Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Western Cape
Detourmap lists 50 places in Western Cape, South Africa, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Cape of Good Hope. 29 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 50
- Oldest
- Koopmans-de Wet House 1914
- Little known
- 29 of 50
- Share of South Africa
- 34%
Western Cape 50
All 50, best known first.
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4.Cape Agulhas
Nature · Renowned
Headland in the Western Cape, South Africa, the southernmost point of mainland Africa
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6.Agulhas National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
National park in the Western Cape, South Africa
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7.Table Mountain National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
National park on Cape Peninsula, South Africa, which protects the natural environment of the Table Mountain Chain
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8.Bontebok National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
National park in the Western Cape, South Africa
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10.Marion Island
Nature · Notable
Uninhabited, inhospitable sub-Antarctic volcano island owned by South Africa since 1947
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16.De Hoop Nature Reserve
Nature · 20th century · Notable
Nature reserve in the Western Cape, South Africa
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18.Prince Edward Island
Nature · Notable
Uninhabited and inhospitable sub-Antarctic volcano island in the south Indian Ocean, belongs to South Africa since 1947
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35.De Mond Nature Reserve
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Nature reserve in Western Cape, South Africa
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36.Silvermine Nature Reserve
Nature · Hidden gem
Part of the Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Western Cape?
Cape of Good Hope. Headland of Cape Peninsula, South Africa. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Western Cape?
50: 48 nature & landscapes and 2 archaeological & historic sites. 29 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 Western Cape?
Koopmans-de Wet House, dated to 1914. 8 of the 50 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Western Cape here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Western Cape if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Western Cape is a first-level division of South Africa, 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.