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Places worth the detour in Norrbotten County

Detourmap lists 64 places in Norrbotten County, Sweden, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Kebnekaise. 35 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature57 Archaeological7
Places
64
Oldest
Kiruna Mine 1898
Little known
35 of 64
Share of Sweden
12%

Norrbotten County 64

All 64, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Norrbotten County?

Kebnekaise. Sweden's highest mountain. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Norrbotten County?

64: 57 nature & landscapes and 7 archaeological & historic sites. 35 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 Norrbotten County?

Kiruna Mine, dated to 1898. 21 of the 64 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Norrbotten County here?

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