Places and geography
The places of Scripture
Cities, towns, mountains and regions where Scripture's story actually happened: each with where it sits in the land and every verse that names it.
Go straight to Eden. Mesopotamia (traditional)
Summary
111 places stand here, each on its own page with where it sits in the land and every verse that names it. 63 of them are settlements; the rest are the land itself and the things built on it.
- 39 cities.
- 24 towns.
- 3 structures.
- 12 mountains.
- 3 bodies of water.
- 9 geographic features.
- 21 regions.
- Every place with coordinates is drawn on its own map, with its state marked known, probable or proposed.
The land these places sit in
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Regions
Territories and districts, holding the settlements inside them.
1 place
Keep studying
Seven doors out of the gazetteer: the Atlas and its plates, the people who walked this ground, the studies built on it, and the text itself.
On this page
The places come from this site’s own gazetteer. The reference map is George Adam Smith, Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land (1915), public domain.