ATLAS · WORLD HERITAGE · PAPUA NEW GUINEA
World Heritage Sites in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea has 1 site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List — 1 cultural. Below: how they split by type, and the headline sites. From UNESCO’s official list, snapshot 2026-06-22.
SITES1
CULTURAL · NATURAL1 · 0
IN DANGER0
By heritage type
Cultural1 · 100%
Natural0 · 0%
Mixed0 · 0%
Notable sites in Papua New Guinea
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
culturalKuk Early Agricultural Site2008
Kuk Early Agricultural Site consists of 116 ha of swamps in the western highlands of New Guinea 1,500 metres above sea-level. Archaeological excavation has revealed the landscape to be one of wetland reclamation worked almost continuously for 7,000, and possibly for 10,000 years. It contains well…