One million visitors or more

Sites that receive one million visitors or more per year (excluding those without entry regulations, eg. cities).

World Heritage Sites connected to 'One million visitors or more':

  • Aachen Cathedral 1.2 million (2006)
  • Acropolis 2,813,548 (in 2009); link
  • Amsterdam Canal Ring Anne Frank House 1 million (2007)
  • Ancient Kyoto Kyoto's Kiyomizu Temple (4 Million annually)
  • Ancient Nara Nara's Todaiji (2.5 Million)
  • Angkor 2,000,000
  • Auschwitz Birkenau 1,400,000 (in 2011); link
  • Borobudur
  • Central Highlands Adam's Peak: 2 million
  • Cologne Cathedral 10,000 a day on average (ca. 3.5 million a year)
  • Everglades 1,074,764 in 2007
  • Florence Galleria degli Uffizi: 1.615.986 (2007)
  • Fortified City of Carcassonne The two million French and foreign tourists of every nationality who walk round the three kilometres of the walls of Carcassonne... (AB ev)
  • Genbaku Dome Hiroshima Peace Museum - 1.6 Million Annually
  • Granada Alhambra: 2 million
  • Grand Canyon 4,400,000
  • Great Smoky Mountains 9,000,000 (in 2006)
  • Great Wall 63.7 million between 1987 and 2001 at Badaling
  • Gyeongju Gyeongju is today a major cultural site and tourist destination for South Koreans and foreigners with about 8 to 9 million visitors annually. A great deal of this is due to the city's status as a center of Silla heritage, derived from its former role as the capital of that ancient kingdom. (wikipedia)
  • Ha Long Bay one million in 1990 - 1991 (AB ev)
  • Hawaii Volcanoes Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park - 1,612,246 (in 2006)
  • Huangshan 1.34 million in 2001
  • Iguazu National Park visitation to Iguazu is now over one million a year (UNEP-WCMC)
  • Imperial Palace Forbidden City: 7 million
  • Independence Hall 2,270,314 in 2008 for Liberty Bell
  • Istanbul Topkapi Palace - 2 million per year
  • Itsukushima Shrine 2.6 Million Annually
  • Jeju Ilchulbong Volcanic Cone recieved 1.2 million.
  • Jiuzhaigou Valley Over 3 million pa see ""Jiu Zhai National Park, which receives more than 3 million visitors a year at $15 a head"; link
  • Kew Gardens 1.5 million in 2006
  • Kii Mountain Range Kii's Koyasan (1.2 Million)
  • Kremlin and Red Square 1.3 million at the Kremlin museums
  • Mammoth Cave 2 million yearly
  • Maritime Greenwich Greenwich National Maritime Museum "6. In 2007, the Museum welcomed 1.7 million visitors, the highest ever"
  • Mausoleum of the First Qin Emporer 2.6 million tourists in 2006
  • Mont-Saint-Michel 2.25 million in 2006
  • Mount Taishan "Between 1996-2001, the total number of visitors stayed relatively stable at 2.1 million people per annum (with some 18,000 foreign tourists)." ; link
  • Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 1 million (in 2007)
  • Old City of Jerusalem Western Wall, Temple Mount; link
  • Olympic National Park 3,100,000
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine Louvre: 8.3 million in 2006; Eiffel Tower 6,719,200 visitors in the same year
  • Pompei 2.4 million (in 2007)
  • Prague Prague Castle has an annual average of 1.42 million visitors.
  • Pyramids (Memphis) "millions"
  • Qutb Minar 3,8950,000
  • Red Fort 2,101,000 (2006)
  • Rome Colosseum: 3.5 million
  • Schönbrunn 2,600,000 (in 2008)
  • St. Petersburg Hermitage: 3-4 million
  • Taj Mahal 2,500,000 (in 2006)
  • Tower of London 2.5 million
  • Vatican City Musei Vaticani: 3.5 million
  • Venice and its Lagoon Palazzo Ducale: 1.548.676 (2007)
  • Versailles Three million visitors per year to the museum, while the grounds attract an estimated six million
  • Vienna Stephansdom receives about 3 million visitors a year
  • West Lake 20 million a year! (AB ev)
  • Westminster Westminster Abbey: "over one million visitors a year"
  • Works of Antoni Gaudí La Pedrera (Casa Mile) 2 million
  • Yellowstone 2,800,000
  • Yosemite National Park 3,300,000
  • Zollverein ; link