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Places worth the detour in New Valley Governorate

Detourmap lists 32 places in New Valley Governorate, Egypt, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: White Desert. 27 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Archaeological25 Nature7
Places
32
Oldest
White Desert 2002
Little known
27 of 32
Share of Egypt
10%

New Valley Governorate 32

All 32, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in New Valley Governorate?

White Desert, 21st century. Natural protectorate north of the el-Farafra depression. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in New Valley Governorate?

32: 25 archaeological & historic sites and 7 nature & landscapes. 27 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 New Valley Governorate?

White Desert, dated to 2002. 1 of the 32 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as New Valley Governorate here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in New Valley Governorate if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. New Valley Governorate is a first-level division of Egypt, 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.