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