Wadden Sea
A World Heritage Site in Denmark / Netherlands / Germany, inscribed in 2009 as a Natural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Denmark / Netherlands / Germany
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Inscribed
- 2009
- Category
- Natural Site
- Criteria
- (viii)(ix)(x)
- Property area
- approx. 11,434 km² (1,143,403 ha)
- Component parts
- 8
- Transboundary property
- Yes
- Coordinates
- 53.5286, 8.5561
- UNESCO ID
- 1314
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
- La mer des Wadden
- Spanish
- Mar de las Wadden
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- Archaeological Border complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke (2018)
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- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe (2013)
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates (2008)
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- Classical Weimar (1998)
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