UNESCO
[yoo-nes-koh]
- an agency of the United Nations charged with instituting and administering programs for cooperative, coordinated action by member states in education, science, and the arts.
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Origin of UNESCO
U(nited) N(ations) E(ducational), S(cientific, and) C(ultural) O(rganization)
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There are six UNESCO biosphere reserves and nine UNESCO World Heritage sites.
UNESCO granted Chinguetti and four other nearby trading posts status as World Heritage sites in 1996.
The town was listed as a UNESCO World Friendship and Peace Village.
Six UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Syria have been destroyed in Syria since the fighting began.
Indeed, in 2011 UNESCO received a formal petition to declare Latin and Greek an “intangible heritage of humanity.”
UNESCO
- United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization: an agency of the United Nations that sponsors programmes to promote education, communication, the arts, etc
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Word Origin and History for unesco
UNESCO
acronym from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which was created in 1945.
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