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Places worth the detour in Bay of Plenty Region

Detourmap lists 37 places in Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand, across 1 kind of detour. Best known: Mount Ruapehu. 19 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature37
Places
37
Oldest
Lake Rotorua / Te Rotorua nui ā Kahumatamomoe 138,000 years ago
Little known
19 of 37
Share of New Zealand
10%

Bay of Plenty Region 37

All 37, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Bay of Plenty Region?

Mount Ruapehu. Active stratovolcano in central North Island, New Zealand. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Bay of Plenty Region?

37: 37 nature & landscapes. 19 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 Bay of Plenty Region?

Lake Rotorua / Te Rotorua nui ā Kahumatamomoe, dated to 138,000 years ago. 8 of the 37 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Bay of Plenty Region here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Bay of Plenty Region if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Bay of Plenty Region is a first-level division of New Zealand, 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.