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Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal

At the 44th session, held in Fuzhou, China, the Committee voted 13 in favour, 5 against, with 2 abstentions — one vote above the two-thirds majority required — to delete the property, citing the irreversible loss of attributes conveying its Outstanding Universal Value after developments inside the site and its buffer zone went ahead. The city rejected the decision and continued to build. As of 2025 no fourth deletion has occurred.

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Recorded on Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)

  1. The first properties are inscribed on the World Heritage List
  2. Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
  3. The Committee adopts the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List
  4. Angkor removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
  5. The cultural and natural criteria are merged into a single set of ten
  6. Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
  7. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
  8. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
  9. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
  10. Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
  11. The Temple of Bel at Palmyra destroyed
  12. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
  13. The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list

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