UNESCO added Normandy's D-Day landing beaches and Greece's Mount Olympus to the World Heritage List during its meeting in South Korea.

The World Heritage Committee also recognized ancient Japanese capitals and South Sudan's first listed site.

UNESCO's World Heritage Committee inscribed the five Normandy D-Day landing beaches and the Pointe du Hoc assault site.

More than 150,000 Allied troops landed at Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold and Juno beaches on June 6, 1944.

The committee also inscribed Mount Olympus as a mixed cultural and natural heritage site after a 12-year Greek campaign.

Mount Olympus rises 2,918 meters from near sea level and combines biodiversity with its central place in Greek mythology.

The ancient Japanese capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara were added for archaeological evidence of Japan's early centralized state.

South Sudan's Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape became that country's first World Heritage site and protects one of the world's largest land-mammal migrations.

World Heritage inscription creates monitoring and preservation duties but does not by itself supply all required conservation funding.

Advisers cited tourism, climate change, sea-level rise and nearby development as pressures on the Normandy sites.

Greek officials said increased tourism at Olympus would require additional protection of the mountain's natural and cultural resources.

The evidence supports a bounded conclusion: UNESCO added Normandy's D-Day landing beaches and Greece's Mount Olympus to the World Heritage List during its meeting in South Korea. It does not resolve the remaining uncertainty because Implementation plans, visitor controls and long-term conservation financing differ by country and were not settled by the inscription vote. The factual horizon is therefore defined by National preservation plans submitted after inscription and Visitor-management and climate-adaptation measures at the new sites.

The current reporting limit is specific: Implementation plans, visitor controls and long-term conservation financing differ by country and were not settled by the inscription vote.

The next verifiable developments are National preservation plans submitted after inscription and Visitor-management and climate-adaptation measures at the new sites.