UNESCO: Africa

Listed in alphabetical order by country. If the name is in red, I don’t have that card. If the name is in black and italicized then I do have that card.

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Benin

  • Royal Palaces of Abomey

Botswana

  • Tsodilo

Burkina Faso

  • Ruins of Loropéni

Cameroon

  • Dja Faunal Reserve
  • Sangha Trinational

Cape Verde

  • Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande

Central African Republic

  • Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park
  • Sangha Trinational

Chad

  • Lakes of Ounianga

Congo

  • Sangha Trinational

Cote d’Ivoire

  • Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
  • Taï National Park
  • Comoé National Park
  • Historic town of Grand-Bassam

Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Virunga National Park
  • Kahuzi-Biega National Park
  • Garamba National Park
  • Salonga National Park
  • Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Ethiopia

  • Simien National Park
  • Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
  • Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region
  • Aksum
  • Lower Valley of the Awash
  • Lower Valley of the Omo
  • Tiya
  • Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town
  • Konso Cultural Landscape

Gabon

  • Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda

Gambia

  • Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites
  • Stone Circles of Senegambia

Ghana

  • Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
  • Asante Traditional Buildings

Kenya

  • Lake Turkana National Parks
  • Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest
  • Lamu Old Town
  • Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests
  • Fort Jesus, Mombasa
  • Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley

Madagascar

  • Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve
  • Royal Hill of Ambohimanga
  • Rainforests of the Atsinanana

Malawi

  • Lake Malawi National Park
  • Chongoni Rock-Art Area

Mali

  • Old Towns of Djenné
  • Timbuktu
  • Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)
  • Tomb of Askia

Mauritius

  • Aapravasi Ghat
  • Le Morne Cultural Landscape

Namibia

  • Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes

Niger

  • Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves
  • W National Park of Niger

Nigeria

  • Sukur Cultural Landscape
  • Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

Senegal

  • Island of Gorée
  • Niokolo-Koba National Park
  • Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary
  • Island of Saint-Louis
  • Stone Circles of Senegambia
  • Saloum Delta
  • Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes

Seychelles

  • Aldabra Atoll
  • Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve

South Africa

  • Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs
  • iSimangaliso Wetland Park
  • Robben Island, thanks Sandra!
  • uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park
  • Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
  • Cape Floral Region Protected Areas
  • Vredefort Dome
  • Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape

Tanzania

  • Ngorongoro Conservation Area
  • Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
  • Serengeti National Park
  • Selous Game Reserve
  • Kilimanjaro National Park
  • Stone Town of Zanzibar
  • Kondoa Rock-Art Sites

Togo

  • Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba

Uganda

  • Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
  • Rwenzori Mountains National Park
  • Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi

Zimbabwe

  • Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas
  • Great Zimbabwe National Monument
  • Khami Ruins National Monument
  • Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls
  • Matobo Hills
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