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Places worth the detour in Newfoundland and Labrador

Detourmap lists 49 places in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: L'Anse aux Meadows. 30 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature41 Archaeological8
Places
49
Oldest
Province of Avalon 1621
Little known
30 of 49
Share of Canada
6%

Newfoundland and Labrador 49

All 49, best known first.

Elsewhere in Canada

British Columbia231 Quebec130 Alberta113 Nunavut97 Ontario89 Nova Scotia38 Northwest Territories32 Yukon28

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Newfoundland and Labrador?

L'Anse aux Meadows. Archaeological site on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Newfoundland and Labrador?

49: 41 nature & landscapes and 8 archaeological & historic sites. 30 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 Newfoundland and Labrador?

Province of Avalon, dated to 1621. 13 of the 49 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Newfoundland and Labrador here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Newfoundland and Labrador if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Newfoundland and Labrador 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.