How many other countries have you been to?

[Angst]

10+ but kinda cheating because europe

austria canada croatia czech republic denmark england france germany greece iceland italy morocco norway spain sweden switzerland poland

and a short pass through netherlands, belgium and luxembourg but that was just truck stop chillin where we got out of the car to say we've been there. also was in the us for a day once. everything else has been reasonably serious week+ travel stays, save norway which was like very short bursts of stays but it still counts because i actually have no idea how many times i've spent the night in oslo at this point

probably forgetting some

i don't consider myself a well-traveled person. i think the most impactful travels i did were canada, germany, morocco, spain, switzerland.

canada i went to the yukon to stay with a friend and learned a lot about local stuff.

germany i've just been a lot to and had some social stuff going on with exchange students for a while

morocco was impactful for seeing the discrepancy between the touristy areas and the people who lived in more impoverished neighbourhoods

spain i knew an exchange student which meant social stuff. one of her friends once asked me if we had polar bears in denmark. good times

switzerland i've been to many times, but i was there on a boyscout trip hiking in the mountains. we didn't have enough food. noone knows how good it is wolfing down rhye bread on the top of a mountain when you're too hungry to properly think

 

[PhroX]

UK, USA, Italy, France, Belgium and Netherlands

I'm not the most well travelled.

 

[tjs282]

I have spent hours or days in literally dozens of countries at some point in my life, but weeks or more in far fewer.

So I was curious, and made a list (because of course I did), and while my estimation was just about right, it's marginal.

(When any country fell into more than one category, I bolded the longest visit, to avoid double-counting)

Just passing through:
Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands

Airport stopovers (>6 hours):
UAE, Türkiye, Japan (overnight)

The less said, the better (2 days):
Eilat (=Israel)

Inter-railing in Central Europe (~4 weeks total, 2-3 days per city):
Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Czech Rep., Austria, Italy, Greece

African truck-tour adventure (5 weeks total):
Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia (incl. Victoria Falls day-trip = Zimbabwe)

Family holidays, school trips, etc. (1-3 weeks):
USA, France, Egypt, Denmark, Thailand, Mallorca (=Spain), Greece, Austria, Czech Rep.

R-T-W belated honeymoon (~6 months total, 1-6 weeks per country):
India, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Rarotonga (= Cook Islands), USA

Seasonal resident (~6 months each):
Egypt, Cyprus, Dominican Rep.

Native or long-term resident (1+ years)
England, USA, Australia, Egypt, Germany

Visited but not (yet!) a fully independent nation:
Scotland

Total = 31 including everything, but only 24 if excluding the first 3 categories + Zimbabwe, and only 23 if I have to ditch Scotland too.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Visited: European Union, USA, Canada, Egypt, Philippines, Vatican City

Airports: Switzerland, Taiwan

 

[Moriarte]

After 40 I stopped counting. I travel far less these days, but I would like to visit New Zealand and Japan one day. They seem interesting.

 

[Quintillus]

I count it as 9. I don't count Iceland as I only went through an airport there.

You can probably find a map of where I've been in the Civ III forums.

I will probably add another one or two in 2026 or 2027. But I've also grown to appreciate how much there is to see in the U.S. and Canada. Combined, they only count as two countries, but would count for far more than that on most continents.

One major change for me since pre-pandemic times is that nowadays I prefer to plan around outdoors adventures, and the traditional way to plan international trips is around cities or monuments. I've hiked a mountain in Germany, seen a snowstorm on a mountain slope in Norway in June. But aside from, perhaps, Switzerland? It's often easier to plan for a hiking or biking trip closer to home, and there are still a lot of local-ish areas to explore.

Although if I keep on skiing, Europe and perhaps Japan will see their due eventually. This year? New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Next year? Colorado, perhaps Utah or British Columbia. The year after that? Switzerland, Zakopane, perhaps the Carpathians in Hungary or Ukraine, visit Mikaela Shiffrin's nine reindeer in Levi, or perhaps the powder in Japan. Go in the winter, take some time in the city, yes, but also see the mountains.

I wish I'd taken up outdoors adventuring, including but not limited to skiing, earlier, but better late than never. Is it the best way to see the world? I don't know, but I know that even though I've loved Paris and wanted to stay there longer both times I've been there, the next time I'm in France, I want to be more off the beaten path, see more of the countryside or at least the coast, and see few if any tourist attractions.

 

[Arwon]

3 lived in, 14 others visited, 6 further ones an airport stopover.

I'm Australian, I've lived in the US and Spain and I've visited Mexico, Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland, Vatican City, Finland, Estonia, Turkey, the UK, Germany, Austria, Czechia and New Zealand.

I've then also spent time in airports in Qatar, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Thailand and Singapore.

 

[amadeus]

counting … native reservations

In that case I have been to all of the ones with casinos and some of the ones that don’t.

If you want to know how to tell which type you’re on, look at the car tires: if they’re Bridgestone or Goodyear, that’s a “have.”

If they’re cinder blocks, that’s a “don’t.”

 

[Bamspeedy]

I'm alot closer to Canada than Mexico, but never set foot in Canada.

Been to two other countries outside the US.

For Mexico, we crossed the border on foot and went to a 'tourist' market area of some border town as a kid. Don't remember much about it except a beggar with no legs. And then my mom decided to go outside the main market area to a grocery store to 'compare prices'. Rest of family was looking at her like "do we really have to do this?", while the locals are looking at all of us like "are you lost?"

China I've been to a couple times, 3 days or so each time.

Japan was airport only, so not counting it.

 

[Civinator]

Countries, where my visit was about 1 month or longer: USA, China, Australia, France, Spain, Greece, former Yugoslavia (with the exception of China I visited all these countries by bus and tents) and many other countries around the world with a shorter stay.

 

[Kyriakos]

Other countries I've been to:
England, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Hungary, Bulgaria. So in total 14 other countries.

 

[NovaKart]

I’ve lived in USA, Iraq, Turkey.
Spent a year and a half in China, about 6 months each in Djibouti, Azerbaijan, Costa Rica, Georgia (the country).

I’ve been to Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, Ethiopia, Jordan.

I’ve had really long layovers where I spent the day seeing the city in Dubai and Cairo. I saw a bit of Jamaica on a cruise.

Most different place I’ve been to is Djibouti. It was just a totally different culture in every way, all the women wear traditional clothes and a lot of the men, there’s traditional Arab/East African architecture, some people in the suburbs even lived in huts. Living there was draining though, it was extremely hot, very poor, and half the time there was no running water. I had to flush the toilet and take a shower with a bucket and bottles of water, and I was in an apartment in the capital, not a village.

Strangely, the most dangerous place I’ve been was not Iraq but probably Guatemala. I don’t think El Salvador was that bad when I visited there in 1999 and I was just there for a couple of days. I was in Costa Rica longer and felt the danger there more since I was on my own. I rented part of a house from someone and she had a gate with barbed wire in front of the house and bars on the windows. That’s just how everyone lived. I’d go to the corner store and they’d hand me the groceries I asked for through an opening in the bars. It’s a beautiful country and lots of Americans love it but I didn’t like living somewhere where I had to constantly watch my back. I’d plan my route so I wouldn’t walk down certain streets at night.

 

[Kyriakos]

You really are cosmopolitan, NovaKart
Outside of this country, I have only lived for long in England (three years, though with breaks).