Which country has the most castles?

Castles by Country 2024
We often readily associate castles with medieval England, picturing knights, moats, drawbridges - perhaps even a damsel in distress and a dragon or two.

So it may surprise you to learn that, of the roughly one million castles in the world, Germany holds the most - 25,000 of them, to be exact! But though Germany takes the crown for sheer castle numbers, there are many castles around the world worth exploring.