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Just when you thought you had seen most of our World's cultural treasures, either on the TV or in the newspapers The World Heritage Committee goes out and finds a whole load more. Recently inscribing a further 25 sites to this elite grouping of natural and man made wonders. The World Heritage List now numbers 936 properties: 183 natural sites; 725 cultural; and 28 mixed.

Here is a list courtesy of UNESCO of all the new arrivals.

Natural properties:

    * Ningaloo Coast (Australia)
    * Ogasawara Islands (Japan)
    * Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya)

Mixed natural and cultural properties:

    * Wadi Rum Protected Area (Jordan)

Cultural Properties:

    * Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison (Barbados)
    * West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou (China)
    * Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia (Colombia)
    * The Persian Garden (Iran)
    * Konso Cultural Landscape (Ethiopia)
    * The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean Agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape (France)
    * Fagus Factory in Alfeld (Germany)
    * Longobards in Italy. Places of the power (568-774 A.D.) (Italy)
    * Hiraizumi - Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing
    * The Buddhist Pure Land (Japan)
    * Fort Jesus, Mombasa (Kenya)
    * Petroglyphs Complexes of the Mongolian Altai (Mongolia)
    * León Cathedral (Nicaragua)
    * Saloum Delta (Senegal)
    * Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana (Spain)
    * Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe (Sudan)
    * Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps (Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia)
    * Ancient Villages of Northern Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)
    * Selimiye Mosque Complex at Edirne (Turkey)
    * Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas) (United Arab Emirates)
    * The Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans (Ukraine)
    * Citadel of the Ho Dynasty (Viet Nam)