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CulturalRef. 949

Mỹ Sơn

Cultural World Heritage property in Vietnam, inscribed in 1999 under criteria (ii), (iii).

Mỹ Sơn, Vietnam
Photo: Chainwit. · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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State Party
Vietnam
Year of inscription
1999
Criteria
iiiii
Area of property
142 ha
Location
Da Nang
What it is
Hindu temple, archaeological site
Component parts
6 (serial property)
Reference
WHC 949 · Wikidata Q391406

Why it is on the List

(ii)Shows a major exchange of ideas — in architecture, technology, art, town planning or landscape design — over time or across a cultural area.(iii)A unique or exceptional witness to a cultural tradition or a civilisation, living or vanished.
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Straight-line distance between the recorded coordinates.

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