I thought about this while talking to my brother one day about travel. On paper, we had visited the same amount of countries even though most of his had come from a single cruise in the Caribbean. It doesn’t seem to make sense to consider a huge country like China as ‘explored’ in an equal amount of time as a tiny one like Luxembourg. The people at “Most Traveled People” have devised a solution I support more than just counting raw amounts of countries. They have divided the earth into “873 countries, territories, autonomous regions, enclaves, geographically separated island groups, and major states and provinces.” This makes it so that countries like China are actually divided by regions instead of being considered as whole.

There are the MTP global regions I have visited:

I’ve visited 62/873 as of April, 2014 or…

7.11% of the World

 

Areas with Multiple Regions

• United States (24/51)

1) California

2) Oregon

3) Washington

4) Nevada

5) Colorado

6) Utah

7) Arizona

8) Wyoming

9) Idaho

10) New Mexico

11) Montana

12) Texas

13) Oklahoma

14) Kansas

15) Missouri

16) New York

17) Pennsylvania

18) New Jersey

19) Delaware

20) Maryland

21) Virginia

22) Michigan

23) Florida

24) Washington DC

• Mexico (9/33)

1) Jalisco

2) Mexico State

3) Baja California Norte

4) Zacatecas

5) Guanajuato

6) Yucatan

7) Chihuahua

8) Qintana Roo

9) Mexico D.F.

• Canada (1/13)

1) British Columbia

• China (7/38)

1) Beijing District

2) Hong Kong

3) Macau

4) Shanghai District

5) Shaanxi

6) Yunnan

7) Sichuan

• Italy (7/22)

1) Campania

2) Emilia-Romagna

3) Lazio

4) Lombardy

5) Sicily

6) Tuscany

7) Veneto

• South Korea (2/2)

1) Korea Mainland

2) Jeju Island

• Japan (5/9)

1) Kyushu Region

2) Kansai Region

3) Ryukyu Islands

4) Chubu Region

5) Kanto Region

• Indonesia (1/7)

1) Lesser Sunda Islands

• Republic of China (1/2)

1) Mainland Taiwan Island

• Vietnam (1/2)

1) South Vietnam

Places with Single Regions

1) Peru

2) Vatican City

3) Netherlands

4) Cambodia