IfGoGo.com » Stories about city http://www.ifgogo.com Chinese in English Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:13:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Where do you want to visit http://www.ifgogo.com/39/the-most-popular-places-on-the-world/ http://www.ifgogo.com/39/the-most-popular-places-on-the-world/#comments Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:28:38 +0000 Aw Guo http://www.ifgogo.com/39/the-most-popular-places-on-the-world/ Continue reading →]]> Actually there are plenty of applications like this on the Internet. But when the biggest i18n SNS(Social Networking Service) website tells us the statistics data, it's even much funnier than you can image. Now thanks to Facebook.com, I really find out something funny.

Here is a list of "The most popular places people wants to visit". ( The list was generated from the Facebook users who installed a "I've been" application, among which are mostly from U.S and Europe countries. )

  1. Australia 1,288,420 26%
  2. Italy 925,134 18%
  3. Brazil 882,952 18%
  4. Spain 805,563 16%
  5. New Zealand 780,912 16%
  6. Japan 774,868 15%
  7. Egypt 726,164 14%
  8. Ireland 723,117 14%
  9. England 690,553 14%
  10. Greece 690,275 14%
  11. France 689,676 14%
  12. South Africa 613,683 12%
  13. China 607,613 12%
  14. Germany 601,040 12%
  15. Hawaii 596,509 12%
  16. Alaska 579,330 12%
  17. Scotland 574,713 11%
  18. India 534,828 11%
  19. Russia 502,523 10%
  20. Sweden 465,213 9%
  21. California 464,209 9%
  22. Argentina 459,552 9%
  23. Mexico 458,246 9%
  24. Thailand 430,942 9%
  25. Chile 398,386 8%

According to the numbers, I got many funny conclusions:

  • Most people wanna pay a visit to Australia. Maybe it's just because the voters are mostly from U.S, and they are just too young to take such a long flight. Or just because it's really too easy to click on the Australia ;) (In this application, you need to click the area and then submit your vote)
  • Egypt and Greece is very popular. People love history.
  • Hawaii is the 15th, but that's a very high rank. I say so because it's really hard to find this island out on the screen, yet 596,509 guys did that, hard-working!
  • The most popular city from U.S is "California" - Everybody on this planet loves gold :)
  • China ranks only 13th, even if the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is going to be held in Beijing. - Maybe the modern guys ( the users of Facebook are mainly college students from western countries ) are not that interested in such traditional things?

So, please feel free to share your opinions here! Do post a comment :)

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