Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Lebanon
Detourmap lists 40 places in Lebanon, across 2 kinds of detour; archaeological & historic sites are the largest group (25). Best known: Byblos. 25 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 40
- Oldest here
- Byblos 8000 BC
- Little known
- 25 of 40
- City page
- 1
By city
One city in Lebanon has enough places for a page of its own.
Archaeological & historic sites in Lebanon 25
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2.Byblos
Archaeological · 80th century BC · Iconic
Mediterranean city in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon, a main Canaanite-Phoenician city
Nature & landscapes in Lebanon 15
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4.Jeita Grotto
Nature · Notable
System of two separate, but interconnected, karstic limestone caves 18 km north of Beirut
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Lebanon?
Byblos, 80th century BC. Mediterranean city in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon, a main Canaanite-Phoenician city. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Lebanon?
40: 25 archaeological & historic sites and 15 nature & landscapes. 25 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 Lebanon?
Byblos, dated to 8000 BC. 5 of the 40 places here carry a founding date at all, and 2 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.