Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site | Brazil

 

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The Valongo Wharf is an old dock located in the port area of Rio de Janeiro. Built in 1811, it was the site of landing and trading of enslaved Africans until 1831. An estimated 900,000 Africans arrived in South America via Valongo. 

Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Flags of the World | Kenya

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The flag of Kenya depicts a Maasai shield and two crossed spears. The flag is based on that of Kenya African National Union and was officially adopted on 12 December 1963 after Kenya's independence.

Flags of the World | Saint Pierre & Miquelon

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The flag of Saint Pierre and Miquelon is officially the flag of France, as Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a self-governing overseas collectivity of France. As you can see the flag on this card doenst resemble the flag of France. 

In 1982 an unofficial local flag was designed, based on the Collectivity's coat of arms. The flag is blue with a yellow ship, said to be Grande Hermine, which brought Jacques Cartier to Saint Pierre on 15 June 1536.

In the land of pile-dwellers | Slovenia

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Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps is a series of 111 prehistoric pile-dwellings (or stilt house) in and around the Alps. Built from around 5000 to 500 B.C. on the edges of lakes, rivers or wetlands. None of the original dwellings remained intact from this prehistoric time in Alpine Europe.

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps is a Unesco World Heritage site. It is a transboundary site for Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland.

Karlskrona | Sweden

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The city of Karlskrona is spread over 30 islands in the eastern part of the Blekinge archipelago in the Baltic Sea. The city is host to Sweden's only remaining naval base and the headquarters of the Swedish Coast Guard.

Naval Port of Karlskrona is a UNESCO World Heritage site. According to UNESCO, Karlskrona is an outstanding example of a late-17th-century European planned naval city.

Struve Geodetic Arc | Estonia

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The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km. This helped to calculate the exact size and shape of the planet and marked an important step in the development of earth sciences and topographic mapping.

Struve Geodetic Arc is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Tartu is one of three of these locations in Estonia.

Struve Belarus  Struve Estonia  Struve Finland  Struve Latvia  Struve Lithuania  Struve Norway Struve Moldova  Struve Russia  Struve Sweden  Struve Ukraine

Stone spheres of the Diquís | Costa Rica

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The stone spheres of Costa Rica are an assortment of over three hundred petrospheres found in Costa Rica, located on the Diquís Delta. Petrospheres are spherical man-made stone objects of any size.

Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Medellin | Colombia

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Medellín is the second-largest city in Colombia, after Bogotá. Twenty-five years ago, Time magazine dubbed Colombia’s Medellin “the most dangerous city on earth”.

Today Medellin is a delightful place of law-abiding entrepreneurial folk. With an economy that is among the fastest growing on the continent, it is one of the great success stories of Latin America.

Town of Cuenca | Spain

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Built by the Moors in a defensive position at the heart of the Caliphate of Cordoba, Cuenca is an unusually well-preserved medieval fortified city.

Historic Walled Town of Cuenca is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Ubudiah Mosque | Malaysia

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The Ubudiah Mosque is located in the town of Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia. Building started in 191 and lasted 4 years.

Lake of Stars | Malawi

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Lake Malawi, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania, is the third largest lake Africa. David Livingstone reached the lake in 1859 and named it Lake Nyasa. He also referred to it by a pair of nicknames: Lake of Stars and Lake of Storms.

Flags of the World | Azores

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The flag of the Azores was adopted in 1979 by the regional government of the Azores. It is based on the traditional colours and symbols of Portuguese flags used prior to the revolution of 1910.

Flags of the World | Bonaire

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The flag of Bonaire was adopted on 11 December 1981. The colors red, white, and blue show Bonaire's loyalty to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The black compass represents the population of Bonaire who comes from the four corners of the world.

The red six-pointed star represents the original six villages of Bonaire - Antriol, Nikiboko, Nort Saliña, Playa, Rincon and Tera Korá.

Flags of the World | Palau

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Palau is an island country located in the western Pacific Ocean. The flag of Palau was adopted on 1 January 1981, when the island group separated from the United Nations Trust Territory.

Fort Zeelandia | Suriname

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Fort Zeelandia is a fortress in Paramaribo, Suriname. In 1640 the French built a wooden fort on the spot, which during the British colonial days was reinforced and became Fort Willoughby. It was taken by the Dutch in 1667 and renamed Fort Zeelandia.

Situated to the west and north of the Fort Zeelandia property are some officer’s residences built in timber, that stand in contrast to the stone mass of the fortress.

Historic Inner City of Paramaribo is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Djibouti City, the capital of Djibouti

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Djibouti is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Ethiopia to the west and south, and Somalia to the southeast.

The capital and largest city is Djibouti City. The city has a population of around 562,000, which counts for over 70% of the country's population.

Durmitor National Park | Montenegro

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Durmitor National Park is the largest of five national parks in Montenegro. Durmitor is a limestone massif located in northwestern Montenegro. It is part of the Dinaric Alps.

Durmitor National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Mombassa old Town | Kenya

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Mombasa is a coastal city of Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It is the country's oldest (circa 900 AD) and second-largest city after the capital Nairobi, with an estimated population of about 1.5 million.

Mombasa Old Town is on the tentative list of Unesco World Heritage sites.

Green Backed Heron | Trinidad and Tobago

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The green heron s a small heron of North and Central America. The Green Backed Heron is a common resident of both Trinidad and Tobago.

The Danube Delta | Romania

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The Danube Delta is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta. The greater part of the Danube Delta is located in Romania, while its northern part is situated in Ukraine.

The waters of the Danube, which flow into the Black Sea, form the largest and best preserved of Europe's deltas. The Danube delta hosts over 300 species of birds as well as 45 freshwater fish species in its numerous lakes and marshes.

Danube Delta is a UNESCO World Heritage site.