Dutch Water Defence Lines
A World Heritage Site in Netherlands, inscribed in 1996 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Netherlands
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Inscribed
- 1996
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (ii)(iv)(v)
- Property area
- approx. 554 km² (55,405 ha)
- Component parts
- 20
- Coordinates
- 52.5550, 4.7914
- UNESCO ID
- 759
Source: factual data from UNESCO DataHub (whc001 / CC BY-SA 4.0). This site uses only factual information such as names, countries, inscription years and categories. No official UNESCO/WHC descriptions, photographs or logos are used.
Names in other languages
- French
- Lignes d’eau de défense hollandaises
- Spanish
- Líneas de agua de defensa holandesas
- Chinese
- 荷兰水防线
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- Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout (1997)
- Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House) (2000)
- Schokland and Surroundings (1995)
- Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht (2010)
- Van Nellefabriek (2014)
- Wadden Sea (2009)
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