Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church
A World Heritage Site in Denmark, inscribed in 1994 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Denmark
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Inscribed
- 1994
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (iii)
- Property area
- approx. 12.7 ha
- Component parts
- 1
- Coordinates
- 55.7564, 9.4200
- UNESCO ID
- 697
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Names in other languages
- French
- Tumulus, pierres runiques et église de Jelling
- Spanish
- Túmulos, piedras rúnicas e iglesia de Jelling
- Chinese
- 耶灵墓地、古北欧石刻和教堂
Other World Heritage Sites in Denmark
- Aasivissuit – Nipisat. Inuit Hunting Ground between Ice and Sea (2018)
- Ilulissat Icefjord (2004)
- Kronborg Castle (2000)
- Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap (2017)
- Møns Klint (2025)
- Moravian Church Settlements (2015)
- Roskilde Cathedral (1995)
- Stevns Klint (2014)
- The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfjord – Evolution and Climate Adaptation in the Earliest Eocene (2026)
- The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand (2015)
- Viking-Age Ring Fortresses (2023)
- Wadden Sea (2009)
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