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Waterfalls worth the detour

1,807 waterfalls on Detourmap, in 122 countries — waterfalls, cascades and cataracts. The most famous is Niagara Falls in United States. The 96 best known are below.

On the map
1,807
Countries
122
With a page
41
Little known
1,484 of 1,807

Waterfalls by country

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

Waterfalls by continent

Europe626 Asia369 Africa93 North America503 South America55 Oceania159

Questions about this page

What counts as waterfalls here?

Waterfalls, cascades and cataracts. 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 waterfalls?

United States (402), United Kingdom (140) and India (108). That ranks how much Wikidata records rather than what exists on the ground.

What is the most famous?

Niagara Falls in United States. Three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States.

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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