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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Nigeria

2 sites · 2 Cultural · 0 Natural · 0 In Danger

Sukur Cultural Landscape
Cultural Inscribed 1999 Africa

The Sukur Cultural Landscape, with the Palace of the Hidi (Chief) on a hill dominating the villages below, the terraced fields and their sacred symbols, and the extensive remains of a former flourishing iron industry, is a remarkably intact physical expression of a society and it…

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
Cultural Inscribed 2005 Africa

The dense forest of the Osun Sacred Grove, on the outskirts of the city of Osogbo, is one of the last remnants of primary high forest in southern Nigeria. Regarded as the abode of the goddess of fertility Osun, one of the pantheon of Yoruba gods, the landscape of the grove and it…

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