The 2002 WHC Session added 9 Sites bringing the total to 729.

Inscriptions in 2002

The following sites were inscribed in the 2002 WHC Session.

Extensions in 2002

The following sites were extended:

• Budapest
• Cocos Island

Complete List in 2002

In 2002 the World Heritage list consisted of 729 sites.

• Aachen Cathedral
• Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
• Abbey of St Gall
• Abu Mena
• Acropolis
• Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
• Agra Fort
• Agrigento
• Air and Téneré
• Ajanta Caves
• Aksum
• Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad
• Alcala de Henares
• Aldabra Atoll
• Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
• Aleppo
• Altamira Cave
• Alto Douro
• Ambohimanga
• Amiens Cathedral
• Amphitheater of El Jem
• Ancient ksours
• Ancient Kyoto
• Ancient Merv
• Ancient Nara
• Ancient Thebes
• Angkor
• Angra do Heroismo
• Anjar
• Antigua Guatemala
• Anuradhapura
• Aquileia
• Arabian Oryx Sanctuary
• Aranjuez
• Archaeological Site of Aigai
• Archaeological Site of Delphi
• Arequipa
• Arles
• Asante Traditional Buildings
• Assisi
• Asturian Monuments
• Atapuerca
• Atlantic Forest South-East
• Auschwitz Birkenau
• Australian Fossil Mammal Sites
• Avignon
• Avila
• Ayutthaya
• Baalbek
• Bagerhat
• Bahla Fort
• Bamberg
• Ban Chiang
• Banc d'Arguin
• Banska Stiavnica
• Bardejov Town
• Baroque Churches
• Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
• Bauhaus Sites
• Beemster Polder
• Belem
• Belfries
• Belize Barrier Reef
• Bellinzone
• Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Bialowieza Forest
• Benedictine Convent of St. John
• Birka and Hovgarden
• Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
• Blenheim Palace
• Borobudur
• Bosra
• Botanical Garden, Padua
• Bourges Cathedral
• Boyana Church
• Brasilia
• Brazilian Atlantic Islands
• Brimstone Hill Fortress
• Brú na Bóinne
• Brugge
• Bryggen
• Budapest
• Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur
• Bukhara
• Burgos Cathedral
• Butrint
• Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
• Byblos
• Caceres
• Cahokia Mounds
• Calakmul
• Campeche
• Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
• Canaima National Park
• Canal du Midi
• Canterbury
• Carlsbad Caverns
• Cartagena
• Carthage
• Castel del Monte
• Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
• Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
• Central Amazon Conservation Complex
• Central Sikhote-Alin
• Central Suriname Nature Reserve
• Cerrado Protected Areas
• Cesky Krumlov
• Chaco Culture
• Chan Chan
• Changdeokgung Palace Complex
• Chartres Cathedral
• Chavin
• Chichen-Itza
• Chitwan National Park
• Choirokoitia
• Chola Temples
• Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
• Churches and Convents of Goa
• Churches of Chiloé
• Churches of Moldavia
• Churches of Peace
• Cilento and Vallo di Diano
• Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
• City of Bath
• City of Luxembourg
• Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
• Classical Gardens of Suzhou
• Classical Weimar
• Cliff of Bandiagara
• Coa Valley and Siega Verde
• Cocos Island
• Cologne Cathedral
• Colonia del Sacramento
• Comoé National Park
• Congonhas
• Convent of Christ in Tomar
• Copán
• Cordoba
• Coro and its Port
• Costiera Amalfitana
• Crespi d'Adda
• Cuenca
• Cueva de las Manos
• Curonian Spit
• Cuzco
• Cyrene
• Dacian Fortresses
• Damascus
• Danube Delta
• Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
• Darien National Park
• Dazu Rock Carvings
• Delos
• Derwent Valley Mills
• Desembarco del Granma National Park
• Diamantina
• Dinosaur Provincial Park
• Discovery Coast
• Divrigi
• Dja Faunal Reserve
• Djémila
• Djenné
• Djoudj
• Donana National Park
• Dorset and East Devon Coast
• Dougga/Thugga
• Drottningholm
• Dubrovnik
• Durham Castle and Cathedral
• Durmitor National Park
• Dutch Water Defence Lines
• Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
• East Rennell
• Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
• Edinburgh
• El Escurial
• El Fuerte de Samaipata
• El Tajin
• Elephanta Caves
• Ellora Caves
• Engelsberg Ironworks
• Epidaurus
• Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
• Everglades
• Evora
• Falun Great Copper Mountain
• Fasil Ghebbi
• Fatehpur Sikri
• Ferapontov Monastery
• Ferrara
• Fertö/Neusiedlersee
• First Coffee Plantations
• Flemish Béguinages
• Florence
• Fontainebleau
• Fort and Shalamar Gardens
• Fortified City of Carcassonne
• Fortress of Suomenlinna
• Forts and Castles Gold Coast
• Fossil Hominid Sites
• Fraser Island
• Frontiers of the Roman Empire
• Galapagos Islands
• Gammelstad
• Garajonay
• Garamba National Park
• Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
• Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
• Gelati Monastery
• Genbaku Dome
• Ghadames
• Giant's Causeway
• Glacier parks
• Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
• Goias
• Golden Mountains of Altai
• Gondwana Rainforests
• Göreme NP
• Gough and Inaccessible Islands
• Granada
• Grand Canyon
• Grand Place, Brussels
• Graz
• Great Barrier Reef
• Great Smoky Mountains
• Great Wall
• Great Zimbabwe Ruins
• Greater Blue Mountains
• Gros Morne National Park
• Guanacaste
• Guanajuato
• Guimarães
• Gulf of Porto
• Gunung Mulu
• Gusuku of Ryukyu
• Gwynedd Castles
• Gyeongju
• Ha Long Bay
• Haeinsa Temple
• Haghpat and Sanahin
• Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
• Hallstatt-Dachstein
• Hampi
• Hatra
• Hattusha
• Hawaii Volcanoes
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
• Heard and McDonald Islands
• Henderson Island
• Hierapolis-Pamukkale
• High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
• Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
• Himeji-jo
• Historic Cairo
• Hoi An
• Holasovice
• Hollókö
• Holy Trinity Column
• Hortobágy
• Horyu-ji Area
• Hospicio Cabañas
• Huanglong
• Huangshan
• Huascaran National Park
• Hué
• Humayun's Tomb
• Hwaseong Fortress
• Ibiza
• Ichkeul National Park
• Iguacu
• Iguazu National Park
• Imperial Palace
• Imperial Tombs
• Independence Hall
• Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
• Ironbridge Gorge
• Ischigualasto / Talampaya
• iSimangaliso Wetland Park
• Island of Gorée
• Island of Mozambique
• Island of Patmos
• Island of Saint-Louis
• Isole Eolie
• Istanbul
• Itchan Kala
• Itsukushima Shrine
• Jelling
• Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
• Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
• Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
• Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
• Jiuzhaigou Valley
• Jongmyo Shrine
• Joya de Ceren
• Kahuzi-Biega National Park
• Kairouan
• Kakadu National Park
• Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
• Kandy
• Karlskrona
• Kasbah of Algiers
• Kathmandu Valley
• Kazan Kremlin
• Kaziranga National Park
• Keoladeo National Park
• Kerkuane
• Khajuraho Group of Monuments
• Khami Ruins
• Kilimanjaro National Park
• Kinabalu Park
• Kinderdijk
• Kizhi Pogost
• Komodo National Park
• Kotor
• Kraków
• Kremlin and Red Square
• Kronborg Castle
• Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
• Kutna Hora
• Kyiv
• L'Anse aux Meadows
• L'viv
• La Fortaleza
• La Lonja de la Seda
• Lake Baikal
• Lake Malawi
• Lake Turkana
• Lalibela
• Lamu Old Town
• Land of Frankincense
• Laponian Area
• Las Medulas
• Laurisilva of Madeira
• Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
• Leptis Magna
• Lima
• Litomysl Castle
• Loire Valley
• Longmen Grottoes
• Lord Howe Island
• Lorentz National Park
• Los Glaciares
• Los Katios National Park
• Lower Valley of the Awash
• Lower Valley of the Omo
• Luang Prabang
• Lübeck
• Lumbini
• Lushan National Park
• Luther Memorials
• Lyon
• M'Zab Valley
• Machu Picchu
• Macquarie Island
• Madara Rider
• Mahabalipuram
• Mahabodhi Temple Complex
• Major Town Houses
• Makli, Thatta
• Malbork Castle
• Maloti Drakensberg
• Mammoth Cave
• Mana Pools
• Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
• Manovo-Gounda St. Floris
• Manu National Park
• Maritime Greenwich
• Masada
• Matera
• Maulbronn Monastery
• Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
• Medina of Essaouira
• Medina of Fez
• Medina of Marrakesh
• Medina of Sousse
• Medina of Tétouan
• Medina of Tunis
• Megalithic Temples of Malta
• Meidan Emam, Esfahan
• Meknes
• Mérida
• Mesa Verde
• Messel Pit
• Meteora
• Mexico City and Xochimilco
• Miguasha National Park
• Minaret of Jam
• Mir Castle
• Modena
• Moenjodaro
• Mogao Caves
• Monastery of Alcobaça
• Monastery of Batalha
• Monastery of Geghard
• Monastery of Horezu
• Mont-Saint-Michel
• Monticello
• Morelia
• Morne Trois Pitons
• Mount Athos
• Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
• Mount Kenya
• Mount Nimba
• Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan
• Mount Taishan
• Mount Wuyi
• Mountain Railways of India
• Mountain Resort, Chengde
• Mtskheta
• Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
• Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
• My Son
• Mycenae and Tiryns
• Mystras
• Nahanni National Park
• Nancy
• Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers
• Naples
• Nasca Lines
• National History Park
• Nemrut Dag
• Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
• Neolithic Orkney
• Nessebar
• New Lanark
• Ngorongoro
• Nikko
• Niokolo-Koba National Park
• Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
• Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
• Novgorod
• Nubian Monuments
• Oaxaca and Monte Alban
• Ohrid Region
• Okapi Wildlife Reserve
• Old City of Acre
• Old City of Berne
• Old City of Jerusalem
• Old Havana
• Old Rauma
• Old Town Lunenburg
• Old Town of Galle
• Old Town of Lijiang
• Olinda
• Olympia
• Olympic National Park
• Oporto
• Orange
• Ouro Preto
• Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
• Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
• Palenque
• Palmeral of Elche
• Palmyra
• Panamá
• Pannonhalma
• Pantanal
• Paphos
• Paquimé
• Paramaribo
• Paris, Banks of the Seine
• Pattadakal
• Peking Man Site
• Peninsula Valdes
• Persepolis
• Petäjävesi Old Church
• Petra
• Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
• Pienza
• Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
• Pilgrimage Church of Wies
• Ping Yao
• Pirin National Park
• Plitvice Lakes
• Poblet Monastery
• Polonnaruva
• Pompei
• Pont du Gard
• Popocatepetl monasteries
• Portobelo-San Lorenzo
• Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
• Potala Palace
• Potosi
• Potsdam
• Prague
• Prambanan
• Provins
• Puebla
• Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
• Pyramids (Memphis)
• Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
• Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
• Qadisha Valley
• Québec
• Quedlinburg
• Querétaro
• Quirigua
• Quito
• Quseir Amra
• Qutb Minar
• Rammelsberg and Goslar
• Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
• Rapa Nui
• Ravenna
• Redwood
• Reichenau
• Reims
• Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
• Rhodes
• Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
• Rietveld Schröderhuis
• Riga
• Rila Monastery
• Rio Abiseo National Park
• Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
• Robben Island
• Rock Art of Alta
• Rock Carvings in Tanum
• Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
• Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
• Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin
• Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
• Rohtas Fort
• Roman Walls of Lugo
• Rome
• Roskilde Cathedral
• Route of Santiago de Compostela
• Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
• Royal Palace at Caserta
• Royal Palaces of Abomey
• Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
• Røros
• Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara
• Ruins of León Viejo
• Rwenzori Mountains
• Sabratha
• Safranbolu
• Sagarmatha National Park
• Saint Catherine Area
• Saint-Emilion
• Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
• Salamanca
• Salonga National Park
• Saltaire
• Salvador de Bahia
• Salzburg
• Samarkand
• Sammallahdenmäki
• San Agustín
• San Cristobal de La Laguna
• San Gimignano
• San Pedro de la Roca Castle
• Sana'a
• Sanchi
• Sangay National Park
• Sangiran Early Man Site
• Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
• Santa Cruz de Mompox
• Santa Maria de Guadalupe
• Santa Maria delle Grazie
• Santiago de Compostela
• Santo Domingo
• São Luis
• Sceilg Mhichíl
• Schokland
• Schönbrunn
• Segovia
• Selous Game Reserve
• Semmering Railway
• Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
• Serengeti
• Serra da Capivara
• Seville
• SGang Gwaay
• Shakhrisyabz
• Shark Bay
• Shibam
• Shirakami-Sanchi
• Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
• Sian Ka'an
• Siena
• Sighisoara
• Sigiriya
• Simien National Park
• Sinharaja Forest
• Sintra
• Skocjan Caves
• Skogskyrkogarden
• Solovetsky Islands
• Southern Öland
• Speyer Cathedral
• Spissky Hrad and Levoca
• Split
• Srebarna Nature Reserve
• St. George, Bermuda
• St. Kilda
• St. Petersburg
• Stari Ras and Sopocani
• Statue of Liberty
• Stone Town of Zanzibar
• Stonehenge
• Stralsund and Wismar
• Strasbourg
• Studenica Monastery
• Studley Royal Park
• Su Nuraxi di Barumini
• Sub-Antarctic Islands
• Sucre
• Sukhothai
• Sukur
• Summer Palace
• Sun Temple, Konarak
• Sundarbans National Park
• Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
• Tadrart Acacus
• Taï National Park
• Taj Mahal
• Takht-i-Bahi
• Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
• Tallinn
• Taos Pueblo
• Tarraco
• Tasmanian Wilderness
• Tassili n'Ajjer
• Taxila
• Tchogha Zanbil
• Te Wahipounamu
• Telc
• Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
• Temple of Heaven
• Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius
• Teotihuacan
• The Four Lifts
• The Sundarbans
• The trulli of Alberobello
• Thessalonika
• Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
• Thracian tomb of Sveshtari
• Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
• Tierradentro
• Tikal National Park
• Timbuktu
• Timgad
• Tipasa
• Tiwanaku
• Tiya
• Tlacotalpan
• Tokaji Wine Region
• Toledo
• Tombs of Buganda Kings
• Tongariro National Park
• Torun
• Tower of London
• Trier
• Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
• Trinity Sergius Lavra
• Trogir
• Troy
• Tsingy de Bemaraha
• Tsodilo
• Tubbataha Reefs
• Tugendhat Villa
• Tyre
• Ujung Kulon National Park
• Uluru
• Upper Middle Rhine Valley
• Upper Svaneti
• Urbino
• Urnes Stave Church
• Uxmal
• Val di Noto
• Vall de Boi
• Vallée de Mai
• Valletta
• Vat Phou
• Vatican City
• Venice and its Lagoon
• Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
• Verona
• Versailles
• Vézelay
• Vézère Valley
• Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
• Victoria Falls
• Vienna
• Vigan
• Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
• Villa d'Este
• Villa Romana del Casale
• Villages with Fortified Churches
• Vilnius
• Viñales Valley
• Virgin Komi Forests
• Virunga National Park
• Visby
• Vlkolinec
• Volcanoes of Kamchatka
• Völklingen Ironworks
• Volubilis
• W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
• Wachau Cultural Landscape
• Walled City of Baku
• Warsaw
• Wartburg Castle
• Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
• Western Caucasus
• Westminster
• Wet Tropics of Queensland
• Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
• White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
• Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
• Willandra Lakes
• Willemstad
• Wood Buffalo National Park
• Wooden Churches of Maramures
• Works of Antoni Gaudí
• Wudang Mountains
• Wulingyuan
• Würzburg Residence
• Xanthos-Letoon
• Xidi and Hongcun
• Xochicalco
• Yakushima
• Yellowstone
• Yosemite National Park
• Yungang Grottoes
• Yuso and Suso Monasteries
• Zabid
• Zacatecas
• Zamosc
• Zollverein