Vietnam UNESCO World Heritage Sites List

Vietnam has nine UNESCO (United Nations education, science and culture agency) World Heritage Sites on Wikipedia’s list, and the newest is the Yen Tu-Vinh Nghiem-Con Son, Kiep Bac complex, inscribed in 2025¹. The table below lists each site with its area and the year it was inscribed.

Which sites are on the list, and when were they inscribed?

Site	Area	Year inscribed
Complex of Hue Monuments	Hue, in central Vietnam	19932.
Ha Long Bay-Cat Ba Archipelago	Northern coast	1994, extended in 2000 and 20233.
Hoi An Ancient Town	About 28 km south of Da Nang	19994. The 28 km distance comes from this fact5.
My Son Sanctuary	About 68 km southwest of Da Nang city centre and 36 km south of Hoi An	19996. The distances come from this fact7.
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park	About 40 km northwest of Dong Hoi, capital of Quang Binh	2003, extended in 2015 and 20258. The distance comes from this fact9.
Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long	Hanoi	201010.
Citadel of the Ho Dynasty	Thanh Hoa province	201111.
Trang An Landscape Complex	Ninh Binh	2014, extended in 201612.
Yen Tu-Vinh Nghiem-Con Son, Kiep Bac complex	Area not recorded in our fact bank	20251.

What do the dates add to a trip?

Some dates tell you what you are looking at. The Thang Long citadel began construction in 1010 under Emperor Ly Thai To¹³. Hue became capital of the newly unified country in 1802 under Emperor Gia Long¹⁴. The Ho Dynasty citadel was built in 1397¹⁵.

My Son’s Shaiva Hindu temples were built between the 4th and 13th centuries by the kings of Champa¹⁶.

How do I use it when planning?

Group the sites by region before you group them by days, because the sites sit in three clusters.

• Northern route: Hanoi’s citadel, Ha Long Bay and Trang An in Ninh Binh sit in the north, and the north versus central guide helps you decide how much to include.
• Central route: Hue, Hoi An and My Son sit in the central region, with Da Nang as a common base because Hoi An and My Son are measured from it.
• Cave country: Phong Nha-Ke Bang is further from the main routes, so plan it as its own stop, not a quick side trip.
• Short leave: pick one cluster and one arrival airport, and use the travel-day checker to confirm you still have sightseeing days left.
• Region choice: the attractions hub and regions hub list pages for each place.

How we built this table

Every row comes from our dated fact bank. Each fact has a source link and the date we checked it, and the marker after each row opens that record in the facts list on this page. The heritage facts come from Wikipedia articles, which suit codes, years and distances.

We last checked these facts on 16 October 2026. The count of sites is the fact most likely to change, because inscriptions and extensions happen over time, so we recheck it before each season and recheck the other facts every six months.

If a site or year looks wrong, message us on WhatsApp and we will compare it against the source. Our editorial policy explains how corrections work.