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Hwaseong Fortress

Cultural World Heritage property in South Korea, inscribed in 1997 under criteria (ii), (iii).

Hwaseong Fortress, South Korea
Photo: Lance Vanlewen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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State Party
South Korea
Year of inscription
1997
Criteria
iiiii
Location
Suwon
What it is
palace, fortress
Official website
swcf.or.kr/english/
Reference
WHC 817 · Wikidata Q482423

Why it is on the List

(ii)Shows a major exchange of ideas — in architecture, technology, art, town planning or landscape design — over time or across a cultural area.(iii)A unique or exceptional witness to a cultural tradition or a civilisation, living or vanished.
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Straight-line distance between the recorded coordinates.

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