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Japan cheers Mount Fuji's World Heritage listing

A UNESCO committee in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, selected Mount Fuji as a World Heritage site

June 22, 2013 04:23 pm | Updated 04:23 pm IST - TOKYO

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File photo of snow-covered Mount Fuji, Japan's highest mountain at 3,776 meters (12,388 feet), seen from an airplane passing over Shizuoka prefecture (state), central Japan. UNESCO declared Mount Fuji a World Heritage site on Saturday.

File photo of snow-covered Mount Fuji, Japan's highest mountain at 3,776 meters (12,388 feet), seen from an airplane passing over Shizuoka prefecture (state), central Japan. UNESCO declared Mount Fuji a World Heritage site on Saturday.

Japan is cheering the selection of its most iconic landmark, Mount Fuji, as a World Heritage site.

The 3,776-meter-tall mountain has deep cultural and religious meaning in Japan.

A committee of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) selected it on Saturday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Sixteen other sites in Japan also have the honour. More than 960 sites around the world are on the UNESCO list, which recognizes places that are considered to be of exceptional beauty or cultural value.

Thousands of residents in towns around the mountain watched the UNESCO vote live on large screens in public halls and cheered when the result was announced.

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