Dinosaur Provincial Park
Category
Natural
Inscribed under criteria (vii), (viii).
Region
Europe and North America
Canada
Inscribed
1979
Area
7,825 ha
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Location
Where it sits, and what is around it
Dinosaur Provincial Park is about 100 km north-west of Medicine Hat. The nearest other World Heritage site is Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi, about 190 km away.
Nearest towns and cities
- Medicine Hat · about 63,000 peopleabout 100 km south-east
- Lethbridge · about 71,000 peopleabout 150 km south-west
- Calgary · about 1,110,000 peopleabout 190 km west
- Red Deer · about 75,000 peopleabout 230 km north-west
- Edmonton · about 1,058,000 peopleabout 340 km north-west
- Kalispell · about 32,000 peopleabout 350 km south-west
Nearby World Heritage sites
The nearest neighbours, as the crow flies
CanadaCultural187 km away
CanadaCultural189 km away
CanadaNatural356 km away
Further resources
The official record, while our own profile is in hand
The official record
- World Heritage Centre page for this sitewhc.unesco.org
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