Famous UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Multiple Choice

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01This series of fortifications, stretching over 13,000 miles, was built across the historical northern borders of Imperial China as protection against nomadic groups.
02A gift from France to the United States in 1886, this colossal sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is a universal symbol of freedom.
03This prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, consists of a ring of standing stones, with each stone around 13 feet high and weighing around 25 tons.
04Originally a Hindu temple for the Khmer Empire, this massive temple complex in Cambodia gradually transformed into a Buddhist temple towards the end of the 12th century.
05This 15th-century Inca citadel is located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru, on a mountain ridge 2,430 metres above sea level.
06This volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, a province of Ecuador, was crucial to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
07This Tanzanian national park is famous for its annual migration of over 1.5 million white-bearded wildebeest and 250,000 zebra.
08Founded in the 5th century and spread over 118 small islands, this Italian city became a major maritime power and is considered an extraordinary architectural masterpiece.
09This ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in Agra, India was commissioned by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his favourite wife.
10This archaeological site on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, is most famous for its three large pyramids and the Great Sphinx.
11This ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above Athens, Greece, contains the remains of several ancient buildings, the most famous being the Parthenon.
12Located in Arizona, this national park features a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River which is 277 miles long and over a mile deep.