List of heritage registers


This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many instances the pages linked below have as their primary focus the registered assets rather than the registers themselves. Where a particular article or set of articles on a foreign-language Wikipedia provides fuller coverage, a link is provided.

International

Albania

Antigua and Barbuda

Australia

;Federal registers
;State and territory registers
;State national trusts:
;Online database of all registers

Azerbaijan

Barbados

Bhutan

Bosnia and Herzegovina

State level
Local level
  • Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Republic Institute for Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage of Republic of Srpska
  • Institute for the Protection of Monuments District Brčko
  • Cantonal Institute for the Protection of Cultural–Historical and Natural Heritage Sarajevo
  • Public Institution Institute for the Protection and Use of Cultural–Historical and Natural Heritage of Tuzla Canton
  • Cantonal Institute for Urbanism, Spatial Planning and Protection of the Cultural and Historical Heritage of the Central Bosnian Canton
  • Institute for the Protection of Cultural and Historical Heritage of Herzegovina–Neretva Canton
  • Public Institution Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Bihać – Una-Sana Canton
  • Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Zenica–Doboj Canton
  • Public Institution Agency for cultural–historical and natural heritage and development of the tourist potential of the city of Jajce

Cambodia

Cameroon

: Liste de monuments du Cameroun

Canada

;Federal
;Provincial
  • *Sites owned and run by the provincial government as a functioning historic site or museum are known as Provincial Historic Sites and Provincial Historic Areas. Buildings and sites owned by private citizens and companies or other levels or branches of government may gain one of two levels of historic designation, "Registered Historic Resource" or "Provincial Historic Resource". Historic designation in Alberta is governed by the Historic Resources Act. The province also lists buildings deemed historically significant by municipal governments on the Alberta Register of Historic Places, which is also part of the larger Canadian Register of Historic Places although this does not imply provincial or federal government status or protection. The Alberta Main Street Program helps to preserve historic buildings in the downtowns of smaller communities. The Heritage Survey Program is a survey of 80,000 historic buildings in Alberta, with no protective status.
  • *Historic sites in British Columbia may be added to that province's register of historic places under section 18 of the Heritage Conservation Act.
  • *Places and areas designated under the Heritage Conservation Act
  • *Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador designated properties
  • *Properties designated under the Ontario Heritage Act
  • *Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec
;Local

China

;Hangzhou
Sites Protected at the City Level of Hangzhou are districts, artifacts or buildings legally declared to be "protected". According to the "Regularations of historic districts and historic buildings in Hangzhou" effectivated from 1 January 2005, historic buildings are those artifacts or districts that have lasted more than 50 years, and of significant values for history, science, and art study. In Hangzhou, declaring a historic house requires consulting the urban planning administration bureau, and the real estate administration bureau.
As of 31 June 2011, there are 287 declared historic houses in Hangzhou, proclaimed as 5 batches. In the near future, it is going to issue the sixth batch which includes 51 historic houses.
;Harbin
  • Harbin Urban and Rural Planning Bureau
  • *

Costa Rica

Monumento Nacional de Costa Rica

Croatia

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dominican Republic

El Salvador

Estonia

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Guam

Guyana

Haiti

Hong Kong

Hungary

  • is a non official list maintained by a non-governmental organization.

India

;National level
;State level

Ireland

NameTypeMaintenance
National monument"a monument or the remains of a monument the preservation of which is a matter of national importance by reason of the historical, architectural, traditional, artistic, or archaeological interest attaching thereto"Owned or managed by the National Monuments Service. The Service's own list of monuments is not definitive.
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage"all—
structures and buildings together with their settings and attendant grounds, fixtures and fittings,
groups of such structures and buildings, and
sites,
which are of architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest"		National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. The NIAH's survey is not yet complete.
protected structure"structures, or parts of structures, which form part of the architectural heritage and which are of special architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest"Relevant planning authority maintains a list as part of its development plan.
architectural conservation area"a place, area, group of structures or townscape, taking account of building lines and heights, that—
is of special architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest or value, or
contributes to the appreciation of protected structures"		Planning authority
special planning control area"an architectural conservation area of special importance to, or as respects, the civic life or the architectural, historical, cultural or social character of a city or town in which it is situated"Planning authority
area of special amenity"by reason of—
its outstanding natural beauty, or
its special recreational value,
and having regard to any benefits for nature conservation"		Planning authority
Database of Historic Gardens and Designed LandscapesGardens marked on the first- or second-edition maps of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland.National Inventory of Architectural Heritage

Italy

  • : WebGIS del patrimonio culturale dell'Emilia Romagna
  • : ''Sistema Informativo dei Beni Culturali della Regione Lombardia''

Jordan

Korea (North)

Kuwait

Latvia

Full list is available at valsts aizsargājamo kultūras pieminekļu saraksts.

Libya

Liechtenstein

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Lithuania

The list is available .

Luxembourg

  • "Buildings and objects classified as national monuments or listed on supplementary inventory".
The list is maintained by Service des sites et monuments nationaux, a Government agency. The latest version is available .
See Lëscht vun de klasséierte Monumenter on lb-wiki and :commons:Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Luxembourg.

Madagascar

: Liste des sites et monuments culturels de Madagascar

Martinique

Mauritania

Liste des monuments nationaux de la Mauritanie

Mongolia

Myanmar

Netherlands

New Zealand

: The Register of Historic Places, Historic Areas, Wahi Tapu and Wahi Tapu Areas

North Macedonia

Pakistan

  1. Department of Archaeology and Museums
  2. National Archives of Pakistan
  3. Directorate of Archaeology & Museums, Sindh
  4. #Sindh Building Control Authority
  5. Directorate General of Archaeology, Punjab
  6. Directorate of Archaeology & Museums, of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
  7. Directorate General of Archaeology, Balochistan
  8. List of cultural heritage sites in Pakistan

Panama

Monumentos de Panamá

Philippines

Qatar

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Samoa

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

The register is divided into twelve categories:
Exceptional ImportanceGreat ImportanceProtected
Archaeological Sites of Exceptional ImportanceArchaeological Sites of Great ImportanceProtected Archaeological Sites
Monuments of Culture of Exceptional ImportanceMonuments of Culture of Great ImportanceProtected Monuments of Culture
Historic Landmarks of Exceptional ImportanceHistoric Landmarks of Great ImportanceProtected Historic Landmarks
Spatial Cultural-Historical Units of Exceptional ImportanceSpatial Cultural-Historical Units of Great ImportanceProtected Spatial Cultural-Historical Units

Slovakia

Slovenia

The register consists of three parts:
  • Register nepremične kulturne dediščine, it is subdivided into Cultural Monuments of National Importance and Cultural Monuments of Local Importance.
  • Register premične kulturne dediščine
  • Register nesnovne kulturne dediščine

South Africa

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Taiwan

Tonga

Turkmenistan

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Heritage, culture, planning and conservation are devolved issues in the United Kingdom, and are dealt with by the governments of the constituent countries. England, which does not have its own devolved government, is covered by an agency of the United Kingdom government.
See also historic environment records and sites and monuments records, maintained usually at a local government level.

Other Associated States or Territories

Although not part of the United Kingdom itself, these are self-governing states or territories with strong ties to the British Crown or the United Kingdom, often putting defence and foreign relations in to their hands while handling all other matters internally. All have the British Monarch as their head of state.

Crown Dependencies

The Crown Dependencies are three states which are possessions of the Crown, geographically in the British Isles or the Channel Islands.

Overseas Territories

The British Overseas Territories are the last remnants of the British Empire. There are fourteen total, however, not all of these have heritage registers.

United States

In the United States, a site is only listed on the National Register of Historic Places on recommendation from the state historic preservation offices in the relevant state. Some states maintain their own state-level historic registers, although in some U.S. states all properties on the state register duplicate the National Register listing. The National Register listing in itself confers no protection to a historic property but may qualify the site for matching grants for historic restoration. Local historic designations in many municipalities provide some limited protection against demolition of historic landmarks.
;National
;State-level and local-level