New UNESCO World Heritage Sites for 2013 -Sunday June 23,2013

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) is holding its 37th annual session in Phnom Penh. On Sunday it completed an update of new sites to be added the World Heritage List.

Below are the main decisions -

• Mount Etna (Italy): tallest active volcano on the European continent.

• Mount Fuji (Japan): Fujisan, the highest mountain in Japan.

• Agadez (Niger): the 15th century town was a crossroads for the trans-Saharan caravan trade and is home to the tallest minaret ever built out of mudbrick.

• El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve (Mexico): desert home to many species of plants and animals.

• Tajikistan National Park.

• Terraced rice fields of Honghe Hani (China): marking 1,300 years of rice cultivation.

• Xinjiang Tianshan (China)

• Namib Sand Sea (Namibia): coastal desert area whose only water source is uniquely delivered by fog.

• Hill Forts of Rajasthan (India)

• Monuments of Kaesong (North Korea): a dozen monuments including tombs, fortress walls and a 700-year-old school at the medieval city of Kaesong, the base of Koryo dynasty.

• Medici Villas and Gardens (Italy)

• Wooden tserkvas (churches) in the Carpathian mountains (Poland and Ukraine)

• Red Bay Basque Whaling Station (Canada): A 16th-century Arctic base for Basque whalers.