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Places worth the detour in Nordland

Detourmap lists 119 places in Nordland, Norway, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Hinnøya. 90 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature115 Archaeological4
Places
119
Oldest
Børgefjell National Park 1963
Little known
90 of 119
Share of Norway
11%

Nordland 119

All 119, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Nordland?

Hinnøya. Large island of Troms and Nordland, Norway. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Nordland?

119: 115 nature & landscapes and 4 archaeological & historic sites. 90 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 Nordland?

Børgefjell National Park, dated to 1963. 8 of the 119 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Nordland here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Nordland if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Nordland is a first-level division of Norway, 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.