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World Heritage Sites in. Europe (France) The Théâtre antique d'Orange (“Ancient Theatre of Orange”) is an ancient Roman theatre, in Orange, southern France, built early in the first century AD. It is owned by the municipality of Orange and is the home of the summer opera festival, the Chorégies d'Orange.

World Heritage Sites in Europe (Germany) Museum Island (German: Museumsinsel) in Berlin, Germany, is the name of the northern half of the Spreeinsel, an island in the Spree river in the centre of Berlin (the southern half of the island is called Fischerinsel (English: Fishers' Island).

World Heritage Sites in Europe (Greece) • Mount Athos (Greek: Όρος Άθως, Oros Athos) is a mountain on the peninsula of the same name in Macedonia, of northern Greece, called in Greek Agion Oros (Άγιον Όρος, transliterated often as Hagion Oros), or in English, "Holy Mountain". In Classical times, the peninsula was called Aktí (Ακτή) (sometimes Acte or Akte). Politically it is known in Greece as the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain.

World Heritage Sites in Asia (China) Jiuzhaigou National Park "Valley of Nine Villages" is a nature reserve in the north of Sichuan, a province in south western China. It is known for its many multi-level waterfalls and colorful lakes, and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992. It belongs to the category V (Protected Landscape) in the IUCN system of protected area categorization.

World Heritage Sites in the Americas (America) Glacier National Park is located in the U. S. state of Montana, bordering the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia to the North and the Black feet Indian Reservation to the East.

World Heritage Sites in the Americas (Canada) Old Quebec (French: Vieux. Québec) is a neighbourhood of Quebec City, the capital of the province of Quebec in Canada. Generally speaking 'Old Quebec' refers to the part of the city within the walls. Other parts of the city have structures as old but the term generally refers to "within the walls".

World Heritage Sites in Middle East (India) Medieval Monuments in Kosovo is a World Heritage Site consisting of four Serbian Orthodox Christian churches and monasteries which represent the fusion of the eastern Orthodox Byzantine and the western Romanesque ecclesiastical architecture to form the Palaiologian Renaissance style.