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Places worth the detour in British Columbia

Detourmap lists 231 places in British Columbia, Canada, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Yoho National Park. 171 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature218 Archaeological13
Places
231
Oldest
Barkerville 1862
Little known
171 of 231
Share of Canada
26%

British Columbia 231

The 120 best known of 231. The other 111 are on the map and on the Canada pages.

Elsewhere in Canada

Quebec130 Alberta113 Nunavut97 Ontario89 Newfoundland and Labrador49 Nova Scotia38 Northwest Territories32 Yukon28

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in British Columbia?

Yoho National Park, 19th century. National park of Canada located in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in British Columbia?

231: 218 nature & landscapes and 13 archaeological & historic sites. 171 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 British Columbia?

Barkerville, dated to 1862. 14 of the 231 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as British Columbia here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in British Columbia if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. British Columbia is a first-level division of Canada, the same level as a state or a province.

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.