Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Syria
Detourmap lists 105 places in Syria, across 2 kinds of detour; archaeological & historic sites are the largest group (90). Best known: Palmyra. 56 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 105
- Oldest here
- Bouqras 7400 BC
- Little known
- 56 of 105
- City pages
- 2
By city
2 cities in Syria have enough places for a page of their own.
Archaeological & historic sites in Syria 90
Nature & landscapes in Syria 15
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Syria?
Palmyra. Ancient city in Homs Governorate, Syria. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Syria?
105: 90 archaeological & historic sites and 15 nature & landscapes. 56 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 Syria?
Bouqras, dated to 7400 BC. 17 of the 105 places here carry a founding date at all, and 16 of those predate the year 1000.
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.