Criterion (vii)

Superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty. 154 properties on the List meet it, 8 of them under this criterion alone.

Site	Country	Year	Type	Criteria
Galapagos Islands	Ecuador	1978	Natural	vii viii ix x
Nahanni National Park Reserve	Canada	1978	Natural	vii viii
Simien Mountains National Park	Ethiopia	1978	Natural	vii x
Yellowstone National Park	United States	1978	Natural	vii viii ix x
Dinosaur Provincial Park	Canada	1979	Natural	vii viii
Grand Canyon National Park	United States	1979	Natural	vii viii ix x
Kluane / Wrangell – St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek	Canada United States	1979	Natural	vii viii ix x
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region	North Macedonia Albania	1979	Mixed	i iii iv vii ix
Ngorongoro Conservation Area	Tanzania	1979	Mixed	iv vii viii ix x
Plitvice Lakes National Park	Croatia	1979	Natural	vii viii ix
Sagarmatha National Park	Nepal	1979	Natural	vii
Virunga National Park in danger	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1979	Natural	vii viii x
Durmitor National Park	Montenegro	1980	Natural	vii viii x
Redwood National and State Parks	United States	1980	Natural	vii ix
Darién National Park	Panama	1981	Natural	vii ix x
Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary	Senegal	1981	Natural	vii x
Great Barrier Reef	Australia	1981	Natural	vii viii ix x
Kakadu National Park	Australia	1981	Mixed	i vi vii ix x
Los Glaciares National Park	Argentina	1981	Natural	vii viii
Mammoth Cave National Park	United States	1981	Natural	vii viii x
Olympic National Park	United States	1981	Natural	vii ix
Serengeti National Park	Tanzania	1981	Natural	vii x
Aldabra	Seychelles	1982	Natural	vii ix x
Lord Howe Island Group	Australia	1982	Natural	vii x
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve in danger	Honduras	1982	Natural	vii viii ix x
Taï National Park	Côte d'Ivoire	1982	Natural	vii x
Tasmanian Wilderness	Australia	1982	Mixed	iii iv vi vii viii ix x
Tassili n'Ajjer	Algeria	1982	Mixed	i iii vii viii
Great Smoky Mountains National Park	United States	1983	Natural	vii viii ix x
Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve	France	1983	Natural	vii viii x
Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu	Peru	1983	Mixed	i iii vii ix
Pirin National Park	Bulgaria	1983	Natural	vii viii ix
Sangay National Park	Ecuador	1983	Natural	vii viii ix x
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves	Costa Rica Panama	1983	Natural	vii viii ix x
Vallée de Mai	Seychelles	1983	Natural	vii viii ix x
Wood Buffalo National Park	Canada	1983	Natural	vii ix x
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site	Canada	1984	Natural	vii viii
Chitwan National Park	Nepal	1984	Natural	vii ix x
Iguazú National Park World Heritage Site	Argentina	1984	Natural	vii x
Lake Malawi National Park	Malawi	1984	Natural	vii ix x
Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas	Zimbabwe	1984	Natural	vii ix x
Salonga National Park	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1984	Natural	vii ix
Yosemite National Park	United States	1984	Natural	vii viii
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia	Türkiye	1985	Mixed	i iii v vii
Huascarán National Park	Peru	1985	Natural	vii viii
Manas National Park	India	1985	Natural	vii ix x
Garajonay National Park	Spain	1986	Natural	vii ix
Giant's Causeway	United Kingdom	1986	Natural	vii viii
Iguaçu National Park	Brazil	1986	Natural	vii x
Škocjan Caves	Slovenia	1986	Natural	vii viii
St Kilda	United Kingdom	1986	Mixed	iii v vii ix x
Gros Morne National Park	Canada	1987	Natural	vii viii
Kilimanjaro National Park	Tanzania	1987	Natural	vii
Mount Tai	China	1987	Mixed	i ii iii iv v vi vii
Sian Ka'an	Mexico	1987	Natural	vii x
Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park	Australia	1987	Mixed	v vi vii viii
Henderson Island	United Kingdom	1988	Natural	vii x
Hierapolis-Pamukkale	Türkiye	1988	Mixed	iii iv vii
Meteora	Greece	1988	Mixed	i ii iv v vii
Mount Athos	Greece	1988	Mixed	i ii iv v vi vii
Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks	India	1988	Natural	vii x
Wet Tropics of Queensland	Australia	1988	Natural	vii viii ix x
Bandiagara Escarpment	Mali	1989	Mixed	v vii
Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls	Zimbabwe Zambia	1989	Natural	vii viii
Huangshan	China	1990	Mixed	ii vii x
Jiuzhaigou Valley	China	1990	Natural	vii
Río Abiseo National Park	Peru	1990	Mixed	iii vii ix x
Te Wahipounamu	New Zealand	1990	Natural	vii viii ix x
Tongariro National Park	New Zealand	1990	Mixed	vi vii viii
Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve	Madagascar	1990	Natural	vii x
Aïr and Ténéré National Nature Reserve in danger	Niger	1991	Natural	vii ix x
Danube Delta	Romania Ukraine	1991	Natural	vii x
Komodo National Park	Indonesia	1991	Natural	vii x
Shark Bay	Australia	1991	Natural	vii viii ix x
Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary	Thailand	1991	Natural	vii ix x
Ujung Kulon National Park	Indonesia	1991	Natural	vii x
Huanglong	China	1992	Natural	vii
K'gari	Australia	1992	Natural	vii viii ix
Wulingyuan	China	1992	Natural	vii
Tubbataha Reef	Philippines	1993	Natural	vii ix x
Yakushima	Japan	1993	Natural	vii ix
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park	Uganda	1994	Natural	vii x
Canaima National Park	Venezuela	1994	Natural	vii viii ix x
Doñana National Park	Spain	1994	Natural	vii ix x
Ha Long Bay	Vietnam	1994	Natural	vii viii
Rwenzori Mountains National Park	Uganda	1994	Natural	vii x
Carlsbad Caverns National Park	United States	1995	Natural	vii viii
Gough and Inaccessible Islands	United Kingdom	1995	Natural	vii x
Virgin Komi Forests	Russia	1995	Natural	vii ix
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park	Canada United States	1995	Natural	vii ix
Belize Barrier Reef	Belize	1996	Natural	vii ix x
Lake Baikal	Russia Soviet Union	1996	Natural	vii viii ix x
Laponian National Park	Sweden	1996	Mixed	iii v vii viii ix
Volcanoes of Kamchatka	Russia	1996	Natural	vii viii ix x
Macquarie Island	Australia	1997	Natural	vii viii
Mount Kenya National Park	Kenya	1997	Natural	vii ix
Pyrénées – Mont Perdu World Heritage Site	Spain France	1997	Mixed	iii iv v vii viii
The Dolomites	Italy	1998	Natural	vii viii
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves	Brazil	1999	Natural	vii ix x
Desembarco del Granma National Park	Cuba	1999	Natural	vii viii
iSimangaliso Wetland Park	South Africa	1999	Natural	vii ix x
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park	Philippines	1999	Natural	vii x
Wuyi Mountains	China	1999	Mixed	iii vi vii x
Gunung Mulu National Park	Malaysia	2000	Natural	vii viii ix x
Maloti-Drakensberg Park	Lesotho South Africa	2000	Mixed	i iii vii x
Pantanal	Brazil Bolivia Paraguay	2000	Natural	vii ix x
Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area	Switzerland	2001	Natural	vii viii ix
Rocas Atoll	Brazil	2001	Natural	vii ix x
Purnululu National Park	Australia	2003	Natural	vii viii
Three Parallel Rivers National Park	China	2003	Natural	vii viii ix x
Ilulissat Icefjord	Greenland	2004	Natural	vii viii
Pitons	Saint Lucia	2004	Natural	vii viii
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra in danger	Indonesia	2004	Natural	vii ix x
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California in danger	Mexico	2005	Natural	vii ix x
West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord	Norway	2005	Natural	vii viii
Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary	Colombia	2006	Natural	vii ix
Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes	South Korea	2007	Natural	vii viii
South China Karst	China	2007	Natural	vii viii
Teide National Park	Spain	2007	Natural	vii viii
Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve	Mexico	2008	Natural	vii
Mount Sanqing	China	2008	Natural	vii
New Caledonia Barrier Reef	France	2008	Natural	vii ix x
China Danxia	China	2010	Natural	vii viii
Phoenix Islands Protected Area	Kiribati	2010	Natural	vii ix
Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island	France	2010	Natural	vii x
Putorana Plateau	Russia Soviet Union	2010	Natural	vii ix
Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley	Kenya	2011	Natural	vii ix x
Ningaloo Reef	Australia	2011	Natural	vii x
Wadi Rum	Jordan	2011	Mixed	iii v vii
Lakes of Ounianga	Chad	2012	Natural	vii
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon	Palau	2012	Mixed	iii v vii ix x
El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve	Mexico	2013	Natural	vii viii x
Namib Sand Sea	Namibia	2013	Natural	vii viii ix x
Pamir National Park	Tajikistan	2013	Natural	vii viii
Xinjiang Tianshan	China	2013	Natural	vii ix
Okavango Delta	Botswana	2014	Natural	vii ix x
Tràng An	Vietnam	2014	Mixed	v vii viii
Dasht-e Lut	Iran	2016	Natural	vii viii
Ennedi Plateau	Chad	2016	Mixed	iii vii ix
Khangchendzonga National Park	India	2016	Mixed	iii vi vii x
Revillagigedo Islands	Mexico	2016	Natural	vii ix x
Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay – Mukkawar Island Marine National Park	Sudan	2016	Natural	vii ix x
Hoh Xil	China	2017	Natural	vii x
Los Alerces National Park	Argentina	2017	Natural	vii x
French Southern and Antarctic Lands nature reserve	France	2019	Natural	vii ix x
Bale Mountains National Park	Ethiopia	2023	Natural	vii x
'Uruq Bani Ma'arid	Saudi Arabia	2023	Natural	vii ix x
Badain Jaran Desert	China	2024	Natural	vii viii
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park	Brazil	2024	Natural	vii viii x
Marquesas Islands	France	2024	Mixed	iii v vii ix x
Vjetrenica	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2024	Natural	vii x
Cavernas do Peruaçu Environmental Protection Area	Brazil	2025	Natural	vii viii
Mount Kumgang	North Korea	2025	Mixed	iii vii
Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape in danger	South Sudan	2026	Natural	vii ix x

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