Viking-Age Ring Fortresses
A World Heritage Site in Denmark, inscribed in 2023 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
- 2023
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (iii)(iv)
- Property area
- approx. 51 ha
- Component parts
- 5
- Coordinates
- 56.9953, 9.2547
- UNESCO ID
- 1660
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
- Forteresses circulaires de l’âge des Vikings
- Spanish
- Fortalezas circulares de la era vikinga
- Chinese
- 维京时代的环形堡垒群
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- Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church (1994)
- 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)
- Wadden Sea (2009)
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