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The Places of Colossians

Colossians names 3 places; Laodicea, Colossae and Hierapolis most often. 3 of them can be put on a map, 3 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of From Egypt to Persia with the places named in Colossians. Every place is listed in the table below.30°E35°E40°E45°E50°E25°N30°N35°N40°NLaodiceaColossaeHierapolisLaodiceaColossaeHierapolisN0400 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
From Egypt to Persia, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today.

Every place in Colossians

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.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Laodicea2:1, 4:13, 4:15, 4:16OpenBible.infoHigh
Colossae1:2OpenBible.infoHigh
Hierapolis4:13OpenBible.infoHigh

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.