Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Xinjiang
Detourmap lists 41 places in Xinjiang, China, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: K2. 15 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 41
- Oldest
- Ah-ai Grotto 800
- Little known
- 15 of 41
- Share of China
- 8%
Xinjiang 41
All 41, best known first.
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30.Ah-ai Grotto
Nature · 8th century · Hidden gem
Xinjiang Buddhist grottoes, discovered by local sheepherder in C.E.1999
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32.Rawak Stupa
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Buddhist stupa located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in China
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34.Tuyoq caves
Nature · Hidden gem
Site of Buddhist monasteries in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China
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35.Qigexing Buddhist Temple Ruins
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Buddhist cave–temple site in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China
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40.Tughluq Timur Mausoleum
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Cemetery in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, China
Elsewhere in China
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Xinjiang?
K2. 2nd-highest mountain on Earth. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Xinjiang?
41: 30 nature & landscapes and 11 archaeological & historic sites. 15 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 Xinjiang?
Ah-ai Grotto, dated to 800. 2 of the 41 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Xinjiang here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Xinjiang if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Xinjiang is a first-level division of China, 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.