Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Northeastern Region
Detourmap lists 38 places in Northeastern Region, Iceland, across 1 kind of detour. Best known: Dettifoss. 18 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 38
- Oldest
- Askja 1978
- Little known
- 18 of 38
- Share of Iceland
- 10%
Northeastern Region 38
All 38, best known first.
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5.Askja
Nature · 20th century · Renowned
Stratovolcano situated in a remote part of the central highlands of Iceland
Elsewhere in Iceland
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Northeastern Region?
Dettifoss. Waterfall. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Northeastern Region?
38: 38 nature & landscapes. 18 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 Northeastern Region?
Askja, dated to 1978. 1 of the 38 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Northeastern Region here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Northeastern Region if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Northeastern Region is a first-level division of Iceland, 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.