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  1. Traditional hanok houses with tiled roofs and wooden walls along a narrow Seoul street
    City

    Seoul

    Search Seoul craft objects by colour, hear how familiar sounds connect to music at the Gugak Museum, and learn how shell inlay decorates a surface.

    Explore Seoul

    Photograph: Bgag · Photo source · CC0 1.0

  2. Trajan’s Tablet, a Roman inscription cut into the rock wall of the Đerdap gorge, seen from the Danube with green trees on the bank
    Country

    Serbia

    A 1969 report describes moving Trajan’s Tablet with a road section; the monastery reads year 6717 as 1209, and Tara’s profile notes spruce on acidic peat.

    Explore Serbia

    Photograph: Ванилица · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  3. Aerial view of two strips of low, dark green land with white surf along the outer reef, enclosing a pale turquoise lagoon dotted with clouds, with deep blue sea beyond
    Country

    Seychelles

    Aldabra tortoise estimates, SIF’s coco de mer monitoring at Vallée de Mai, and a 2019 report on a copra mill and kiln on La Digue.

    Explore Seychelles

    Photograph: Simisa · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  4. The roofless remains of a masonry building with patchy, weathered plaster and four window openings, framed by overhanging branches and bright green grass
    Country

    Sierra Leone

    Bunce Island’s shell-mortar floor, Gola surveys of Picathartes gymnocephalus nests and Jaeger’s Loma Mountains plant inventory.

    Explore Sierra Leone

    Photograph: Pierre Chrzanowski · Photo source · CC0 1.0

  5. Rows of low shophouses with orange tile roofs beside the Singapore River at Boat Quay, with office towers behind and a stepped stone riverbank in front
    Country

    Singapore

    Earth from a Battery Road hill formed Boat Quay’s south bank in 1823; 11 Kew Para seedlings were planted in 1877; Ubin quarries reached about 40 m below sea level.

    Explore Singapore

    Photograph: Frank Schulenburg · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  6. Wide Singapore waterfront skyline with high-rise buildings and the bay
    City

    Singapore

    The museum halted treatment of a 2.6-metre Omura’s whale skull after six cycles as it grew fragile; public display was still a future plan.

    Explore Singapore

    Photograph: Mokkie · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  7. A view from a mountain down on a lagoon with a flat-topped peninsula beside a turquoise bay, a town on the land between them, green hills behind and a cloudy sky
    Country

    Sint Maarten

    A mangrove wetland listed under the Ramsar Convention, saltpans on the Great Salt Pond and a frigate wreck from 1801: three places in Sint Maarten.

    Explore Sint Maarten

    Photograph: Balou46 · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  8. Skopje rooftops and city districts with wooded slopes in the foreground
    City

    Skopje

    Daut Pasha Hamam was adapted as an art gallery in 1948; the National Gallery’s 1951 account includes models of medieval churches.

    Explore Skopje

    Photograph: kallerna · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  9. Aerial view of Spiš Castle on a rocky ridge in warm early light, with a walled courtyard, green fields and mist over the valley.
    Country

    Slovakia

    A 2007–08 study revised dates for structures at Spiš Castle. Tajchy linked reservoirs with mining; Domica has Neolithic finds and Dobšinská holds cave ice.

    Explore Slovakia

    Photograph: Lukkon · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  10. Snow-covered shores and hills reflected in Lake Bled, Slovenia
    Country

    Slovenia

    Bled’s island church and pletna, the underground Reka canyon at Škocjan, and Piran’s living salt-making tradition.

    Explore Slovenia

    Photograph: Mihael Grmek · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  11. Front facade of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, with its golden central dome and green roofs
    City

    Sofia

    Roman baths beneath St Nedelya include a partly explored hypocaust and pool. The 1906–1913 Central Mineral Baths building now houses Sofia’s Regional History Museum.

    Explore Sofia

    Photograph: Suicasmo · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  12. A white-sand beach shaded by leaning coconut palms and dense green trees on the left, calm clear shallow water on the right, a small jetty with boats in the distance and a bright sky with scattered clouds
    Country

    Solomon Islands

    Lake Tegano fills Rennell’s former atoll lagoon; a 2020–21 camera study on Vangunu recorded 95 images of Uromys vika.

    Explore Solomon Islands

    Photograph: Xplore Dive · Photo source · CC BY 2.0

  13. Illustration: the outline of Somalia filled in terracotta on a dark green map, with the neighbouring countries as faint grey outlines
    Country

    Somalia

    Bushbushle’s coastal forest, Hobyo’s high dunes and Hafun’s 20 km sand spit mark three distinct Somali coasts.

    Explore Somalia

    Illustration: WorldStamped · Map data · Natural Earth map data, public domain

  14. A white round observatory building with a latticed dome and a slim tower topped by a white sphere, lit orange by low sun above red stony ground
    Country

    South Africa

    Regional fynbos figures, the Little Foot find at Sterkfontein and the segmented primary mirror of SALT near Sutherland.

    Explore South Africa

    Photograph: South African Tourism · Photo source · CC BY 2.0

  15. Wooden entrance gate of Haeinsa’s Janggyeong Panjeon seen from the stone steps below, with a signboard in Chinese characters beneath the tiled roof and patterned walls on both sides
    Country

    South Korea

    Haeinsa holds about 80,000 Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks; UNESCO describes multicoloured carbonates in Jeju’s Geomunoreum lava tubes.

    Explore South Korea

    Photograph: SpongeFan0304 · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  16. Illustration: the outline of South Sudan filled in terracotta on a dark green map, with the neighbouring countries as faint grey outlines
    Country

    South Sudan

    Seasonal movement at Boma–Badingilo, a gently sloping Sudd floodplain and the changing forest belts of the Imatong Mountains.

    Explore South Sudan

    Illustration: WorldStamped · Map data · Natural Earth map data, public domain

  17. The Nippon Causeway between low islands and lagoon water in a 2011 photograph
    City

    South Tarawa

    At the time of JICA’s FY2023 evaluation, water and communications ran on the Nippon Causeway’s lagoon side and the power cable on its ocean side.

    Explore South Tarawa

    Photograph: Flexmaen · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  18. Twin towers of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral’s Obradoiro façade above red-tiled roofs, with the cathedral’s other towers to the right
    Country

    Spain

    UNESCO groups four Northern Routes covering nearly 1,500 km in total; Santiago’s cathedral pairs Romanesque structure with a Baroque façade.

    Explore Spain

    Photograph: Lmbuga (Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez) · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  19. A curved wooden walkway crosses water beneath trees at Beddagana Wetland Park, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.
    City

    Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte

    Beddagana’s map names a Duck Pond, a Forest Trail through forested marsh and a bird tower; the park page mentions Diyawanna Lake.

    Explore Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte

    Photograph: Rashod Sithumka · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  20. Aerial view straight down on Sigiriya: a flat oval summit of reddish ruined foundations with a rectangular pool, ringed by sheer rock and dense green forest, with cleared plots and paths among the trees on the left
    Country

    Sri Lanka

    UNESCO records 139 of the 217 endemic tree and woody-climber species of Sri Lanka’s lowland wet zone in Sinharaja.

    Explore Sri Lanka

    Photograph: dronepicr · Photo source · CC BY 2.0

  21. Late-afternoon view over the pastel-coloured buildings of St. George’s, which climb green hills under cloud, with a church tower on the left and a second church tower on the right
    City

    St. George’s

    A ridge partly separates St. George’s planned grid from the unplanned part of town, shaped by the harbour and hills; the museum complex spans several periods.

    Explore St. George’s

    Photograph: Martin Falbisoner · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  22. A wide view across the water in Stockholm, with the City Hall tower in the distance, church spires and rooftops.
    City

    Stockholm

    The City of Stockholm says the roofed Blue Hall at its City Hall gives an impression of openness, and that the waterfront colonnade resembles one in Venice.

    Explore Stockholm

    Photograph: Peter Krantz · Photo source · CC BY 4.0

  23. A white church with two domed bell towers and a fountain in front of it across a paved square, seen through three arches, with wooded hills behind and red-roofed houses on the right
    City

    Sucre

    Sucre’s ASUR museum shows Jalq’a and Tarabuco-Yampara weaving, the city was founded in 1538 on a chequerboard plan, and Cal Orck’o has over 12,000 dinosaur tracks.

    Explore Sucre

    Photograph: Mario Falcetti · Photo source · CC BY 4.0

  24. A tall cliff of orange-brown sandstone at the left with a narrow pinnacle standing at its edge; flat sand in front, a dark-green line of palms and a small grey cabin in the distance, and blue sky with thin streaks of cloud.
    Country

    Sudan

    Gebel Barkal’s sandstone landmark, Musawwarat’s rain-fed Great Hafir and a dated acoustic study of reef manta rays in Dungonab Bay.

    Explore Sudan

    Photograph: Hans Birger Nilsen · Photo source · CC BY-SA 2.0

  25. Two-storey wooden building with weathered white boards, arched windows, dormers and a red-brick base, beside a brick building with a white clock tower, on a grassy square under a blue sky
    Country

    Suriname

    Most timber buildings in Paramaribo postdate two fires; Jodensavanne has more estimated burials than gravestones; the reserve protects Coppename headwaters.

    Explore Suriname

    Photograph: Loek Tangel / Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

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