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Places worth the detour in North Rhine-Westphalia

Detourmap lists 92 places in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Neandertal. 77 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Archaeological55 Nature37
Places
92
Oldest
Babilonie 300
Little known
77 of 92
Share of Germany
7%

North Rhine-Westphalia 92

All 92, best known first.

Elsewhere in Germany

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in North Rhine-Westphalia?

Neandertal. Valley in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in North Rhine-Westphalia?

92: 55 archaeological & historic sites and 37 nature & landscapes. 77 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 North Rhine-Westphalia?

Babilonie, dated to 300. 27 of the 92 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as North Rhine-Westphalia here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in North Rhine-Westphalia if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. North Rhine-Westphalia is a first-level division of Germany, 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.