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This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage in Mongolia.

Understand

The Mongolia accepts the convention for the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage February 02, 1990. The first protected site was inscribed in 2003.

The Mongolia has 4 sites registered with World Heritage, 3 cultural and 1 natural.

Listing

The following sites are listed as World Heritage.

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
49.33488.3951 Mongolian Altai Petroglyph Sets	Cultural	(iii)	Numerous petroglyphs and funerary monuments discovered at these three sites illustrate the development of culture in Mongolia over a period of some 12,000 years. The oldest images reflect a time (11,000 - 6,000 BC) when the area was partly forested and the valley provided habitat for big game hunters. The later representations correspond to the transition to pastoralism as the dominant way of life. The most recent representations show the transition to an equestrian nomadism during the 1st millennium BC. J.C., the Scythian period and the later Turkic period (7th-8th centuries AD). These petroglyphs make a valuable contribution to our understanding of the life of prehistoric communities in North Asia.	UNESCO sheet
47.557102.8312 Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape	Cultural	(ii), (iii), (iv)	The Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape, approximately 121 967 Ha, covers a large area of ​​pasture on both banks of the Orkhon and includes many archaeological remains dating back to the 6th century. The site also encompasses Karakorum, capital in the 13th and 14th centuries of the vast empire of Chingis (Genghis) Khan. The remains of the site reflect the symbiotic links between nomadic pastoral societies and their administrative and religious centers, and the importance of the Orkhon Valley in the history of Central Asia. The grasslands are still used today by nomadic herders in Mongolia.	UNESCO sheet
50.27592.723 Ubs Nuur Basin site shared with the Russia	Natural	(ix), (x)	The Ubs Nuur Basin, which covers an area of ​​more than one million hectares, is the northernmost closed basin in Central Asia. It takes its name from the Ubs Nuur, a large, shallow and very salty lake, which plays an important role in the life of migratory birds, both aquatic and marine. The site, divided into twelve protected areas, includes a wide range of ecosystems that represent the main biomes of eastern Eurasia. The steppe ecosystem supports a rich diversity of birds and the desert a number of rare gerbils, jerboas and marbled polecats. The mountains are important refuges for the snow leopard (an endangered species), argali and Asian ibex.	UNESCO sheet
48.75389108.66394 Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape	Cultural	(iv), (vi)	The Burkhan khaldun is considered the most sacred mountain in Mongolia, having been officially declared sacred by Genghis Khan himself, although it is shown that the mountain already had great religious significance long before Genghis Khan gave it importance. that she has today.	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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