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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 600 | 9,799 |
| Germany | 492 | 20,589 |
| France | 469 | 23,617 |
| Italy | 452 | 22,629 |
| Poland | 366 | 6,813 |
| Japan | 297 | 2,449 |
| Sweden | 205 | 2,171 |
| Austria | 200 | 2,872 |
| Czech Republic | 200 | 4,874 |
| Netherlands | 200 | 3,587 |
| Portugal | 200 | 1,387 |
| Switzerland | 200 | 1,675 |
| Ukraine | 183 | 881 |
| India | 172 | 1,126 |
| Ireland | 172 | 1,270 |
| Iran | 169 | 1,165 |
| Scotland | 167 | — |
| Russia | 141 | 836 |
| Slovakia | 136 | 1,078 |
| Hungary | 135 | 537 |
| Turkey | 126 | 3,130 |
| Greece | 123 | 1,050 |
| China | 115 | 385 |
| Romania | 115 | 1,493 |
| United States | 105 | 961 |
| Wales | 100 | — |
| Belgium | 89 | 2,310 |
| Brazil | 81 | 564 |
| Croatia | 60 | 577 |
| South Korea | 57 | 481 |
| Denmark | 49 | 675 |
| Latvia | 45 | 676 |
| Luxembourg | 45 | 114 |
| Belarus | 39 | 358 |
| Georgia | 39 | 198 |
| Indonesia | 39 | 396 |
| Azerbaijan | 38 | 459 |
| Syria | 37 | 153 |
| Slovenia | 36 | 461 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 33 | 112 |
| Egypt | 32 | 146 |
| Ghana | 32 | 72 |
| Estonia | 30 | 302 |
| Lithuania | 29 | 981 |
| Morocco | 28 | 302 |
| Armenia | 27 | 618 |
| Serbia | 26 | 205 |
| Canada | 25 | 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.