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For a website willing to connect people all around the world for activities, we were obliged to know which were the top ten languages. 

Here is a nice infography about figures for this, from more than one year ago. This year is still the same leaderboard, but with bigger figures.

English users are more than 565 millions, chinese more than 509, spanish 164, japanese 99, portuguese 82, german 75, arabic 65, french 59, russian 59 and korean 39.

Alltogether, it is more than 2 billion people connected on the world wide web!

For us, our website will first be dedicated to more than 790 million people around the world, as we will launch in french, english and spanish!

You probably know that, we are from France, Paris. Born & raised in Paris.

But did you know about world travel statistics? You may be surprised!

First of all, the most visited countries on earth on 2010, with the growth compared to 2009? France’s first! 

1. France - 76.8 (+0%)
2. USA - 59.7 (+8.7%)
3. China - 55.7 (+9.4%)
4. Spain - 52.7 (+1%)
5. Italy - 43.6 (+0.9%)
6. United Kingdom - 28.1 (-0.2%)
7. Turkey - 27 (+5.9%)
8. Germany - 26.9 (+10.9%)
9. Malaysia - 24.6 (+3.9%)
10. Mexico - 22.4 (+4.4%)

(numbers in millions)

And for the cities? Paris’ first also! Cocorico again! 

1. Paris - 15.1
2. London - 14.6
3. New York City - 9.7
4. Antalya - 9.2
5. Singapore - 9.2
6. Kuala Lumpur - 8.9
7. Hong Kong - 8.4
8. Dubai - 8.3
9. Bangkok - 7.2
10. Istanbul - 6.9

(numbers in millions, for 2010)

For cities such as Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Dubai or Bangkok, it’s quite normal, cause they are big airport hubs. But for cities like Antalya, Paris, London, it’s for tourism in the city. One extraordinary thing is that every year, there is 1 million more foreign tourists just in the city of Antalya in Turkey than in the whole of India (around 8 million)! Numbers, numbers!

Cocorico!