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This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage in Finland.

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Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
61.128221.51321 Elder Rauma	Cultural	(iv) (v)	Located on the Gulf of Bothnia, the town of Rauma is one of Finland's oldest ports. It is built around a Franciscan monastery of which there remains the Holy Cross Church, which dates from the mid-15th century.e century. It is an exceptional example of an old Nordic town built in wood. Although ravaged by fire at the end of the 17th centurye century, it has protected its ancient architectural heritage in local style.	UNESCO sheet
Struve Geodesic Arc (10 countries)	Cultural	(ii) (iii) (vi)		UNESCO sheet
60.14361111111124.9844444444442 Suomenlinna Fortress	Cultural	(iv)	Built in the second half of the 18th centurye century by the Swedes on a group of islands located at the entrance to the harbor of Helsinki, the fortress constitutes a particularly interesting example of European military architecture of the time.	UNESCO sheet
61.1176737521.77516873 Sammallahdenmäki Bronze Age burial site	Cultural	(iii) (iv)	The 30 or so granite burial mounds in the Bronze Age cemetery of Sammallahdenmäki provide exceptional testimony to the funeral practices and social and religious structures of northern Europe over three millennia ago.	UNESCO sheet
61.06199226.6400164 Verla Wood and Cardboard Processing Plant	Cultural	(iv)	The Verla Lumber Mill and associated residential area are an exceptional and remarkably well-preserved example of a small-scale rural industrial facility dedicated to the manufacture of pulp, paper and board. This type of installation which prospered in Northern Europe and North America in XIXe and at the start of XXe century has almost completely disappeared today.	UNESCO sheet
62.2525.1838888888895 Old Church of Petäjävesi	Cultural	(iv)	The Old Church in Petäjävesi, Central Finland, built of coniferous logs in 1763-1765, is a rural Lutheran church representative of an architectural tradition unique to eastern Scandinavia. The church combines the Renaissance design of a church with a centered plan and the older forms derived from the groin vaulted ceilings of the Gothic period.	UNESCO sheet
High Coast / Kvarken archipelago shared between Sweden and Finland	Natural	(viii)	The Kvarken Archipelago (Finland) and the Upper Coast (Sweden) are located in the Gulf of Bothnia, which extends the Baltic Sea to the north. The 5,600 islands and islets are mainly distinguished by the curious dented crested moraines, or Geer moraines, formed by the melting of the continental ice sheet formed between 10,000 and 24,000 years ago. The Kvarken Archipelago continuously rises from sea level due to rapid glacial-isostatic recovery, when a land previously compressed by the weight of a glacier rises after the latter has disappeared. of this recovery rate in the region, one of the highest in the world. With the advancing coastline, islands appear and unite, peninsulas grow, lakes form from bays and become swamps and peaty fens. The High Coast has also been largely shaped by the combination of glaciation processes, retreating glaciers and the emergence of new lands. Since the final retreat of the high coast ice, 9,600 years ago, the rise has been in the order of 285 m, which corresponds to the most significant obvious “rebound” ever observed. The High Coast is an exceptional site for understanding the important processes that formed glaciers and the earth's surface uplift zones.	UNESCO sheet
Criteria legend (i) Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. (ii) To testify to a considerable exchange of influences during a given period or in a specific cultural area, on the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or the creation of landscapes. (iii) To bring a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or disappeared civilization. (iv) To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates one or more significant periods in human history. (v) To be a prominent example of traditional human settlement, traditional use of land or sea. (vi) To be directly or materially associated with events or living traditions, ideas, beliefs or artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (vii) Represent natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. (viii) To be eminently representative examples of the great stages in the history of the Earth. (ix) To be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes underway in the evolution and development of ecosystems. (x) Contain the most representative natural habitats and the most important for conservation in situ of biological diversity.

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