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Places worth the detour in Rhineland-Palatinate

Detourmap lists 83 places in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Loreley. 70 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature47 Archaeological36
Places
83
Oldest
Drususstein 1
Little known
70 of 83
Share of Germany
6%

Rhineland-Palatinate 83

All 83, best known first.

Elsewhere in Germany

Bavaria342 Lower Saxony158 Baden-Württemberg136 North Rhine-Westphalia92 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern91 Saxony90 Schleswig-Holstein82 Hesse59 Brandenburg48 Saxony-Anhalt46 Thuringia42

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Rhineland-Palatinate?

Loreley. Rock on the eastern bank of the River Rhine in Germany. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Rhineland-Palatinate?

83: 47 nature & landscapes and 36 archaeological & historic sites. 70 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 Rhineland-Palatinate?

Drususstein, dated to 1. 10 of the 83 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Rhineland-Palatinate here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Rhineland-Palatinate if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Rhineland-Palatinate 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.