By February 15, Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay ranked third among the 25 World Heritage Sites in category G in the second round of the campaign to select the new Natural Wonders of the World, according to the organiser, Newopenworld.

In the table, Ha Long Bay is right below Australia and Papua New Guinea’s Great Barrief Reef and Bangladesh’s beach Cox’s Bazaar coral reef.

In the second round, Newopenworld divided the 261 nominees, selected in the first round into seven categories from A to G, corresponding to seven types of landscape such as scenery; islands and archipelagos; mountains and volcanoes; caves, stone structures and valleys; forests and national parks, natural conservation sites; lakes, rivers and waterfalls; beautiful beaches.

Every week, Newopenworld will update World Heritage Sites with the most overwhelming vote on their website at www.new7wonders.com.