Map of The Most Popular Countries in the World

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It might come as a surprise to some that France is the world's biggest tourist destination in the world! Receiving nearly 20 Million more visitors annually than the runner up, USA. Doubly impressive when you consider that the US is over fifteen times the size of France.

Here's a map of the world detailing how many visitors each of these 165 countries gets each year.



France's high-density of tourist attractions, museums, monuments, historical sites and rich culture make it the world's most popular tourist destination.

The five least visited countries (that we have data for) are; The Solomon Islands (23,000), Moldova (11,000), Kiribati (5,300), Marshall Islands (5,000), Tuvalu (1,200).

You can also see the top 50 in the table below.

Top 50 most popular countries by visitors

Rank	Country	Annual Visitors
1	France	81,400,000
2	United States	62,700,000
3	China	57,600,000
4	Spain	56,700,000
5	Italy	46,100,000
6	Turkey	34,000,000
7	United Kingdom	29,300,000
8	Germany	28,400,000
9	Russian Federation	24,900,000
10	Malaysia	24,700,000
11	Mexico	23,400,000
12	Austria	23,000,000
13	Hong Kong SAR, China	22,300,000
14	Ukraine	21,400,000
15	Thailand	19,200,000
16	Saudi Arabia	17,500,000
17	Greece	16,400,000
18	Canada	16,000,000
19	Poland	13,400,000
20	Macao SAR, China	12,900,000
21	Netherlands	11,300,000
22	Singapore	10,400,000
23	Hungary	10,300,000
24	Croatia	9,900,000
25	Korea, Rep.	9,800,000
26	Egypt, Arab Rep.	9,500,000
27	Morocco	9,300,000
28	Czech Republic	8,800,000
29	Switzerland	8,500,000
30	South Africa	8,300,000
31	Indonesia	7,700,000
32	Ireland	7,600,000
33	Romania	7,600,000
34	Belgium	7,500,000
35	Denmark	7,400,000
36	Portugal	7,300,000
37	Bahrain	6,700,000
38	Bulgaria	6,300,000
39	India	6,300,000
40	Japan	6,200,000
41	Vietnam	6,000,000
42	Australia	5,900,000
43	Argentina	5,700,000
44	Brazil	5,400,000
45	Sweden	5,000,000
46	Norway	5,000,000
47	Tunisia	4,800,000
48	Dominican Republic	4,300,000
49	Finland	4,200,000
50	Jordan	4,000,000