World Heritage Sites GIS Data

GIS spatial data for World Heritage Sites and their Buffer Zones, where existing, as inscribed by the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO. World Heritage Sites and their Buffer Zones are defined by a polygon defining the extent of the protected area.

A World Heritage Site is a site on a list of properties maintained by the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO and called the World Heritage List "forming part of the cultural heritage and natural heritage...which it considers as having outstanding universal value in terms of such criteria as it shall have established".

世界遗产地及其缓冲区地理信息系统空间数据，包括由联合国教科文组织世界遗产委员会所列出的现有世界遗产地。世界遗产地及其缓冲区由定义保护区域范围的多边形界定。世界遗产地系由联合国教科文组织世界遗产委员会维护的《世界遗产名录》中列出的财产，该名录包含其认为具有卓越普遍价值的自然遗产和文化遗产……根据既定标准，其价值应当显著。