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Sweden ratified the UNESCO World Heritage Convention on 22 January 1985, and its inscribed sites comprise predominantly cultural properties, with one natural landscape and one mixed site.

Common themes in its cultural nominations include medieval and Viking-era trading centres (Visby, Birka), traditional timber architecture (Gammelstad church town, Hälsingland farmhouses), industrial and technological heritage (Engelsberg Ironworks, Grimeton Radio Station), and modernist design (Skogskyrkogården cemetery). The natural and mixed listings—High Coast/Kvarken and Laponian Area—showcase unique post‑glacial geomorphology and the enduring cultural practices of the Sámi people

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