List of World Heritage Sites in Sweden

Drottningholm Palace

Birka & Hovgården

Engelsberg Ironworks

Tanumshede

Skogskyrkogården

Visby

Gammelstad

Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland

Laponian area

Karlskrona

Southern Öland

High Coast

Great Copper Mountain

Varberg Radio Station

Struve Geodetic Arc

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Location of World Heritage Sites within Sweden. Red dots indicate cultural sites, the green dot is the natural site, the yellow dot is the mixed site, and the small blue dots indicate the sites of the Struve Geodetic Arc.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972.^[1] Cultural heritage consists of monuments (such as architectural works, monumental sculptures, or inscriptions), groups of buildings, and sites (including archaeological sites). Natural features (consisting of physical and biological formations), geological and physiographical formations (including habitats of threatened species of animals and plants), and natural sites which are important from the point of view of science, conservation or natural beauty, are defined as natural heritage.^[2] The Kingdom of Sweden accepted the convention on 22 January 1985, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list.

As of 2020, there are fifteen World Heritage Sites in Sweden, including thirteen cultural sites, one natural site and one mixed site.^[3] The first Swedish site added to the list was the Royal Domain of Drottningholm, inscribed at the 15th session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Carthage, Tunisia, in 1991.^[4] The most recent site added to the current list is the Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland, inscribed in 2012.^[3]

There are two transnational sites. The High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago is shared with Finland, while the Struve Geodetic Arc is shared with nine other countries.^[3] As of 2020^[update], Sweden also has one site on the tentative list.^[3]