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How many countries have you visited, excluding different parts of the UK?

180 replies

Augustus40 · 20/06/2026 14:20

As we are in holiday season just how many countries have you all been to?

I bet some have been to loads!

I have only been to 13. I imagine mine are in the low numbers...

OP posts:
KC2007 · 21/06/2026 07:05

10 for me but my late husband had been all over the world (for work mostly).

Augustus40 · 21/06/2026 07:06

I have found a lot of people rave about China. Never been.

OP posts:
SweetChilliGirl · 21/06/2026 07:13

HolidayHattie · 21/06/2026 01:25

Where did you get 52 from?

Member States | United Nations https://share.google/42CYarPfEMrAaxrc8

I mean I've been to 52 UN countries.

whiteroseredrose · 21/06/2026 07:29

Malta
Yugoslavia
Italy
Spain
Portugal
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Iceland (favourite place)
Germany
Austria
Czech Republic
Poland
Thailand
Vietnam
India
USA
Mexico

So 18?

A lot of the places in Europe were for short trips and visited several times. India and Thailand were in my 20s so I would like to go again with DH.

Fiddlesticks1 · 21/06/2026 07:33

tartyflette · 21/06/2026 06:07

I lived for many years in a country which has not yet appeared on any lists stated here…

Tell us the country.

McSpoot · 21/06/2026 07:36

Depending on how you count, I'm in the mid-50s.

Some places I've visited are not "UN countries" (like Palestine and Vatican).

Plus depends on what you count as having "visited" - I don't count an airport connection (even if I spent the night but was only in the airport and hotel) but would count a day visit like on a cruise ship or I've done multiple day trips into Spain, France, and Belgium (when living in various parts of Europe) and would count that, even I didn't visit otherwise.

helpfulperson · 21/06/2026 07:37
  1. But I love going back to the same place frequently and have no desire to add more to my list.
WizdomE · 21/06/2026 07:47

Mexico, USA, Canada, Sweden, Austria, France, S.Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, china, Belgium, Dominican Republic,India, Russia, Cyprus.

lanzarote, Ibiza, grand Canaria, Tenerife, Mallorca, but all part of Spain)

So 19.

WizdomE · 21/06/2026 07:48

And Netherlands. So 20.

JuliaBraverman · 21/06/2026 07:49

France
Portugal
Tunisia
Greece
West Indies
Spain
Italy
Morocco
envious of the well travelled!

Augustus40 · 21/06/2026 08:15

I would luv to go to Uzbekistan. A friend taught English there and it looks mega interesting.

Should I win any money I wd like to go there for a visit. I can no longer afford holidays and don't foresee this changing...!

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ExOptimist · 21/06/2026 08:15

Five. But I've visited one of them, France, over 50 times.

ilovemyrailcard · 21/06/2026 08:44

About 58 depending on which list of "countries" we're using.

I haven't included the Caribbean island of Martinique because it's officially French, nor Madeira off the coast of Africa which is Portuguese.

I have however included Hong Kong and Macau because when I went there they weren't part of China, although they are now.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 21/06/2026 08:46

I’ve been to the Vatican and also San Marino which I forgot to add so mine is actually 37, and I’ve been to all 4 countries in the uk but haven’t included those as per the op. If I did, as some posters have, it would be 41.

itsasmallworldafteralll · 21/06/2026 08:55

I’ve visited 47 countries.
My dc10 and 13 have visited 21

sugarandcyanide · 21/06/2026 09:00

About 30 I think. I don't keep count though because I don't want to get into the trap of ticking off countries to get the number up.

I try not to go to the same place twice but I've been to the same countries I like multiple times.

Japan, Argentina and Vietnam are high on my list for the next few years. I'd also love to go to Jordan if the middle east settles down a bit.

TobyEsterhase · 21/06/2026 09:05

18

ShanghaiDiva · 21/06/2026 09:05

Augustus40 · 21/06/2026 07:06

I have found a lot of people rave about China. Never been.

I lived there for 12 years. There are challenges, but it is an amazing country.

MissAmbrosia · 21/06/2026 09:17

23 I think - mostly Europe but also USA and Cuba. Dd - who is 22 - has just beaten me this year by doing the Baltic States, though I've been to Kosovo and Andorra and she hasn't

MissAmbrosia · 21/06/2026 09:17

She's also been to Albania.

Clearingaspace · 21/06/2026 10:45

Ooh just remembered Malta and Cyprus so that brings me to 15, I feel like it might be 16 but can’t think where I have forgotten

Teens/ early 20s

Ireland
France
Andorra
Italy
Spanish islands

Greek Islands
Cyprus
Portugal
Australia
Cook Islands
Fiji
USA
New Zealand

My Dh isn’t keen to go beyond Europe so we have repeated lots of the above but also
Malta and Netherlands

namechange62 · 21/06/2026 10:47

My husband and I have 3 DC..
One Christmas the DC bought us one of those maps where you scratch off places you've been to.
Between us we've covered nearly all of it!
Both my DH and DC are/were in the merchant/ Navy (so Diego Garcia, Falklands, Japan, Norway, New Zealand..and obviously many many more.) I travelled to Europe and South America as a nanny. One DC went to work in a ranch in the USA.
Proud of how much we've seen of the world..

TheeNotoriousPIG · 21/06/2026 10:56

Four, although I don't remember one (I was a toddler when taken to Portugal). I have hazy memories of Spain, and I've also been to France and Germany.

JulietteHasAGun · 21/06/2026 10:57

France
spain
italy
belgium
luxembourg
germany
switzerland
thailand
UAE
egypt
uganda
mexico
Ireland.

so 13.

dd at 24yo has been to all of those apart from Uganda and Thailand then also

china
usa
canada
latvia
austria
croatia
sri Lanka
portugal
romania
lithiania
czech republic
poland
hungry
slovinia

so 25 She loves travelling.