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?

@Nicole621

Cyprus is an independent country!

Sorry I am still not seeing difference.

All have some limited own legislation powers with overarching one, borders etc.

I have been to

Switzerland
Yugoslavia (as it was at the time, but Croatia and Slovenia)

Italy
Portugal
France
USA
England
Wales (I’m Scottish)

Do The Channel Islands count?

Ireland

Nearly Majorca but I had a kidney stone and ended up in hospital on the day we were due to go, XH was not happy!

About 90, and still many more I’d love to visit one day but it’s a lot harder to be intrepid since having kids.

USA
France
Germany
Italy
Greece
Belgium
Netherlands
Croatia
Albania
Turkey
Sweden
Denmark
Russia
Estonia
Iceland
Australia
Ireland
Azerbaijan
Monaco
Bahrain
Hong Kong
Spain
Portugal
Austria
Hungary
Poland
Ukraine
27 altogether I think

I've been to 64. Hadn't been abroad until I met DH and we've done all those in 19 years. The more places I go to, the more I want to see of the world.

40 countries, age 33.

I just counted them up and I am pleasantly surprised because I had a target of visiting 40 countries by the time I reach 40. I didn't realise I had already done it.

There's a lot more places I'd love to see but there's a lot of places I love going back to too.

11

USA
one Asian
one African
rest Europe

all popular holiday destinations or countries you drive through to get to Italy or Germany

16
Would love to see Japan, Russia and Australia someday, I'm 31 but currently pregnant with 2nd baby so traveling will be on hold for awhile

Oops it's 12

I have been to 56 countries. I haven’t included ones I’ve passed through (i.e. on a train) or where I’ve had a stopover and haven’t left the airport.
I am a mission to visit 60 countries before I’m 60 so not many to go!
Travel is very much a passion, I just wish I could afford to do more.

Actually 13

About 70. I love experiencing new countries.
I’ve been to many in Europe, Central and South America, Middle East, among others.
Now I’ve young kids, so travel is limited for the next few years.

You would need to have a time machine and travel back a few hundred years before the Act of Union to visit Scotland when it was a separate, independent country.

But it is still classed as a country. Photo from the Scottish government website @cariadlet

@MyOtherProfile As I said in a previous post, the word country has different meanings.

It can refer to independent, self governing sovereign states and can also refer to cultural entities which may have been independent at a previous point in their history but no longer are.

Personally, I prefer to use the stricter, first definition when counting up the countries that I have visited. I've been to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but don't count any of them when totting up countries I've visited as I'm British and live in the UK.

If I did include them, I'd count them as one country ie the UK which is the one recognised as a member state of the United Nations
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states#gotoU

Some people, including yourself, prefer to use the broader definition as exemplified on the Scottish website. That's fine. It's just a different choice.

England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland
Republic of Ireland, France Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Monaco, Italy, Croatia, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Canada, US, Barbados, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Dominican Republic, Israel, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, UAE, Maldives, Indonesia, South Africa so that's 33.

We're going to Greece in July so will be 34.

I did an international job for 15 years so a lot was business travel where I tacked on weekends either end of visits.

22 if I am excluding the UK where I live and Germany where I am from.

Can we count countries that no longer exist? Or countries that were one country when you visited and are now more than one?
Normal counting, only countries that exist now, not counting the UK nations, I've been to 50.
My kids, all teens, have been to 22/23

I think we can count a country that no longer exists. My husband would count Macau and Hong Kong separately from China.

Around 65 in all continents except Antarctica. I do travel for work to sometimes unusual destinations but also find travel very enriching personally and have worked to instil a love of connecting across cultures in my kids, which seems to have worked so far…

45

My daughter has done 56 she’s only 25 and is currently in India but living in Australia.
Ive never counted but off the top of my head about 35.

I agree you can count it if it was separate when you went
So if you went to the former Yugoslavia that's one. If you went to East Germany when it was separate that's one and West ditto
I've only been to Germany after reunification so that's only one but I've been to the Czech Republic and if I go to Slovakia that will be separate. Likewise I've been to Croatia after it was an independent state.

A pretty pointless thread and I'm annoyed with myself for reading the first page

Hong Kong was never a country. I don't think Macau ever has been either.