# What countries have you been to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 16, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663 "2010-03-16T16:11:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/21 "2010-03-16T16:54:19Z")
Looks like I’m the only Doper who has been to the Congo. The ones not on the list I can think of off the top of my head are Malta Congo Republic (Brazzaville) Grenada The Bahamas Liberia and a bunch of other Caribbean island which might or might not be countries - I’d have to check. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/22 "2010-03-16T16:55:20Z")
Others: St. Kitts and Nevis, Grenada Reading through the responses, Grenada is surprisingly popular so far. I was on both islands at St. Kitts and Nevis. Anyone else here been to Nevis? My visit to Belgium was within the letter of the rules, but perhaps not the spirit. I changed trains in Brussels on my way from France to Germany. I think I stepped out of the train station to look around, but it was night and the only thing I could see was the building across the street. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/23 "2010-03-16T17:01:51Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > My visit to Belgium was within the letter of the rules, but perhaps not the spirit. I changed trains in Brussels on my way from France to Germany. I think I stepped out of the train station to look around, but it was night and the only thing I could see was the building across the street. My visit to France is similar: I took a train from Switzerland to Dunkerque, to take the ferry to England, and walked from the train to the ferry, so (technically) set foot in France. I should visit again and spend longer there – and perhaps see more than that one city. I should add also that I’ve been to the Vatican, though I feel that hardly counts as a real country. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/24 "2010-03-16T17:02:21Z")
Canada Malaysia Mexico Netherlands Philippines Republic of China (Taiwan) Spain United Kingdom United States ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/25 "2010-03-16T17:04:32Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > I’m also the only vote for two countries (I’ll leave unnamed for now). Wonder how long that will last… At present, I’m the lone vote for 3 countries, one of which surprises me (India), and the other two a bit less surprising (Sri Lanka and the Yemen, which I visited when they were called Ceylon and Aden, respectively). ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/26 "2010-03-16T17:05:13Z")
I’ve also been to Finland and Denmark. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/27 "2010-03-16T17:09:58Z")
While my travel in the States is extensive (36/50 plus DC), I’ve only been to four countries: US, Canada, UK and South Korea. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/28 "2010-03-16T17:11:12Z")
Plus Jamaica, Luxembourg, and (sort of) Iceland. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/29 "2010-03-16T17:11:30Z")
> [@Floater](#): > > Apropos the Czech Republic. It was called Czechoslovakia when I passed through. No it wasn’t. It was called the western, more developed 60% of Czechoslovakia. The eastern 40%, a related people called the Slovaks speaking a closely related language, felt like the unwanted stepchildren of the Czechs, and separated from Czechoslovakia in 1990 or so as the independent Republic of Slovakia. Pope John Paul II’s mother was born in Austria-Hungary. He was born in Poland. But they were born in the same place. ---
**Author:** ![Hallucinex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba9def/32.png) [@Hallucinex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hallucinex)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/30 "2010-03-16T17:14:52Z")
I think my only Others were Oman, The Gambia and the United Arab Emirates ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/31 "2010-03-16T17:18:42Z")
My others are Jamaica, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and the Cayman Islands (are they an independent country or a dependency?). ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/32 "2010-03-16T17:19:13Z")
I didn’t see the “other” option earlier, so put me down for Nassau. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/33 "2010-03-16T17:27:16Z")
I’m a pretty poor reader it seems, I missed Spain, Canada, and a couple of others. I’ve also been to Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, Andorra, Gibraltar, Austria, and San Marco. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/34 "2010-03-16T17:32:15Z")
UK Netherlands France Belgium Luxembourg Germany Spain Italy US Canada Thailand Vietnam Cambodia Malaysia Singapore ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/35 "2010-03-16T17:38:58Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > My others are Jamaica, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and the Cayman Islands (are they an independent country or a dependency?). You were there, you tell us! 😃 (Dependency) Geography geek here, would love to go to any, and I mean any country, but so far only Canada and the US. (However, we are planning a trip this summer\* which will take us through more US states for me to check off the list as well as my remaining 4 Canadian provinces. Plus, as a capper, I hope to hop the ferry from Newfoundland to St. Pierre and Miquelon so that I can add a third country to my “travelled to” list.) - **Hoping** to take this trip anyways, it was just announced at our company a few minutes ago that our office will be closing down in May or June - not a surprise as we knew for over a eyar that we’d be closing, latest estimates were “before the fall”, but this is the latest, latest estimate, and before my trip. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/36 "2010-03-16T17:44:33Z")
US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Ireland (my other), France, Turkey, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/37 "2010-03-16T17:44:44Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > My other country is New Zealand Me too, plus Ireland and Jersey (not sure if this counts as a country, but it is definitely not part of the UK). > [@Giles](#): > > My visit to France is similar: I took a train from Switzerland to Dunkerque, to take the ferry to England, and walked from the train to the ferry, so (technically) set foot in France. I should visit again and spend longer there – and perhaps see more than that one city. Similarly, my stay in Belgium was limited to exploring a truck stop on a coach trip from the UK to Poland. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/38 "2010-03-16T17:50:00Z")
US, UK(England, Scotland & Wales), Canada, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/39 "2010-03-16T17:52:56Z")
12, in order of first visit: United States Canada Mexico (30 minutes in Juarez) China (PRC) Germany Netherlands Switzerland France United Kingdom Spain Portugal Russia I hope to add another 8 to 10 countries this year. Republic of China (Taiwan) Singapore Malaysia Thailand Myanmar (Burma) Laos Cambodia Vietnam Possibly Indonesia and South Korea ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663/40 "2010-03-16T17:56:50Z")
I marked Canada Germany Italy Japan Mexico Thailand US Venezuela I have also been to Jamaica, Belize, and the Cook Islands. It’s kind of depressing how little I have traveled when compared to how much I want to travel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-have-you-been-to/532663.md?page=3)