World heritages with high natural values

The three areas are:

• The Laponia Area in the far north above the Arctic Circle. This is one of Western Europe's last great nature area and is the best preserved examples of a nomadic reindeer husbandry, managed by the Saami people living in the area. The area comprises four national parks and two nature reserves covering almost one million hectares in total.
• The High Coast/Kvarken Archipelago is a magnificent undulating landscape on the Bothnia Sea coast. The area holds the world record for land elevation that has been in progress since the Ice Age. Kvarken Archipelago has 5,600 islands feature unusual ridges washboard moraines formed by the melting continental ice sheet 10,000 years ago.
• Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland, on the long, narrow limestone island of Öland in the Baltic Sea, where, even today, the farming practices of the Middle Ages are very much in evidence. The land is still grazed, which does much to explain the rich and characteristic flora.