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The Places of Letter of Jeremiah

Letter of Jeremiah names 1 place. 1 of them can be put on a map, 1 with confidence. They are read from the Septuagint in Brenton’s translation and each is matched to OpenBible.info or Pleiades, or left unlocated when neither knows where it stood.

Map of Mesopotamia and Media with the places named in Letter of Jeremiah. Every place is listed in the table below.35°E40°E45°E50°E30°N35°NBabylonBabylonN0400 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
Mesopotamia and Media, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today.

Every place in Letter of Jeremiah

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
Babylon1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 1:4OpenBible.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. Scripture and the spellings of names from Brenton’s English translation of the Septuagint (1851), public domain.