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Thailand celebrates ninth World Heritage site

Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan is the first Unesco World Heritage property in southern Thailand. (Photo: Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan)

Thailand celebrated a major cultural milestone on Saturday as the Unesco World Heritage Committee approved the inscription of Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan in Nakhon Si Thammarat as a World Cultural Heritage site.

The inscription, announced at a meeting in Busan, South Korea, makes the historic temple Thailand’s ninth World Heritage site and the first in the country’s southern region.

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