Monasteries in numbers
A live snapshot of the monasteries Monastery World Map has mapped worldwide, drawn from OpenStreetMap.
14,908monasteries mapped
141Countries covered
46Blog posts
2026-07-20Last updated
Top 10 countries
By continent
- Asia9,309 (62.4%)
- Europe4,424 (29.7%)
- North America429 (2.9%)
- South America353 (2.4%)
- Other199 (1.3%)
- Africa146 (1.0%)
- Oceania48 (0.3%)