World Heritage Sites in Norway

Site nameEntered
Bryggen1979
Urnes Stave Church1979
Røros Mining Town and the Circumference1980
Rock Art of Alta1985
Vegaøyan - the Vega Archipelago2004
Struve Geodetic Arc2005
West Norwegian Fjords Geirangerfjord and Naeroyfjord2005

Tentative list of Norway
Islands of Jan Mayen and Bouvet as parts of a serial transnational nomination of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge system
Rjukan/Notodden and Odda/Tyssedal Industrial Heritage Sites, Hydro Electrical Powered Heavy Industries with associated U
Svalbard Archipelago
The Laponian Area - Tysfjord, the fjord of Hellemobotn and Rago
The Lofoten islands
VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Vestfold Ship Burials and Hyllestad Quernstone Quarries

Sites that have been nominated in the past
Eidsvoll building
Kjerringoy Trading Centre
Mollen
Valley of Heidal
Vingen

Bergen, Norway (July 2002)

Probably for the last time this summer, I went out to explore a new part of Europe. The choice fell upon Bergen, a city in southwestern Norway. I did what you have to do in Norway (glacier, fjord, boattrip), and I visited two world heritage sites: Bryggen and Urnes.

. Urnes Stave Church







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Norway statistics:
Number of WHS: 7
Number of Tentative sites: 6
Member of the World Heritage Committee in: 1983 1984 1985 1986 1988 2004 2005 2006 2007
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