Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Lapland
Detourmap lists 42 places in Lapland, Finland, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Lake Inari. 19 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 42
- Oldest
- Malla Strict Nature Reserve 1938
- Little known
- 19 of 42
- Share of Finland
- 17%
Lapland 42
All 42, best known first.
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4.Urho Kekkonen National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
National park in Lapland region, Finland
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5.Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park
Nature · 21st century · Notable
National park in Lapland region, Finland
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6.Pyhä-Luosto National Park
Nature · 21st century · Notable
National park in Lapland region, Finland
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22.Kevo Strict Nature Reserve
Nature · 20th century · Notable
Strict nature reserve in Utsjoki, Finland
Elsewhere in Finland
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Lapland?
Lake Inari. Lake in Inari, Finland. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Lapland?
42: 38 nature & landscapes and 4 archaeological & historic sites. 19 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 Lapland?
Malla Strict Nature Reserve, dated to 1938. 11 of the 42 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Lapland here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Lapland if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Lapland is a first-level division of Finland, 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.