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)
  • Angkor 2,000,000
  • Auschwitz Birkenau 1,000,000 (in 2006)
  • Borobudur
  • 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)
  • Granada Alhambra: 2 million
  • Grand Canyon 4,400,000
  • Great Smoky Mountains 9,000,000 (in 2006)
  • Huangshan 1.34 million in 2001
  • Imperial Palace Forbidden City: 7 million
  • Independence Hall 2,270,314 in 2008 for Liberty Bell
  • Istanbul Topkapi Palace - 2 million per year
  • Kew Gardens 1.5 million in 2006
  • 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 and its Bay 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Westminster Westminster Abbey: "over one million visitors a year"
  • Yellowstone 2,800,000
  • Yosemite National Park 3,300,000