Sweden

Properties inscribed on the World Heritage List (15)

Cultural

• Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland (2000)
• Birka and Hovgården (1993)
• Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå (1996)
• Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland (2012)
• Engelsberg Ironworks (1993)
• Hanseatic Town of Visby (1995)
• Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun (2001)
• Naval Port of Karlskrona (1998)
• Rock Carvings in Tanum (1994)
• Royal Domain of Drottningholm (1991)
• Skogskyrkogården (1994)
• Struve Geodetic Arc (2005)
• Varberg Radio Station (2004)

Natural

• High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago (2000)

Mixed

• Laponian Area (1996)

Properties submitted on the Tentative List (1)

• The Rise of Systematic Biology (2009)

Activities

• World Heritage Youth Forum (2001)

News

• First European Marine World Heritage Sites conference commits to strong regional cooperation Friday, April 26, 2013
• Four natural and four cultural properties added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List on Sunday Sunday, July 1, 2012
• Nine new members elected to World Heritage Committee Friday, October 26, 2007

Events

• Conference “40 years of World Heritage Convention” Oct 25, 2012
• World Rock Art Archives to meet in Tanum May 13, 2011 - May 15, 2011
• International Expert meeting on World Heritage and the Arctic Nov 30, 2007 - Dec 1, 2007

• H. E. Mr Anders Ahnlid
  Ambassador Permanent Delegate
  Permanent Delegation of the Kingdom of Sweden to UNESCO
  
• Swedish National Commission for UNESCO (Svenska Unescorådet )
  Web Site: http://www.unesco.se