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Sweden ratified the World Heritage Convention on 22 January, 1985. As of August 2010, it has 14 World Heritage Sites, of which 12 are in the cultural category, one in the natural category, and another one in the mixed category. Sweden also has another three sites on the World Heritage Tentative List.

World Heritage Sites in Sweden

Church at the Royal Domain of Drottningholm, Sweden
Church at the Royal Domain of Drottningholm, Sweden
Author: Holger.Ellgaard (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported)

  1. Royal Domain of Drottningholm
  2. Birka and Hovgården
  3. Engelsberg Ironworks
  4. Rock Carvings in Tanum
  5. Skogskyrkogården
  6. Hanseatic Town of Visby
  7. Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå
  8. Laponian Area
  9. Naval Port of Karlskrona
  10. Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
  11. High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
  12. Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun
  13. Varberg Radio Station
  14. Struve Geodetic Arc

Sites in Sweden on the World Heritage Tentative List

  1. The Orkesta and Markim area (1995)
  2. Farms of Hälsingland, Hälsingland countryside (2005)
  3. The Rise of Systematic Biology (2009)

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This website celebrating the World Heritage Sites is a hobby website that is not in any way connected to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and is not associated in any way with it. Any mention of UNESCO on this website is intended to describe the inscription and recognition of the World Heritage Sites by the institution, and does not in any way imply that UNESCO endorse the description and information provided.