Does the Number of Annual Foreign Tourists Outnumber the Local Population in Your Country? [OC]

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  1. [https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-of-the-world-where-tourists-outnumber-locals.html](https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-of-the-world-where-tourists-outnumber-locals.html)

    In Europe, it’s very common for nations to have more tourists arrive in their country than the amount of people living in the country over the course of a year. The craziest ones in this though are France, Spain, and Italy as they all have large populations but because of their draw to tourists, the locals still managed to get outnumbered by the amount of tourists that go to their countries each year

  2. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone ever going to Denmark.

    Who goes to Denmark?

    Or does Denmark only have small number of people anymore, so it clicks over from blue-to-red pretty easy?

  4. American here. I’m surprised by some of the Balkan states listed. Plenty of my friends have traveled to Croatia – but Albania, Montenegro, Slovenia not so much. (Some of those are on my travel list though, so I shouldn’t be too surprised.)

  5. Guess visiting the Santa Claus Village (magnetic north pole in Finland at the time the legend started supposedly) isn’t such a bad idea after all!

  9. Does the term “foreign tourists” include people from E.U. countries visiting another E.U. country?

  10. Iceland is at around 8X the population down from pre Covid 11X. It is crazy.

    Extrapolate that to a populous country like f.ex. France, then France would have over a billion tourists go there each year.

  11. All those warm, beautiful countries in the south of Europe. Walking around with their beaches out. They were asking for it.

  12. I am surprised Norway isn’t red, given how many cruise ships visit the fjords, and how low the population is in general. Especially local population in the towns inside the fjords.

  14. I am somewhat surprised by Slovakia. I know the Tatry get some international tourism, but I didn’t realise the country is proportionally more visited than, say, Belgium or Norway.

  15. I’m too lazy to check but I wouldn’t be shocked to see Scotland and Wales in red if you counted separately from England.

  17. Totaled across the year? Hell, I would believe that Iceland sometimes does this in a single day

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