Taj Mahal is the world’s most googled landmark

The world is full of amazing things to see and do, but some sights stand out above the rest. To determine which bucket-list destinations most pique the public’s curiosity, travel insurance company Columbus Direct looked at Google’s Keyword Planner and noted the average monthly search volume for 150 popular landmarks.

The Taj Mahal in Agra topped the list of the world’s most googled landmarks.

While the other top 20 features plenty of the usual suspects – Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Central Park, Stonehenge, Big Ben, and the London Eye – some lesser publicized places are on the long list. Landmarks like the Tokyo Tower in Japan and Brandenburg Gate in Germany are less frequently searched, which, for travel-planning purposes, could indicate shorter wait times and smaller crowds.

Here are the landmarks with the highest search volume over the course of a year.

1. Taj Mahal, India

With more than 1.3 million tags on Instagram and 1,417,650 monthly searches worldwide, Taj Mahal is the world’s most Googled landmark – hardly a surprise, given that twice the population of Agra passes through its Unesco World Heritage-listed gates each year. Searches in India make up nearly a third of that total, averaging more than 550,000 times over the past year, but they also rank highly in countries like Niger and Jordan.

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2. Machu Picchu, Peru

 

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