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.