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As of October 2024, there are 172 contracting parties and 2,531 designated sites covering 257,909,286 hectares (637,307,730 acres). 171 of the contracting parties have designated at least one Ramsar site, and 32 of the contracting countries have only one site. The country with the most sites is the United Kingdom with 175.
Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe is the largest Wetland of International Importance in the world as recognized by the Ramsar Convention. [fn 1] The site covers an area of 65,696 square kilometres (25,365 sq mi) in the region around Lake Tumba in the western Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
This list of Ramsar sites in the United States are those wetlands that are considered to be of international importance, protected under the Ramsar Convention treaty. The United States as of 2020, has 41 sites designated as "Wetlands of International Importance" with a surface area of 1,884,551 hectares (7,276.29 sq mi; 18,845.51 km 2 ).
As of February 2025, 171 states have acceded to the convention and designated 2,531 sites to the list, covering 257,909,286 hectares (637,307,730 acres); one other state has acceded to the convention but has yet to designate any sites. The complete list of the wetlands is accessible on the Ramsar Sites Information Service website. [3]
Harike Wetland is a Ramsar site in India Map of Ramsar sites Archipel Bolama-Bijagos Ramsar site in Guinea-Bissau Walkway in Zuvintas Biosphere Reserve. A Ramsar site is a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, [1] also known as "The Convention on Wetlands", an international environmental treaty signed on 2 February 1971 in Ramsar, Iran, under ...
This list of Ramsar sites in England includes wetlands that are considered to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention. England currently has 71 sites designated as "Wetlands of International Importance". [1] [2] For a full list of all Ramsar sites worldwide, see List of Ramsar wetlands of international importance.
The countries with most sites are the United Kingdom with 175 and Mexico with 142. The country with the largest surface area of listed wetland is Bolivia, with around 148,000 square kilometres (57,000 sq mi). [4] The Ramsar Sites Information Service (RSIS) is a searchable database which provides information on each Ramsar site. [5]
List of Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance This page was last edited on 21 December 2020, at 20:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...