How many countries have you visited? (Ranking)

[Divine]

<<< Good examples Craft. As a comment to the OTOH-part I'd ask that why make things more complicated? When I visited Czechoslovakia many years ago it was a country called Czechoslovakia. Much later I got to visit a country called Slovakia and very little after that a country called Czech Republic. In lists like this I don't care to ponder which cities I visited on this or that visit, there could be another listing for visited cities. For me it's just a visited country, that's all.

Times change, countries change. Soon Montenegro will probably become an indepented country. I might be there at the time. It's kinda cool thought to stand on a soil of a country that becomes another country overnight.

Edit: typo

[lazza]

My view is that if you pass through the Customs of a country (i.e. you were officially there) then it can be added to the list. So I do count West Germany, East Germany and (united) Germany as three countries, as for each of these I would have had to have shown my passport. But I do not count a flight change in UAE as a visited country (even though I contributed to their economy at duty free!)

[Divine]

^^^ Even that theory doesn't decessarily work. For example, I have travelled through Switzerland in a train from Germany to Italy, and no one ever asked me my passport. I still definitely was in Switzerland the whole time between crossing the German and Italian borders. (That was my first time in the country, afterwards I've been in Switzerland at least 3 times.) You also can visit Finland, Sweden and Norway where their borders meet perfectly without passing through their customs.

Some of the flight changes I've done have been just waiting inside the plane, some of them have included waiting in the transit hall, some of them have been going through customs but still never leaving the airport, in some cases I've had a chance to visit the city outside the airport. Again, why make it so complicated? I was there, that's all. I may not see much of the country by having a beer in a transit hall pub, but like I asked in my first post on this thread, what is really 'visiting a country'?

I don't see how contributing to any country's economy would affect anything either. There are many places in EU (and elsewhere as well) where you can drive your car from one country to another and from there to another country in a matter of tens of minutes without having to show your passport to anyone. What if you didn't stop in the country in the middle? Did you visit it or not? What counts as a visit? Buying something? Littering? Taking a leak? Standing on solid ground?

I've chosen to make it simple and count every visit on my list. Usually I just separate those non-existent-any-more countries and flight changes under their own categories, but I still count them to the total number, since I don't see the point in deciding what actions besides entering inside the borders are 'enough' to qualify as a visit.

[tintin6971]

Update : I've visited 14 countries

France, where I'm born
Germany
Greece
Italy
Spain
Monaco
Andorra
England
Malta
Switzerland
Russia
USA
Kenya
Tanzania

[hafla]

I'm from the Netherlands

I Visited:

Austria
Bahrain
Belgium
Cyprus
Croatia
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Egypt
Eritrea
Finland
Florida USA
France
Germany
Greece
Italie
Kuwait
Malta
Luxembourg
Oman
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Yemen

That totals at 30 countries.

Join the navy, see the world

[eddydevries]

I'm from the Netherlands.

Been on holidays to these countries:

the Netherlands
Germany
Belgium
France
Switzerland
Austria
Italy
Greece
United Kingdom
Ireland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Iceland
Greenland (or must I count this towards Denmark?)
Canada
USA

Euronotes I registred from:
the Netherlands
Belgium

(No more, because I only participated in February this year).

I have forgotten to mention, On my holliday in Germany I have been to the Czech Republic. So actually there are 18 countries I have been to.

[aron]

I've been in 16 countries and I'm from the Netherlands


Andorra
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Hungary
Italy
Monaco
Netherlands
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Slovekia
Slovenia
Spain
Switzerland
United Kingdom

Update:

Sweden

[eurojuanmi]

list updated

[Tahiti]

I'm from Finland

I have been to:

Bulgaria
Estonia
Israel
Italy
Norway
Portugal
Russia
Sweden
Turkey
UK
USA

11 countries plus home country Finland

[eddydevries]

I'm from the Netherlands.

Been on holidays to these countries:

the Netherlands
Germany
Belgium
France
Switzerland
Austria
Italy
Greece
United Kingdom
Ireland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Iceland
Greenland (or must I count this towards Denmark?)
Canada
USA

Euronotes I registred from:
the Netherlands
Belgium

(No more, because I only participated in February this year).

I have forgotten to mention, On my holliday in Germany I have been to the Czech Republic. So actually there are 18 countries I have been to.

I see, I had made a mistake: During my holliday in Italy we were in Rome. Of course we did visit the Vatican City .
This is independent so I have been in 19 countries.

[eddydevries]

I'm from the Netherlands.

Been on holidays to these countries:

Ireland
Greenland (or must I count this towards Denmark?)
Canada

Euronotes I registred from:
the Netherlands
Belgium

(No more, because I only participated in February this year).

Almost all the flags of the countries I visited I have found. The Euro-countries as "smiley", the other countries as images in http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/img/flags. Only Greenland I haven't found here. Although it belongs to Denmark it is rather independent. For example Greenland is no member of the EU, while Denmark is.

I have made the Greenland-flag (.gif, ca. 1kB), but I don't know how this can be uploaded to www.eurobilltracker.com so this can be used by anyone.

Can you tell me how to upload this flag? Or should I sent this to someone, who can put it on the site?

[eurojuanmi]

Almost all the flags of the countries I visited I have found. The Euro-countries as "smiley", the other countries as images in http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/img/flags. Only Greenland I haven't found here. Although it belongs to Denmark it is rather independent. For example Greenland is no member of the EU, while Denmark is.

I have made the Greenland-flag (.gif, ca. 1kB), but I don't know how this can be uploaded to www.eurobilltracker.com so this can be used by anyone.

Can you tell me how to upload this flag? Or should I sent this to someone, who can put it on the site?

I think you could upload the image to http://www.imageshack.us/ and then copy the url of the image

[Licht & Feuer]

I'm from germany and so far I've visited:

Austria
Belgium
Denmark
France
Greece
Italy
Luxemburg
Netherlands
Slovakia
Turkey

[eddydevries]

Almost all the flags of the countries I visited I have found. The Euro-countries as "smiley", the other countries as images in http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/img/flags. Only Greenland I haven't found here. Although it belongs to Denmark it is rather independent. For example Greenland is no member of the EU, while Denmark is.

I have made the Greenland-flag (.gif, ca. 1kB), but I don't know how this can be uploaded to www.eurobilltracker.com so this can be used by anyone.

Can you tell me how to upload this flag? Or should I sent this to someone, who can put it on the site?

I think you could upload the image to http://www.imageshack.us/ and then copy the url of the image

Will it then be put in the same folder as the other flags (http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/img/flags)? Or should I ask one of the webmasters of http://www.eurobilltracker.com to put it there?

EDIT: changed the word "map" into "folder" (I mistranslated the word)

[lazza]

I'm from (75% English, 25% Scottish)

And, in rough chronological order, I've been to:
UK (born in England, then visited Scotland, Wales, and recently Northern Ireland)
France
Germany (includes West and East Germany before re-unification)
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Denmark
Sweden
Czech Republic
Slovakia (lunch while waiting to for train connection!)
Hungary
Italy
Greece
Monaco
Spain
Morocco
Tunisia
Hong Kong
China
Canada
Malta
USA
Switzerland
India
Vietnam (honeymoon )
Thailand
Kenya
Tanzania
Japan

[Not including stopovers on flights in the United Arab Emirates when I didn't leave the airport!]

So 29 to date! Still a lot of Europe to do (Ireland, Portugal and Finland in the €uro-zone, and a lot of Eastern Europe) but my new job should help with that, and will hopefully make it to some new SE Asian countries this summer...

And, today, at last: (currently sitting in a coffee shop in the centre of Dublin waiting for a meeting!)

....taking me to 30!