Nepal has four sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Kathmandu Valley site alone is made up of seven monument zones, which is why the valley has one of the densest concentrations of World Heritage monuments anywhere.
Kathmandu Valley (1979)
- Kathmandu Durbar Square
- More than fifty temples and palaces from the 16th to 19th centuries.
- Patan Durbar Square
- The oldest royal palace in the valley, begun in the 14th century and completed in the 17th–18th.
- Bhaktapur Durbar Square
- Capital of the valley in the 14th–16th centuries; many buildings date from the late 17th.
- Swayambhunath
- One of the oldest Buddhist sites in Asia, on a hilltop west of Kathmandu.
- Boudhanath
- The largest stupa in Nepal, centre of Tibetan Buddhism in the valley.
- Pashupatinath
- The holiest Hindu temple in Nepal, with a two-tiered golden roof; open to Hindus only.
- Changu Narayan
- A temple of Vishnu whose history goes back to the 4th–5th century.
The other three sites
- Lumbini (1997)
- Birthplace of the Buddha, in the Terai near the Indian border.
- Chitwan National Park (1984)
- The lowland jungle of rhinos and tigers.
- Sagarmatha National Park (1979)
- The Everest region and the Sherpa homeland.