Egypt UNESCO commitment has registered 7 sites on the World Heritage list and 33 sites on the tentative list.
Some places are so interesting that it’s relevant to keep them for future generations. This is why UNESCO has built a list of crucial classified properties in which there are superb places that stand out for their aesthetic, natural, artistic or cultural significance.
More than a thousand places are registered as Unesco’s World Heritage around the world. Due to my personal interest in visiting World Heritage sites, I put together the UNESCO list in Egypt and the corresponding map.
Egypt UNESCO list
- Abu Mena
- Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
- Historic Cairo
- Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
- Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
- Saint Catherine Area
- Wadi Al-Hitan
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Egypt are protected places for their cultural and natural importance.
Egypt UNESCO Map
Click on the blue pins to view more relevant information about each World Heritage site in Egypt.
Sites on the Tentative List
- Siwa archaeological area
- Temple of Serabit Khadem
- North Sinai archaeological Sites Zone
- Temple of Hator
- Dahshour archaeological area
- El Fayoum Sites
- El-Gendi Fortress
- Rutho Monastery
- Wadi Feiran
- Pharaon Island
- Dahab
- Minia
- Newibah castle
- Ras Mohammed
- Gebel Qatrani Area
- The Western Desert Oases
- Bird Migration Routes
- Desert Wadis
- Mountain Chains
- Great Desert Landscapes
- Alexandria
- Abydos
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Necropolises of Middle Egypt
- Raoudha nilometre in Cairo
- The monasteries of the Arab Desert and Wadi Natrun
- Two citadels in Sinai from the Saladin period
- The An-Nakhl fortress
- Oasis of Fayoum
- Historic quarters and monuments of Rosetta/Rachid
- Dababiya
- Helwan Observatory
- Kharga Oasis and the Small Southern Oases