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The Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization of 250 cities in which sites of the UNESCO World Heritage list are located. It was founded in 1993 in Fez, Morocco, during the second International Symposium of World Heritage Cities.[1] The headquarters of the OWHC are located in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Altogether the 250 member cities of the OWHC have a population of more than 130 million.

  1. ^ Minaidis, Lee (2014), "Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC)", in Smith, Claire (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, New York, NY: Springer, pp. 5611–5614, doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1917, ISBN 978-1-4419-0465-2, retrieved 2023-08-01

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