Italy is home to the greatest number of World Heritage Sites, with 50 sites inscribed on the list.
Italy will be playing in their 17th world cup in 2010
Italy hosted the world cup twice the last one was in 1990.
There are many battle sites all over the world i.e. Egypt, Ukraine, Japan, Hawaii, you name it
I think Italy have missed only one cup, so it is 18 world cups.
There have been two World Wars, and Italy has been involved directly in both of them.
There are 206 natural World Heritage sites.
There are 832 cultural World Heritage sites in the world.
There are 7 world heritage sites in Tanzania.
There were 19 World Heritage Sites inscribed in 2013, 14 cultural and 5 natural. These sites include Mount Etna in Italy, Red Bay Basque Whaling Station in Canada and Golestan Palace in Iran.
Ireland has 2 World Heritage sites, both are cultural.
In 2009, there were 890 World Heritage sites; 688 cultural sites, 175 natural sites and 27 mixed sites.
Cambodia has 2 world heritage sites; Angkor and the Temple of Preah Vihear.
There are 5 steps in the nomination process for world heritage sites.
There are seven sites in Egypt that are currently world heritage sites.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Egypt
Mexico has 32 World heritage sites. These include the Historic centers of Mexico city, Morelia and Puebla.
There are 16 World Heritage sites in danger in Africa. These sites include the Selous Game Reserve, Timbuktu and Abu Mena.
At the end of 2012, there were 962 World Heritage Sites; 744 cultural, 188 natural and 30 mixed.