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Someone living in Arkansas is far more likely to visit the Marshall Islands than the average American. In Kansas, they’re more likely to visit Germany. And for Virginians? Bolivia is the top destination.

These are the findings in new data from Facebook, which has tracked where users “check in” when they’re traveling abroad during the summer since 2012.

The results don’t necessarily reflect the most popular destinations outside the United States — those are overwhelmingly Mexico and Canada — but instead show which locations are unusually popular with people in a given state, compared with where most Americans travel during the summer.

For many states, the most distinct travel spots are simply whatever is nearby, namely Canada and Mexico. But for others, it’s tied to immigrant populations in the state. Tonga might seem like an unusual choice for Utahns, but there are more Tongans living there than in any other state, which helps explain why the tiny Polynesian island ranks so high.

Viewed together, the distinct destinations reveal the hidden patchwork of global travel that can be found only in a country as big and diverse as the United States.

Below, select your state to see the top-five list and more details about travel habits during summer months.

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Asia

Nuku'alofa, Tonga. Nick Perry/Associated Press

Among all destinations on the list, none were more surprising than Tonga, a tiny Polynesian island in the South Pacific with a population of just 107,122.

Despite the island’s small footprint, it was the most unusual summer travel spot for Utahns compared with Americans overall. The state is home to the largest share of Tongan-Americans in the United States. The reason? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which became a popular religion in Tonga in the late 19th century. Utah has an L.D.S. population of more than two million, who make up about 30 percent of all L.D.S. followers in the United States.

Alaska 1. Philippines 2. American Samoa 3. Bulgaria 4. Macedonia 5. Botswana 6. Canada 7. Indonesia 8. Norway 9. Serbia 10. Samoa Arkansas 1. Marshall Islands 2. Jordan 3. Panama 4. India 5. Britain 6. Argentina 7. Cayman Islands 8. Malaysia 9. Belize 10. Rwanda Hawaii 1. Guam 2. Spain 3. Palau 4. Micronesia 5. Japan 6. Philippines 7. American Samoa 8. Northern Mariana Islands 9. Marshall Islands 10. Tonga Nevada 1. Philippines 2. Bulgaria 3. Mexico 4. Macao 5. Israel 6. Thailand 7. Guam 8. Canada 9. Romania 10. American Samoa Utah 1. Tonga 2. Samoa 3. American Samoa 4. Peru 5. Brazil 6. Chile 7. Britain 8. France 9. Fiji 10. Canada Wyoming 1. Thailand 2. Bulgaria 3. Romania 4. Cyprus 5. Germany 6. Canada 7. Mongolia 8. Britain 9. Moldova 10. Norway

Western Europe

Berlin, Germany. Adam Berry/Getty Images

Germany held the top spot in Colorado and Kansas, where about a quarter of all residents have German ancestry. There is a large German-American population in the Midwest, especially upper Midwest states like North Dakota.

Despite Britain’s being the third-most-popular destination for Americans traveling abroad, it snagged the top spot in just one state: West Virginia. Since there isn’t a particularly large share of British immigrants in West Virginia, tourism is a more likely reason for the high ranking.

Colorado 1. Germany 2. Iceland 3. Croatia 4. Britain 5. Italy 6. Norway 7. Canada 8. Czech Republic 9. France 10. Sweden District Of Columbia 1. France 2. Greece 3. Turkey 4. Croatia 5. Spain 6. Italy 7. Britain 8. Ethiopia 9. Iceland 10. Israel Kansas 1. Germany 2. Sri Lanka 3. Ireland 4. Britain 5. Mexico 6. Kenya 7. South Korea 8. Malaysia 9. Lao PDR 10. Guatemala West Virginia 1. Britain 2. Canada 3. Bahamas 4. South Africa 5. Jamaica 6. Ireland 7. Turks and Caicos Islands 8. Indonesia 9. Germany 10. Malaysia Wisconsin 1. Ireland 2. Canada 3. Macedonia 4. Germany 5. Norway 6. Britain 7. Kosovo 8. Denmark 9. Albania 10. Austria

Eastern Europe

Morskie Oko, a lake in the Tatra Mountains outside Zakopane, Poland. Grzegorz Momot/Polish Press Agency, via European Pressphoto Agency

Bosnians make up the largest Eastern European group in Missouri. The Bosnian population is so prominent that St. Louis has a neighborhood called Little Bosnia. Immigration from Bosnia swelled during the early 1990s as refugees fled the war there.

The peak season for Bosnians traveling to their country of origin is July, which coincides with the anniversary of the Bosnian genocide of 1995, when thousands of people were killed. “We have people who will go there to bury the remains of their loved ones, or to visit the graves of the massacre,” said Akif Cogo, president of the local nonprofit St. Louis Bosnians. The anniversary probably explains the high rankings in neighboring states Iowa and Kentucky.

Illinois 1. Poland 2. Greece 3. Bulgaria 4. Macedonia 5. Lithuania 6. Canada 7. Palestinian Authority 8. Bosnia and Herzegovina 9. Serbia 10. Ireland Indiana 1. Macedonia 2. Canada 3. Britain 4. India 5. Ireland 6. Myanmar 7. Germany 8. Malaysia 9. Côte d'Ivoire 10. Nigeria Iowa 1. Bosnia and Herzegovina 2. Congo 3. Liberia 4. Ireland 5. Malaysia 6. Canada 7. Germany 8. Sudan 9. Lao PDR 10. Croatia Kentucky 1. Bosnia and Herzegovina 2. Panama 3. Britain 4. Indonesia 5. Germany 6. Ireland 7. Canada 8. Cambodia 9. Bahamas 10. Congo Missouri 1. Bosnia and Herzegovina 2. Ireland 3. Canada 4. Germany 5. Britain 6. Jamaica 7. Italy 8. France 9. Croatia 10. Greece

Central & South America

Jurujuba Beach in Niteroi, Brazil. Pilar Olivares/Reuters

Panama is an unusually popular summer destination for Americans living in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. There is a relatively small number of Panamanians living in the United States — just 105,000 in 2015 — so tourism is the more likely draw.

Brazil held the top spot for Massachusetts, fitting the demographic profile of the region. More than 60,000 Brazilians lived there in 2015, a larger number than in any other Central or South American country. About 47,000 Brazilians lived in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton metropolitan area in 2013, according to the United States Census Bureau.

Alabama 1. Panama 2. Australia 3. Germany 4. Bahamas 5. Britain 6. Jamaica 7. Uganda 8. Honduras 9. India 10. South Korea Georgia 1. Panama 2. Jamaica 3. Bahamas 4. France 5. Germany 6. Britain 7. India 8. Italy 9. Virgin Islands, US 10. Brazil Maryland 1. El Salvador 2. Cameroon 3. South Africa 4. Nigeria 5. Jamaica 6. Greece 7. Canada 8. Nepal 9. Bermuda 10. Sierra Leone Massachusetts 1. Brazil 2. Cape Verde 3. Portugal 4. Greece 5. Canada 6. Bermuda 7. Albania 8. Ireland 9. Lebanon 10. Dominican Republic Mississippi 1. Panama 2. Britain 3. Jamaica 4. Bahamas 5. Argentina 6. South Africa 7. Malaysia 8. Bahrain 9. Mongolia 10. Canada Nebraska 1. Guatemala 2. Togo 3. South Sudan 4. Germany 5. Ireland 6. Vietnam 7. Malaysia 8. Sudan 9. Somalia 10. Iraq Tennessee 1. Panama 2. Britain 3. Germany 4. Italy 5. Honduras 6. Bahamas 7. Canada 8. Uganda 9. Egypt 10. Jamaica Virginia 1. Bolivia 2. El Salvador 3. Germany 4. Bahrain 5. Greece 6. Britain 7. Turkey 8. Italy 9. Mongolia 10. Pakistan

the Caribbean

Loma de Cabrera, Dominican Republic. Tatiana Fernandez for The New York Times

For most countries and territories in the Caribbean, tourism is a major economic driver. In the Bahamas, tourism accounts for about 75 percent to 80 percent of the country’s G.D.P., according to The World Factbook.

Travel in the summer months can best be explained by migrants visiting family and friends back home. About half of all Dominicans in the United States lived in New York state in 2015, with almost all of them residing in New York City.

Puerto Rico held the top spot for Connecticut, which also aligns with the demographics there: The state has about 279,000 Puerto Ricans, according to the 2014 American Community Survey.

Connecticut 1. Puerto Rico 2. Belize 3. Ecuador 4. Albania 5. Bermuda 6. Greece 7. Portugal 8. Poland 9. Canada 10. Brazil Florida 1. Puerto Rico 2. Colombia 3. Venezuela 4. Brazil 5. Bahamas 6. Cuba 7. Nicaragua 8. Peru 9. Haiti 10. Virgin Islands, US Louisiana 1. Honduras 2. Palestinian Authority 3. Panama 4. France 5. Argentina 6. Bahamas 7. Malaysia 8. Britain 9. Nicaragua 10. Cayman Islands New Jersey 1. Dominican Republic 2. Ecuador 3. Portugal 4. India 5. Macedonia 6. Peru 7. Turkey 8. Aruba 9. Greece 10. Bermuda New York 1. Dominican Republic 2. Greece 3. Ecuador 4. Canada 5. Bangladesh 6. Israel 7. Italy 8. Guyana 9. Georgia 10. Albania North Carolina 1. Puerto Rico 2. Germany 3. Britain 4. Bahamas 5. Italy 6. Ireland 7. Greece 8. Honduras 9. France 10. Sweden Pennsylvania 1. Puerto Rico 2. Canada 3. Ireland 4. Dominican Republic 5. Liberia 6. Greece 7. Italy 8. South Africa 9. Bermuda 10. Jamaica South Carolina 1. Bahamas 2. Germany 3. Britain 4. Jamaica 5. Italy 6. Virgin Islands, US 7. Ireland 8. Turks and Caicos Islands 9. Honduras 10. Brazil

Africa

Durban, South Africa. Joao Silva/The New York Times

There were about 84,000 Somalis living in the United States in 2015, and about 30 percent of them live in Minnesota. Ryan Allen, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has studied the Somali population in the state, said immigrants have continued to travel home despite an ongoing civil war.

“They saw an opportunity — once they’d become established in the United States and specifically in Minnesota — to go back, not only to reconnect with family and friends, but also to try and help the country,” he said.

South Africa held the top spot in Delaware, and the largest driver is probably tourism: Travel from the Americas grew by 10 percent between 2014 and 2016, according to South Africa Tourism. Gustav Visser, a professor who studies tourism at South Africa’s Stellenbosch University, noted traveling to the country isn’t cheap, so wealthier Americans might account for a higher share of visitors. One possible attraction for them: big-game hunting.

Delaware 1. South Africa 2. India 3. Bulgaria 4. Liberia 5. Jamaica 6. Canada 7. Turkey 8. Bermuda 9. Britain 10. Puerto Rico Minnesota 1. Somalia 2. Liberia 3. Norway 4. Canada 5. Kenya 6. Iceland 7. Sweden 8. Lao PDR 9. Ethiopia 10. Britain North Dakota 1. Liberia 2. Canada 3. Norway 4. Bosnia and Herzegovina 5. Philippines 6. South Africa 7. Kosovo 8. Germany 9. Georgia 10. Somalia Rhode Island 1. Cape Verde 2. Portugal 3. Dominican Republic 4. Britain 5. Guatemala 6. Jamaica 7. Canada 8. Bermuda 9. Liberia 10. Ireland South Dakota 1. Liberia 2. Thailand 3. Norway 4. Germany 5. Canada 6. Ethiopia 7. Britain 8. Nepal 9. Ireland 10. South Sudan

Canada

Banff, Canada. Bonny Makarewicz for The New York Times

America’s northern neighbor held the top spot in nine states, almost all of which share the border. Americans were the most common tourists in Canada during 2015, with 12.6 million visitors spending $7.8 billion, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada.

Idaho 1. Canada 2. Singapore 3. Bosnia and Herzegovina 4. Germany 5. Norway 6. Britain 7. Sweden 8. Northern Mariana Islands 9. Italy 10. Japan Maine 1. Canada 2. Congo 3. Angola 4. New Zealand 5. Bulgaria 6. Iceland 7. Ireland 8. Britain 9. Burundi 10. Bermuda Michigan 1. Canada 2. Lebanon 3. Albania 4. Macedonia 5. Iraq 6. Bosnia and Herzegovina 7. Germany 8. India 9. Ireland 10. Romania Montana 1. Canada 2. Bulgaria 3. Thailand 4. Ireland 5. Germany 6. Norway 7. Switzerland 8. Britain 9. Australia 10. Austria New Hampshire 1. Canada 2. Britain 3. Bermuda 4. Ireland 5. Bosnia and Herzegovina 6. Indonesia 7. Greece 8. Iceland 9. Aruba 10. Sweden Ohio 1. Canada 2. Indonesia 3. Lebanon 4. Ireland 5. Britain 6. India 7. Palestinian Authority 8. Italy 9. Serbia 10. Greece Oregon 1. Canada 2. Netherlands 3. Britain 4. France 5. Norway 6. Iceland 7. Taiwan 8. Germany 9. Croatia 10. Thailand Vermont 1. Canada 2. Bosnia and Herzegovina 3. Ireland 4. Iceland 5. Britain 6. Croatia 7. Norway 8. France 9. Moldova 10. Bermuda Washington 1. Canada 2. Taiwan 3. Vietnam 4. American Samoa 5. Japan 6. Norway 7. South Korea 8. Cambodia 9. Britain 10. Guam

Mexico

Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Danielle Villasana for The New York Times

Mexico was the most distinct destination for many states, especially those along the southern border. The cause can be traced to larger Hispanic populations there. New Mexico, California, Texas and Arizona had the highest share of Hispanic populations in 2015. The one outlier, at least in terms of population, was Oklahoma. It had a Hispanic population of just 10.1 percent in 2015.

Mexico remains a popular tourist destination for Americans, with about 7.9 million Americans flying to the country between January and November 2016, according to U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office. That number was up 11 percent from the same period in 2015.