Corfu, also known as Kerkyra in Greek, is a city and former independent area on the island of Corfu in the Ionian Islands of Greece. After a government change in 2019, Corfu became part of the larger area called Central Corfu and Diapontian Islands. It is the main city of this area and also serves as the capital of the Corfu region.
Old Rauma, also known as Vanha Rauma in Finnish and Gamla Raumo in Swedish, is the wooden part of the town of Rauma, Finland. It was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1991 because of its special wooden buildings and the way the town was laid out in the Middle Ages. It is one of the few medieval towns in Finland.
Old Havana (Spanish: La Habana Vieja) is the downtown area and one of 15 neighborhoods that make up Havana, Cuba. It has the second-highest number of people living in a small area and includes the heart of the original city of Havana. The locations of the original city walls now form the boundaries of Old Havana.
The osiedle Old City (Polish: Osiedle Stare Miasto) is the oldest historic area in the city of Zamość. It is a World Heritage Site in Poland, added in 1992. UNESCO states that its importance lies in being “an outstanding example of a Renaissance planned town from the late 16th century, which still has its original layout, fortifications, and many buildings of special interest.
The Old City of Jerusalem (Hebrew: הָעִיר הָעַתִּיקָה, written in Latin letters: Ha’ír Ha’atiká; Arabic: المدينة القديمة, written in Latin letters: al-Madīna al-Qadīma) is a walled area covering 0.9 square kilometers (0.35 square miles) in East Jerusalem. A tradition, possibly starting with a British map from the 1840s, divides the Old City into four unequal sections: the Muslim Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Armenian Quarter, and the Jewish Quarter. A fifth area, the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as Al-Aqsa or Haram al-Sharif, contains the Dome of the Rock, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and was once the location of the Jewish Temple.
The Old City (German: Altstadt) is the medieval city center of Bern, Switzerland. It is located on a narrow hill that is surrounded by the river Aare on three sides. The city’s tight arrangement has stayed mostly the same since it was built between the 12th and 15th centuries.
The New Town is a central part of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It was built in stages from 1767 to about 1850 and still has much of its original neo-classical and Georgian architecture. Its most famous street is Princes Street, which faces Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town across the geological depression of the former Nor Loch.
The Okavango Delta, also called the Okavango Grassland, is a large inland delta in Botswana. It forms where the Okavango River flows into a deep area of the Earth’s crust at an elevation of 930–1,000 meters (3,050–3,280 feet) in the central part of the Kalahari Desert’s basin, which does not drain into the ocean. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it is one of the few inland delta systems that do not flow into the sea or ocean.
The Okapi Wildlife Reserve (French: Réserve de faune à okapis) is a protected area located in the Ituri Forest in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the borders with South Sudan and Uganda. It covers about 14,000 square kilometers, which is roughly one-fifth of the forest’s total area. In 1996, the reserve was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its large number of endangered okapis and its rich variety of plant and animal life.
The International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia was an effort to move 22 monuments in Lower Nubia, located in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, between 1960 and 1980. This was done to make space for the construction of the Aswan Dam at the Nile’s first cataract (shallow rapids), a project started after the 1952 Egyptian revolution. This project was led by UNESCO and supported by fifty countries.