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Places worth the detour in Central Java

Detourmap lists 33 places in Central Java, Indonesia, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Borobudur Temple. 17 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature19 Archaeological14
Places
33
Oldest
Plumpungan Inscription 750
Little known
17 of 33
Share of Indonesia
9%

Central Java 33

All 33, best known first.

Elsewhere in Indonesia

East Java33 East Nusa Tenggara26 West Java26

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Central Java?

Borobudur Temple, 8th century. Buddhist temple in Java, Indonesia. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Central Java?

33: 19 nature & landscapes and 14 archaeological & historic sites. 17 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 Central Java?

Plumpungan Inscription, dated to 750. 5 of the 33 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Central Java here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Central Java if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Central Java is a first-level division of Indonesia, 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.