Sweden
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Country Quickfacts
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Krona - SEK
- Spoken languages:
- Swedish, Northern Sami, Finnish
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: C, F)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- ISO 2-Letter code:
- SE
- Internet top level domain:
- .se
- Country phone prefix:
- +46
- Local Time (capital):
- Timezone:
- UTC/GMT offset: hours
Map of Swedish Unesco Heritage Sites
Click any of the markers above to learn more about the corresponding heritage site and learn more about Sweden in Europe. The list below is ordered by name. The oldest site is Royal Domain of Drottningholm. On the list since 1991. The youngest site is Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland. On the list since 2012.
| Name | Since |
|---|---|
| Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland The southern part of the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea is dominated by a vast limestone plateau. Human beings have lived here for some five thousand years and adapted their way of life to the phy... |
2000 |
| Birka and Hovgården The Birka archaeological site is located on Björkö Island in Lake Mälar and was occupied in the 9th and 10th centuries. Hovgården is situated on the neighbouring island of Adelsö. Together, they ... |
1993 |
| Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå Gammelstad, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, is the best-preserved example of a 'church village', a unique kind of village formerly found throughout northern Scandinavia. The 424 wooden houses, hud... |
1996 |
| Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland Seven timber houses are listed in this site located in the east of Sweden, representing the zenith of a regional timber building tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages. They reflect the prosperi... |
2012 |
| Engelsberg Ironworks Sweden's production of superior grades of iron made it a leader in this field in the 17th and 18th centuries. This site is the best-preserved and most complete example of this type of Swedish ironwork... |
1993 |
| Grimeton Radio Station, Varberg The Varberg Radio Station at Grimeton in southern Sweden (built 1922–24) is an exceptionally well-preserved monument to early wireless transatlantic communication. It consists of the transmitter equ... |
2004 |
| Hanseatic Town of Visby A former Viking site on the island of Gotland, Visby was the main centre of the Hanseatic League in the Baltic from the 12th to the 14th century. Its 13th-century ramparts and more than 200 warehouses... |
1995 |
| Laponian Area The Arctic Circle region of northern Sweden is the home of the Saami, or Lapp people. It is the largest area in the world (and one of the last) with an ancestral way of life based on the seasonal move... |
1996 |
| Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun The enormous mining excavation known as the Great Pit at Falun is the most striking feature of a landscape that illustrates the activity of copper production in this region since at least the 13th cen... |
2001 |
| Naval Port of Karlskrona Karlskrona is an outstanding example of a late-17th-century European planned naval city. The original plan and many of the buildings have survived intact, along with installations that illustrate its ... |
1998 |
| Rock Carvings in Tanum The rock carvings in Tanum, in the north of Bohuslän, are a unique artistic achievement not only for their rich and varied motifs (depictions of humans and animals, weapons, boats and other subjects)... |
1994 |
| Royal Domain of Drottningholm The Royal Domain of Drottningholm stands on an island in Lake Mälar in a suburb of Stockholm. With its castle, perfectly preserved theatre (built in 1766), Chinese pavilion and gardens, it is the fin... |
1991 |
| Skogskyrkogården This Stockholm cemetery was created between 1917 and 1920 by two young architects, Asplund and Lewerentz, on the site of former gravel pits overgrown with pine trees. The design blends vegetation and ... |
1994 |