Bible Geocoding

The location of every identifiable place mentioned in the Bible.

The latitude/longitude of the locations in the Bible are taken from https://www.openbible.info/geo/ licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

What Are OpenBible.info’s Sources?

The main data source was the Morrish Bible Dictionary, which contains the coordinates for many locations. Other sources were the ISBE, Easton’s, Smith’s, and Nave’s—in other words, all the usual public-domain sources. (The NET Bible folks have helpfully made these works easily accessible.) OpenBible.info consulted in-copyright sources from Logos Bible Software.

Crossway Bibles created and published a comprehensive list of place names in the ESV Bible, which served as the starting point for OpenBible.info work. Thanks also to the Google Earth community who identified about 200 places.

What Are OpenBible.info’s Qualifications?

The person behind OpenBible.info don’t have any special qualifications, only a lot of free time. He graduated from Wheaton College, Illinois (2000), where he took a class that involved some Bible geography (in addition to traveling to many of the places listed), as well as a number of geology courses, but that’s it.


MySword used the merged version of the Raw Data.