Tajik National Park became Tajikistan's first natural World Heritage Site. The park covers about 18 percent of this central Asian country and contains deserts, alpine lakes, fields of glaciers, and some of the deepest gorges in the world.
The Xinjiang Tianshan mountain range in China also made the cut. This diverse area spans about 19,700 feet (6,000 meters) in elevation and is home to 140 endemic plants and animals and 477 rare and endangered species.