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Places worth the detour in Northwest Territories

Detourmap lists 32 places in Northwest Territories, Canada, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Great Slave Lake. 17 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature26 Archaeological6
Places
32
Oldest
Nahanni National Park Reserve 1976
Little known
17 of 32
Share of Canada
4%

Northwest Territories 32

All 32, best known first.

Elsewhere in Canada

British Columbia231 Quebec130 Alberta113 Nunavut97 Ontario89 Newfoundland and Labrador49 Nova Scotia38 Yukon28

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Northwest Territories?

Great Slave Lake. Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Northwest Territories?

32: 26 nature & landscapes and 6 archaeological & historic sites. 17 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 Northwest Territories?

Nahanni National Park Reserve, dated to 1976. 4 of the 32 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Northwest Territories here?

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