# How many countries have you visited...? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 3, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807 "2002-09-03T14:33:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/1 "2002-09-03T14:33:01Z")
Just curious which country will be represented by the ‘greatest travelled’ patrons. Who has been around our little planet the most times… My WAG says New Zealand, closely followed by Australia. What about the Dopers here? (I think there are a lot of countries represented here) Can we have a poll to list number of countries visted, your age and your nationality? Thanks… To begin:[ul] [li]Nationality: UK[/li][li]Age: 27[/li]Countries visited (to date) : 28[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/2 "2002-09-03T14:37:24Z")
Nationality: US Age: 30 Countries: 8 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/3 "2002-09-03T14:42:12Z")
Nationality: US Age: 41 Countries: 4 (Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland) ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/4 "2002-09-03T14:56:28Z")
U.S. citizen age 43 1- Canada ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/5 "2002-09-03T15:27:07Z")
Nationality: US Age: 26 Countries: 17 (will be 18 on the 13th of this month). Maybe 20 if you count England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland separately. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/6 "2002-09-03T15:34:30Z")
[ul][li]Nationality: British[/li][li]Age: 27[/li]Countries: 9 (11 if you count Wales and Scotland separately. I don’t.)[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/7 "2002-09-03T16:02:00Z")
Germans are pretty well-traveled, too, IME. This has been done before, but since I’m not satiating my wanderlust, I’ll reply to this one, too. Ok, for me: Nationality: American but living abroad Age 33 Countries: 15 Canada, Iran, Mexico, Carribean (but I’ll just count all the Caribbean as one, including the French, Dutch and British Isles), France, UK (Hi, Frannie!), Ireland, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Saipan and Guam (I know they are US, but they’re so damn far away, they have to count! I’ll count them as one). I think that’s all, for now, anyway. I’m sure I missed some. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Clawman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@The\_Clawman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Clawman)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/8 "2002-09-03T16:14:36Z")
Age: 34 Nationality: UK Countries visited: 7 (France, Spain, Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/9 "2002-09-03T16:31:46Z")
Nationality: US, living in Panama Age: 50 Countries: 29, counting Tahiti separately from France, but not counting Puerto Rico US (49 states) Canada Mexico Guatemala Costa Rica Panama Colombia Venezuela Ecuador Peru Argentina Trinidad and Tobago Antigua Bahamas UK France Switzerland Nigeria Cameroon Gabon Congo (Kinshasha) Kenya South Africa Madagascar India Australia New Zealand Fiji French Polynesia (Tahiti) ---
**Author:** ![Moonshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Moonshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonshine)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/10 "2002-09-03T17:09:10Z")
33 so far: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Netherlends, Belgium, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, Andora, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Vatican City, USA, Canada, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Philipines, Thailand and this autumn I am off to Australia 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![skot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@skot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skot)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/11 "2002-09-03T17:24:28Z")
Age: 35 Nationality: Canadian Countries visited: 5 ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/12 "2002-09-03T18:02:08Z")
Age: 33 Nationality: US Countries visited: 10 so far, Canada (British Columbia), Mexico, Guam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Bali, and Hong Kong. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/13 "2002-09-03T18:07:05Z")
Age: 42 Nationality: US Countries visited: 48 (had to get out the passports and count) ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/14 "2002-09-03T18:07:47Z")
**Intaglio** , Bali _is_ Indonesia. Indonesia is made up of many different islands, Bali is one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Sivalensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Sivalensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sivalensis)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/15 "2002-09-03T18:14:18Z")
Nationality: US Age: 23 Countries visited: 21 (I’m counting Scotland and England as separate, so maybe it’s just 20) Thought I’d been to more than that…have a map up in my apartment with pins to all the places I’ve been. Pins blanket europe, but maybe just because I’ve been to multiple cities within those countries. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/16 "2002-09-03T18:35:02Z")
Nationality: US Age: 31 Countries visited: 16 ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/17 "2002-09-03T18:46:30Z")
Nationality: USA Age: 31 Countries visited: 2 - Canada and Israel. ---
**Author:** ![\_xiao\_wenti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b782af/32.png) [@\_xiao\_wenti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_xiao_wenti)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/18 "2002-09-03T19:14:16Z")
United States (aged 37) some 20 North America: Canada, US, Mexico, Belize South America: Colombia, Ecuador@, Peru, Boliva, Argentina\* Europe: France, Belgium, Netherlands\*, Germany (East and West), Switzerland, Italy, Austria, San Moreno, Monaco, Greece)\* \*sent during graduate school @lived there 6 months ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/19 "2002-09-03T19:43:27Z")
Nationality: US Age: 27 Countries visited: 13. Canada, Mexico, England, Spain, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, The Dominican Republic. Also, Protectorates visited: St. Croix (US), Aruba (Dutch, I think) Countries Passed Through: Germany, Croatia ---
**Author:** ![MrO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MrO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrO)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807/20 "2002-09-03T22:40:38Z")
45 years old, American, living in Korea. Foreign countries visited: about 20, but 3 or 4 of the European ones I just passed through briefly. (Mexico, Japan, Hong Kong (before, during and after the handover), Korea, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Morocco.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-countries-have-you-visited/126807.md?page=2)