GEORGE TOWN AND MELAKA ON UNESCO LIST

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee has inscribed Melaka and George Town, Penang, into the UNESCO World Heritage List on 7 July 2008. The two Malaysian capitals noww join the ranks of Gunung Mulu National Park and Kinabalu Park, both inscribed into the list in 2000.
Malaysia’s inscription into the UNESCO World Heritage List joins other iconic landscapes and monuments such as China’s Great Wall, India’s Taj Mahal, the US’s Grand Canyon and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
“These Malaysian Towns have developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between the East and the West in Straits of Melaka. The influences of Asia and Europe have endowed the towns with a specific multi-cultural heritage that is both tangible and intangible”,said UNESCO.