National Geographic Traveller (UK)
unesco in numbers
1,153
UNESCO World Heritage
Sites worldwide
58
Number of UNESCO sites in Italy, the most in any
one country
1978
The year the UNESCO
World Heritage Site listings were inaugurated
3
Number of sites stripped of World Heritage status since the designation
began: Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City, Germany’s Dresden Elbe Valley, and the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary in Oman.