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UNESCO World Heritage for Vietnam |
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 8 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Vietnam to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available) or see our highlights of Vietnam for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Vietnam below.
 | 1993 - Complex of Hué Monuments | Cultural site |
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| 1994 - Ha Long Bay | Natural site |
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| 1999 - Hoi An Ancient Town | Cultural site |
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| 1999 - My Son Sanctuary | Cultural site |
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| 2003 - Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park | Natural site |
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| 2010 - Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long - Hanoi | Cultural site |
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| 2011 - Citadel of the Ho Dynasty | Cultural site |
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| 2014 - Trang An Landscape Complex | Mixed site |
 Complex of Hué Monuments |  Ha Long Bay |  Hoi An Ancient Town |  My Son Sanctuary |
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Vietnam are shown below - click on the links for more details.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
 | 2008 - Nha Nhac, Vietnamese court music |
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| 2008 - Space of gong culture |
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| 2009 - Quan Ho Bac Ninh folk songs |
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| 2010 - Gióng festival of Phù Ðông and Sóc temples |
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| 2012 - Worship of Hùng kings in Phú Tho |
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
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| 2009 - Ca trù singing |
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| 2011 - Xoan singing of Phú Tho Province, Viet Nam |