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UNESCO World Heritage Centre

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Also Known As World Heritage Centre
International and Heritage Organizations

The Paris secretariat of the 1972 World Heritage Convention, established in 1992 within UNESCO, which administers the World Heritage List on which most of the great monuments of world architecture are inscribed and coordinates international action for their protection.

Facts
Organization Type
International organization 1
Founded Year
1992 1
The Centre itself; the World Heritage Convention it administers was adopted in 1972.
Headquarters
Paris, France 1
Organization Type
Organization Type (category)
International Body 1
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Source UNESCO World Heritage Centre Official Site

WMF's preservation projects frequently target and partner around UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Has Organization Type

Entity-backed identity for the organization-type enum value this organization already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The organization-type fact itself stays on the organization unchanged.

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1. UNESCO World Heritage Centre Official Site
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