HERITAGE RECORD · 938

Sukur Cultural Landscape

宿库卢文化景观

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

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.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ1123956 ↗

Area764.4 ha

Administrative areaQ6726121 · Q337514

WikipediaSukur ↗

Chinese Wikipedia宿库卢文化景观 ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(iii)A unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation.

Cultural archive

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UNESCO record lead

Brief synthesis Sukur is located in Madagali local government area of Adamawa state of Nigeria along Nigeria/ Cameroon border, some 290 km from Yola, the Adamawa state capital of north eastern Nigeria.

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