Winners & Losers: Episode 4 - UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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In this 4th episode of Winners and Losers, I look the some of the most iconic landmarks and naturally beautiful places on the planet. From the Great Wall of China, to Blue Mountains of Australia, and everything inbetween.
UNESCO official list: whc.unesco.org/en/list/?&
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Notre-Dame footage curtiousy of AP archive.
Episode 1: Countries - th-cam.com/video/C4whvUxeG88/w-d-xo.html
Episode 2: US states - th-cam.com/video/YJ6MglxlKo8/w-d-xo.html
Episode 3: Planets - th-cam.com/video/YJ6MglxlKo8/w-d-xo.html
Episode 5: Cities - th-cam.com/video/9ldYdDVLeZc/w-d-xo.html (NEW VIDEO!)
respect for revisiting these old videos
@@Phelena I agree
Cool
Now do Galaxies
UNESCO:
Site gets bombed: I sleep
Bridge gets built: GET SOME
Which site got bombed?
Patrick Wienhöft mostly in syria
@@patrickwienhoft7987 and My Son in Vietnam
@@patrickwienhoft7987
Buddhas of Bamyan
Alot of Buddhist sites in Afghanistan
WonderWhy: "Most visited UNESCO World Heritage Site is the Forbidden City"
Chinese emperor: * rolls in grave *
@Freddy Meissner It says "rolls in grave". That means that they are not the emperor anymore, since they're in their grave, so they're dead.
@Freddy Meissner gij zeit ook ni de slimste thoas
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@@fallout560 puts power socket into itself, unlimited power.
When WonderWhy uploads, we're all winners.
Ikr XD
Agreed
Yep
True
Yes
This channel should be a Unesco heritage site.
Quasar47 I agree
A natural heritage obviously
TH-cam heritage channel*
his studio to be exact
7 Wonders of TH-cam
Episode 5: Microstates
Episode 6: Capital cities
Episode 7: Continents
back this
@@VindictorThe I back cities in general.
@@adrianatgaming8640 Dont we all son?
B A C C T H I S I D E A
I guess Nuuk would be one of Episode 6’s losers.
I wonder how many potential UNESCO world heritage sites were destroyed in WW1 and WW2
Well... 4/5 top ones were in Europe already and a tremendous amount of cultural sites were destroyed during both wars so A Lot
Tom Vrabec what a shame. My city was bombed and in ww2. I wonder if my city would’ve had any
The pantheon in athens was severely damaged during the war
francoistic spain destroyed a ton
@Cash Money
Your proof of this is.... what exactly?
Episode 5 dictators
Most killed/least killed
Longest /shortest reign
Amount of international support
Most/least infamous
Good idea
I love this idea. Great thinking.
I mean castro would win because he survived a billion assassination attempts and ruled for so long.
@Wolfasaurus Rex Wasn't infamous? I'm very sure he was very famous especially when he was there during the Cuban missile Crisis.
@Wolfasaurus Rex He was more successful than them.
Bhutan having none is ridiculous
I was thinking the exact same thing when i read that list
It is clearly leaning to the west, as a lot of conservation worthy sites are not to be seen in the UNESCO list, hell, Babylon, one of the old seven wonders, was listed this year, this is ridiculous
To be fair, bhutan is really isolated and seclusive so maybe that has something to do with it
@@retf8977 Ancient Peru only has 8 cultural sites. Go figure!
It probably has to do with countries requesting those sites to be recognized
Episode 1 came out on 1 Aug 2013
195 days later
Episode 2 came out (1 Feb 2014)
1389 days later
Episode 3 came out (30 Nov 2017)
611 days later
This Episode came out
1389-611 is 778 so episode 5 should come out 18 Sep 2021(778 days from now)
Note: yes I know wonder said it would be 2024
Oh wow, had I uploaded yesterday, it would have been the 6-year anniversary of the first ever episode!
Also, I appreciate your maths, but my upload schedule defies all logic and reason!
It's always worth the wait though.
@WonderWhy
It can never fully defy logic and reason, because that still counts (in literal terms) as a logical and reasonable method!
uoy ton si eM
Yeah that worked out really well
Everyone: "Oh, UNESCO includes super relevant things!"
UNESCO: *h o u s e*
It's a good house at least 😂
Ridiculous right? But to be fair, that house being built in the 20s is ridiculous too, I mean. That's wild, man.
Of all sites we saw in this video, this house is the one that amazed me the most. Just imagine : its architectural style is literally an entire century early on its time, that just crazy. Wouldn't you be amazed too if the Sydney Opera House was built in the late 1800s ?
Wait, I’m confused, does whever you’re from not have historic houses? I toured several on school trips as a kid and they were some of my favorites.
In my opinion Bhutan should be a UNESCO world heritage site itself
Ya
Its mountains
Oh the place which history is based on Religious hates and has survived today bcz of India's fund...
Fulfilled all the criteria to be heritage sites ,
@@nanilama7016 i guess ur nepali??.. Though to be fair they were the first carbon negative country...And they have done well to preserve natural beauty.
@@SaintcantfeintIIOKII their flag has orange and a dragon that looks like Shenlong
I wasn't planning on doing episode 4 of my Winners and Losers series, until I came up with this idea. Something I thought was a little different, and could be interesting, UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Originally I was worried it was too soon after the last episode, only to discover the 3rd one was in 2017! How time flies.
So I hope everyone likes the new episode, it was a lot of fun to make, and has given me about 50 new places that are on my bucket list! There are so many stunning locations I had never even heard of.
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As always, free feel to leave suggestions for the next episode... which will probably be in like 2024 or something. Thanks for watching!
Do English counties
Winners and Losers 5
Non Existing Countries/States?
-Oldest and shortest lived countries/states that existed
-Biggest and smallest countries/states that existed
Well that's my suggestion
WonderWhy slightly off topic but maybe (English) football teams? Or European countries?
Maybe something like species or animals/Plants/whatever, stuff like the oldest species, the biggest plants, most common species, idk.
@@hoodclassicsofcalifornia but then you'd have to come up with a consistent definition for those terms across time periods
It's weird having some Scottish guy on the Internet that I've never seen talk about a bridge I see every week at 14:53. Greetings from Dresden :D
he bought it back the absolute mad lad
wait you're alive?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Glad to see you weren’t assassinated
Let's start WWI 2.0
you started it all...
Btw, WonderWhy this was an interesting idea that was better than all of our WAL 4 suggestions. See why these great videos take so long. Keep it up
Spain is named three times in the rankings, but no reference or image appears.
*Spain:* Crying in the corner
GNZALO MRAS En el 15:08 aparece la Alhambra pero no menciona España :(
15:08 - ''Alhambra of Granada'' the most visited sites in spain....
and Italy is first place!
Spare a thought for Mexico, having the most cultural sites in the whole American continent but the US and Canada get mentioned instead.
currently watching from a Easter Island, a UNESCO world heritage site. love you vids!
Tell us about that place. Am curious.
I live in Easter island 🗿:D
One of the rare time in which i'm proud to be Italian🇮🇹
My jaw seriously dropped when that architecturally modern house that looks like it was constructed recently was actually built almost 100 years ago 😭
Fun Fact: Mexico City has 6 different places considered World Heritage Site inside the city, in an area of less than 800 km2 making it probably one of the places with more density of world heritage sites in the world.
-Mexico City Historic Center
-Xochimilco
-Ancient City of Teotihuacán
-UNAM Campus
-Luis Barragán House and Studio
-The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
There are also two more places that have already been presented to the UNESCO and are in process to be considered a World Heritage Site:
-Chapultepec Forest, Hill and Castle
-Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo House and Studio
With this we would have 8 different World Heritage Site declarations in the same city, the same amount as whole countries like Hungary, Finland or Sri Lanka, and just to sites ahead of the Netherlands or Denmark...in the same city.
By the way, rhe Luis Barragan House is also one of the smallest heritage places in the world,as it is also an individual house.
Omani government did WHAT?!?
They shrunk the Sanctuary because they found Oil on the land.
@@scorpioninpink Did I just hear *oil?*
@@Raheel2006 *fortunate son starts playing*
@@Old_Harry7 Hueys roar in the distance
damn we really lost a big one
We went from
1: Countries
2: USA
3: Planets
4: Heritage
I represented North Korea in a UNESCO committee in Model UN. We talked mostly about press freedom. It was fun
Avery The Cuban-American Really?
So did my school
Ah its you again
Si eres cubano de verdad habla en español
@@germanpalomares2512 creo que es un meme xq ya he visto ese nombre de cuenta miles de veces y para empezar en Cuba tienen el TH-cam ilegal
13:50 Shocking that my home town is in danger of losing its world heritage status. Liverpool is such a beautiful and iconic place with a history and culture that am proud of. Thanks for raising this issue mate.
WHAT?! Paul McCartney himself should be considered a cultural heritage site let alone Liverpool!
Mind you, in some ways it's proving to be more trouble than it's worth, given how much it's stifling progress! There was an application some years ago for the Great Western Main Line to be designated a World Heritage Site, but it's probably just as well it was rejected because otherwise they wouldn't have been able to electrify it as the overhead line equipment would've been considered insensitive development!
Well, it's gone now, yet Aleppo is still on the list - quite frankly, if a civil war isn't enough to be delisted but a vital redevelopment is then that says a lot about UNESCO's priorities!
UNESCO really dislikes people actually living in the cities they designate as heritage.
@@Inkyminkyzizwoz I know right. It doesn't help that a UNESCO ambassador hasn't visited Liverpool for about a decade. They decided to strip away its status without seeing the positive progress of the new developments.
This manz really makes these long breaks worth it because he comes up with ideas nobody else thinks of. Rock on legend!!!
With the size of China and Italy both having 55 I think Italy should just take the trophy
IlBellissimo10 most of China is uninhabited though but I agree
That's true
UNESCO has always been clearly Eurocentric, so it doesn't matter anyway
Well UNESCO is very Eurocentric, China, Japan, India and such should have more
@@frankozrin5611 Because Europe is the best. No discussion.
Your videos are excellent. You obviously put a lot of time and effort into these, and it shows. I have been binge watching your channel lately. Thanks for the great content.
FINALLY! I have been waiting for this
Wow, I honestly never expected this, but I'm so glad you did it!
Yes finally!!! I was surprised when I saw that you uploaded!
I’ve lost track of how many UNESCO World Heritage Sites we’ve visited, most not even mentioned here. Amazing how many there are. Thanks for putting it in perspective and explaining how it works. Great video.
Thank you so much, Wonder. This has been my favorite series since 2014. Possibly Cities could be a topic for a future episode? Awesome video, keep it up!
But, how do you define cities? eg. Is Dallas a city and Fort worth a city or they are 1 city altogether?
I live in the Hanseatic Town of Visby. Which is a world heritage site. =D
My ancestors came from there! Really cool.
wow
I can remember the discussion about building a bridge across the Elbe Valley in the media from when I was young. It was quite a big thing in Germany.
But I didn't know the the Elbe Valley is one of only TWO PLACES in the ENTIRE WORLD to EVER loose the status of a heritage site 😱
I didn't know it was that big of a deal!
There is inherent bias in selection of UNESCO sites thats the reason most of it is Europe and North America. Asian countries have lot of other historical and cultural sites that are much older and beautiful than some listed sites that don't even come close to these sites. The World Heritage Committee is based out of Paris, France. It has held 42 annual sessions till now, with a 43rd in 2019 . Of these, 3 have been held in Africa and Australia each, 4 in North America, 5 in South America, 6 in Asia, and 22 in Europe.
In fact, Paris has hosted the annual committee meetings more time than any of the other continents (9).
And this does have an impact on the selection in that year.
In 1997, the France was the host of the extraordinary session. In that year, 46 new heritage sites were added to the list, of which 10 were in the host country of France.
There are many things wrong with the way the committee is selected, the process by which nominated sites are shortlisted, the distribution of sites by region and culture, and so on.
There are 4 times as many cultural sites than natural, which favors Europe as opposed to Asia since the Renaissance movement in the Middle ages is studied and discussed far more than it should be, while more ancient cultures like Egypt, India, China are usually glossed over
. Both China and India alone hold more than many cultural sites but only few are listed unlike Europe.
The Asia Pacific region is home to half the world’s population but only makes up 23% of the sites
Whereas Europe with 10% of the world’s population claims to be home to more than 40% of the world’s cultural hotspots
It’s the age-old question of “who watches the watchmen?”.
Altair To be fair, it isn’t as if China, the most historically cultured country in Asia, has made it easy. What with the whole Cultural Revolution and all.
U mad bro? Europe has the most sites because Europe was the center of the world from like 1790 to 1945.
You seem to forget one important detail, while indeed a site must fit one of the conditions set from the UNESCO to become a World Heritage, another important part is how determined is the host country to maintain and preserve it, thus, for example, despite Africa having probably a lot more potential Natural Sites than Europe, most countries can't or won't preserve them, so they just don't submit them.
Yeah, honestly there are plenty of places in America that would fit the bill to be world heritage sites.
Europe just gets the most with the people deciding what becomes one being biased towards europe.
If i recall correctly, someone has to Nominate a site to be considered vy UNESCO (usually the government of said country) which then has to show will to actually be included on the list.
So if we take Japan for example, there is no doupt about their beautiful medieval architecture but doe the Japanese government press on UNESCO to add them to the list?
As someone who is from a smaller European country I remember the government pressing on UNESCO to add a site which was being considered for several years.
Wow
I used to live fairly close to a landmark. I didn't know it was a UNESCO world heritage site - it was listed in 2019
I never knew that
@@Justicsgenie I used to live in Manchester. The site is Jodrell Bank - one of the largest telescopes in the world
well i own part(a date palm farm) of a unesco site, the Al-Ahsa Oasis
I live near sacro monte di varese,in italy (its a mountain village full of churches and statues, listed in unesco since 2013 i believe)
I live in the prairie's were we used to have bison?
I have only been to the one in my city
of course its biased. The west started it, thats why so many in EU+NA 7:03
this was bothering me too
yup, its not that the East doesn't have as many good sites, but because the west started it, they have disproportionately more of them. The only eastern country in the list of most sites was China, when it could be many more if they took more interest in it. Not to mention how African countries don't even get any good mention.
Don't say that Europe is "West". America is "West", Europe should be considered something different like "North", because they don't have much in common with the US, except for the language spoken on one european island.
The same with White, Black, Asian,... such things don't exist in Europe. There are no "black" europeans, there are just europeans, who look different.
West is known as Europe and USA, they are very similar, as over 70% of the people originally were from Europe
@@Justicsgenie culturally no. I'd say Western Europe is and North America are "western". I wouldn't consider Eastern and parts of southern Europe as the "West", think Greece, Poland, Romania, Czechia etc.
I visited the Forbidden City many, many years ago and was appalled by who much visitors were not prevented from touching things that were obviously being damaged by doing so. Also, the general lack of maintenance was shocking with small trees growing out of the roof tiles, etc. I hope that this is still not the case or its demise will be at the hands of its admirers and stewards.
Finally, we’ve been waiting 2 years and it was worth the wait good vid
Amazing video! Very thorough, hats off
You know you gotta stop the video your watching when WonderWhy uploads
*you’re
proud to be italian❤️🇮🇹
I'd never thought there will be another episode of this series! Nice :)
Amazing video. I liked how much footage was from Prague, where I live. Everybody here is super proud of our sites and we want to preserve them and share their beauty with the world.
Maybe you should do another part of Winners and Losers: countries, and add a category "most hated by outsiders", so my country gets mentioned at least.
LEGEND MK Sup bro?
That is now changing, comrade.
Israel?
The US?
North Korea?
Saudi Arabia?
Canada vs The Liberals Judging by the country ball in his pfp, I guess north macedonia
What about historic countries/ empires??
That would be a good winners and losers episode.
Hey, thank you for the video! I have encompassed UNESCO research before but never evaluated the results in such a way. You provided many different perspectives and I learned a fair amount of new stuff.
Been waiting a while, but worth it!!!!
China and Japan would have more sites if they use the looser definition they used in Europe.
Agreed. Honestly it's no wonder china is on top as that great wall saved them from what happened and is happening in the middle east, and some parts of Europe, which if wars ever stop and the issue of heritage sites becomes more relevant there, the area will rise to this list because of Mesopotamia and the heavy religious history. Also, Japan is 100s of islands in the ocean so that helped them a lot. which's why the definition is so strict in these countries; they can't add everything that's old as it will make the main things less appealing
No
Italy can't be surpassed. It's far smaller than China but has the same number of Unesco sites.
@@madapigi1 Ivrea's ugly industrial complex is a UNESCO site, which is ridiculous while hundreds of truly historical temples, old towns, monasteries in China are not under UNESCO. UNESCO is biased
@poopoo sprinkle o maybe cause Europe is actually better.
This whole thing seems incrediblly eurocentric
Duh! Because Europe is one of the most culturally rich regions on earth and it is the region which protected its cultural heritage the best over many centuries. Asia, which also is very culturally rich, destroyed much of its heritage sites for progress. You will now only find single heritage sites in cities there, whereas in Europe entire cities are heritage sites. That's how well they are preserved.
@@mimamo I wouldn't call two great wars with multiple bombings cultural protection but go off, I guess
YAY I’ve been waiting for an ep4 for a while :D I haven’t watched yet but in excited
One of my favourite channels ever!
❤🇮🇹Italy has most of the Unesco sites
Tied with China
@@conk6379 Yes, but China is much larger than Italy
It because of euro centric unesco. In future it will change. India, China, Egypt will have lot more than entire Europe combined.
@@123fle6 no
@@tozz_elvenesian831europe was civilized by asians. Your script, traditions, religion etc are all asian.
Seems quite Eurocentric
Yeah they missed out all those great, historically important, and intricate cities in the African jungles that everyone knows about!!!
@@Admiral_Jezza Just because you don't know about them doesn't mean they don't exist mate
@@Admiral_Jezza Like Mali, Songhai Great Zimbabwe or Kush?
@@Admiral_Jezza Nobody here thinks wakanda is real (how is this even relevent), and I love how you throw in that subtle diss to sub Saharan societys "uncivilized" I smell superiority complex(probably American) lol.
@@king.l.dorius2908 Not very significant even at their height and they couldn't stand the test of time as their modern-day counterparts are shitholes.
Ok thank you so much i was waiting forever.
FINALLY PART 4
HAHA!!!! Im form Seychelles! but it makes me sad that you say its not proper size :'(
Well, it is tiny...
@@dottoking8696 has the best beaches though :P
I didnt expect you here
@@brankoulikese9342 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
well great winners and losers see you on episode 5 in two years :D
You know whenever Wonder Why uploads no matter the subject its gonna be a good video
Another brilliant video from wonderwhy
Ah ffs China. You could've gotten first place if it wasn't for the Cultural Revolution. Missed opportunities piss me off the most.
@@samohtt gotta replace old culture with new culture that's how humans progress.
Tbf UNESCO sites do skew heavily European inherently, they're better preserved due to lack of colonization and somewhat better recorded and understood. That said China had it super rough the last 200 years, pillaged by the West then by Japan then by themselves, it's really a shame that they lost so much.
Aussie Boy They got first place regardless...
@@devasishdutta3682 Italy has 50 or so possible new unesco sites plus weren't they 55 to 55?
Not just because of that. China started applying for those sights a lot later than the Europeans so it’s only natural for them to have fewer sights on record
I’d love to see an episode on UNESCO controversies
always a great day when WonderWhy uploads
The thing that I'm excited the most about your uploads is the accent. But, of course I stay for the good content too.
That's cool - one of the 2019 sites I live just down the road from - Jodrell Bank observatory
0:42 “The pehramiz of Giza” not hating because I’m in love with his accent 🤤👅😘😍
*I was waiting for this*
*I love winner and losser series*
Please make some more videos
I live in a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Upper Middle Rhine Ralley in south-west Germany. The landscape is beautiful and we really appreciate the tourism it brings.
On the other hand, I also relate to the folks over at Dresden, we could really need a bridge around here...
I was so sure this was going to be a video about candidates for World Heritage Site status which were rejected by UNESCO...
(which would probably make a great video)
The Great Western Main Line was rejected - although it was probably just as well, because otherwise they wouldn't have been able to electrify it as the overhead line equipment would've been considered insensitive development!
@@Inkyminkyzizwoz That was exactly the kind of thing I was expecting to see in this video! :)
2005: Oh, cool little site called Yoo-Toobe
2019: Winners and Losers 4
Can't wait to see part 5 in 2021!!!
Love this TH-cam channel.
Episode 5: Islands
Biggest/smallest by area
Most populated/largest uninhabited
Most/least densely populated
Countries with the most/fewest islands
Highest nominal GDP/GDP per capita
Largest/smallest coastline to area ratio
Largest/most populous artificial islands
Greenland is the largest island. The smallest I suspect would be quite difficult as islands tend to come and go - indeed, it probably isn't even named! Indonesia has the most islands. The countries with the fewest would be any landlocked countries (although come to think of it, some might have islands in lakes)
@@Inkyminkyzizwoz australia is an island
@@Diamond-OSCandMarblestuff It's a continent
@@Inkyminkyzizwoz oceania is a continent,not australia
Episode 5: Capital Cities
Largest/Smallest
Oldest/Youngest
Population & Population Density
Murder & Suicide Rate
Most & Least amount of embassies/consolates
I literally JUST rewatched the winners and losers series. Then, this is uploaded!
Maybe i should rewatch the series more so more episodes come out
Can't wait for Part 4 to come out in 2021!
Winners and losers 5 transportation • how good transport is in countries
Categories in any order
Traffic
Bus
Taxi
Plane
Train
Boat and/or hovercraft
I would put Italy in the first place considering how big China is, it's just amazing that they have the same sites when you compare the size. If Italy was as big as China it would have an incredible number on heritage sites, it has to be the first
And China has a lot of natural sites, Italy too of course but it has more sites that were actually built by human beings and not by nature so you need to consider this
Because only a few world heritage applications can be submitted each year
sorry my English bad
There is a cap on how many you could apply as an individual, so scaling makes zero sense, and that's one of the criticisms of UNESCO, in that it favours countries that are smaller and wealthier, that can afford to submit entries, and are overrepresented per capita/landmass.
@@LibeliumDragonfly And this limit doesn't apply to Italy too?
@@v.f. It does, that's exactly why your scaling argument makes no sense. Even if Italy is the size/population of China, they still could only potentially submit as many annually. Besides, at the beginning mostly only rich nations could afford to submit, so poorer regions such as SEA and west Asia were at a severe disadvantage.
Amazing video. Much appreciated. Love your accent! Thank you very much x
Very good info. Loved it.
You mention that the U.S. and europe 'win' in the most sites, but you also have to consider that they fund and run the U.N., so that's likely why.
They don't "run" the UN. To have a world heritage site somewhat bind you to protect it, so countries that have no intentions to protect their human or natural heritage sites, choose to not even submit them.
Lol they just have a massive culture compared to the other countries
"Don't forget to leave your suggestions for the next episode".
>Looking when was the previous episode - 2017
Ok then, leaving suggestions to episode 5 in 2021
So... are you going to do it?
hell yeah another episode
good research, sounds very impartial all of the Episodes
8:37 Göbekli Tepe -> The hill that have bellybutton. There you have it. Now i may rest in peace.
he butchered the pronounciation
Winners & Losers: Episode 5 - Railways/ Rail lines
Very nice video. I could actually watch all 1k++ of them being listed.
Woohoo part 4!!
Winners & Losers: Episode 5 - Micronations
Cool, I'm going to visit Chayna in the near future!
u meant "vesit"?
@@sacha9314 He spelt it right. It's visit. Not vesit.
@@antarcticpenguin r/whoosh
Finally Part 4
WonderWhy is on this youtube grind this year
Do capital city winners and losers
Malta HAS LOADS of Natural sites not none!
Finally, A Maltese comment. Kif int?
Just visited your site. Already subscribed. Great content! Keep it up!
This is such an amazing video. Fascinated by UNESCO sites
I usually do not suggest such things, but I really think UNESCO has a heavy Euro-bias. Case in point: look at the reaction to Notre Dame fire compared to the reaction to the destruction of Palmyra or Sanaa. In my country, you cannot take two steps without stumbling upon something ancient (much of which is barely even visited or maintained for that matter). And it is the same all across Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Mideast.
Even though I live in Italy, I still think that other counrties should have their monuments or other artistic stuff in the list of sites. Unesco is mostly like this because they started in europe, now, that they've finished listing all the ones in europe, they're starting on other countries, it's a long process, since, recently they list the ancient city of babylonia as one. even for europe it was pretty slow, there's lots of paperwork to do, but I'm sure that in the furure they'll arrive to listing your country
I feel so bad about Palmyra.
i love how malta is like this tiny speck on the map but we just happen to have a whole bunch of world heritage sites
like yeah we're tiny but we've got a whole lotta SUBSTANCE