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There are currently 18 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Greece. Of these, 16 are inscribed based on "cultural" criteria, while the remaining two (Mount Athos, Meteora) are inscribed for meeting both "cultural" and "natural" criteria. Five of the sites are located on islands, one is distributed between the islands and the mainland, with the remaining 12 exclusively on the mainland. This first site to be inscribed was the Temple of Apollo at Bassae in 1986, the most recent is the Philippi, inscribed in 2016. There are an additional 14 sites on the Tentative List.
World Heritage Sites
The table lists information about each World Heritage Site:
Name; as listed by the World Heritage Committee Location; in one of Greece's regions, with co-ordinates provided by UNESCO Period; time period of significance, typically of construction UNESCO data; Site reference number, the year the site was inscribed on the World Heritage List, and the criteria it was listed under Description; brief description of the siteReferences
List of World Heritage Sites in Greece Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA