UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting for its 47th session at the organisation’s Paris headquarters from 6–16 July, inscribed a fresh round of cultural and natural landmarks on the World Heritage List. The latest decisions came in two voting tranches on 11 July and 13 July and continue a process that is expected to run through the end of the session. China’s Xixia Imperial Tombs, a Tangut-era necropolis in Ningxia, entered the list on 11 July, lifting the country’s total World Heritage tally to 60 sites. The complex comprises nine imperial mausoleums, more than 270 subordinate tombs and associated flood-control works, offering what UNESCO described as an exceptional record of multi-ethnic interaction along the historic Silk Road. Two days later the committee added “Mount Kumgang – Diamond Mountain from the Sea,” making the celebrated granite peak North Korea’s third World Heritage site and its first since 2013. UNESCO’s advisory bodies said the mountain’s mix of dramatic scenery, long-standing Buddhist heritage and evolving cultural landscape meets both natural and cultural criteria for inscription. Other newly listed or expanded properties include the Diy-Gid-Biy Cultural Landscape of the Mandara Mountains in Cameroon; the Faya Palaeolandscape in the United Arab Emirates; Malaysia’s Forest Research Institute Malaysia Forest Park Selangor; the Gola-Tiwai rainforest complex in Sierra Leone; the coastal and marine ecosystems of Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Archipelago; Denmark’s glacial chalk cliffs at Møns Klint; Brazil’s cavern-rich Peruaçu River Canyon; and two transboundary park extensions linking Mozambique and South Africa, and Laos and Vietnam respectively. Additional inscriptions are expected before the meeting adjourns on 16 July.