One million visitors or more
Sites that receive one million visitors or more per year (excluding those without entry regulations, eg. cities).
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Aachen Cathedral | Visited by more than 1 million believers and tourists every year (Aachen Tourism website 2025); 1.17 million (2017) | |
| Acropolis | Over 8.4 million people visited the Acropolis of Athens, home to the Parthenon and other ancient Greek monuments, in 2023. In 2022, Acropolis welcomed 3 million visitors. / 1.475 million (2016) | |
| Amphitheater of El Jem | "Every year, over one million people visit it." (Carthage magazine, 2021) | |
| Amsterdam Canal Ring | In 2023, the number of visitors to the museum rose significantly over the previous year, reaching around 1.2 million. Despite the annual increase, attendance did not catch up yet with the peak in visitors recorded in 2019, before the impact of the COVID- / Anne Frank House 1.266 million (2017) | |
| Ancient Kyoto | Kiyomizu Temple (5 Million annually), Nijo Castle (1,776,000 (2015)) | |
| Ancient Nara | Nara's Todaiji (2.5 Million) | |
| Angkor | 1,023,688 foreign tourists (2024) / 2019 (record year) - 2.2 million foreign visitors (6.6 million total visitors) / 2.2 million (2016) | |
| Auschwitz Birkenau | In 2023, over 1.67 million people visited the Auschwitz Memorial. / 2.1 million (2017) | |
| Bagan | About 3.4 million tourists visited the ancient city of Bagan in central Myanmar's Mandalay region in 2024 / "Myanmar's renowned archaeological site Bagan welcomed over 2 million tourists including more than 10,000 foreign tourists this year" (2023) | |
| Beijing Central Axis | Forbidden City (Palace Museum): Visitors (2023): ~9.3 million (daily-capped) | |
| Borobudur | approximately 1.3 million tourists visited the temple in 2024 / 3.8 million (2016) | |
| Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks | Banff National Park saw 4.28 million visits in 2023/24, the busiest year on record. / Banff National Park: 4.06 million in 2016/17 | |
| Cape Floral Region | more than 1,702,995 tourists visiting the park between December 2023 and January 2024 / Table Mountain Cableway got over 1 million visitors in 2015/2016 | |
| Central Highlands | Adam's Peak: 2 million | |
| Champaner-Pavagadh | Pavagadh Hill: "These temples are visited by over 22 lakh visitors annually with 1 lakh devotees visiting daily during navaratri fair." | |
| Changdeokgung Palace Complex | "Of the four palaces, Gyeongbok attracted the most visitors, with 2.97 million, followed by Changdeok with 897,000, Deoksu with 703,000 and Changgyeong with 475,000." January to June 2016 (1/2 year) | |
| Chichen-Itza | 2,107,410 (2016) | |
| City of Bath | The Roman Baths 1,093,856 (2016) | |
| Cologne Cathedral | 6 million yearly | |
| Edinburgh | Edinburgh Castle 1.8 million (2017) | |
| Ephesus | 2.2 million (2023) | |
| Everglades | 1.018 million (2017) | |
| Florence | Galleria degli Uffizi: 2.010.631 (2016) | |
| Fort and Shalamar Gardens | "The number of tourists increased from 1.554 million visitors in 2016 to 2.64 million in 2017." (Mission Report 2018) | |
| Fortified City of Carcassonne | more than 3 million visitors annually | |
| Genbaku Dome | Hiroshima Peace Museum - 1.739 Million (2016) | |
| Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats | "Every year, the 5 tidal flat visitor centers in the nominated property welcome 3,000,000 people" (Nomination text, p. 211) | |
| Granada | Alhambra: 2.4 million (2014) | |
| Grand Canal | The most frequently visited sites on the canal are: Slender West Lake at Yangzhou (3.2 million visitors in 2012), Suzhou (2.3m), Jiaxing-Hangzhou (1.3m), Nanxun (4.0m), the old city of Beijing (3.0m) and Taierzhuang (1.8m). (AB ev) | |
| Grand Canyon | 6.2 million (2017) | |
| Great Smoky Mountains | Over 11 million (in 2017) | |
| Great Wall | Badaling is believed annually to get 10 million visitors | |
| Gulf of Porto | Ce site est fréquenté par 1.1 millions de visiteurs sur une période s'étalant du mois d’avril au mois d’octobre 2012 (Periodic Reporting) | |
| Gusuku of Ryukyu | Shuri Castle: 1,875,000 (2015) | |
| Göbekli Tepe | "With an average of 1 million visitors annually, Göbeklitepe is one of Türkiye's most visited archaeological sites." (article Daily Sabah Feb 2025) | |
| Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago | one million in 1990 - 1991 (AB ev) | |
| Hawaii Volcanoes | Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - 2.016 million (in 2017) | |
| Hierapolis-Pamukkale | Hierapolis of Phrygia, 1.8 million (2015) | |
| Hill Forts of Rajasthan | Amber Fort attracts 1.4 million visitors a year (2007)(wiki) | |
| Himeji-jo | 2,867,051 (2015) | |
| Huangshan | 3.3 million (2016) | |
| Iguacu | 1,642,093 people (2015) | |
| Iguazu National Park | visitation to Iguazu is now over one million a year (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Imperial Palace | Forbidden City: more than 14 million visitors annually | |
| Independence Hall | 4.79 million (2017) | |
| Istanbul | Hagia Sophia: 1.436.577 (2016) | |
| Itsukushima Shrine | 2.6 Million Annually | |
| Jeju | Ilchulbong Volcanic Cone recieved 1.2 million. | |
| Jiuzhaigou Valley | 5.14 million visits in 2016 | |
| Kew Gardens | 1,477,117 (2016) | |
| Kii Mountain Range | Kii's Koyasan (1.2 Million) | |
| Kremlin and Red Square | 2.2 million at the Kremlin museums | |
| Kulangsu | The State Party indicates that Kulangsu has recently faced a sharp rise in visitor numbers, which increased from 5,748,500 in 2009 to 12,463,000 in 2014. (AB ev) | |
| Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra | Kyiv Pechersk Lavra attracted over a million tourists in 2011, reports the press service of the museum | |
| Maritime Greenwich | Old Royal Naval College 1,477,117 (2016) | |
| Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor | In 2015, over 5 million people visited the site | |
| Meteora | "Large numbers of visitors, around two million per year, flood the site (conventional forms of tourism mainly, but also partly related to religious, cultural, eco-tourism, and sports tourism) (Lyratzaki, 2007)" | |
| Mogao Caves | "received a record one million visitors so far this year" (Oct 2015) | |
| Mont-Saint-Michel | between 2.4 and 2.8 million visitors per year (source 2015) | |
| Mount Sanqingshan | "After Mount Sanqingshan National Park (MSNP) was declared a WHS in 2008, tourist numbers have soared from 1.48 million in 2008 to 23.27 million in 2018" (see link) | |
| 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)." | |
| Namhansanseong | "The number of visitors has increased from less than one million per year to more than 3 million (2010)." - AB Evaluation | |
| Old City of Jerusalem | Western Wall, Temple Mount | |
| Olympic National Park | 3.4 million (2017) | |
| Par force hunting landscape | 7.854 million (2003) | |
| Paris, Banks of the Seine | 8.1 million visitors to the Louvre in 2017 | |
| Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro | Prado museum: 3.2 million (2019) | |
| Pilgrimage Church of Wies | Heute besuchen jährlich mehr als eine Million Menschen die Kirche (wiki de) | |
| Plitvice Lakes | Each year, more than 1 million visitors are recorded (wiki) | |
| Pompei | 3.283.740 (2016) | |
| Pont du Gard | ||
| Prague | Prague Castle: 2,100,740 (2016) | |
| Prambanan | 2019: 2,326,122 Indonesian and 183,533 international visitors | |
| Pyramids (Memphis) | "millions" | |
| Qutb Minar | 3,8950,000 | |
| Red Fort | 2,101,000 (2006) | |
| Rome | Colosseum and Forum Romanum: 6.408.652 (2016) | |
| Royal Joseon Tombs | "More than 1.02 million people visited royal tombs of the Joseon scattered around Seoul and the nearby Gyeonggi Province during the same period." | |
| San Antonio Missions | Alamo: roughly 2 million (source 2014) | |
| Schönbrunn | 3.800.000 (2017) | |
| Selimiye Mosque | Nearly 3 million people come to visit the historical mosque every year (see link) | |
| Singapore Botanic Gardens | 4.5 million visitors annually (wiki) | |
| South China Karst | Guilin Lijiang River Karst (2,096,000 visitors in 2012) | |
| St. Petersburg | Hermitage: 4 million (2016) | |
| Statue of Liberty | the Statue of Liberty was visited by 3.14 million people in 2022 | |
| Stonehenge | 1,381,855 (2016) | |
| Sydney Opera House | It attracts more than 8 million visitors a year (2016-2017) | |
| Taj Mahal | 8 million (2017) | |
| Teide National Park | 4.079.823 (2016) | |
| Teotihuacan | It is the most visited archeological site in Mexico, receiving 4,185,017 visitors in 2017 (wiki) | |
| Tongariro National Park | Of the 1 million annual visitors to the national park, large numbers of visitors do short walks within or on the fringes of the park (see link) | |
| Tower of London | 2,741,126 (2016) | |
| Trang An | "The property received a total of just over one million visitors in 2011" Nom file | |
| Vatican City | Musei Vaticani: ca. 6.8 million (2019) | |
| Venice and its Lagoon | Palazzo Ducale: 1.276.127 (2015) | |
| Versailles | 7,527,122 | |
| Vienna | Stephansdom receives about 3 million visitors a year | |
| West Lake | 20 million a year! (AB ev) | |
| West Norwegian Fjords | Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord receive more than one million visitors a year. (Nom file) | |
| Westminster | Westminster Abbey 1,819,945 (2016) | |
| Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines | The Wieliczka Salt Mine in August said it attracted 1.4 million visitors in the first seven months of this year and was on track to set its all-time annual record in the number of visitors. (Oct 2018) | |
| Works of Antoni Gaudí | Sagrada Familia 4.56 million (2016) | |
| Wulingyuan | Millions, 1.4 million in summer alone | |
| Yellowstone | 4.1 million (2017) | |
| Yosemite National Park | 4.3 million (2017) | |
| Zollverein | 1.5 million (2017) |
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