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The Places of Romans

Romans names 12 places; Jerusalem, Rome and Spain most often. 12 of them can be put on a map, 10 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 Rome to Persia with the places named in Romans. Every place is listed in the table below.10°E15°E20°E25°E30°E35°E40°E45°E50°E55°E25°N30°N35°N40°N45°NJerusalemRomeZionCenchreaeGomorrahSodomJerusalemRomeZionAchaiaAsiaCenchreaeGomorrahIllyricumMacedoniaSodomN01000 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
From Rome to Persia, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today. 1 place lies beyond the plate and is in the table.

Every place in Romans

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
Jerusalem15:19, 15:25, 15:26, 15:27, 15:31OpenBible.infoHigh
Rome1:7, 1:15, 15:24OpenBible.infoHigh
SpainBeyond this plate.15:24, 15:28OpenBible.infoHigh
Zion9:33, 11:26OpenBible.infoHigh
Achaia15:26OpenBible.infoHigh
Asia16:5OpenBible.infoHigh
Cenchreae16:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Gomorrah9:29OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 415)
Illyricum15:19OpenBible.infoHigh
Judea15:31OpenBible.infoHigh
Macedonia15:26OpenBible.infoHigh
Sodom9:29OpenBible.infoUncertain (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.