How many countries have you visited?

[Florally]

My kids were playing around with AI and learned that the average person on earth has been to less than one country (other than their country of residence..)

And for the UK specifically, 9. (Point something…)

I’m just being pointlessly nosy, mostly because I thought it would be much lower. (For example, a lot of people I know go back to the same destination year on year..)

How about you?

Just realised I forgot one other African country too. A friend and I were going to travel to The Gambia but they had a mini coup so we went to Egypt instead.

I'm now wondering how to up that number quite easily. I've been to most of Western Europe but maybe interrailing in Eastern Europe, or island hopping in the Caribbean?
I work with someone from a small Caribbean island. She was telling me about the population of each one, they are tiny and I think quite close together. I could fancy that...
Or a Baltic cruise, though I've been to most of the Nordic countries.

62 but a lot of that was work travel - some fairly off the beaten track counties like Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Togo, Senegal, Burkina Faso

Most countries in Europe, Mexico, Canada, USA, many countries in S America, Caribbean and Central America, many countries in Asia. Probably about 45.

What do you do? Some of my visits have been for work but not quite so remote!

Ireland
uk
france
spain
italy
greece
germany
switzerland
belgium
morocco
usa
australia
uae
trinidad and Tobago
st Vincent
Barbados
grenada
venezuela

so 18

Scotland
Wales
Ireland
France
Monaco
Spain
Italy
Belgium
Greece
Cyprus
Turkey
Dubai
Abu Dhabi
Qatar
Bahrain
Singapore
Australia
New Zealand
USA

19 at 49, hopefully adding Switzerland to the list this year

I’m 40 and have been to 5 countries outside the UK, or 7 if you count a flight connection in an airport.

Ooh this is a fun thread:
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Italy
Netherlands
Spain
Norway
New Zealand
Australia
Czech Republic
Greece
Hungary
Switzerland
Vatican city if that counts!?

and soon Croatia!

Edit to say I’m 32, I plan to do most of Europe over the next few years.

36 countries

Not counting UK:

Ireland
France
Switzerland
Monaco
Spain
Greece
Italy
Portugal
Cyprus
Turkey
USA
Canada
Egypt
Morocco
South Africa
Cuba
Barbados
Jamaica
Antigua

Lived/ worked in 3 of them.

Technically set foot in the Netherlands but it was for a connecting flight and never left the airport so can’t count that really.

Still so many more I’d like to visit but it’s definitely slowed right down since meeting DH/ having DD. Maybe one day again!

31 countries including the UK. I have counted Hong Kong which is not strictly a separate (from China) country and I’ve counted the Vatican. I have not counted Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales as separate countries and I have not counted Jersey / Bermuda / Gibraltar as they are not technically sovereign countries.

I went Interrailing when I was 18 which I highly recommend, we had a great time. And everyone should go to Liechtenstein 😅

I haven't been to Scotland or Ireland. In my head they are cold places like Scandinavia, I have no interest in going anywhere colder than home.

I’m 31 and have been to 23 countries 😊

Is there much to do in Liechtenstein? A friend wants to go there but we would have to fly to Switzerland and get the train, making it expensive.

I’m at 25 and I thought it would be higher as I’ve travelled quite a bit I thought. My sons 13 and is at 11, where as I hadn’t left the UK at his age.

Me - 73
Dh- 81
dd1- age 22—45
dd2 age 21 - 44
ds-19- 39

We spend a lot of money on travelling . It is our thing

I downloaded Been last time one of these threads came up. It shows you on a map where you have been, what percentage of the world/ each continent you have listed.

I’ve visited 24

27, I'm mid 40's.

18, but 9 of them I’ve visited multiple times.

Not really, there's a castle though. And you get a stamp in your passport 😅 I remember it as a very tranquil place (which could be because we arrived on a Sunday) and worth a day trip to tick it off a list!

Pretty place but not much to do there.

11. One of which was for about an hour and we shouldn't have been there.😂

4 nations, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, germany, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Greece, turkey, Morocco, India, USA, Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, Belize, Malaysia.
30
Some of them many times. Much less since having kids. Once they all go will travel again outside Europe. Just too expensive with 4 of them!

Oh forgot Nepal which is probably my favourite!

26 apparently. Lot more left to do. Better get travel planning I think.

Ireland
France
Germany
Denmark
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxemburg
Italy
Spain
Turkey
Portugal
Cyprus
Poland
Austria
Switzerland
Russia
Canada
Usa
Australia
New zeland
China
Singapore
India
Vietnam
South korea
Japan