The Places of Revelation
Revelation names 19 places; Babylon, Jerusalem and Sardis most often. 19 of them can be put on a map, 15 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 Revelation
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babylon | 14:8, 16:19, 17:5, 18:2, 18:10, 18:21 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 419) |
| Jerusalem | 3:12, 11:8, 21:2, 21:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Sardis | 1:11, 3:1, 3:4 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Thyatira | 1:11, 2:18, 2:24 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Asia | 1:4, 1:11 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ephesus | 1:11, 2:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Euphrates | 9:14, 16:12 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Laodicea | 1:11, 3:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Pergamum | 1:11, 2:12 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Philadelphia | 1:11, 3:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Smyrna | 1:11, 2:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Armageddon | 16:16 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 306) |
| East | 16:12 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Egypt | 11:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gog | 20:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Magog | 20:8 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 167) |
| Mount Zion | 14:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Patmos | 1:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Sodom | 11:8 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 477) |
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.