uwhs: UNESCO World Heritage Sites dataset

Description Usage Format Source

Description

Data for the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list

Usage

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Format

Data frame with columns

ref_no

UNESCO World Heritage Centre reference numbers for heritage sites

name

Descriptive name of the world heritage site

date_inscribed

Year of inscription for the site

danger_list

Years that the heritage site was placed in the danger list

lon,lat

The longitude and latitude values for the world heritage sites

area_hectares

The area of the site in hectares

c1,c2,c3,c4,c5,c6

Boolean values that indicate which cultural criteria apply to the site (see http://whc.unesco.org/en/criteria/ for detailed information on these criteria)

n7,n8,n9,n10

Boolean values that indicate which natural criteria apply to the site (see http://whc.unesco.org/en/criteria/ for detailed information on these criteria)

category

The designation of whether the heritage site is a natural site, a cultural site, or, a mixed site

country_iso_2

A two-letter country code for which state the site resides; there are several sites that are trans-boundary sites, so this can consist of a space-separated list of two-letter country codes

unesco_region

A UNESCO-defined global region

Source

UNESCO http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/


rich-iannone/UWHS documentation built on May 27, 2019, 7:57 a.m.