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Places worth the detour in South Carolina

Detourmap lists 33 places in South Carolina, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Congaree National Park. 30 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Archaeological18 Nature15
Places
33
Oldest
Santa Elena 1566
Little known
30 of 33
Share of United States
1%

South Carolina 33

All 33, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in South Carolina?

Congaree National Park, 21st century. National park located in South Carolina. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in South Carolina?

33: 18 archaeological & historic sites and 15 nature & landscapes. 30 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 South Carolina?

Santa Elena, dated to 1566. 11 of the 33 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as South Carolina here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in South Carolina if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. South Carolina is a first-level division of United States, 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.