The 40th session of the UNESCO committee reviewed the condition of cultural sites protected by the body as well as new proposals to be added to the World Heritage List, the official website of UNESCO reported on Sunday.
Lut Desert in southeast of Iran and seven more historic sites have been registered on the List of World Heritage, according to a statement by the international body.
"The World Heritage Committee, on the last afternoon of its 40th session which opened on 10 July, inscribed eight new sites on the List: one transnational site (in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan), and others in Canada, Chad, China, Iraq, Iran, Mexico and Sudan," the statement reads.
The newly added natural sites are Hubei Shennongjia in Chinese Hubei Province, Mistaken Point in Canada's island of Newfoundland, Archipiélgo de Revillagigedo in Mexico, Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay — Mukkawar Island Marine National Park in Sudan, Lut Desert in southeast of Iran and a Western Tien-Shan transnational site located in the Tien-Shan mountain system between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
Lut Desert is a large salt desert in the provinces of Kerman and Sistan and Baluchestan, and is the world's 25th largest desert. The surface of the sand there has been measured at temperatures as high as 70 °C (159 °F), and it is one of the world's driest and hottest places.
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