Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Canada
Detourmap lists 882 places in Canada, across 2 kinds of detour; nature & landscapes are the largest group (740). Best known: Mount Logan. 585 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 882
- Oldest here
- Sudbury Basin 1.85 billion years ago
- Little known
- 585 of 882
- City pages
- 5
By region
9 first-level divisions of Canada have enough places for a page of their own.
By city
5 cities in Canada have enough places for a page of their own.
Nature & landscapes in Canada 740
Archaeological & historic sites in Canada 142
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1.L'Anse aux Meadows
Archaeological · Renowned
Archaeological site on the island of Newfoundland, Canada
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4.Dartmouth
Archaeological · 18th century · Notable
Urban community and former city in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Canada?
Mount Logan. Highest mountain in Canada, in Yukon. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Canada?
882: 740 nature & landscapes and 142 archaeological & historic sites. 585 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Canada?
Sudbury Basin, dated to 1.85 billion years ago. 137 of the 882 places here carry a founding date at all, and 2 of those predate the year 1000.
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.