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 | 602 | 9,799 |
| France | 525 | 23,617 |
| Germany | 505 | 20,589 |
| Italy | 487 | 22,629 |
| Poland | 374 | 6,813 |
| Japan | 297 | 2,449 |
| Sweden | 206 | 2,171 |
| Portugal | 205 | 1,387 |
| Czech Republic | 203 | 4,874 |
| Austria | 201 | 2,872 |
| Netherlands | 201 | 3,587 |
| Switzerland | 201 | 1,675 |
| Ukraine | 188 | 881 |
| India | 179 | 1,126 |
| Ireland | 173 | 1,270 |
| Iran | 170 | 1,165 |
| Scotland | 168 | — |
| Russia | 145 | 836 |
| Slovakia | 140 | 1,078 |
| Hungary | 135 | 537 |
| Greece | 134 | 1,050 |
| Turkey | 129 | 3,130 |
| Romania | 121 | 1,493 |
| China | 119 | 385 |
| United States | 103 | 961 |
| Wales | 100 | — |
| Belgium | 92 | 2,310 |
| Brazil | 80 | 564 |
| Croatia | 61 | 577 |
| South Korea | 58 | 481 |
| Denmark | 53 | 675 |
| Georgia | 46 | 198 |
| Luxembourg | 46 | 114 |
| Azerbaijan | 45 | 459 |
| Latvia | 45 | 676 |
| Slovenia | 44 | 461 |
| Belarus | 41 | 358 |
| Indonesia | 41 | 396 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 38 | 112 |
| Syria | 38 | 153 |
| Egypt | 37 | 146 |
| Morocco | 37 | 302 |
| Estonia | 36 | 302 |
| Ghana | 34 | 72 |
| Serbia | 34 | 205 |
| Lithuania | 32 | 981 |
| Armenia | 28 | 618 |
| 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.