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Places worth the detour in West Coast Region

Detourmap lists 25 places in West Coast Region, New Zealand, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Westland Tai Poutini National Park. 16 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

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Places
25
Oldest
Lyell 1862
Little known
16 of 25
Share of New Zealand
7%

West Coast Region 25

All 25, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in West Coast Region?

Westland Tai Poutini National Park, 20th century. National park in 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 West Coast Region?

25: 21 nature & landscapes and 4 archaeological & historic sites. 16 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 West Coast Region?

Lyell, dated to 1862. 4 of the 25 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as West Coast Region here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in West Coast Region if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. West Coast 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.