World heritages with high natural values
UNESCO has listed 14 Swedish sites as being essential to mankind, world heritages. Three of them are very rich in natural assets.
The three areas are:
- The Laponia Area in the far north. This is one of Western Europe's lastgreat wildernesses and is the best preserved examples of a nomadic area with the Saami people living in the area. The area comprises four national parks and two nature reserves covering almost one million hectares in total.
- The High Coast is a magnificent undulating landscape on the Bothnia Sea coast. The area has the world record in land elevation that has been in progress since the Ice Age.
- Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland, on the long, narrow limestone island of Öland in the Baltic Sea, where, even today, the farming practices of the Middle Ages are very much in evidence. The land is still grazed, which does much to explain the rich and characteristic flora.
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