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Places worth the detour in Quebec

Detourmap lists 130 places in Quebec, Canada, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Anticosti Island. 87 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature94 Archaeological36
Places
130
Oldest
Fort Charlesbourg Royal 1541
Little known
87 of 130
Share of Canada
15%

Quebec 130

The 120 best known of 130. The other 10 are on the map and on the Canada pages.

Elsewhere in Canada

British Columbia231 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 Quebec?

Anticosti Island. Island in Quebec, Canada. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Quebec?

130: 94 nature & landscapes and 36 archaeological & historic sites. 87 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 Quebec?

Fort Charlesbourg Royal, dated to 1541. 42 of the 130 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Quebec here?

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