High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
A World Heritage Site in Sweden / Finland, inscribed in 2000 as a Natural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Sweden / Finland
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Inscribed
- 2000
- Category
- Natural Site
- Criteria
- (viii)
- Property area
- approx. 3,369 km² (336,900 ha)
- Component parts
- 3
- Transboundary property
- Yes
- Coordinates
- 63.3000, 21.3000
- UNESCO ID
- 898
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
- Haute Côte / Archipel de Kvarken
- Spanish
- Costa Alta / Archipiélago Kvarken
- Chinese
- 高海岸∕瓦尔肯群岛
Other World Heritage Sites in Sweden / Finland
- Aalto Works (2026)
- Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland (2000)
- Birka and Hovgården (1993)
- Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki (1999)
- Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå (1996)
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland (2012)
- Engelsberg Ironworks (1993)
- Fortress of Suomenlinna (1991)
- Grimeton Radio Station, Varberg (2004)
- Hanseatic Town of Visby (1995)
- Laponian Area (1996)
- Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun (2001)
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