UNESCO World Heritage Sites

In June 2014 UNESCO's World Heritage Committee announced the new inscriptions for the World Heritage List. This year 26 new sites made it into the list, making the current number of World Heritage Sites 1007, with two sites delisted. To celebrate this year's event, we built this portal which anyone can use to quickly visualize facts and stats about UNESCO's World Heritage database. A few things you can do:

World Heritage 2014 Additions

The following map shows the new 2014 entries in UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. Click here for the more than 1,600 total candidates that are still on their State's tentative list, waiting to become a UNESCO World Heritage.

Almost all of the new entries of 2014 are located in two UNESCO regions of Europe and NorthRelated Links

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Former University of New Mexico track and field athletes David Bishop, Lee Emanuel and Alesha Walker all registered superlative times at two separate meets on Saturday.

At the British Athletics European Trials & UK Championships in Sheffield, England, Bishop and Emanuel won their races, while Walker won her event at the Don Kirby Open in Albuquerque.

At EIS-Sheffield, Bishop emerged victorious in the men's 3,000-meter run. A 2011 graduate from New Mexico, he clocked a time of 8:06.98 that was just 0.13 seconds faster that second-place finisher Tom Humphries (8.07.11).

In the race, Bishop found himself in the top five for a majority of the race, before fighting off a number of surges in the last two laps to take the race.

Emanuel also won out in England,