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Sukur Cultural Landscape

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Rank: 1001 UNESCO
Wonder Type: Cultural
Country: Nigeria
Best of: Village
Description:
The Sukur Cultural Landscape, with the Palace of the Hidi (Chief) on a hill dominating the villages below, the terraced fields and their sacred symbols, and the extensive remains of a former flourishing iron industry, is a remarkably intact physical expression of a society and its spiritual and material culture. [More Details]
This article uses material from UNESCO World Heritage List article "Sukur Cultural Landscape", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 IGO License.