How many countries have you visited?

[Bluevanman]

vaud said:

Isn't a country.

Seemed like a different world when I went

[TCEvo]

13 for me. All W Europe, aside from the USA, Canada & Australia. Only slightly unusual one's Finland.

There are three that I've driven through or changed planes at, but didn't count them.

Pretty poor total & won't be adding any new countries to the list this year.

[Skeptisk]

White-Noise said:

indirect flight stops surely don't count unless you go landside right! I had a pint in Copenhagen but I can't count it... weird.

I would tend to count a country if you had to change planes and spent time in the airport (rather than stopped on the runway to refuel). So I included Dubai where I spent a few hours, had a coffee etc, but not somewhere I stopped in the Middle East (can’t even remember where) for refuelling and picking up passengers on the way to India.

You could of course argue that if you cross into a country’s airspace then you have been there but that would be a bit bizarre and also hard to track

[Jonathan27]

46 for me. Largely thanks to a combination of work travel and Interrail as a teenager.

[toon10]

Rookie numbers.

27 countries visited which excludes airport lay overs. I spend a lot of time on mainland Europe, but I've never been to Africa, South America or Australia & Oceana.

Edited to add, I have been to a lot of different locations within a lot of these countries. I've been to 5 or 6 parts of Poland, The Netherlands, Spain, Germany, etc.

Edited by toon10 on Monday 13th May 15:51

[paulguitar]

61.

[generationx]

Having fiddled with the Been app it looks like 20, mostly Western Europe.

[GT03ROB]

Updated from previous

UK
Eire
Sweden
Denmark
Holland
Germany
Belgium
Luxemborg
Switzerland
Hungary
Romania
France
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Vatican
Croatia
Greece
Turkey
Malta
Cyprus
Kazakhstan (Lived)
Azerbaijan
Czech Republic
Poland
Monaco

Gambia
Senegal
Equatorial Guinea (Lived)
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Kenya
Mauritius
Algeria
Tunisia
Egypt
Morocco
Seychelles
Tanzania

Saudi Arabia (Lived)
Oman (Lived)
Bahrain
Kuwait (Lived)
Qatar (Lived)
UAE
Uzbekistan

India (Lived)
China
Nepal
Thailand
Cambodia
Phillipines
Singapore

Australia

Canada
USA (Lived)
Mexico
Grenada
Jamaica
Antigua
Costa Rica
St Lucia

think thats 62

[Rustybanger]

mid 50s - some places I went to under the age of about 10 I can't be sure of.

I recently moved into the upstream/exploration side of oil & gas, so been to the majority of the gulf states in the last 18 months, with some delightful places in Africa a possibility in the next 18 months...

[the-norseman]

Age 35

UK (England, Scotland, Wales) - not been to NI or IOM
Eire
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Germany
Austria
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Romania
Czechia
Bulgaria
Turkey
Cyprus
Malta
Greece
Montenegro
Singapore
Australia
New Zealand
Egypt
Israel


So not a great deal, my to do list is;

Iceland
Sweden
Norway
USA (LA, San Fran, San Diego and possibly Vegas)
Bali - potential honeymoon next year
Japan

[thepritch]

Would love to travel more. As a kid, we went to the US many times, and as it’s so vast, each visit felt like a different country. And then for last 25 yrs we haven’t been able to fly due my wife’s health condition so that means it ruled out any travel beyond France really. So 13 countries from me. I won’t say poor, as I’ve got to know the countries I have been to really well.

Good news is that she is now a lot better, and think she’ll be able to fly very soon, so Japan, Peru, Iceland, and Scandinavia are all on the priority list.

Edited by thepritch on Monday 13th May 14:09

[so called]

Work in the Passenger Rail Vehicle industry which had me on the road for quite a few years.

UK
Sweden (work)
Denmark
Holland
Germany (work)
Belgium
Luxembourg
Switzerland (work)
France
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Greece
Czech Republic
Austria (work)

UAE

India (work)
Singapore (work)
Japan (work)

Australia (work)

Canada (120 + visits) (work)
USA (120 + visits) (work)
Mexico (work)
Brazil (work)

That's 23 not including UK.

[MarkJS]

Unfortunately there are a few that I’d never set foot in again but glad I’ve had the experience.

[Gary C]

Skeptisk said:

king arthur said:

You can't have Wales, it's a principality not a country. And the country you were born in doesn't count as a visit.
/pedant

The Welsh certainly believe they are a country

The other home nations definitely count too. Just because they are part of the U.K. doesn’t mean they are not countries in their own right. I suspect only a minority of English people will have been to Wales and Scotland

People believe in all sorts of things

Doesn't make them true.

country

1. COUNTABLE NOUN A1
A country is one of the political units which the world is divided into, covering a particular area of land.

Uk is one political unit with some devolved powers to certain areas, which does not (yet) make Scotland a country.

[CivicDuties]

39 at age 54. I think so anyway, just did a quick count on a wall map. Don't think I've missed any. I'm not including Wales/Scotland/N.Ireland/England/Channel Islands/Gibraltar - and I'm not counting the UK at all as it's where I was born and live.

Bit annoyed I've got to dig another one out to make 40 now.

[pissonheads]

27 (ex UK)

Oceania:
Australia
New Zealand

Asia:
United Arab Emirates
Oman
Philippines
Indonesia
Malaysia
Singapore
Thailand
Cambodia
Hong Kong

Africa
Morocco
Zambia
Malawi
Kenya
Ethiopia

Europe:
Spain
Portugal
France
Switzerland
Italy
Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
Austria
Greece
Ireland

United Kingdom

Previously an expat kid in Singapore and Philippines hence the SE Asia led travel. Never been across the pond so that's definitely needed but want to spend more time exploring Africa.

[daqinggregg]

Not a lot, around 30; but multiple locations in a very large geographical area.

Sumatra
Java
Bali

Counted as one, Indonesia

Hong Kong
Macau
Taiwan
Inner mongolia

Open to interpretation, all prior to 97 and since, (counted as one).

Hoping to add, Laos and Cambodia this year.

All done on my own wallet, sadly I’m not bright enough for someone else to pay.

[mko9]

North America/Central America
United States
Mexico
Bermuda
Dominican Republic
British Virgin Islands
Turks and Caicos
Bahamas
Honduras
Costa Rica
Panama
Curacao

Europe
UK (England, Wales, Scotland)
Ireland
France
Monaco
Spain
Germany
Luxembourg
Austria
Belgium
Netherlands
Denmark
Czechia
Italy
Vatican City
Croatia
Greece
Turkey

Africa
Egypt
Kenya
Tanzania

Asia
Israel
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
India
Thailand
Singapore
Indonesia
Vietnam
Taiwan
Japan
China
South Korea
North Korea
mongolia

Australia

Of those, I have driven in the US, UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Italy, Czechia, Turkey, Japan, and South Korea

EDIT: weirdly, mongolia has a capital M when I type it in, but a lower case m when displayed. Just triple checked it.

Edited by mko9 on Monday 13th May 20:15

[marine boy]

MarkJS said:

Unfortunately there are a few that I’d never set foot in again but glad I’ve had the experience.

What App is that please

[flight147z]

marine boy said:

What App is that please

Been