How many countries have you been to?

[Rhone Man]

Not so much a diving question, as a general travel discussion point. I booked a side trip to Morocco next year (business trip to Madrid) which will be the 45th country I will have been to. That puts me roughly a quarter of the way through the world's countries, and I am on pace to get through about half of them before I die at this rate.

How many countries has everyone else visited? My wife thinks it is a weird obsession of mine trying to go to new countries all the time, but it is a big world, and I like seeing different parts of it.

 

[Hank49]

21. Not counting a few others where I only sat in their airports.

 

[Dirty-Dog]

Good question, and I don't think it's odd at all. As you say, it's a big world, and there's something amazing in every land.
I've been in 35 different countries (as with Hank, not counting airport-only visits). And I've visited every state in the US except for Alaska and Hawaii (and we're planning Hawaii for the spring...).

 

[ScubaSam]

Only been to 20 countries :depressed: and I'm not counting stopovers where I sat at the airport.

 

[Mantaman]

Freeport Bahamas made 56 countries. I have no idea how many I have actually dove in.

 

[Thalassamania]

I made a list of 37, I'm probably forgetting a few. Then there are places that I'm not sure how to count like Greenland (Denmark?), Jan Mayen (Norway?), Guam (USA?), etc.

 

[DennisS]

I've counted 30 countries and all the states with a coastline except Maine.

 

[ElChe]

I counted 22. I had only a little problem: how to count the past visits to Yugoslavia, the Sowiet Union and Czechoslovakia? Anyway it isn't hard to visit many different countries in a few days around Hungary, this Central-European region with the tiny countries is smaller than Texas in itself.

 

[Boardndave]

22. One for ever year of my life. My first actual dive trip out of the U.S. will finally happen in January to Bonaire.

 

[Doppler]

If we count countries that have their own flag (!) as well as some that are not on the map any longer, 52-ish. Have not dived in enough of them, and some (Angola, Mozambique, Sierra Leone) I have no real desire to return to... unless someone pays me a lot of money and I get to handpick my travel companions.

Travel does broaden the mind but it is so nice to come home to North America. God Bless your country and mine.