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21 New Sites Added To The UNESCO World Heritage List

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This month, UNESCO's long list of World Heritage properties has grown even more extensive, with the global body voting to add 21 new sites during the 41st annual World Heritage Committee session in Krakow, Poland. The latest additions bring the total of UNESCO world heritage sites to 1,073. The mountainous Lake District in England's northwest became the first national park in the UK to be added to the list. While India's walled city of Ahmedabad has become the country's first city to get a UNESCO nod. However, this year's committee meeting wasn't without controversy. Israel denounced UNESCO's decision to inscribe the old city of Hebron in the West Bank as a Palestinian World Heritage Site. Calling the city's induction an attempt to deny the Jewish character and heritage of certain key sites in the Holy Land.

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