Somalia is the largest country with no UNESCO sites

[Nabiil]

There’s 29 countries with no UNESCO world heritage sites.

Bahamas, Bhutan, Brunei, Burundi, Comoros, Cook Islands, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Kuwait, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Maldives, Monaco, Nauru, Niue, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago and Tuvalu.

As you can see all of these countries are either city states, islands or Langaab small counties.
Somalia by far is the largest country in terms of land and population in this list.

You’d think the reason is because of the civil war but that isn’t the case.
There’s been UNESCO sessions where sites are accepted every year since 1972 the inaugural year. For countries to take part they had to ratify a convention. The Somali government just didn’t. This can be explained by the general indifference the Somalis back home have for preserving cultural sites and heritage even before the civil war.
Even the pre civil war governments didn’t care

 

[486th President]

Hmm sounds interesting but before we get into that my brother what is an UNESCO site

 

[The Somali Caesar]

As you can see all of these countries are either city states, islands or Langaab small counties.
Somalia by far is the largest country in terms of land and population in this list.

Nigga the list literally has South Sudan in it. It ain’t a small country. It‘s has a land area of 619,745 km² to put that in perspective Somalia (including SL for arguments sake only) has a land area just slightly bigger with 637,657 km².

South Sudan has a population of 11 million which is not that far of Somalia’s 15 million. My advice go look at damn map before you make a fool out of yourself

 

[Juliet]

There’s barely been any archeology done on Somalia, who knows what’s waiting for us to uncover oh and Laas geel is well on its way to becoming a heritage site so....

 

[stophatingtho]

Nigga the list literally has South Sudan in it. It ain’t a small country. It‘s has a land area of 619,745 km² to put that in perspective Somalia (including SL for arguments sake only) has a land area just slightly bigger with 637,657 km².

South Sudan has a population of 11 million which is not that far of Somalia’s 15 million. My advice go look at damn map before you make a fool out of yourself

South Sudan shoudld've never splitted

 

[The Somali Caesar]

South Sudan shoudld've never splitted

I take it you don’t know the history of South Sudan then

 

[Sloane Ranger]

The Somali government signed upto this but haven't listed any sites yet.

 

[stophatingtho]

I take it you don’t know the history of South Sudan then

I just know South Sudan is a warzone

 

[Netflix]

The Somali government signed upto this but haven't listed any sites yet.

They shouldn't have done that who knows what fucked up things they are going to find.

 

[King Khufu]

Oh wow so you guys haven't found any of my temples yet why am I not so surprised

 

[Sloane Ranger]

They shouldn't have done that who knows what fucked up things they are going to find.

Do you even understand purpose of it? Let's say Las Geel is listed, UNESCO will visit and notedown the materials used and exact measurements and in the event the site is damaged they will fix it. The purpose of signing up to it is for preservation.

 

[BetterDaysAhead]

here are some historical sites

Tourism in Somalia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Som]

There’s 29 countries with no UNESCO world heritage sites.

Bahamas, Bhutan, Brunei, Burundi, Comoros, Cook Islands, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Kuwait, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Maldives, Monaco, Nauru, Niue, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago and Tuvalu.

As you can see all of these countries are either city states, islands or Langaab small counties.
Somalia by far is the largest country in terms of land and population in this list.

You’d think the reason is because of the civil war but that isn’t the case.
There’s been UNESCO sessions where sites are accepted every year since 1972 the inaugural year. For countries to take part they had to ratify a convention. The Somali government just didn’t. This can be explained by the general indifference the Somalis back home have for preserving cultural sites and heritage even before the civil war.
Even the pre civil war governments didn’t care

i'm not sure why the pre civil war didn't sign the Unesco convention but anyway they were still active in promoting archeological research. many studies on somali history conducted before 1991 were supported by the somali govt. If i'm not mistaken Chittick( british archeologist) was invited to study somali coastal cities and ruins by the Siad Barre governement

 

[Som]

Las geel is the strongest candidate for UNESCO heritage list, the main problem is that they don't want to award this status to historical sites which are in disputed areas such as Somaliland, so unfortunately it won't happen.

 

[Arabsiyawi]

There’s 29 countries with no UNESCO world heritage sites.

Bahamas, Bhutan, Brunei, Burundi, Comoros, Cook Islands, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Kuwait, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Maldives, Monaco, Nauru, Niue, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago and Tuvalu.

As you can see all of these countries are either city states, islands or Langaab small counties.
Somalia by far is the largest country in terms of land and population in this list.

You’d think the reason is because of the civil war but that isn’t the case.
There’s been UNESCO sessions where sites are accepted every year since 1972 the inaugural year. For countries to take part they had to ratify a convention. The Somali government just didn’t. This can be explained by the general indifference the Somalis back home have for preserving cultural sites and heritage even before the civil war.
Even the pre civil war governments didn’t care

I think there’s some sites in Somaliland that got archeologists and historians interested but as it isn’t recognized as a state they can’t be given a World Heritage Site status

 

[Villainess]

they’ll exploit us