Pasvik–Inari Trilateral Park is a continuously protected wilderness area in

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

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and

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. It consists of the Vätsäri Wilderness Area in Finland,

Øvre Pasvik National Park Øvre Pasvik National Park (, , ) is located in the southeastern part of the Pasvikdalen valley in southern Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Covering an area of , the national park is dominated by Siberian-like taiga consis ...

and

Øvre Pasvik Landscape Protection Area Øvre Pasvik Landscape Protection Area (), is located in the Pasvikdalen valley in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The landscape protection area was established in 2003, and covers an area of . At the same time the adjacent ...

in Norway and the joint Norwegian–Russian

Pasvik Nature Reserve Pasvik Nature Reserve (; ) is a bilateral nature reserve located along the Norway–Russia border. It is located in the Pasvikdalen valley in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway and in the Pechengsky District in Murmansk Oblas ...

. Pasvik–Inari Trilateral Park was established in several steps: Øvre Pasvik National Park was created in 1970, the Russian part of Pasvik Nature Reserve was established in 1992, and the Norwegian part created the following year. The twelve wilderness areas of Finland in Lapland were all created in 1991 to protect both the natural wilderness and the Sami culture. These areas combined cover an area of , where such activities as road construction and mining are prohibited, as is logging in some areas. In 2003 the national park was expanded and Øvre Pasvik Landscape Protection Area was established, creating a continually protected area spanning three countries.

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