# heritage.jic.io — UNESCO heritage lists, merged

> All seven UNESCO heritage registers in one open dataset: World Heritage List (1273 properties, 58 in danger, 3 delisted, 5612 component parts), Tentative Lists (2000), Intangible Cultural Heritage (849), Memory of the World (569), Biosphere Reserves (797), Global Geoparks (241), and cultural property under 1954 Hague protection (175). Names in Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean. No login, no key, CORS open. Data date: 2026-10-28.

## Start here
- [API manifest](https://heritage.jic.io/api/index.json): lists, counts, endpoints, ID formats, flags, sources
- [All records, one JSON per line](https://heritage.jic.io/api/all.jsonl): id, list, names, countries, year, kind, criteria, status, coordinates, wikidata, url
- [All records CSV](https://heritage.jic.io/api/all.csv) · [World Heritage components CSV](https://heritage.jic.io/api/components.csv)
- [Countries with counts per list](https://heritage.jic.io/api/countries.json) · [Criteria i–x, text](https://heritage.jic.io/api/criteria.json) · [Statistics](https://heritage.jic.io/api/stats.json)

## Per list (full records with descriptions)
- [World Heritage List](https://heritage.jic.io/api/whc.json): 1276 records, IDs `whc:<UNESCO id_no>`
- [World Heritage Tentative Lists](https://heritage.jic.io/api/tent.json): 2000 records, IDs `tent:<tentative list ref>`
- [Intangible Cultural Heritage](https://heritage.jic.io/api/ich.json): 849 records, IDs `ich:<5-digit ICH ref>`
- [Memory of the World Register](https://heritage.jic.io/api/mow.json): 569 records, IDs `mow:<Wikidata QID>`
- [World Network of Biosphere Reserves](https://heritage.jic.io/api/mab.json): 797 records, IDs `mab:<MAB id>`
- [UNESCO Global Geoparks](https://heritage.jic.io/api/ugg.json): 241 records, IDs `ugg:<UGG id>`
- [Cultural Property under Enhanced/Special Protection](https://heritage.jic.io/api/chp.json): 175 records, IDs `chp:<site id>`

## One record
- `https://heritage.jic.io/api/item/{list}/{key}.json`, e.g. https://heritage.jic.io/api/item/whc/1758.json, https://heritage.jic.io/api/item/ich/01737.json
- Human page: `https://heritage.jic.io/#{list}:{key}`, e.g. https://heritage.jic.io/#whc:1758

## Field notes
- `kind`: whc C/N/M (cultural/natural/mixed); ich RL/USL/GSP; chp EP/EPP/SP.
- `status`: inscribed, in_danger, delisted, tentative, inscribed_later (a tentative site now on the List; see `inscribed_as`).
- `zhSource`: unesco = official UNESCO Chinese name; wikidata; manual; mt = machine translation. `flags` bit 8 marks a non-official Chinese name.
- `ll`: [lat, lon]. ICH elements have no coordinates.
- Tentative Lists and Memory of the World come from Wikidata (P4171; P1435=Q16024238) and can lag the official registers.

## Sources and licence
- UNESCO Open Data, data.unesco.org (CC BY-SA 4.0): whc001, ich001, mab001, eg0001, chp001.
- Wikidata (CC0). Map tiles © OpenStreetMap. Images: Wikimedia Commons (per-file licences) and UNESCO.
- Chinese version: https://heritage.jic.io/llms-zh.txt