12:42 - 21.01.2025

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January 21, Fineko/abc.az. Last year, 2,626,700 foreigners and stateless persons from 196 countries visited Azerbaijan (25.9% more than in the previous year), ABC.AZ reports with reference to the State Statistics Committee.

The largest number of tourists came from Russia (27.8% of the total tourist flow), Turkey (16.2%) and India (9.3%). 67.3% of the arrivals were men, 32.7% were women.

Compared with 2023, the number of tourists from India grew 2.1-fold, from Spain 2-fold, from South Korea 1.9-fold, from China 1.9-fold, and the number of arrivals from the European Union by 34.9% up to 112,300 people, from the Persian Gulf countries by 21.4% up to 425,000 people, from the CIS countries by 18.8% up to 979,000 people.

75.6% of foreigners and stateless persons who arrived in our country traveled by air, 23.1% by rail and by road, and 1.3% by sea.