Rock Carvings in Tanum
A World Heritage Site in Sweden, 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
- Sweden
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Inscribed
- 1994
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (i)(iii)(iv)
- Property area
- approx. 4,132 ha
- Component parts
- 1
- Coordinates
- 58.7011, 11.3411
- UNESCO ID
- 557
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
- Gravures rupestres de Tanum
- Spanish
- Grabados rupestres de Tanum
- Chinese
- 塔努姆的岩刻画
Other World Heritage Sites in Sweden
- Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland (2000)
- Birka and Hovgården (1993)
- Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå (1996)
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland (2012)
- Engelsberg Ironworks (1993)
- Grimeton Radio Station, Varberg (2004)
- Hanseatic Town of Visby (1995)
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago (2000)
- Laponian Area (1996)
- Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun (2001)
- Naval Port of Karlskrona (1998)
- Royal Domain of Drottningholm (1991)
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