Kazakhstan UNESCO sites (with map)
Kazakhstan’s UNESCO sites are mostly concentrated in the south of the country and represent an even mix of natural – landscapes, mountains, deserts – and historical sites. Three of the seven sites are transnational.
Click on the map or use the list below to go to each site. At the bottom are the sites on the UNESCO Tentative List for Kazakhstan.
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
An unfinished mausoleum and mosque that allows an understanding of Timurid construction methods.
Petroglyphs of the Archaeological Landscape of Tanbaly
Thousands of rock carvings dating from the Bronze Age to the 20th century, created by pastoral peoples of the central Asian steppes.
Rock Mosques and Associated Sacred Sites of Mangystau
Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan
Transnational
Cold Winter Deserts of Turan (with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan)
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang’an-Tianshan Corridor (with China and Kyrgyzstan)
Western Tien-Shan (with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan)
Kazakhstan’s UNESCO Tentative List
Natural
- Northern Tyan-Shan (Ile-Alatau State National Park)
Cultural
- Botai Eneolithic Horse Pastoralist Cultural Landscape
- Sacred Timber Architecture of Central Asia: Islamic and Christian Traditions at the Turn of the 19th-20th Centuries
- Petroglyphs of Zhetysu (Kulzhabasy, Eshkiolmes, and Bayan-Zhurek)
- Petroglyphs of the Karatau Range (Arpaozen and Sauyskandyk)
- Monumental Monuments and Sanctuaries of the Early Steppe Tradition of Central Eurasia (Mausoleum of Kozy-Korpesh–Bayan Sulu, Ritual Structure Dombauyl, and related “Dyng” Towers)
- Medeu – Complex of Mudflow Protection Engineering Structures
- Architectural Resilience: The Anti-seismic Heritage of Almaty
- Abylaikit Monastery
- Cultural Landscape of Ulytau
- Silk Roads: Early Period (Prehistory)
- Silk Roads: Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor
- Silk Roads: Volga-Caspian Corridor
Mixed
- Ustyurt: Landscapes and Aran Hunting Traps
- Turkic sanctuary of Merke