The Countries I Have Visited

As of 2023, i have visited 169 countries of the world.
(Yes i know my Seneca: "Nusquam est qui ubique est")

By continent Africa Tunisia Morocco Senegal Gambia Bissau Mali Burkina Faso Ghana Togo Benin Egypt Tanzania Kenya Uganda Rwanda Congo Kinshasa Congo Brazzaville Gabon Cameroon Ethiopia Eritrea Djibouti Somaliland Mozambique Madagascar Swaziland Lesotho South Africa Malawi Zambia Botswana Namibia Zimbabwe Mauritius Seychelles Asia: Middle East and Central Asia Armenia Georgia Iran Israel Jordan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Palestine Syria Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Saudi Arabia Yemen Kuwait Qatar Oman Tajikstan United Arab Emirates Bahrein Asia: Indian subcontinent Bangladesh Maldives Burma/Myanmar Pakistan India Nepal Bhutan Sri Lanka Asia: Far East Mongolia South Korea China Japan Thailand Malaysia Brunei Singapore Laos Vietnam Cambodia Indonesia Philippines Taiwan North America USA Canada Mexico Guatemala El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Panama Belize Costarica Caribbeans Antigua Bahamas Barbados Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Haiti Jamaica St Kitts St Lucia St Vincent Trinidad South America Colombia Venezuela Guyana Suriname Brazil Ecuador Peru Chile Argentina Bolivia Uruguay Paraguay Oceania Australia New Zealand Papua New Guinea Fiji Samoa Tonga Vanuatu Solomon Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Europe Albania Macedonia Serbia Kosovo Montenegro Moldova Ukraine Portugal Spain Andorra San Marino Vatican France Monaco Luxemburg Liechtenstein Belgium Netherlands Britain Ireland Denmark Iceland Germany Italy Malta Cyprus Slovenia Croatia Bosnia Switzerland Austria Norway Sweden Finland Estonia Latvia Lithuania Russia Poland Hungary Czech Republic Slovakia Greece Romania Bulgaria Turkey

In alphabetical order Albania Andorra Antigua Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Bahamas Bahrein Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bissau Bolivia Bosnia Botswana Brazil Britain Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burma/Myanmar Cambodia Cameroon Canada Chile China Colombia Congo Brazzaville Congo Kinshasa Costarica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czeck Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxemburg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Norway Oman Pakistan Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Samoa San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Somaliland South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka St Kitts St Lucia St Vincent Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikstan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates Uruguay USA Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

Ironically it is really difficult to decide how many independent countries there are in the world because different countries and agencies recognize different countries. For example, i recognize Taiwan, Somaliland and Palestine and i used to recognize Tibet before everybody abandoned it, and i come up with 198 independent countries. The Vatican is recognized by almost every country in the world but it is not represented at the United Nations. The US State Department recognizes 194 independent countries, but it does not include Taiwan (so much for your closest allies), nor Somaliland nor Palestine. Russia and Serbia do not recognize Kosovo. The United Nations has 192 members. Turkey recognizes half of Cyprus as independent and Russia recognizes all sorts of separatists as independent.

I still have to see the following independent countries: America: Suriname, Asia: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Iraq, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Timor-Leste, Africa: Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Liberia, Libya, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Europe: Belarus, Oceania: Nauru, Palau, Tuvalu, And just to avoid that some of these missing countries acquire the status of "rarity": some of them i didn't see because of difficulty, and some i didn't see simply because i've never been curious to see them.