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UNESCO World Heritage Site
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
is a
UNESCO
World Heritage Site
which incorporates 139 cemeteries and memorials on the
Western Front
of the
First World War
. On 20 September 2023, UNESCO designated the locations as a World Heritage site.
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Sites
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Belgium
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France
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- American military cemetery and memorial:
St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial
- American military cemetery and memorial:
Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial
- American military cemetery and memorial:
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial
- Australian national memorial:
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
and Commonwealth military cemetery: Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery
- Canadian national memorial:
Vimy Memorial
- Commonwealth memorials:
Beaumont Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial & 29th Division Memorial
, Commonwealth memorial park: Beaumont Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial Park and Commonwealth military cemetery
Hunter's Cemetery
- Commonwealth military cemetery:
Canadian Cemetery n°2
- Commonwealth military cemetery:
Etaples Military Cemetery
- Commonwealth military cemetery:
Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery
- Commonwealth military cemetery:
Givenchy Road Canadian Cemetery
- Commonwealth military cemetery:
Le Quesnoy communal Cemetery extension
- Commonwealth military cemetery:
Lichfield Crater
- Commonwealth military cemetery:
Louvencourt Military Cemetery
- Commonwealth military cemetery:
Mill Road Cemetery
- Commonwealth military cemetery:
Noyelles-sur-mer Chinese Cemetery
and Chinese memorial
Noyelles-sur-mer Chinese Memorial
- Commonwealth military cemetery:
Rancourt Military Cemetery
- Commonwealth military cemetery:
Wimereux communal cemetery
- Commonwealth military cemetery and Australian memorial:
V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial
- Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial:
Dud Corner Cemetery and Loos Memorial
- Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial:
Louverval Military Cemetery
and
Cambrai Memorial
- Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial:
Pozieres British Cemetery and Pozieres Memorial
- Commonwealth military cemetery and memorials:
Faubourg D’amiens Cemetery
,
Arras Memorial
and
Arras Flying Services Memorial
- Commonwealth monument to the missing:
Thiepval Memorial
and French-Commonwealth military cemetery:
Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery
- Czechoslovakian military cemetery: Neuville-Saint-Vaast
- Danish military cemetery: Braine
- Fort of Douaumont
- French headstones of the executed of Fleury-devant-Douaumont
- French memorial: Les fantomes
- French memorial of the battles of the Marne
- French military cemetery: Germania
- French military plot of the dead of November 11, 1918 of Vrigne-Meuse
- French Monument-ossuary: Haute-Chevauchee
- French municipal cemetery and chapel: Mondement-Montgivroux
- French national cemetery: the prisoners of war: Sarrebourg
- French national necropolis and chapel: le Souvenir Francais of Rancourt
- French national necropolis and German military cemetery: la Crouee
- French national necropolis: La Grande Tombe de Villeroy
- French national necropolis: Assevent & German military cemetery: Assevent
- French national necropolis: Cerny-en-Laonnois, German military cemetery: Cerny-en-Laonnois and memorial chapel of le Chemin des Dames
- French national necropolis: Chambiere
- French national necropolis: Compiegne (Royallieu)
- French national necropolis: Craonnelle
- French national necropolis: Cuts
- French national necropolis: Duchesne
- French national necropolis: l’Esperance
- French national necropolis: l’Opera
- French national necropolis: la Chipotte
- French national necropolis: la Fontenelle
- French national necropolis: la Forestiere
- French national necropolis: La Harazee
- French national necropolis: la Maize
- French national necropolis: la Targette & Commonwealth military cemetery: La Targette British Cemetery
- French national necropolis: Lagarde
- French national necropolis: le Faubourg Pave
- French national necropolis: le Silberloch, French national monument and crypt of the
Hartmannswillerkopf
- French national necropolis: Le Sourd & German military cemetery: Le Sourd
- French national necropolis: le Trottoir
- French national necropolis: le Wettstein
- French national necropolis: les Tiges
- French national necropolis: Moosch
- French national necropolis: Navarin: monument to the dead of the armies of Champagne
- French national necropolis:
Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
- French national necropolis: Pierrepont
- French national necropolis: Riche
- French national necropolis: Saint-Thomas en Argonne & French national necropolis: the monument-ossuary of la Gruerie
- French national necropolis: the 28th brigade La ferme des Wacques
- French national necropolis: the monument-ossuary of the French Foreign Legion (Henri Fansworth)
- French national necropolis: the prisoners of Effry
- French national necropolis: Thiescourt & German military cemetery: Thiescourt
- French national necropolis, German military cemetery and Polish military cemetery: le Bois du Puits
- French ossuary, French national necropolis, Isrealien monument and Muslim monument: Douaumont (
Douaumont Ossuary
)
- French plot: civilian casualties of Gerbeviller
- German and French headstones and tombs: le Petit Donon
- German military cemetery: Apremont
- German military cemetery: Chestres & French national necropolis: Chestres
- German military cemetery: Consenvoye
- German military cemetery: Gobessart
- German military cemetery: Hohrod-Barenstall
- German military cemetery: Kahm
- German military cemetery: l’Hellenwald
- German military cemetery: la Maison Blanche
- German military cemetery: la Route de Solesmes and Commonwealth military cemetery: Cambrai East Military Cemetery
- German military cemetery: Lagarde
- German military cemetery: Pierrepont
- German military cemetery: Rancourt
- German military cemetery: Saint-Quentin & German-French monument: Saint-Quentin
- German military cemetery: the Uhlans
- German military cemetery: Veslud
- German monument: the Saint-Charles cemetery
- Indian memorial:
the Commonwealth Neuve Chapelle Memorial
- Italian military cemetery: Bligny
- Portuguese military cemetery:
Richebourg-l’Avoue
- Roumanian military cemetery: Soultzmatt
- Russian military cemetery and chapel: Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand
- South-African national memorial: The
South Africa (Delville Wood) National Memorial
and Commonwealth military cemetery:
Delville Wood Cemetery
- Trench of the bayonets
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Listing shared with six other countries, which includes Belgium's
Maison Guiette
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Listing shared with
France
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Listing shared with
the Netherlands
, which includes Belgium's
Wortel
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Listing shared with France
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Listing shared with seven other countries, which includes Belgium's
Spa
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Listing shared with seventeen other countries, which includes Belgium's
Sonian Forest
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Parisian basin
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Nord-Pas-de-Calais
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Mediterranean
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Shared locally with other
region/s
and with
Belgium
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Shared with
Spain
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Shared with
Austria
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Germany
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Italy
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Slovenia
and
Switzerland
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Shared with
Belgium
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Shared with
Albania
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Austria
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Belgium
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Bulgaria
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Croatia
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Czech Republic
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Germany
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Italy
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North Macedonia
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Poland
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Romania
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Slovakia
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Slovenia
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Spain
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Switzerland
and
Ukraine
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