United Arab Emirates UNESCO sites (with map)

The UAE has three UNESCO sites: one is about the role of oases in the region over many centuries, one is about the very earliest hunter-gatherers in the region, and the third is an important nature preserve.

Use the map or the list below it to learn about the sites. Below that is another list containing all the UAE sites on the UNESCO Tentative List.

Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas)
Evidence of a prehistoric transition from nomadic to sedentary societies around oases.

Faya Palaeolandscape

Wadi Wurayah

The United Arab Emirates’ Tentative List

Cultural sites

• Hatta Archaeological Landscape (Emirate of Dubai) 
• Wadi Al Helo: Testimony of Bronze Age Copper Production 
• The Rock Art of the Emirate of Sharjah 
• Mleiha, Late Pre-Islamic Center of a South-East Arabian Kingdom 
• The Cultural Landscape of Dhayah 
• The pearl trading town of Jazirat Al-Hamra 
• Trading town of Julfar 
• Shimal 
• Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States 
• Settlement and Cemetery of Umm an-Nar Island 
• Khor Dubai 
• Ed-Dur Site 
• Al Bidya Mosque 

Natural sites

• Abu Dhabi Sabkha 
• Sir Bu Nair Island