Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Karelia
Detourmap lists 44 places in Karelia, Russia, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Lake Ladoga. 21 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 44
- Oldest
- Onega petroglyphs 3000 BC
- Little known
- 21 of 44
- Share of Russia
- 4%
Karelia 44
All 44, best known first.
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26.Onega petroglyphs
Archaeological · 30th century BC · Hidden gem
Archaeological site near Lake Onega, Russia
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44.Sona
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Human settlement in Pryazhinsky District, Republic of Karelia, Russia
Elsewhere in Russia
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Karelia?
Lake Ladoga. Freshwater lake in Russia and largest lake entirely in Europe. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Karelia?
44: 36 nature & landscapes and 8 archaeological & historic sites. 21 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 Karelia?
Onega petroglyphs, dated to 3000 BC. 6 of the 44 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Karelia here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Karelia if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Karelia is a first-level division of Russia, 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.