Countries List

It’s easy to focus on the things we want to do in life and the places we want to go, but sometimes it’s exciting to look back at where we have been.

Where We Have Been – Map

Where We Have Been – Countries

We are often asked how many countries we’ve been to.  A good place to start a list of countries is with the UN.  The United Nations is a body of 192 sovereign and independent nation states.  The second most popular choice for lists would be the International Olympic Committee (IOC).  There are 205 members of the IOC.  The difference being, the IOC includes several non-independent countries such as Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc. An alternative approach and our choice, is a list of 329 places around the world produced by The Travelers Century Club (TCC).  The TCC explanation of a country is more extensive than just the members of the United Nations or the International Olympic Committee. The list also includes certain territories, enclaves and island groups, which are geographic, historic, and culturally distinct places. We use the list because of its value from a travel viewpoint and after all, how could we use a list that excludes Antarctica?

We have visited 97 of the Travelers Century Club list of 329 places.

ABKHAZIA – AZORES
Abkhazia Abu Dhabi Afghanistan Ajman Aland Islands Alaska Albania Algeria Andaman-Nicobar Islands Andorra Angola Anguilla	Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Argentine Antarctica Armenia Aruba Ascension Austral Islands Australia Australian Antarctic Territory Austria Azerbaijan Azores Islands
BAHAMAS – BURUNDI
Bahamas Bahrain Balearic Islands Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bismarck Archipelago	Bolivia Bonaire Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Antarctic Territory British Indian Ocean Territory Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi (Urundi)
CABINDA – CZECH REPUBLIC
Cabinda Cambodia Cameroon Canada Canary Islands Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chatham Islands Chile Chilean Antarctic Territory China, People’s Republic of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros	Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa) Congo, Republic of (Brazzaville) Cook Islands Corsica Costa Rica Côte d’Ivoire Crete Croatia Cuba Curacao Cyprus, British Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus, Turkish Fed. State of Czech Republic
DENMARK – DZAOUDZI
Denmark Djibouti Dominica	Dominican Republic Dubai
EASTER ISLAND – ETHIOPIA
Easter Island Ecuador Egypt in Africa Egypt in Asia (Sinai Peninsula) El Salvador England	Equatorial Guinea (Bioko) Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni, Bata) Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia
FALKLAND ISLANDS – FUJAIRAH
Falkland Islands Faroe Islands Fernando de Noronha Fiji Islands Finland	France French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern & Antarctic Lands Fujairah
GABON – GUYANA
Gabon Galapagos Islands Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greek Aegean Islands	Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) Grenada & Dependencies Guadeloupe & Deps. Guam Guatemala Guernsey & Deps. Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana
HAINAN – HUNGARY
Hainan Island Haiti Hawaiian Islands	Honduras Hong Kong Hungary
ICELAND – ITALY
Iceland India Indonesia (Java) Ionian Islands Iran Iraq	Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Northern Isle of Man Israel Italy
JAMAICA – JUAN FERNANDEZ
Jamaica Japan Jeju Island	Jersey Jordan Juan Fernandez Islands
KALIMANTAN – KYRGYZSTAN
Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) Kaliningrad Kashmir Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati	Korea, North (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) Korea, South (Republic of Korea) Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan
LAKSHADWEEP – LUXEMBOURG
Lakshadweep Lampedusa Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Lesser Sunda Islands Liberia	Libya Liechtenstein Line/Phoenix Islands (Palmyra, Fanning, Christmas, Canton, Enderbury) Lithuania Lord Howe Island Luxembourg
MACAU – MYANMAR
Macau Madagascar Madeira Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Maluku Islands Marquesas Islands Marshall Islands, Republic of Martinique Mauritania Mauritius & Deps. (Agalega, St. Brandon)	Mayotte (Dzaoudzi) Mexico Micronesia, Fed.States of Midway Island Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Morocco,Spanish (Ceuta, Melilla) Mozambique Myanmar (Burma)
NAKHCHIVAN – OMAN
Nakhchivan Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Caledonia & Deps. Nueva Esparta (Margarita Island) New Zealand New Zealand Antarctica Nicaragua Niger	Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Marianas (Saipan, Tinian) North Macedonia Norway Norwegian Dependencies (Norwegian Antarctica) Ogasawara (Bonin, Volcano Island, Iwo Jima) Oman
PAKISTAN – QATAR
Pakistan Palau, Republic of Palestine Panama Papua (Irian Jaya) Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru	Philippines Pitcairn Island Poland Portugal Prince Edward Island Puerto Rico Qatar
RAS AL KHAIMAH – RYUKYU ISLANDS
Ras Al Khaimah Reunion Rodriguez Island Romania	Russia Russia in Asia (incl. Siberia) Rwanda Ryukyu Islands
SABA – SYRIA
Saba & Sint Eustatius Sabah (No. Borneo) Saint-Barthélemy (St. Barts) Saint Helena Saint Kitts & Nevis Saint Lucia Saint-Martin (France) Saint Pierre & Miquelon Saint Vincent and Grenadines Samoa (Apia) Samoa, American (Pago Pago) San Andres & Providencia San Marino Sao Tome & Principe Sarawak Sardinia Saudi Arabia Scotland Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sharjah Sicily Sierra Leone Sikkim Singapore	Sint Maarten (Netherlands) Slovakia Slovenia Socotra Solomon Islands Somalia (ex-Italian Somaliland) Somaliland (ex-British) South Africa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Ossetia South Sudan Spain Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Bear Island) Sri Lanka Srpska Sudan Sulawesi (Celebes, Indonesia) Sumatra (Indonesia) Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria
TAIWAN – TUVALU
Taiwan. R.O.C. Tajikistan Tanzania Tasmania Thailand Tibet Timor-Leste Togo Tokelau Tonga	Transnistria Trinidad & Tobago Tristan da Cunha Tunisia Turkey in Asia Turkey in Europe Turkmenistan Turks & Caicos Islands Tuvalu
UGANDA – UZBEKISTAN
Uganda Ukraine Umm Al Qaiwain	United States (Contiguous) Uruguay Uzbekistan
VANUATU – VIRGIN ISLANDS
Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands) Vatican City Venezuela	Vietnam Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.) Virgin Islands, U.S. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas)
WAKE ISLAND – ZIMBABWE
Wake Island Wales Wallis & Futuna Islands Western Sahara Yemen	Zambia Zanzibar Zil Elwannyen Sesel Zimbabwe