Monasteries in numbers
A live snapshot of the monasteries Monastery World Map has mapped worldwide, drawn from OpenStreetMap.
14,977monasteries mapped
141Countries covered
90Blog posts
2026-08-21Last updated
Top 10 countries
By continent
- Asia9,370 (62.6%)
- Europe4,430 (29.6%)
- North America437 (2.9%)
- South America357 (2.4%)
- Other171 (1.1%)
- Africa164 (1.1%)
- Oceania48 (0.3%)