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Beaches worth the detour

1,652 beaches on Detourmap, in 90 countries — beaches, coves and sea caves. The most famous is Curonian Spit in Russia. The 96 best known are below.

On the map
1,652
Countries
90
With a page
27
Little known
1,549 of 1,652

Beaches by country

Every country with at least one. Those with 8 or more have their own page.

Beaches by continent

Europe936 Asia184 North America264 South America120 Oceania103

Questions about this page

What counts as beaches here?

Beaches, coves and sea caves. They are a subset of nature & landscapes on this atlas, split out because it is how people look for them.

Which country has the most beaches?

Spain (559), United States (189) and Portugal (92). That ranks how much Wikidata records rather than what exists on the ground.

What is the most famous?

Curonian Spit in Russia. Dune spit in Lithuania and Russia.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.

Other kinds of detour

Waterfalls1,807 Caves1,679 Volcanoes1,632 Ghost towns1,494 Macabre sites2,188 Nature Archaeological