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Countries that Visit France the Most

Name the countries that visited France the most in 2014.
Source (Excel file).
By number of visits. Some people visited more than once.
Quiz by catlover2496
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Last updated: December 15, 2019
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First submittedMarch 11, 2017
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# Visits
Country
12.7 m
Germany
11.8 m
United Kingdom
9.3 m
Belgium
7.5 m
Italy
6.2 m
Switzerland
6.1 m
Spain
5.5 m
Netherlands
# Visits
Country
3.2 m
United States
1.7 m
China
1.4 m
Luxembourg
1.4 m
Portugal
1.3 m
Australia
1.2 m
Brazil
1.0 m
Canada
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Level 74
Aug 17, 2017
I thought of Luxembourg but figured it would be too small of a country. I should have learned by now to use an answer even if I think it wouldn't be logical. That has saved me in the past.
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Level 44
Aug 18, 2017
Same here.
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Level 59
Nov 26, 2017
The only one I missed.
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Level 80
Aug 18, 2017
There aren't even that many people from Luxembourg.
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Level 75
Aug 18, 2017
Yeah but the quiz states that multiple visits factor into the number per year. Luxembourgers probably go to France regularly for non-tourism reasons.
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Level 80
Aug 18, 2017
Like shopping in big French box stores. Makes total sense, they're good. Nearby Germans travel to Luxembourg a lot for getting cheap fuel/gas.
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Level 82
Aug 22, 2017
As the caveat says, they don't track the same person over multiple visits. However, I didn't check the source, but the usual visitor statistics count only overnight stays, so LUX is still a bit of a mystery to me.
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Level 81
Sep 17, 2017
A lot of people from Luxembourg (Luxembourgians?) work in France and so visit 5 times per week.
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Level 44
Aug 23, 2017
They're right next door, so I imagine that they visit pretty regularly.
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Level 69
Aug 23, 2017
Well, don't forget that Luxembourgers are pretty affluent, so they can afford to go on vacations a lot.
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Level 76
Aug 24, 2017
But you can drive into France from Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy and Switzerland without any border controls at all - so how can these people be counted? They can't. So I do wonder how they made up these numbers.
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Level ∞
Aug 25, 2017
Hotel registration?
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Level 63
Sep 6, 2017
I don't speak French but Google translator helped me to understand what the source says in the headline above the chart. Those are poll results of the 31 countries who participated in 2014.
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Level 64
Aug 27, 2017
Luxembourg : 590 000 inhabitants.

1,4 m visitors... Very strong !

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Level 68
Aug 5, 2022
Remember that you can accidentally visit France from Luxembourg if you just miss a left-turn on your way to get groceries.
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Level 76
Sep 8, 2017
Quizzes like this really show how little Americans travel abroad. Americans always say things like "we're a big country and we have enough to see here/we're too far from other countries" etc, but Canada managed 1 million trips despite having such a tiny population.
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Level 66
Sep 13, 2017
I both agree and disagree with you. Yes it is true that America is big and there is a lot to see there. I don't however believe that they think they're too far from other countries. I think it's because America, along with many other countries, is quite geographically ignorant (not saying everyone). Also notice that almost all the countries above America share a border with France.
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Level 69
Nov 26, 2017
Another reason is likely the Québécois sharing a language with France, making it a very appealing destination.
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Level 82
Nov 26, 2017
well there is less to see in Canada.
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Level 82
Nov 26, 2017
I mean I'm not even trying to knock Canada but come on... you answered yourself in your own comment and the quote you attributed to Americans is a perfectly valid one. Think about it... if you're in the USA and you want to visit the largest amusement park in the world, the most popular gambling destination in the world, the world's largest museum complex, the biggest city or the tallest building the Western hemisphere, the oldest national park in the world, the Grand Canyon, the beaches of Miami or Waikiki, Hollywood, etc etc etc you can do all that without leaving the country. If you're in Canada and you want to go relax on a sunny beach with warm water in September... where are you going to go?

Americans are still the biggest source country for tourists around the world in spite of all this, but they are being overtaken by China.

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Level 78
Oct 13, 2020
Biggest this, best that, yawn. I imagine all that was written whilst wearing a USA tee-shirt, muttering under your breath U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A....
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Level 80
Dec 5, 2017
I'm always surprised at how well Australians travel on these quizzes
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Level 71
Sep 17, 2017
Yes I agree it depends what is called a 'visit'. Many people travel through France because it is central to west Europe. I imagine the same way that Italy would receive >100,000 visitors a year from the Vatican if the 1,000 inhabitants nipped in and out to shop/eat/stroll 3 times a day.
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Level 69
Sep 17, 2017
I didn't realize other countries visited other countries...
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Level 44
Jul 8, 2018
Really?
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Level 40
Feb 17, 2021
._.
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Level 76
Sep 27, 2017
This must be based on the 1939 numbers...
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Level 82
Nov 26, 2017
If you discount all the countries that are within 50 miles of France (that's the entire left column plus Luxembourg. Portugal is not much farther), the point I've made many times before about tourism numbers in Europe being unnaturally inflated by the way they define international borders and discount tourists who don't cross any becomes *incredibly* stark. Move down the list past the USA and China and you reach numbers that rival the attendance at the Iowa State Fair.
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Level 82
Nov 26, 2017
French Guiana just occurred to me so Brazil is another country that's on this list probably just due to proximity.
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Level 50
Aug 9, 2018
Maybe, although the populated parts of Brazil are a significant distance from French Guiana.
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Level 49
Oct 28, 2019
I am Brazilian, and I say that it is easier for me to take a Sao Paulo flight (which is immensely closer) to take another plane to France, than to fly to the state of Tocantins or Pará (which is much further than Sao Paulo) and go to Guyana France by car. And there's not a lot of interesting things to do there.
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Level 38
Oct 27, 2021
the bridge connecting brazil and french guiana was only built in 2019, brazilians don't usually go there and almost no one lives in the north of brazil
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Level 33
Nov 26, 2017
Yeah, we Germans live right next to France, so I guess we visit it a lot. It still means that like 15% of our People travel do France every year, which is amazing :D
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Level 66
Nov 26, 2017
I got all others but couldn't for the life of me figure out Brazil. When you think France, Brazil isn't really the first thing that comes to mind
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Level 82
Nov 26, 2017
But... when you think of countries with the most people in them... it ought to be the 5th country that you think of. That's how I got it.

Also I bet some of those visitors from Brazil are going to French Guiana, which is right next door.

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Level 71
Nov 27, 2017
I'm brazilian and it is easier go to French itself than to French Guiana. Almost there is no flights to French Guiana and ways by land are difficult to reach.
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Level 82
Nov 27, 2017
That's interesting. WikiTravel seems to agree with you. There is a bit on their page for French Guiana saying that people in neighboring countries will have an easier time getting to Paris than Cayenne. I tried to find stats on tourism to French Guiana but didn't have any luck.
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Level 74
Jun 11, 2018
Hi Kal, these two links provide some info on tourism in French Guiana. Slightly outdated, but still a good basis. Virtually all visitors in French Guiana come from Metr. France, Martinique and Guadaloupe. Less than 10% from the rest of the world, Brazil, USA, Canada, Netherlands, Belgium mentioned with 1% each.

http://www.guyane-amazonie.fr/sites/ctguyane/files/chiffres_cles_du_tourisme_en_guyane_2015.pdf

http://www.guyane-amazonie.fr/sites/ctguyane/files/enquetes_touristiques_guyane_2015_2016_recepteurs_residents_3.pdf

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Level 40
Feb 17, 2021
@dobelin , tambem sou brasileira . kkkk
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Level 73
Dec 17, 2017
When Brazil was Europeanizing in the 19th and 20th centuries, they tried to model themselves after France (even if the language is Portuguese). Sao Paulo was built up as basically the Paris of the Western Hemisphere. So there is a lot more cultural overlap than one would immediately think.
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Level 49
Oct 28, 2019
I'm Brazilian. We Brazilians love to travel, we are probably the most emerging country that travels the most in relation to the percentage of the population, apart from our population of 200 million. In addition to cultural diversity, which facilitates the passport for European and Asian descendants from Brazil. I have Japanese descent, and I can go to Japan anytime I want (I was born there).
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Level 70
Jun 28, 2019
13/13. Luxembourg surprised me.
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Level 55
May 4, 2020
Luxembourg?! In 2019, Luxembourg only had 600,000 people. 1.4 million visits are crazy! That's more than 2 visits per person, even less, since this was 2014. Great quiz! :)
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Level 18
May 22, 2020
Didn't expect Australia OR Luxembourg.
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Level 44
Jun 28, 2020
The population of Luxembourg is less than one million 🤔
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Level 67
Apr 28, 2023
they're right next to france people probably go multiple times
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Level 73
Mar 1, 2021
13/14. Missed Spain... *Facepalm*
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Level 71
Oct 8, 2021
I'm a bit surprised Monaco didn't make the list. Every Monacan (?) must go in and out of France daily.
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Level 75
Dec 2, 2021
I was just about to say the same thing. It seems the source for this quiz (although outdated and non-extant now) is a questionnaire asking people in various countries how often they visited various other countries, so Luxembourg makes sense as some people there would visit France dozens or even hundreds of times for work/shopping.

If everyone in Monaco crossed the street into France just 20 times per year then it would make the list...

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Level 53
Mar 29, 2022
how is luxembourg on here with over 1 million when it has less than 1 million population? Wow like hundreds of thousands of people must visit france a ton
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Level 43
May 23, 2022
ah yes the 600k luxembourgians visting france 1.4 million times
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Level 26
Jun 2, 2022
i was gonna type brazil which was my last one but the time stopped
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Level 67
Jan 19, 2023
Does this quiz include French territories and overseas regions or is it just mainland France?