ATLAS · WORLD HERITAGE · ZAMBIA
World Heritage Sites in Zambia
Zambia has 1 site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List — 1 natural. Below: how they split by type, and the headline sites. From UNESCO’s official list, snapshot 2026-06-22.
SITES1
CULTURAL · NATURAL0 · 1
IN DANGER0
By heritage type
Cultural0 · 0%
Natural1 · 100%
Mixed0 · 0%
Notable sites in Zambia
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
naturalMosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls1989
These are among the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. The Zambezi River, which is more than 2 km wide at this point, plunges noisily down a series of basalt gorges and raises an iridescent mist that can be seen more than 20 km away.
Shared across: Zambia · Zimbabwe