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Volcanoes worth the detour

1,632 volcanoes on Detourmap, in 96 countries — volcanoes, craters, calderas and lava fields. The most famous is Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The 96 best known are below.

On the map
1,632
Countries
96
With a page
32
Little known
828 of 1,632

Volcanoes by country

Every country with at least one. Those with 8 or more have their own page.

Volcanoes by continent

Europe407 Asia475 Africa80 North America366 South America203 Oceania90

Questions about this page

What counts as volcanoes here?

Volcanoes, craters, calderas and lava fields. They are a subset of nature & landscapes on this atlas, split out because it is how people look for them.

Which country has the most volcanoes?

United States (265), Japan (249) and Indonesia (114). That ranks how much Wikidata records rather than what exists on the ground.

What is the most famous?

Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Mountain massif in Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania.

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.

Other kinds of detour

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