Can you name the top 20 foreign destinations of U.S. travelers? by greeneyes

Travelers per year	Country	Continent
20,271,000		North America
12,495,000		North America
2,894,000		Europe
2,124,000		Europe
1,940,000		Europe
1,601,000		Europe
1,601,000		Asia
1,447,000		North America (Island)
1,201,000		Asia
1,139,000		Europe

Travelers per year	Country	Continent
1,016,000		Asia
924,000		Asia (Special Administrative Region)
893,000		Europe
677,000		Europe
677,000		South America
647,000		Asia
647,000		Europe
616,000		Asia
616,000		Asia
585,000		Oceania

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Foreign Countries Americans Visit Most Quiz

by greeneyes

Created Oct 26, 2009 in Geography
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	alidee:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 05:26 GMT	67 points
	I'm pretty sure Taiwan is its own country, and Hong Kong is part of China - it shouldn't have its own answer!

	SanityLapse:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 05:36 GMT	5 points
	Cool, the country of Hong Kong.

	greeneyes:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 05:36 GMT	17 points
	https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/hk.html I guess it's pretty tricky to define. However, for this quiz, I was going by the list provided by Forbes Traveler.

	shawnkay:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 05:54 GMT	30 points
	There's not much to debate since you've done the right thing and used a source, but you should probably have the category as "destination" rather than "country", and specify that not all answers are countries. The page you posted lists Hong Kong correctly, as a special administrative region of China. That means its a part of China.

	greeneyes:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 06:01 GMT	13 points
	@shawnkay I made the edits you suggested. Hope that it's not too vague now. Thanks for your help - it was my first time doing this.

	tobinw:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 06:18 GMT	27 points
	Good first quiz GE.

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	greeneyes:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 06:59 GMT	10 points
	Hmm... I tried to make both parties happy, so I hope that my country/destination updates make sense. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to clarify the quiz. Thanks for the input!

	minus_the_bear:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 07:41 GMT	37 points
	wow i saw north america (island) and first answer i thought of was CUBA! Fail.

	recklessness:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 11:07 GMT	81 points
	More americans visit Colombia than Brazil? Would never guessed it.

	chrismet:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 13:03 GMT	0 points
	No Vietnam?

	davitamon9:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 16:20 GMT	32 points
	colombia and netherlands = drugstourism

	segacs:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 16:25 GMT	19 points
	This quiz probably has a lot in common with a quiz on the national origins of immigrants to the US over the past several decades - as a lot of this is probably not "vacation" tourism, but "visiting" tourism (i.e. friends and family back in the "home" country). Also, since business travel is included, it skews the numbers since way more people travel on business than for pleasure.

	elnok:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 17:16 GMT	8 points
	it would be a lot more challenging without the continent clues. as for hong kong and taiwan, they both have separate visa regimes from mainland china, so regardless of whether your political views espouse them as being different from china, my guess is that they'd have different immigration stats.

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	fatbeard:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 17:47 GMT	2 points
	Seeing Eponymous threw me off just a bit. Couldn't the continent/region be Oceania? Or is that just overkill? either way, really good quiz

	greeneyes:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 17:52 GMT	3 points
	Thanks for the comments, everyone. As I said before, I'm using the "country" as listed by Forbes Traveler. @fatbeard - I'll make that change. Thanks for the input!

	LTH:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 19:16 GMT	1 point
	I say delete the continent column altogether. It will make it a smidge more difficult but Sporclers will get most of the answers anyway.

	harpua22:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 21:51 GMT	18 points
	dont complain about hong kong because with that clue, what else would you guess? theres no problem with it. good quiz.

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	John Lambeth:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 22:22 GMT	25 points
	why the hell do more people visit colombia than brazil? i don't buy the "drugs" answer. i mean, they might send us drugs, but it's not like there are 600,000 Americans going to Colombia to buy coke.

	micktravis:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 23:57 GMT	2 points
	Can't believe the only one I missed was Israel. Good quiz!

	quiztaker:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 02:00 GMT	11 points
	The lack of Russia slightly surprised me, I'd think that more than 585,000 people would go to Moscow or St. Petersburg.

	Rom:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 02:11 GMT	4 points
	Good quiz, but one mistake: You wrote that Jamaica had 1,447,00 people. I think you meant 1,447,000

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	greeneyes:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 05:26 GMT	3 points
	@Rom - Sorry about that. Fixed the error.

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	cocky:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 03:21 GMT	1 point
	Yes, there are drugs in Colombia but it doesn't strike me as a pleasnat place to go. The Netherlands are at least somewhat scenic and less dangerous.

	xandigee:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 04:38 GMT	3 points
	Fun quiz!

	emanuel:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 21:15 GMT	2 points
	Hong Kong is debatable. Most people say it's part of China, but stick to Sporcle recognized countries

	DonEscamillo:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 00:11 GMT	-2 points
	Excuse me. No Iraq, no Afghanistan? Me thought there were plenty of young American men traveling to those countries. They're in the news all the time.

	oldkent:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 03:09 GMT	-1 points
	@ DonEscamillo --> Excuse me! I find it quite stupid when people debate these obvious FACTS. Yes, if there were more than 585,000 people who went there, they would be on. But they aren't, so don't go complaining.

	y2jdilemma:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 11:42 GMT	2 points
	The Netherlands is on this list for one reason and one reason only. And it aint windmills and tulips, thats for sure.

	fatfifer:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 16:41 GMT	6 points
	i would rather go to the netherlands than germany, drugs or no drugs

	mike5816:	Nov 24th, 2009 at 02:10 GMT	4 points
	Americans don't go to Brazil much because it's (1) far away, and (2) very crime ridden and considered unsafe. The US is one of Colombia's largest trading partners (legal goods), and it's much closer. Many of the people traveling between Colombia and the USA are visiting each other rather than vacationing.

	mike5816:	Nov 24th, 2009 at 02:12 GMT	8 points
	I was totally surprised that Bahamas wasn't on here given that almost every cruise ship out of Florida stops there, and there are thousands of people on those ships coming and going every week. But, this is probably why Jamaica rated so high.

	joebobs:	Dec 13th, 2009 at 18:22 GMT	16 points
	I think you've presented this well and done the right thing to stop confusion - I have one criticism: why did you put (Island) for Jamaica? On sporcle, it's standard to include the Caribbean as part of the North American continent, so it's not necessary, and it actually confused me a little, thinking perhaps you meant an island that's not an independent country. Otherwise, good quiz!

	skye_eg:	Apr 1st, 2010 at 23:55 GMT	7 points
	re: Colombia........This is probably mostly Colombian-Americans visting family in Colombia. I think you guys are putting too much thought into it.