Sites in China, India added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List

PARIS – 10 July 2017: The World Heritage Committee inscribed three cultural sites in Cambodia, China and India to its list, UNESCO posted on its website.

The sites are the Cambodia’s archaeological site of Sambor Prei Kuk, the capital of the Chenla Empire that flourished in the late 6th and early 7th centuries CE, China’s Kulangsu which is a tiny island located on the estuary of the Chiu-lung River, and India's walled city of Ahmadabad, founded by Sultan Ahmad Shah in the 15th century.

The 41st session of the World Heritage Committee on July 9-12, chaired by Jacek Purchla, founder and director of the International Cultural Centre in Kraków, will continue inscribing sites on the World Heritage List through 9 July.