Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Jordan
Detourmap lists 62 places in Jordan, across 2 kinds of detour; archaeological & historic sites are the largest group (41). Best known: Petra. 41 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 62
- Oldest here
- Ayn Ghazal 7300 BC
- Little known
- 41 of 62
- City pages
- 2
By city
2 cities in Jordan have enough places for a page of their own.
Archaeological & historic sites in Jordan 41
Nature & landscapes in Jordan 21
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Jordan?
Petra, 8th century BC. Ancient rock-cut historical city in Jordan. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Jordan?
62: 41 archaeological & historic sites and 21 nature & landscapes. 41 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 Jordan?
Ayn Ghazal, dated to 7300 BC. 10 of the 62 places here carry a founding date at all, and 7 of those predate the year 1000.
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.