Natural world · Evidence-led place record

Linxia UNESCO Global Geopark

CN

See the world’s longest recorded fossil trackway of a flying vertebrate—24 paired pterosaur footprints.Visit the Bingling Cave Temple grottoes, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site with ancient cliffside sculptures.Experience Hua’er folk songs, a UNESCO-recognised oral tradition shared by nine ethnic groups.

CategoryUNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK
LocationCN
DatasetUNESCO Global Geoparks
Listed/year2024
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness95%
SignificanceGLOBAL GEOHERITAGE; 212,000 ha

The oddity, explained

Why is Linxia UNESCO Global Geopark unusual?

Linxia UNESCO Global Geopark appears here because the approved source classifies it as natural world. The source describes it as See the world’s longest recorded fossil trackway of a flying vertebrate—24 paired pterosaur footprints.Visit the Bingling Cave Temple grottoes, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site with ancient cliffside sculptures.Experience Hua’er folk songs, a UNESCO-recognised oral tradition shared by nine ethnic groups. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.

Evidence and further exploration

The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.

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