Georgia has four properties on the UNESCO World Heritage List as of October 2026. Three are cultural and were listed in the 1990s: the Historical Monuments of Mtskheta (1994), Gelati Monastery (1994) and Upper Svaneti (1996). The fourth, and the only natural one, is the Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands, added in 2021: seven protected pieces of ancient humid forest and coastal bog in Adjara, Guria and Samegrelo.
Some of these properties cover several places, so this list breaks them into the sites you actually visit, such as Svetitskhoveli, Jvari and Samtavro for Mtskheta, or Mtirala, Kintrishi and Kolkheti for the Colchic forests. Bagrati Cathedral in Kutaisi was once part of the Gelati listing but was removed in 2017 after a heavy reconstruction, so it no longer counts.
Georgia also keeps 14 places on its tentative list, the shortlist for future nominations, all submitted in 2007. The second part of this list covers the most rewarding of them, including Vardzia, David Gareja, Uplistsikhe and Old Tbilisi. The others are Alaverdi, Ananuri, Dmanisi, Gremi, Kvetera, Nikortsminda, Samtavisi and Vani. Georgia's UNESCO intangible heritage, such as qvevri winemaking, polyphonic singing and the Georgian alphabet, is a separate list.
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