"How many countries have you visited?" Topic

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@Vallerotonda:

The Vatican is one of the countries I'd normally say I've visited, but where I have not spent a night. Just out of curiosity, where'd you stay?

RE the comment on which countries are visited, lived in, etc., what counts as lived in?

I did an Embassy Science Fellowship in Seoul. I lived on Yongsan Base, which is US sovereign territory. And I worked in the embassy, again US territory. Of course, I transited Korea to and from. And, while I did shop in the commissary a little, I mostly went out in town to buy groceries at a local shop (the little old lady who owned it called me "Yongpa", or colloquially "Onion Boy" because I bought up lots of her different onions. And recreation, hiking, canoeing, wargaming (there's a GW like shop), partying, etc. was in Korea. Did I live there or did I just visit there between work and (temporary) home?

21+. It's 32 if you count the Vatican.

Mollinary TGerritson, Piper909, Scotland, England and Wales are one country – the UK – but three nations. I've deliberately excluded Northern Ireland, definitely part of the UK but don't want to open the 'nation' can of worms in that case.
Of course Lichtenstein and the Vatican count, if you spent the night.
As for countries which split up later, just the one. But no idea what to do with having visited both Russia and the USSR? But I will count an extra one for Ukraine, as I have the stamps in my passport as of last month.

Then there are the genuinely idiosyncratic places like the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man.

I'd count Wales and Scotland as their own "countries" (we could get into a tangle about what constitutes a "nation" versus a "state") even if I wasn't supportive of their pro-independence parties (which I am).

Hmm, cans of worms galore -- how 'bout Brittany or Catalonia?

As for countries which split up later, just the one.

Which one … Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Vojvodina or Kosovo? And what if I was there while the splitting was in progress?

And, of course, if one has only been to what is not called South Sudan, it doesn't seem right to say you have been to Sudan

And I'm still not sure if Moosylvania counts as USA or Canada …

11-20

Wow, I may be the high number.

104 sovereign countries

In the Traveler's Century Club (TCC)list of countries and island groups I score 140.

Only one of them (Singapore) was on business, and I'm not a veteran.

Chick

Chick's List in case anyone is interested: Sovereign countries only, counting the UK as only one, and, for example, not counting French Polynesia in addition to France.

1950 USA
1960 Canada
1968 Mexico
1975 – 24 Countries
Germany
Austria
Italy
Vatican
Tunisia
Libya
Egypt
Sudan
South Sudan
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Greece
Serbia
Macedonia
Kosovo
Montenegro
Bosnia/H
Croatia
Slovenia
France
Monaco
1976 – 14 Countries
Netherlands
Belgium
Spain
Portugal
United Kingdom
Ireland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Switzerland
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Turkey
1977 – 18 countries
Syria
Jordan
Palestine
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Iran
Afghanistan
Pakistan
India
Sri Lanka
Nepal
Burma
Thailand
Malaysia
Indonesia
Autralia
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
1978 – Philippines
Taiwan
South Korea
Japan
1985 – Malta
2000 – Peru
2004 – Russia
2007 – Singapore
2011 – Micronesia
2013 – Uzbekistan
-Turkmenistan
2014 – Costa Rica
2015 – Brazil
Argentina
Uruguay
Chile
Nicaragua
2016 – Fiji
Vanuatu
2017 – Jamaica
Bahamas
Peoples Republic of China
2018 – St. Kitts & Nevis
Barbados
United Arab Emirates
Armenia
Georgia
Dominican Republic
Antigua/Barbuda
Dominica
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent
2019 – Colombia
Panama
Slovakia
Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
2021 – Belize
Guatemala
El Salvador
Honduras
2022 – Iceland