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In order to be nominated as World Heritage, a country must first identify its significant cultural and natural sites in a document known as the Tentative List.
Next, it can place sites selected from that list into a Nomination File, which is evaluated by the International Council on Monuments and Sites and the World Conservation Union.
A country may not nominate sites that have not been first included on its Tentative List.
The two international bodies make recommendations to the World Heritage Committee for new designations. The Committee meets once a year to determine what nominated properties to add to the World Heritage List; sometimes it defers its decision or requests more information from the country that nominated the site.
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