ATLAS · WORLD HERITAGE · NIGERIA
World Heritage Sites in Nigeria
Nigeria has 2 sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List — 2 cultural. Below: how they split by type, and the headline sites. From UNESCO’s official list, snapshot 2026-06-22.
By heritage type
Notable sites in Nigeria
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
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 its spiritual and m…
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 its meandering rive…