California Theme Parks Attendance | World Theme Park Disneyland Parks Figures

California Theme Parks by the numbers rank Disneyland as top park in California, and second most popular world wide.

Do you ever wonder why you can visit Disneyland in the "off" season and it looks as busy as a summer day in June? Well, that's because Disneyland is the top California theme park tourists and local residents flock to. But as the Disneyland theme park attraction ride goes, "It's a Small World Afterall." And Disneyland has made it smaller by building its brand universally. There's such an aura affiliated with fantasy, illusion, and just plain quality craft that some tourists are actually Disneyland junkies who will travel the world on a mission to visit the Disneyland theme parks wherever they may be. Build it and they will come surely applies to Disneyland magic.

Even though Disneyland parks have been built around the world, those who have seen other Disney attractions still want to visit Anaheim/Disneyland to experience the original Disneyland. By the numbers, you make wonder how California theme parks rank world wide. Here are recent annual results of theme park attendance from highest to lowest:

California Top Theme Park Attractions	Annual Visits	World Rank

Disneyland Anaheim / Tickets	14, 700,000	2
Disney's California Adventure / Tickets	5,950,000	13
Universal Studios Hollywood / Tickets	5,000,000	19
SeaWorld San Diego / Tickets!	4,260,000	23

TOP 5 WORLD THEME PARKS: In world attendance, Disney theme parks hold the largest market share and are going strong, indeed. Acing out California's Disneyland is

1. Magic Kingdom - Orlando, Florida, United States, which reported just under 17 million attendance (16.6) in recent figures.

2. Disneyland Anaheim (California) park, the original theme park came in second at 14.7 million.

3. Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan got third billing with just under 13 million annual visitors (12.9) and in the same destination experience but separated out as a different park is

4. Tokyo DisneySea - Urayasu, Chiba, Japan with just over 12 million (12.1).

5. Disneyland Paris at Cedex, Marne La Valle, France was fifth and experienced 10.6 million visitors in a single year. That's formidable, considering the French populace was reported by world press to be less than warm about the prospects of welcoming a Disneyland enterprise in their nation.

And the sixth busiest theme park by attendance that rounds out the Disney ventures was

6. Epcot in Orlando, Florida, with a whopping 10.4 million people entering its gates in a single year. Additional theme parks within the Disney holdings in this Florida location include

Disney's Hollywood Studios, Orlando, FL, at 9.1 million folks attending; and Disney's Animal Kingdom, Orlando, FL, USA, with five-and-a-half million people.

Putting this all in perspective, the Disney parks and attractions worldwide garnered over 103 million visitors. Wow! Back in California the top parks earned around 50 million guests in a year. Florida's Disneyland parks in Orlando got about 45 million visitors in a single year, while the California Disneyland parks in Anaheim got about 20.65 million or 20,650,000. With less than half the visitors in California than Florida enjoys at Disney attractions annually, it's easy to see why a company that began with Disneyland and sought to grow its holdings and assets, would expand to other cities around the globe. While the costs of doing business are not factored into the equation, Disneyland still holds the magic globally.

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