Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand
A World Heritage Site in New Zealand, inscribed in 1990 as a Natural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Asia and the Pacific
- Inscribed
- 1990
- Category
- Natural Site
- Criteria
- (vii)(viii)(ix)(x)
- Property area
- approx. 26,000 km² (2,600,000 ha)
- Component parts
- 1
- Coordinates
- -45.0360, 167.3196
- UNESCO ID
- 551
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
- Te Wahipounamu – zone sud-ouest de la Nouvelle-Zélande
- Spanish
- Te Wahipounamu – Zona sudoccidental de Nueva Zelandia
- Chinese
- 蒂瓦希普纳穆-新西兰西南部地区
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