Key Documents of the Ramsar Convention

Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

The List of Contracting Parties is updated promptly by Ramsar Secretariat staff, and published here on the Web and made available in hard copy form with every change in the data included here. The data upon which the List is based are maintained under contract to the Ramsar Secretariat by the Ramsar Sites Database Service at Wetlands International in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

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The Contracting Parties in order of accession (English)

From Wetlands International's Ramsar Sites Database Service, http://www.wetlands.org/RSDB/default.htm.

The delineation of boundaries on this map is not authoritative, nor does it imply any opinion whatsoever on the part of Wetlands International or the Ramsar Convention Secretariat.

The current list of Contracting Parties can also be found on the Web site of the treaty depositary, UNESCO.

For further information, please contact the Ramsar Convention Bureau, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ). First posted 19 February 1996; the lists of Parties have been updated regularly since then.