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The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has designated five World Heritage Sites in the Thailand. The UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention.
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Tentative List
The following 6 sites are on the Tentative List for Thailand, meaning that the government intends to consider them for nomination in the future:
Current Status
In July 2015 and July 2016, the Thai Government requested the World Heritage Committee at its 39th and 40th sessions in Bonn, Germany and Istanbul, Turkey to consider the inscription of Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (KKFC), while IUCN and the World Heritage Committee recognized the outstanding universal value of the site, in 2015, the committee decided to refer the nomination because of concerning on serious human rights violation toward Karen people in the Kaeng Krachan National Park. In 2016, the committee decided to refer the nomination again after received concern from Myanmar Government on unclear border demarcation between Thailand and Myanmar on the western site of Kaeng Krachan National Park.
Thai Government nominated Phu Phra Bat Historical Park in 2016, but decided to withdraw after received recommendation from ICOMOS to redraft the nomination dossier.
Future Plans
Thai Government announced plans to nominate Wat Suthat Thepwararam Ratchaworamahawihan and the Great Swing, and the Architecture of HRH Prince Narisara Nuvattiwongse to be country's next tentative sites from the list of 11 sites which including Bangkok's Chao Phraya River Banks and The Death Railways.