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Places worth the detour in Vestland

Detourmap lists 233 places in Vestland, Norway, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Nærøyfjord. 184 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature226 Archaeological7
Places
233
Oldest
Selje Abbey 1001
Little known
184 of 233
Share of Norway
22%

Vestland 233

The 120 best known of 233. The other 113 are on the map and on the Norway pages.

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Questions about this page

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

Nærøyfjord. Fjord in Vestland county, Norway. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Vestland?

233: 226 nature & landscapes and 7 archaeological & historic sites. 184 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 Vestland?

Selje Abbey, dated to 1001. 6 of the 233 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Vestland here?

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