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24 alternatives to Wiki Explore – Discover Wikipedia Articles on an Interactive Map

Explore Wikipedia articles geospatially on an interactive map. Discover historical sites, landmarks, and interesting places around the world through Wikipedia

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Maps & Wikipedia combined, a new way to discover the world

    2022 · en.nearbywiki.org · its alternatives →

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    Wiki2Map▲279

    Turn Wikipedia into a visual masterpiece

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Browse and view Wikipedia articles on an interactive globe!

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Browse Wikipedia in 3D by common connections

    2022 · wikijumps.com · its alternatives →

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    Wikiscope▲155

    Wikipedia + AR

    2019 · jamespotter.dev · its alternatives →

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    Wikipedia + AR. Discover interesting Wikipedia articles around you.

    2019 · takota.net · its alternatives →

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    Wiki Journey tracks your daily Wikipedia rabbit holes in a tree format. Available on Firefox and Chrome: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wiki-journey/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wiki-journey/lehenb... It's open source, feel free to contribute! https://github.com/demegire/wiki-journey

    2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Summarize Wikipedia

    2022 · wikigister.dhairyashah.dev · its alternatives →

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    Discover Wikipedia with Augmented Reality

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Connect two articles on Wikipedia, but do it the long way. I've always been a fan of the theory of six degree of separation, but it's an overused concept when exploring the Wiki-graph. Instead of showing the shortest path, which in my opinion is "boring" and ends up connecting super-important central articles, I came up with my own method: WikiBinge selects the smaller, less represented articles on Wikipedia. In a WikiBinge path, the underdogs are the kings! How does it work? It's pretty straightforward! Compute PageRank on the Wiki-graph and assign as weight of each edge the PageRank value…

    2023 · wikibinge.com · its alternatives →

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    A map of every geotagged article in Wikipedia

    2020 · wikimap.wiki · its alternatives →

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    A Firefox extension to map your Wikipedia Journeys

    2020 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →

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    Wikiverse▲119

    An interactive galaxy of Wikipedia knowledge ✨

    2016 · wikiverse.io · its alternatives →

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    Explore over 200k historical markers, wherever you are!

    2025 · explorehere.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Worked on this side project for a while and wanted to share it. It's free to play.

    2025 · detective.wiki · its alternatives →

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    An interactive 3D museum of art history. Zoom through more than a thousand years of periods and artists, then walk first-person galleries of their real paintings — all drawn from Wikipedia.

    16d ago · artmuseum.artfrompixels.com · its alternatives →

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    Discover history in any US city

    2023 · journal.explorehere.app · its alternatives →

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    A high-class encyclopedia and an interactive travel guide

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Your free personal tour guide

    2021 · bradsgames.com · its alternatives →

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    Founch▲95

    A new way to explore the web (an advanced Wikipedia)

    2015 · founch.com · its alternatives →

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    Discover people, books and videos based on mentions.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    histories▲226

    Explore history of places through audio stories & fun facts

    2024 · pardoesoudewater.nl · its alternatives →

  24. 24W

    2011 · wikimaze.me · its alternatives →

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