User:(WT-en) Legis/countries
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I have been to 47 countries so far (depending on (WT-en) what exactly you count as a country).
| North America | Europe | Asia | Oceania | Africa | South America |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anguilla | Austria | China | Australia | Kenya | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Belgium | Hong Kong | Federated States of Micronesia | Morocco | |
| Bahamas | Cyprus | India | French Polynesia | South Africa | |
| Barbados | Czech Republic | Japan | New Zealand | ||
| Bermuda | France | Macau | |||
| British Virgin Islands | Germany | Malaysia | |||
| Canada | Italy | Philippines | |||
| Cayman Islands | Jersey | Russia | |||
| Dominica | Netherlands | Singapore | |||
| Dominican Republic | Slovakia | Thailand | |||
| Netherland Antilles | Spain | Vietnam | |||
| Saint Kitts | United Kingdom (Eng, Scot) | ||||
| Saint Lucia | Vatican City | ||||
| Saint Martin | |||||
| USA (14 states, plus Guam, Puerto Rico and USVI) |
My personal "bucket list"[edit]
One day I want to go to:
- Peru to see Machu Picchu
- Jordan to see Petra
- Cambodia to visit Angkor Wat
- Orkney Islands to scuba dive Scapa Flow
- Antarctica
- Beijing to see the Great Wall of China
- Egypt both to see the Pyraminds and to dive the red sea
- Iran to see Persepolis.
- North Korea, frankly, just because.
- Mali to see Timbuktu - that way, once I have been to Antarctica, I can say I have been "from Tierra del Fuego to Timbuktu"...!)
What is a country?[edit]
For my personal count, I use the Wiktionary definition "A nation state, a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area". Or put another way: does it issue its own passports? So Bermuda and Anguilla are independent legal states even though they are a dependent territory of the UK, as is St Martin, and Hong Kong and Macau are independent of China. But England and Scotland are not treated as separate from the UK as a whole, nor is Guam or Puerto Rico with respect to the US.