The slate landscape of north-west Wales has become the UK's 33rd World Heritage Site (WHS) after Unesco's World Heritage Committee approved the bid in July. The government nominated the landscape for Unesco status in 2018, with Boris Johnson describing it as "an area of remarkable uniqueness and breathtaking beauty". Centuries of mining in the area transformed the landscape on a monumental scale and the Unesco inscription recognised the role of the area in "roofing the 19th century world".
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