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World Heritage Sites in Qatar
Qatar 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 Qatar
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
culturalAl Zubarah Archaeological Site2013
The walled coastal town of Al Zubarah in the Persian Gulf flourished as a pearling and trading centre in the late 18 th  century and early 19 th  centuries, before it was destroyed in 1811 and abandoned in the early 1900s. Founded by merchants from Kuwait, Al Zubarah had trading links a…