Detourmap
Places worth the detour in China
Detourmap lists 538 places in China, across 2 kinds of detour; nature & landscapes are the largest group (403). Best known: Mount Kailash. 353 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 538
- Oldest here
- Jiahu 7000 BC
- Little known
- 353 of 538
- City pages
- 2
By region
3 first-level divisions of China have enough places for a page of their own.
By city
2 cities in China have enough places for a page of their own.
Nature & landscapes in China 403
Archaeological & historic sites in China 135
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2.Terracotta Army
Archaeological · 3rd century BC · Iconic
Collection of ancient Chinese military statues
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in China?
Mount Kailash. Mountain in Tibet, China. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in China?
538: 403 nature & landscapes and 135 archaeological & historic sites. 353 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 China?
Jiahu, dated to 7000 BC. 35 of the 538 places here carry a founding date at all, and 6 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.