How many castles every country has
How many castles are there in each country?
Country by country, three numbers each: what this atlas maps, what Wikidata holds, and — where a source can be named — what has been published.
| Country | In this atlas | In Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| France | 793 | 23,617 |
| Germany | 711 | 20,589 |
| Spain | 607 | 9,799 |
| Italy | 560 | 22,629 |
| Poland | 398 | 6,813 |
| Japan | 296 | 2,449 |
| Czech Republic | 243 | 4,874 |
| Austria | 240 | 2,872 |
| Scotland | 226 | — |
| India | 224 | 1,126 |
| Switzerland | 213 | 1,675 |
| Portugal | 212 | 1,387 |
| Sweden | 209 | 2,171 |
| Netherlands | 199 | 3,587 |
| Ukraine | 195 | 881 |
| Ireland | 178 | 1,270 |
| Iran | 173 | 1,165 |
| Russia | 146 | 836 |
| Slovakia | 136 | 1,078 |
| Hungary | 135 | 537 |
| Greece | 134 | 1,050 |
| Turkey | 129 | 3,130 |
| Belgium | 128 | 2,310 |
| Romania | 126 | 1,493 |
| United States | 110 | 961 |
| China | 107 | 385 |
| Wales | 107 | — |
| Brazil | 79 | 564 |
| Croatia | 79 | 577 |
| Denmark | 59 | 675 |
| South Korea | 57 | 481 |
| Slovenia | 50 | 461 |
| Luxembourg | 49 | 114 |
| Georgia | 48 | 198 |
| Latvia | 47 | 676 |
| Azerbaijan | 46 | 459 |
| Belarus | 45 | 358 |
| Indonesia | 43 | 396 |
| Morocco | 42 | 302 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 40 | 112 |
| Syria | 38 | 153 |
| Egypt | 37 | 146 |
| Estonia | 36 | 302 |
| Ghana | 35 | 72 |
| Serbia | 34 | 205 |
| Lithuania | 32 | 981 |
| Armenia | 27 | 618 |
| Canada | 26 | 178 |
The Wikidata count was taken on 2026-08-19. It counts every Wikidata item in the country that is an instance of a castle, fortress, fort, château, palace, citadel, fortification or Japanese castle, or of any subclass of those.