The Places of 1 Peter
1 Peter names 7 places; Asia, Babylon and Bithynia most often. 7 of them can be put on a map, 6 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.
- Located with confidence
- Location uncertain
- Mountain
Every place in 1 Peter
The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn.
| Place | References | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia | 1:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Babylon | 5:13 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 427) |
| Bithynia | 1:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Cappadocia | 1:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Galatia | 1:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Pontus | 1:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Zion | 2:6 | OpenBible.info | High |
Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.