What was your 100th country?

[RooFlyer]

Seeing @Scarlett ’s recent post, I thought I’d ask: Those who have visited 100 foreign countries#, what was your number 100?

Mine was Barbados.

# recognising there are different definitions of how you get the country count but just whatever you have in your mind

 

[Scarlett]

Well you’ve seen mine on the trip report @RooFlyer, but for others:


Uruguay.
Had barely spent any time in South America at all before this trip so probably not surprising this is where I ended up for 100.

If I ever have the great fortune to get to number 200 it’ll probably be somewhere like Chad or Burkina Faso. Lots of water to flow under the bridge before that is even remotely possible though.

 

[kpc]

Palau in 2 weeks' time will be 95.
I was hoping to do the 5 Stans next year but sadly that won't happen now...

I have been told to do a Carribbean cruise or a Pacfic Island cruise to get there asap

Sri Lanka, Malta and San Marino are planned for next year..

There is a conference in New Delhi in Feb 2027 so work should pay...

Almost there...



@Matt Graham
@Flashback

 

[elanshin]

If I ever have the great fortune to get to number 200 it’ll probably be somewhere like Chad or Burkina Faso. Lots of water to flow under the bridge before that is even remotely possible though.

I would like to wish that 200 is not possible as it would mean a few countries need to break apart.

 

[Cossie]

Not sure as how people count countries differ, especially when it comes to countries that have disappeared, or broken up. Can I count Yugoslavia as a country as well as the ones that exist now?

This makes for interesting reading.

Ultimate Report on People Who Visited Every Country in the World

An In-Depth Report on People Who Visited Every Country Covers Everything from Ethnicity, Gender, to Nationality and Age of Those Travellers!

nomadmania.com

 

[Scarlett]

I would like to wish that 200 is not possible as it would mean a few countries need to break apart.

From the OP:
# recognising there are different definitions of how you get the country count but just whatever you have in your mind

More than happy to have the discussion about total number of countries in the world, but in another thread to not derail this one.

 

[drron]

Wouldn't have a clue. Up to 127 so it would have been somewhere before Covid.

 

[luxury-lizard]

Wow - I just made a list and my 60ieth was Mauritius and I think that's it for me for this life time - actually planning to add Ireland next year. Will still re-visit all my favourite places.

 

[SYD]

I’ve been meaning to review their list , albeit a bit naff with some obvious duplication.

Travelers' Century Club – World Travel: The passport to peace through understanding

I recall there’s another thread on that list?

 

[Noah Count]

Never really taken much notice as I sometime get confused with what is a county, territory or colony. @SYD thanks for the link I did take a quick look. In the past I have wondered if some places classified as China are considered to be seperate due to their special conditions as admin regions e.g. Hong Kong, Macau, Tibet, Inner Mongolia etc. That leads onto another thought, when the BAOR was a thing I could fly between RAF Bases in Germany to and from the UK without passport control, if flying from a German airport a passport was required but they were all located in what is now Germany. Even then Germany was separated into East and West. Also from memory the British also claimed claimed parts of the ME, another was Diego Garcia. When I went through there and from memory the British and the US both claimed ownership, the gentlemen's agreement was it was owned by the British but run by the US but I may be wrong as it was a long time ago. I may take a look at the list as I think Canada has some unusual things and closer to home many of the Island Nations have changed ownership overtime, colonies/ independence.

Waffle over, I have no idea how many I have been to depending on the definition

 

[RooFlyer]

From the OP:
# recognising there are different definitions of how you get the country count but just whatever you have in your mind

More than happy to have the discussion about total number of countries in the world, but in another thread to not derail this one.