World Heritage Site Listing: Final Proposal For Mrauk-U To Be Submitted By January 2022

The Department of Archaeology and National Museum is making efforts for inscription of Mrauk-U on the World Heritage List.

A draft proposal for the UNESCO World Heritage Site listing of Mrauk-U has been submitted to the UNESCO World Committee in Paris. And the final proposal has to be submitted by January 2022.

Deputy Director General, Department of Archaeology and National Museum, Dr Thein Lwin said “For inscription of Mrauk-U on the World Heritage List, we have already submitted the draft of nomination dossier to the UNESCO World Committee in Paris on September 4. We have to submit the final version of the Nomination Dossier by the end of January next year.”

Once the final proposal was submitted, the archaeological experts will visit Mrauk-U to evaluate the details of the proposal to decide whether Mrauk-U’s cultural heritage will be recognized as a World Heritage Site at the UNESCO Conference in 2023.

Deputy Director General, Department of Archaeology and National Museum, Dr Thein Lwin said “Once it was inscribed on the World Heritage List, it will achieve many benefits. Mrauk-U, being a national level heritage site, is one of the tourist destinations and it has been attracted many tourists from local and abroad. We can attract more foreign tourists, and many job opportunities can be created for the locals.”

Located at the junction of the deltaic plain and the Rakhine Yoma Mountains, Mrauk-U is the capital of Mrauk-U kingdom. Mrauk-U houses a rich collection of temples and pagodas of ancient time after the ancient city Bagan which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2019.