| How well travelled are YOU? Posted by grahame at 05:45, 5th September 2026 |     |
It was said to me that more people in the USA owned a copy of the Titanic DVD than a passport ... so seeing lots of "how many places have you visited" trawls on my social media feed with very small numbers suggested for the typical American does not surprise me.
Here in Europe (need to define "in", mind!) we have a lot of countries within a short distance and I speculate that most members here are more travelled (country wide) than yer typical Yank. The list on the graphic, with 42 countries, is just a fraction; there are 193 members of the UN, plus a couple of others such as The Vatican, which are countries in common understanding but not UN members.
P.S. - I count 21 I have visited (if counting living in the UK as visiting) plus places like Slovenia and Slovakia, Lithuania and Latvia, Norway and the USA, which are not seen as significant enough to have made this list
| Re: How well travelled are YOU? Posted by Bob_Blakey at 07:42, 5th September 2026 | |
16 - plus a few more which are not listed such as the USA, Indonesia & Brunei.
| Re: How well travelled are YOU? Posted by rogerpatenall at 08:36, 5th September 2026 | |
Yes. Surprised also that the Philippines are not there - and South America and the Pacific are poorly represented in the list
| Re: How well travelled are YOU? Posted by Ralph Ayres at 10:05, 5th September 2026 | |
The whole thing about Americans not having a passport is a bit misleading, given that they still have the whole of the USA at their disposal, an area not dissimilar in size to Europe with a wide variety of geographic features, weather conditions and other features albeit perhaps not quite so varied in culture. Personally I mostly stick to the UK anyway as there's so much I haven't yet seen or want to experience again.
