All Countries on Earth & Countries I've Visited

I'm often asked: "How many countries are there and how many of them have you visited?"

Here both questions are answered in detail, with links to maps, the CIA factbook, and Wikipedia for each country.

The summary table integrates country lists from: the United Nations, the Travelers Century Club (TCC), a leading organization for serious travelers, and MostTraveledPeople.com. Countries are grouped by TCC regions.

By any measure, I am one of the top travelers in the world. I am a Life Member of the Circumnavigators Club, a Diamond Member of the Travelers Century Club and a Hall of Fame Member of MostTraveledPeople.com (MTP).
I have visited all 193 members of the United Nations. See my UN journey.

Most Traveled People

For the extreme traveler, www.mosttraveledpeople.com (MTP), has a list of the "872 countries, territories, autonomous regions, enclaves, geographically separated island groups, and major states and provinces of the world."

The MTP list is the best tool to rank travelers because it includes and builds on the TCC list which in turn includes and builds on the list of UN member states. No one has visited all MTP locations.

On December 14, 2011, I was ranked #4 in the world having visited 787 of the 872 MTP locations.

Integrated UN & TCC Country List with Info Links

The TCC countries I have visited have a sequence number & year of my initial visit. Country names in bold I have visited multiple times, e.g., 60 visits to Japan. Country names flagged red are more difficult to visit.

The details of my visits to MTP locations are shown on www.mosttraveledpeople.com. That website also has extensive information on each of the MTP locations including reports and photos from MTP members.