Sao Paulo: Unesco has added more cultural sites to its World Heritage List, including sites in Saudi Arabia and Iran.
On the list were the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long-Hanoi in Vietnam, the Turaif District in Saudi Arabia, Australia's penal colony sites, the Jantar Mantar astronomical observation site in India, a shrine in Ardabil, Iran, the Tabriz historic bazaar complex, also in Iran, and the historic villages of Hahoe and Yangdong in South Korea.
The Imperial Citadel, built in the 11th century by the Viet Dynasty, became the 900th site listed as a World Heritage Property. With the other four sites added, the total increased to 904.
On Saturday, Unesco added the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, home to nuclear bomb testing in the 1940s and 1950s.
Unesco said the tests had "major consequences" on the geology and environment of the atoll and symboliszed "the dawn of nuclear age.
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's meeting to consider cultural sites for listing ends on Tuesday.
