2 Million Caches for Groundspeak

[Matthew 7:7 Too]

Well Groundspeak have announced that they've over 2 million active caches now, and it's interesting to see where they are!

As you'd expect nearly half (882101) are in the USA, but I was surprised to see that Germany is second with 275660, Canada is third with 160409 and the UK is fourth with 136105!

Time to catch up perhaps??

Details below:

The Active Geocaches in January 2013
Country Active Geocaches
United States 882101
Germany 275660
Canada 160409
United Kingdom 136105
Sweden 62975
France 53020
Australia 42921
Czech Republic 32571
Austria 28245
Norway 27200
Denmark 25523
Spain 24531
Finland 23016
Netherlands 21594
Portugal 20266
Switzerland 18453
New Zealand 17360
Belgium 15790
Japan 14183
Italy 8962
Slovakia 8175
South Africa 7901
South Korea 5873
Ireland 5416
Poland 4585
Hungary 4582
Luxembourg 2502
Slovenia 2172
Latvia 2122
Mexico 2098
Lithuania 1846
Greece 1807
Romania 1786
Estonia 1619
Croatia 1158
Brazil 1128
Bulgaria 1035
Thailand 929
Puerto Rico 929

Chris

[Kirsten]

as a german I'm not surprised about the high number of caches in Germany.

But take a look behind the numbers. How many cachers are in each country, what kind of caches are in the countries and how is the caching behaviour?

It is not about the numbers of caches. I know many german cachers whom see Geocaching as sport, they care about their statistic and not about the cache itself.

for the numbers:
The most land in Germany is not private property, but "owned" by the council. It is easier to hide a cache.

There is one number which surprised me:
Luxembourg 2502 this is nearly one cache each square km.

UK: 0,55caches per square km
GER: 0,77caches per square km
US: 0,09caches per square km ;)

[Griff Grof]

Very interesting, and great to have finally reached #2,000,000 - that's a lot of caches, and only on one of the several listing sites :applause:

Does anyone know how much caches Geocaching.com has had ever in total, so the 2 million + today add on to all the archived caches ever? :confused: - would be interesting to know ;)