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Most-Visited Countries by the British

Name the countries that are visited by the greatest number of United Kingdom residents.
For the year 2015. source
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Last updated: March 10, 2017
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Thousands
Country
11,440
Spain
6,156
France
2,459
Italy
2,270
United States
2,114
Portugal
Thousands
Country
2,071
Greece
1,506
Netherlands
1,194
Turkey
1,112
Ireland
1,016
Germany
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Level 82
Mar 11, 2017
Too easy, not as interesting as USA and Canada.
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Level 71
Mar 11, 2017
Good quiz, didn't get Turkey (like a poor American's Thanksgiving)
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Level 75
Jul 29, 2017
Lol. But to set the record straight, not all Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving. Two of our family members can't eat turkey because it triggers migraines so we usually serve roast chicken or pork, (along with cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie, of course!)
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Level 86
Oct 18, 2018
ander, I want to go to Thanksgiving at your house. Turkey is so overrated.
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Level 64
Sep 25, 2020
I have been a vegetarian for eight years now and before I did I always considered turkey to be too dry of a meat, chicken was better. And in case you are wondering - no I do not miss any meat at all, never have. lol
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Level 78
Oct 30, 2020
It is quite refreshing for a vegetarian to let it be known that they are a vegetarian.
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Level 46
Apr 15, 2021
I'm American as well, and since barely anyone in my family likes turkey, we usually eat corn beef instead for Thanksgiving.
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Level 64
Mar 24, 2017
The number of people going to the countries seems really low, though i don't know in which period of time they are. Also no tropical countries like Thailand that are otherwise quite popular tourist destinations, only european. Are you sure everything is correct in this? It all just seems so strange
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Level ∞
Mar 24, 2017
Yes, the quiz is correct. See the column header: "Thousands".
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Level 43
Jun 28, 2017
I'm speculating, but I think due to the proximity of the countries on the list to Britain compared with tropical countries like Thailand, flights are considerably cheaper and therefore more Brits can afford to go, and probably more regularly...
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Level 71
Jul 29, 2017
Bet it took a while to reason that out
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Level 43
Jul 29, 2017
Haha it does seem obvious, but Robin clearly demonstrated a need for that explanation. I appreciate your sarcastic input though!
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Level 82
Jul 31, 2017
Thailand is quite far away. but the list is still dominated by countries that are much sunnier than the UK. Spain (Tenerife, Costa del Sol, Barcelona, Majorca, Ibiza being top destinations), France (French Riviera), Italy (Rome, Naples, Sicily), Portugal, Greece, Turkey (Antalya being the popular destination)... Brits obviously like sun. I'm betting Thailand isn't too far down the list, either.
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Level 59
Jul 31, 2017
We do like the sun, but a lot of those places come with interesting history and culture, so for those of us who like those sorts of things, it's win win!
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Level 45
Jul 20, 2020
as a brit i don't think thailand is far down lots of brits wanna go but flights are expensive. And yes i can confirm most brits looove the sun. I can imagine next are thailand,cyprus and australia (a dream for the majority here). Also you forgot arguabilly the most popular destination for brits Benidorm (aka little britian)
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Level 68
Apr 20, 2017
Thanks for the easy points :-)
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Level 74
May 13, 2017
Does Switzerland get more Chinese tourists than British tourists?
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Level 52
Jul 29, 2017
And I forgot Ireland...
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Level 45
Jul 29, 2017
Wow, I was fast. 1:27 left
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Level 27
Jul 29, 2017
Completely forgot about Ireland but got all the others xD
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Level 65
Jul 29, 2017
Ditto. HTF did i forget Ireland!?!?
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Level 25
Jul 29, 2017
Looked and the comments and felt better cause I thought i was the only one who forgot Ireland
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Level 69
Jul 29, 2017
Wow, the Brits really don't like to travel too far, do they?
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Level 74
Jul 31, 2017
You'd find a similar pattern for most countries

Majority of short term tourists go to the nearest warm resort areas

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Level 64
Oct 9, 2020
Neither do Americans. Only a million less Brits travel to the USA than vice versa. As a percentage of population, we're much more likely to travel further.
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Level 78
Oct 30, 2020
You will have read - and you will probably have used as a punchline or explanatory prop for American parochialism - the fact that “the majority of Americans do not have passports”. This is true. The US State Department estimates that 42 per cent of the population possess one.
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Level 83
Jun 25, 2023
Most people can't afford to travel much further than western Europe.
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Level 64
Jul 29, 2017
15 seconds to spare, I was thinking what other countries are closest to the UK... IRELAND!
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Level 57
Jul 30, 2017
Can't believe USA is ahead of Australia!! Just about everyone I know has been to Australia
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Level 76
Jan 9, 2019
US is half the sitting time and a quarter of the price.
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Level 44
Jul 31, 2017
thought that ireland might be number 1 as they are neighbours and its like an opporturnity to visit it in like 2 days or smth
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Level 93
Aug 8, 2018
i'd suggest they had missed out the northern irish who cross the border to go shopping/go to work etc and go back but it's probably not recorded anywhere. The note says UK residents which should include them as well I suppose.
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Level 50
Aug 24, 2019
On other quizzes like this one it only counts overnight stays, so that might explain the lower numbers for Ireland. And of course, as you say, there isn't really any data on people crossing from north to south.
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Level 62
Jun 14, 2020
Ireland doesn’t have 30 degree weather
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Level 66
Jul 31, 2017
Easy..... 1:33 left Please do more quizzes like this XD
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Level 48
Feb 20, 2018
what about Cyprus.
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Level 78
Oct 30, 2020
Too far away; it's Asia FFS.
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Level 15
Apr 8, 2019
i have a confession to make, i cheated from the comments. as always
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Level 35
Apr 8, 2020
same, always cheating
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Level 63
Apr 8, 2020
The reason I got Turkey and Greece is because I remembered the lyric from Yakko's world.
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Level 76
Sep 27, 2020
I've always wondered why the Czech Republic is usually so low on these types of quizzes, considering Prague is so well known in the fashion world. I guess I expected Londoners to travel there more
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Level 33
Jan 8, 2021
I would of thought France would be the highest seeming as its only 1hour away from Dover and think of how many lorries there are
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Level 79
Mar 1, 2021
I kind of expected Belgium and Canada here
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Level 57
Sep 4, 2021
magaluf...
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Level 57
Sep 4, 2021
anywhere ryanair offers a £10 round-trip
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Level 42
Jun 17, 2022
fun
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Level 54
Oct 27, 2022
Soon to be #1 = Scotland.
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Level 65
Nov 25, 2023
Always amazed how few Brits ever go to Germany.

Global warming may change these patterns, of course, as the Med becomes far less hospitable from June-September.