spelled "Taklimakan" and "Teklimakan", is a desert in southwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, northwest China.
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Tangya Tusi City
The Tangya Tusi City is located in Tangya Town, Xianfeng County, Hubei Province, China.
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Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu
Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu, Shandong Province of China, include Temple of Confucius, Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion.
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Temple of Heaven
The is an imperial complex of religious buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing.
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Three Gorges
The Three Gorges are three adjacent gorges along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in the hinterland of the People's Republic of China.
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Three Parallel Rivers
The Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Yunnan province, China.
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Tian Shan
The Tian Shan,, also known as the Tengri Tagh, meaning the Mountains of Heaven or the Heavenly Mountain, is a large system of mountain ranges located in Central Asia.
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Tianjin
Tianjin, formerly romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the four national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 11th-most populous city proper.
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Tianshui
Tianshui is the second-largest city in Gansu Province, China.
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Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) or Xizang Autonomous Region, called Tibet or Xizang for short, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Tibetan people
The Tibetan people are an ethnic group native to Tibet.
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Tourism in China
Tourism in China is a significant industry.
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Turpan
Turpan, also known as Turfan or Tulufan, is a prefecture-level city located in the east of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.
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Tusi Sites
The Tusi Sites refer to three of the ancient Tusi sites in China that were designated by the UNESCO as World Heritage Sites on July 3, 2015.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
UNESCO established its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage with the aim of ensuring better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance.
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West Lake
West Lake is a freshwater lake in Hangzhou, China.
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Western Qing tombs
The Western Qing tombs are located some southwest of Beijing in Yi County, Hebei Province.
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Western Xia mausoleums
Occupying an area of some, the Western Xia mausoleums at the foot of the Helan Mountains in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of northwestern China includes nine imperial mausoleums and 250 tombs of imperial relatives and officials.
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World Heritage Committee
The World Heritage Committee selects the sites to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, monitors the state of conservation of the World Heritage properties, defines the use of the World Heritage Fund and allocates financial assistance upon requests from States Parties.
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World Heritage site
A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.
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World Heritage Sites by country
As of June 2018, there are a total of 1,080 World Heritage Sites located in 167 "States Parties" Of the 1,080 sites, 839 are cultural, 206 are natural and 35 are mixed properties.
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World Network of Biosphere Reserves
The UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) covers internationally designated protected areas, each known as biosphere reserves, that are meant to demonstrate a balanced relationship between people and nature (e.g. encourage sustainable development).
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World Network of Biosphere Reserves in Asia and the Pacific
Under UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Reserve Programme, there are 142 biosphere reserves recognized as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves in Asia and the Pacific as of April 2016.
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Wudalianchi
Wudalianchi, formerly Dedu County (德都县), is a county-level city in Heilongjiang province, China.
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Wudang Mountains
The Wudang Mountains consist of a small mountain range in the northwestern part of Hubei, China, just south of Shiyan.
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Wuling Mountains
The Wuling Mountains is a mountain range located in Central China, running from Chongqing Municipality and East Guizhou to West Hunan.
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Wulingyuan
Wulingyuan is a scenic and historical site in south-central China's Hunan Province.
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Wulong Karst
The Wulong Karst is a karst landscape located within the borders of Wulong County, Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China.
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Wutai County
Wutai County is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xinzhou, in the northeast of Shanxi Province, China, bordering Hebei province to the east.
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Wuyi Mountains
The Wuyi Mountains (also known as Bohea Hills in earlier Western documents) are a mountain range located in the prefecture of Nanping, in northern Fujian province near the border with Jiangxi province, China.
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Wuzhen
Wuzhen (Wu: Whu-tsen lit. "Wu Town") is a historic scenic town, part of Tongxiang, located in northern Zhejiang Province, China.
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Xi'an
Xi'an is the capital of Shaanxi Province, China.
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Xiaozhai Tiankeng
The Xiaozhai Tiankeng (小寨天坑), also known as the Heavenly Pit, is the world's deepest sinkhole.
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Xidi
Xidi is a village in Yi County of the historical Huizhou region of Anhui province, China.
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Xilingol League
Xilingol, Xilin Gol, Shiliin Gol or Xilinguole Aimag/League (锡林郭勒盟, ᠰᠢᠯᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠭᠣᠣᠯ ᠠᠶᠢᠮᠠᠭ|style.
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Xinjiang
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى; SASM/GNC: Xinjang Uyĝur Aptonom Rayoni; p) is a provincial-level autonomous region of China in the northwest of the country.
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Xitang
Xitang is an ancient scenic town in Jiashan County, Zhejiang Province, China.
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Yandang Mountains
Yandang Mountains or Yandangshan (Chinese: t 雁蕩山, s 雁荡山, p Yàndàng Shān, lit. "Wild Goose Pond Mountain(s)") refers, in the broad sense, to a coastal mountain range in southeastern Zhejiang province in eastern China, covering much of the prefecture-level city of Wenzhou (from Pingyang County in the south to Yueqing County in the northeast) and extending to the county-level city of Wenling in Taizhou prefecture.
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Yangtze
The Yangtze, which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.
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Yangzhou
Yangzhou, formerly romanized as Yangchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, China.
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Yardang
A yardang is a streamlined protuberance carved from bedrock or any consolidated or semiconsolidated material by the dual action of wind abrasion by dust and sand, and deflation which is the removal of loose material by wind turbulence.
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Yi County, Anhui
Yi County or Yixian is a county in Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, under the jurisdiction of Huangshan City.
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Yinxu
Yinxu (modern) is the site of one of the ancient and major historical capitals of China.
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Yongjing County
Yongjing (Xiao'erjing: ﻳْﻮ دٍ ﺷِﯿًﺎْ) is a county in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture in China's Gansu Province.
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Yuanyang County, Yunnan
Yuanyang County (Hani: Yeiqyaq) is located in Honghe Prefecture in southeastern Yunnan province, China, along the Red River.
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Yungang Grottoes
The Yungang Grottoes, formerly the Wuzhoushan Grottoes, are ancient Chinese Buddhist temple grottoes near the city of Datong in the province of Shanxi.
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Yunnan
Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country.
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Yushan County
Yushan is a county in the northeast of Jiangxi province, China.
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Zhangjiajie
Zhangjiajie is a prefecture-level city in the northwestern part of Hunan province, People's Republic of China.
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Zhao Mausoleum (Qing dynasty)
Zhaoling (ᡝᠯᡩᡝᠩᡤᡝ ᠮᡠᠩᡤᠠᠨ|v.
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Zhejiang
, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.
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Zhoukoudian
Zhoukoudian or Choukoutien (周口店) is a cave system in suburban Fangshan District, Beijing.
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Zhouzhuang
Zhouzhuang (Wu: Tseu-zaon) is a town famous for its canals in Jiangsu province, China.
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Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art
The Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape is an extensive assembly of historical rock art that were painted on limestone cliff faces in Guangxi, southern China over a period of several hundred years at least.
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Redirects here:
China World Heritage Sites, Chinese World Heritage Sites, List of World Heritage Sites in the People's Republic of China, World Heritage Sites in China.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_China
