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UNESCO World Heritage for Malaysia |
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 4 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Malaysia to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available) or see our highlights of Malaysia for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Malaysia below.
 | 2000 - Kinabalu Park | Natural site |
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| 2000 - Gunung Mulu National Park | Natural site |
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| 2008 - Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca | Cultural site |
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| 2012 - Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley | Cultural site |
 Kinabalu Park |  Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca |
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Malaysia are shown below - click on the links for more details.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
 | 2008 - Mak Yong theatre |
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