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Nature & landscapes worth the detour

There are 25,830 nature & landscapes on Detourmap, spread over 230 countries — parks, mountains, waterfalls, caves, volcanoes and coves. The most famous is Mount Everest in Nepal; United States has the deepest bench (2,545). The 96 best known are below.

On the map
25,830
Countries
230
Oldest
Sudbury Basin 1.85 billion years ago
Little known
16,084 of 25,830

Nature & landscapes by country

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

Inside nature & landscapes

The sub-kinds with enough entries for a page of their own.

Waterfalls1,807 Caves1,679 Volcanoes1,632 Beaches1,652

Other kinds of detour

Archaeological

Nature & landscapes by continent

Europe13,548 Asia3,995 Africa1,095 North America3,954 South America1,076 Oceania1,354

Questions about this page

What counts as nature & landscapes on Detourmap?

Parks, mountains, waterfalls, caves, volcanoes and coves. In Wikidata terms it is a fixed set of classes, so the layer is the same rule applied everywhere rather than a judgement made country by country.

Which country has the most nature & landscapes?

United States (2,545), United Kingdom (1,381) and Spain (1,186). That ranks how much Wikidata records, not what exists: a country whose sites are thinly documented in Wikipedia sits lower here than it should.

What is the most famous of them?

Mount Everest in Nepal. Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

Which is the oldest?

Sudbury Basin, dated to 1.85 billion years ago. 2,910 of the 25,830 carry a founding date at all — for most natural features there is nothing to date.

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.