Laponian Area

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World Heritage Site cultural landscape natural landscape

The Laponian Area is a vast UNESCO World Heritage site in northern Sweden renowned for its largely untouched Arctic landscape and its cultural significance as one of the largest areas of traditional reindeer herding by the Indigenous Sámi people.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Laponia 2
Laponian Area canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf World Heritage Site ⓘ
cultural landscape ⓘ
natural landscape ⓘ
associatedWith Sámi people NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sámi reindeer herding ⓘ
coManagedBy Sámi communities NERFINISHED ⓘ
contains Muddus National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ
Padjelanta National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sarek National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sjaunja Nature Reserve NERFINISHED ⓘ
Stora Sjöfallet National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ
Stubba Nature Reserve NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sulitelma area NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tjuoltadalen area NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent Europe ⓘ
country Sweden ⓘ
ecosystemType alpine ⓘ
boreal ⓘ
subarctic ⓘ
governedBy Swedish Environmental Protection Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasConservationStatus protected area ⓘ
heritageType living cultural landscape ⓘ
knownFor Indigenous Sámi culture ⓘ
boreal forests ⓘ
largely untouched Arctic landscape ⓘ
mountain tundra ⓘ
traditional reindeer herding ⓘ
wetlands ⓘ
languageCommunity Sámi languages ⓘ
locatedIn Arctic Circle NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lapland NERFINISHED ⓘ
northern Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf Scandinavian Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ
Swedish Lapland NERFINISHED ⓘ
recognizedAs one of the largest areas of traditional reindeer herding in the world ⓘ
tourismType cultural tourism ⓘ
nature-based tourism ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageCategory cultural ⓘ
natural ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria (iii) ⓘ
(ix) ⓘ
(v) ⓘ
(vii) ⓘ
(viii) ⓘ
(x) ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteSince 1996 ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageStatus mixed cultural and natural ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Muddus National Park → partOf → Laponian Area ⓘ
this entity surface form: Laponia
Muddus National Park → UNESCOWorldHeritageContext → Laponian Area ⓘ
World Heritage Sites in Sweden → hasMember → Laponian Area ⓘ
Padjelanta National Park → partOf → Laponian Area ⓘ
this entity surface form: Laponia