Where have we been?

Here you’ll find a map and list of countries visited: between us we’ve been to over one hundred countries. Individually Mark has visited 104, and Kirsty has been to 102 countries. 

We are quite strict with ourselves on what qualifies as a country and our totals are from the most generally accepted country count of 197: 193 fully recognised members of the United Nations, plus Vatican City and Palestine which have the status of permanent observers in the UN. Another 2 states we include are Kosovo (recognised by 108 UN members) and Taiwan (recognised by 22 countries). 

The dark grey areas represent countries of the world we have travelled to. If we’ve written about a destination, you can click on the map to read the posts.

Here is a list of the countries that we’ve been to. We have also included the likes of Hong Kong, Macau, Tibet and Gibraltar on the list, but NOT in our personal country counts. Additionally, we don’t count Abkhazia, Transnistria and other self-declared republics or micro-nations.

Currently, we don’t have blog posts for everywhere we’ve been, but for the countries, and regions we have written about, you can click on the country to see our entries.

If you’d also like find out which places we’ve been within each country, you can find out here.

Europe

Eastern Europe
Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Northern Europe
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom

Southern Europe
Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Gibraltar (British Overseas Territory), Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Vatican City

Western Europe
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, The Netherlands, Switzerland

The Caucasus
Abkhazia, Armenia, Georgia

Asia

Middle East
Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Syria, United Arab Emirates

Central Asia
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Eastern Asia
China including Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), South Korea (Republic of Korea), Mongolia, Taiwan

South East Asia
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

South Asia aka the Indian SubContinent
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Australasia/Oceania

Australia

The Americas

North America
Canada, United States of America

Central America
Belize, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama

South America
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay

The Caribbean
Cuba, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines

Africa

North Africa
Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia

West Africa
Gambia, Mali

East Africa
Ethiopia, Tanzania

Southern Africa
Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe

If you’re still reading and still curious to know which places we’ve been within each country, you can find out here.