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The first sites recognised as World Heritage Sites in South Asia were the Sagarmatha National Park and the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, inscribed in 1979. [3] Nepal has currently a total of four sites. Sri Lanka has eight sites and Bangladesh has three sites. Pakistan has six sites.
The most recent site, the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka, was listed in 2010. The Central Highlands and the Sinharaja Forest Reserve are natural sites, the other six are cultural. In addition, Sri Lanka has four sites on its tentative list. The country served as a member of the World Heritage Committee in the years 1983–1989. [3]
National Museum of Nepal. Kathmandu is home to a number of museums and art galleries, including the National Museum of Nepal and the Natural History Museum of Nepal. Nepals's art and architecture is a dazzling display from medieval to the present, which is a heady amalgamation of two of the ancient and greatest religions of the world – Hinduism and Buddhism.
Kathmandu, [a] officially the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, [b] is the seat of federal government and the most populous city in Nepal.As of the 2021 Nepal census, [3] there were 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households and approximately 4 million people in its surrounding agglomeration.
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In Lumbini, Buddha was born, and Pashupatinath temple, Kathmandu, is an old and famous Shiva temple of Hindus. Nepal has several other temples and Buddhist monasteries, as well as places of worship of other religious groups.
The Republic of Indonesia ratified the convention on 6 June 1989, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. [3] As of 2023, there are ten World Heritage Sites in Indonesia, six of which are cultural and four are natural. This means Indonesia possesses the highest number of sites in Southeast Asia. [4]
Bagmati River. During the reign of the Licchavis (400–750 A.D.), two adjoining settlements, Yambu or Thahne (‘Yambu’ in Nepal Bhasa means the field of Kathmandu and Thahne means higher ground that lies to the north side also called “northern land") and Yangal/Kwone (‘Yangal’ in Nepal Bhasa means the depressed area of Kathmandu, Kwone also means “southern land") formed Kathmandu ...