Capital Cities and Tomes of China’s Ancient Koguryo Kingdom
1 min readCapital cities and tombs of China’s ancient Koguryo Kingdom were in-scribed on the World Heritage List on July 2，2004 by the 28th Session of the World Heritage Committee Convention in Suzhou，East China’s Jiangsu Prov-ince.The ruins are scattered in Ji’an City of Northeast China’s Jilin Province and Huanren Manchu Autonomous County of the neighbouring Liaoning Province.They include remains of three cities and 40 tombs，Wunu MountainCity，Guonei City and Wandu Mountain City，with 14 tombs of imperial fami-lies and 26 of nobles.They all belong to the Koguryo culture，named after the dynasty that ruled over parts of northern China and the northern half of the Korean Peninsula from 37 BC to AD668.
The selection commitee also agreed to put the Complex of the Koguryo Tombs，which is inside the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea（DPRK）on the heritage list in 2004.
