How many countries have you been to?

[MaknCheeese]

The north south east west thread got me thinking of all the countries I have visited.
Uk
Ireland
France
Spain
Italy
Tunisia
Cyprus
Egypt
UAE
Kenya
Thailand
India

Crete and Corfu are both in Greece and Maideira is not a country - Portugal is

England
Wales
Scotland
N Ireland
Ireland
France
Spain
Belgium
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Italy
Germany
Monaco
Italy
Greece
Czech
Finland
USA
Canada
Ecuador
Argentina
Chile
Bolivia
Peru
Galapagos Islands
Mauritius
Netherlands Antilles

Israel as well

The Galapagos belong to Ecuador, they're not a separate country.

Re Crete and Corfu, we could get a bit silly here and start counting every Greek island as a separate nation :). That would bump my total up by quite a bit!

Madeira is part of Portugal, just as the Canaries are part of Spain. Gibraltar is part of the UK (or GB, I get confused between the two, but it's definitely not an independent nation!)

There are places that whose status as independent nations is subject to debate - I've been to Kosovo, which is not always included in these lists as Serbia and some other countries consider it's still part of Serbia (I think >50% of other nations have now recognised Kosovo though).

Ethiopia's borders have changed a lot in the last 30 years, giving birth to 2 new nations. Ditto Sudan - South Sudan. Other "nations" have disappeared or were never widely recognised as such, eg Transkei and Ciskei.

So how you count your total will vary according to all sorts of factors, not just how well you know your geography!

UK (live)
Ireland x 4
France x many
Germany x many
USA x 8
Portugal x 1
Belgium x 3
Luxembourg x 1
Switzerland x 2
Netherlands x 2
Australia x 1
Singapore x 1
Hong Kong x 1

If I'd visited Bermuda or the Falkland Islands I'd be listing them separately from the UK, as they are in completely different parts of the world. Ditto Madeira vs Portugal, New Caledonia vs France, etc. I know they are politically part of other countries but they are separate geographically.

if counting seperately
Lived in England and Wales, been to Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland x 1
Spain (including canary islands) x 4
France (lived there for 2 years) + 3 times on holiday
Switzerland x 2
Italy (lived there for a year) + 1 holiday
Austria x 1
Thailand (backpacked around for 6 months)
Laos x 1
Tunisia x 1
Belgium x 1
Luxembourg x 1
Germany x 2
Greece x 2

If we had more money we would go a lot more places!! Most of our family holidays have been camping in the UK.

I'm in my third in 30 hours. I've just flown back from Australia, with several hours in the airport in Dubai, so not really much of a visit.

Got a litre of Ukrainian vodka for 1
£16, though!

Do you guys count countries that you only transition through? When I went to Thailand I went via Dubai. I don't count that though as I only spent a couple of hours in the airport.

Beezknees · Today 17:08

Do you guys count countries that you only transition through?

I'm not....

Do you guys count countries that you only transition through?

Nope, only if I've gone through passport control and am no longer airside.

If you've not gone through passport control, you're not in that country!

Scotland
England
Wales (as a baby)
USA (3 different states on 2 different trips)
France

I've only been outside the UK 3 times, we holidayed within the UK, mostly camping, when I was growing up.

62 countries on the visited countries map. Travelled a lot for work in past - the more unusual ones were - Iraq, Syria, Senegal, Swaziland, Togo, St Vincent.

Did you feel safe in Iraq?

England
Wales
France
Belgium
Germany
Spain
The Netherlands
Tenerife
Zante
Menorca
Mallorca
Turkey
USA
Canada

I need to travel more!

UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Belgium, Luxemburg, Italy, Monaco, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Antigua, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Dominican Republic, Netherlands, Switzerland. 29(?)

Not many as I hate flying :)

England
France
Italy
Netherlands
Scotland
USA
Belgium.

@mauvish Taiwan is another country with debatable status. I count it on my list because it's self governing and considers itself a nation but not all sources include it because it's not recognised by China.

I went to Erbil a few years ago. Local people would say that they live in Kurdistan but I have an Iraqi passport stamp.

Geography can't be separated from politics

U.K.,
France,
Spain,
Holland,
Belgium,
Greece,
Indonesia,
UAE,
Thailand,
USA,
New Zealand,
Switzerland,
EIRE,
Italy,
Canada