Size doesn't matter As of the end of June, 2002, 170 countries had signed the World Heritage Convention, and 730 sites had received approval for inclusion in the World Heritage List. There are well-known ones such as the Great Wall of China, the Dunhuang (China) caves filled with Buddhist art, the Statue of Liberty in New York, and the Hiroshima Memorial in Japan.
普世傑出的價值世界遺產的觀念是二次大戰後的新思維。