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Places worth the detour in Canton of Zurich

Detourmap lists 35 places in Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Lake Zurich. 20 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature23 Archaeological12
Places
35
Oldest
Katzensee 1912
Little known
20 of 35
Share of Switzerland
3%

Canton of Zurich 35

All 35, best known first.

Elsewhere in Switzerland

Canton of Valais295 Canton of the Grisons230 Canton of Berne137 Canton of Vaud65 Canton of Ticino60 Canton of St. Gallen38 Canton of Uri36 Canton of Schwyz31

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Canton of Zurich?

Lake Zurich. Major lake in Switzerland. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Canton of Zurich?

35: 23 nature & landscapes and 12 archaeological & historic sites. 20 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 Canton of Zurich?

Katzensee, dated to 1912. 1 of the 35 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Canton of Zurich here?

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