Industrial heritage sites on the World Heritage List

6 properties are described in Wikidata as industrial heritage sites (or a close variant): 6 cultural. Most in Japan (3), Sweden (1), Finland (1).

Cultural 6

Site	Country	Year	Type	Criteria
Grimeton VLF transmitter	Sweden	2004	Cultural	ii iv
Sado Island Gold Mines	Japan	2024	Cultural	iv
Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining	Japan	2015	Cultural	ii iv
The Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Industrial Heritage	Japan	2014	Cultural	ii iv
Verla	Finland	1996	Cultural	iv
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex	Germany	2001	Cultural	ii iii

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