Doha, December 27 (QNA) - "Qatar Tourism" revealed that the country received more than 600,000 visitors during last November, the last ten days of which coincided with the launch of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar hosted by the State of Qatar, for the first time in the Middle East. Where visitors flocked from all over the world to encourage and support their teams, in addition to visiting the most prominent cultural monuments and tourist destinations inside and outside Doha.

Qatar Tourism indicated, in a statement today, that visitors from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia topped the list of visitors to Qatar with 16 percent of the total international visitors, then India with 8 percent, the United States with 7 percent, the United Kingdom with 6 percent, and Mexico with 5 percent, and Argentina, Egypt, Iran, France and Kuwait ranked among the top 10 countries from which international visitors came, who have flocked to the The statement pointed out that the State of Qatar, in addition to the historic achievement it achieved for the region by hosting the tournament, recorded records and other successes related to the world championship, noting that 2.95 million tickets were sold until the opening day on November 20, according to a FIFA spokesperson. FIFA", a number that exceeds its counterpart in the 2018 World Cup in Russia, in which the number of tickets sold was just over 2.4 million, and the match between Argentina and Mexico during the group stage at Lusail Stadium witnessed the highest crowd attendance in any World Cup tournament since The 1994 edition, with an attendance of 88,966 spectators.

Outside the stadiums, the mega-tournament broke television viewership records in many global markets.