Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Judea and Samaria Area
Detourmap lists 49 places in Judea and Samaria Area, Israel, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: City of David. 29 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 49
- Oldest
- Acra 200 BC
- Little known
- 29 of 49
- Share of Israel
- 12%
Judea and Samaria Area 49
All 49, best known first.
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2.Shechem
Archaeological · Notable
Ancient Canaanite and Israelite city in central Samaria in the West Bank
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12.Mount Herzl Plaza
Archaeological · Notable
Public square in Jerusalem, site of national ceremonies and adjacent to national military and civilian cemeteries
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20.Kathisma Church
Archaeological · 5th century · Notable
5th-century Byzantine church in the Holy Land
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23.Southern Wall
Archaeological · 1st century BC · Hidden gem
A wall at the southern end of the Temple Mount
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29.Eshtemoa synagogue
Archaeological · Hidden gem
The synagogue of the Jewish community Eshtemoa in the Land of Israel
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35.Emek Tzurim National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Israeli national park located in East Jerusalem
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40.Wilson's Arch
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Ancient stone arch that is part of Jerusalem's Western Wall
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42.Khirbet Jamjum
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archeological site located at the western part of Gush Etzion
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46.Qubur Bani Isra'il
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in West Bank, State of Palestine
Elsewhere in Israel
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Judea and Samaria Area?
City of David. Archaeological site in Jerusalem. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Judea and Samaria Area?
49: 39 archaeological & historic sites and 10 nature & landscapes. 29 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 Judea and Samaria Area?
Acra, dated to 200 BC. 6 of the 49 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Judea and Samaria Area here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Judea and Samaria Area if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Judea and Samaria Area is a first-level division of Israel, 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.