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Virgin Komi Forests
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Key facts
- Location
- Ural Mountains , Komi Republic , Russia
- Includes
- Yugyd Va (Clear Water) National Park Pechoro-Ilychskiy Nature Reserve Yaksha Forest District
- Criteria
- Natural: (vii), (ix)
- Inscription
- 1995 (19th Session )
- Area
- 2,645,800 ha (10,215 sq mi)
- Buffer zone
- 650,000 ha (2,500 sq mi)
- Website
- http://www.vfk.komi.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- World Heritage Site
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Komi Republic
- Area
- 3280000
- Location
- Ural Mountains
- Official website
- www.vfk.komi.com
- Image
- Four herous01.JPG
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- Commons category
- Komi Virgin Forests
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
- inception
- 1995-00-00
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Virgin Komi Forests (Komi: Комилӧн вӧрзьӧдлытӧм вӧръяс, Russian: Девственные леса Коми) is a natural UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Northern Ural Mountains of the Komi Republic, Russia. At 32,800 km it is the largest virgin forest in Europe.
Geography and ecology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Virgin Komi Forests” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.