--- title: Tourism Map Shows Most Popular Countries Travelers Visit Each Year description: Turns out France gets the most tourists each year canonical: https://time.com/10296/most-popular-countries-to-visit-map/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-27T14:00:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:46.259Z og:title: Tourism Map Shows Most Popular Countries Travelers Visit Each Year og:description: Turns out France gets the most tourists each year og:url: https://time.com/10296/most-popular-countries-to-visit-map/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39da283641f7886a/6986832fd0b6f21a4430300d/geography.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: This Map Shows Which Countries Are the Most Popular og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tourism Map Shows Most Popular Countries Travelers Visit Each Year twitter:description: Turns out France gets the most tourists each year twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39da283641f7886a/6986832fd0b6f21a4430300d/geography.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Map Shows Which Countries Are the Most Popular by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 27, 2014 2:00 PM UTC  Child looks at school globe Child looks at school globeDaniel Hurst Photography/Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 27, 2014 2:00 PM UTC Planning a trip, but not sure where to go? Well, if you want to base your decision on the rest of the world’s preferences, check out this map [from MoveHub](http://www.movehub.com/blog/popular-countries-map) that shows which nations receive the most visits. France clocks in at number one, receiving 81,400,000 visitors each year. That’s nearly 20 million more than the United States, which comes in at number two. Tourism Map Shows Most Popular Countries Travelers Visit Each Year ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/10296/most-popular-countries-to-visit-map/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/10296/most-popular-countries-to-visit-map/"},"headline":"This Map Shows Which Countries Are the Most Popular","datePublished":"2014-02-27T14:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:46.259Z","description":"Turns out France gets the most tourists each year","url":"https://time.com/10296/most-popular-countries-to-visit-map/","keywords":["Newsfeed","China","Travel","Data","World","Spain","Tourism","Visit"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39da283641f7886a/6986832fd0b6f21a4430300d/geography.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39da283641f7886a/6986832fd0b6f21a4430300d/geography.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"This Map Shows Which Countries Are the Most Popular","caption":"Child looks at school globe","creditText":"Daniel Hurst Photography/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/10296/most-popular-countries-to-visit-map/","name":"This Map Shows Which Countries Are the Most Popular"}}]}] ```