World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO concluded its annual meeting in Bonn, Germany, after inscribing 24 new sites into the World Heritage List.
In the past 10 days, over 2,000 delegates from around 160 countries gathered to examine nominations of new heritage sites and reviewed the state of conservation of sites already in the heritage list.
Out of the 36 sites that were examined this year, 24 sites were granted world heritage status for their outstanding universal value, increasing the total number of world heritage sites to 1,031.