Mongolia UNESCO sites (with map)

This sparsely-populated country has seven UNESCO sites: mostly landscapes with cultural importance or prehistoric sites.

Use the map below to see the articles published so far (in red), or go to the list below. At the bottom is Mongolia’s list of Tentative UNESCO sites.

Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape
A huge region of beautiful landscapes and archaeological sites, important in the history of the Mongol Empire as well as the Uighur people.

The Cemetery Complexes of the Xiongnu Nobility

Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites

Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape

Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai

Transnational sites

Landscapes of Dauria (with Russia)

Uvs Nuur Basin (with Russia)

Mongolia’s tentative site list

Cultural sites

• The Mongolian section of the Great Tea Route 
• Sacred Mountains of Mongolia 
• Amarbayasgalant Monastery and its Surrounding Sacred Cultural Landscape 
• Baldan Bereeven Monastery and its Sacred Surroundings
• Sacred Binder Mountain and its Associated Cultural Heritage Sites 
• Archaeological Site at Khuduu Aral and Surrounding Cultural Landscape 
• Petroglyphic Complexes in the Mongolian Gobi 

Natural sites

• Desert Landscapes of the Mongolian Great Gobi 
• Cretaceous Dinosaur Fossil Sites in the Mongolian Gobi 
• Eastern Mongolian Steppes

Mixed site

• Highlands of Mongol Altai