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This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage to Pakistan.

Understand

the Pakistan ratify the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on July 23, 1976. The first protected sites were inscribed in 1980.

the Pakistan has 6 sites registered with World Heritage, cultural.

The country has also submitted 18 sites to the tentative list, cultural.

Listing

The following sites are listed as World Heritage.

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
32.96373.5891 Rohtas Fort	Cultural	(ii), (iv)	After defeating the Mughal Emperor Humayun in 1541, Sher Shah Suri built a set of defensive works at Rohtas, a strategic site in the north of present-day Pakistan. The fort of Rohtas was never stormed and remains intact today. The main fortifications consist of massive walls that extend over more than 4 km ; they have bastions and are pierced with monumental gates. The Fort of Rohtas, or Qila Rohtas, is an outstanding example of the beginnings of Muslim military architecture in this region of Asia.	UNESCO sheet
31.5974.312 Fort and Shalimar Gardens in Lahore	Cultural	(i), (ii), (iii)	These are two masterpieces of the brilliant Mughal civilization at its peak, during the time of Emperor Shah Jahan. Lahore Fort contains palaces and marble mosques, adorned with mosaics and gilding. Close to the city, the marvelous Shalimar gardens spread over three terraces, with pavilions, waterfalls and vast ponds, are of unparalleled refinement.	UNESCO sheet
24.76767.93 Historical monuments in Makli, Thatta	Cultural	(iii)	Capital of three successive dynasties, then possession of the Mughal emperors of Delhi, Thatta has continued to be embellished with XIVe to XVIIIe century. The remains of the city and its necropolis offer a unique testimony to the civilization of Sindh.	UNESCO sheet
27.32968.1394 Archaeological ruins of Mohenjo Daro	Cultural	(ii), (iii)	This site preserves the ruins of a huge city in the Indus Valley, built entirely in mud brick and dating back to the IIIe millennium BC Its acropolis, raised on enormous embankments, its ramparts and the rigor of the plan of its lower town testify to a strictly planned town planning.	UNESCO sheet
Buddhist ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and remains of Sahr-i-Bahlol ​34.3208371.945835 Takht-i-Bahi ​34.2833371.94176 Sahr-i-Bahlol	Cultural	(iv)	The whole of the Buddhist monastery of Takht-i-Bahi (or "throne of the source") was founded at the beginning of the Ier century. Thanks to its location on the crest of a high hill, it escaped successive invasions, which explains its exceptional state of preservation. The nearby ruins of Sahr-i-Bahlol bear witness to the presence of a small fortified town dating from the same period.	UNESCO sheet
33.77972.8887 Taxila	Cultural	(iii), (vi)	From the very old neolithic tumulus of Saraikala to the ramparts of Sirkap, dating from the IIe century BC AD, and the city of Sirsukh, from the Ier century apr. J. - C., Taxila illustrates the stages of the urban development of a city of Indus subjected in turn to the influences of Persia, the Hellenic world and Central Asia, and which, of the VIe century BC AD to IIe century of the Christian era, was the seat of a flourishing Buddhist university.	UNESCO sheet
Criteria legend (i) Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. (ii) To testify to a considerable exchange of influences during a given period or in a specific cultural area, on the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or the creation of landscapes. (iii) To bring a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or disappeared civilization. (iv) To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates one or more significant periods in human history. (v) Be a prominent example of traditional human settlement, traditional use of land or sea. (vi) To be directly or materially associated with events or living traditions, ideas, beliefs or artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (vii) Represent natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. (viii) To be eminently representative examples of the great stages in the history of the Earth. (ix) To be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes underway in the evolution and development of ecosystems. (x) Contain the most representative natural habitats and the most important for conservation in situ of biological diversity.

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