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Note that according to the Traveler's Century Club they include some areas that aren't independent countries because "they are removed from parent, either geographically, politically or ethnologically".

Red = visited ( so far)

PACIFIC OCEAN (40)
Australia (1992, 2000) Bismark Archipelago (New Ireland, New Britain, Bougainville, Admiralty Islands) Chatham Islands Cook Islands (Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Penrhyn) Easter Island Fiji Islands French Polynesia (Tahiti,Tuamotu, Austral, Gambier) Galapagos Islands (2004) Guam Hawaiian Islands (1990, 1991) Johnston Island Juan Fernandez Islands (Robinson Crusoe Island) Kiribati (Gilberts,Tarawa, Ocean Island) Line/Phoenix Islands (Palmyra, Fanning, Christmas, Canton, Enderbury, Howland) Lord Howe Island Marquesas Islands Marshall Islands, Republic of (Majuro, Kwajalein, Eniwetok) Micronesia, Fed.States of (Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk,Yap,Caroline Islands) Midway Island	Nauru New Caldedonia & Deps. (Noumea, Loyalty Islands) New Zealand (1993) Niue Norfolk Island Northern Marianas (Saipan, Tinian) Ogasawara (Bonin, Volcano Island, Iwo Jima) Palau, Republic of Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Island Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) Samoa, American (Pago Pago) Samoa, Western (Apia) Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, New Georgia,Tulagi) Tasmania Tokelau Islands (Fakaofu, Atafu, Union) Tonga (Nukualofa) Tuvalu (Ellice Island, Funafuti, Vaitapu) Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands) Wake Island Wallis & Futuna Islands
NORTH AMERICA (6)
Alaska (1993 minivan, 2002 DA-40; 2005 Cirrus; 2019 Northwest Passage cruise) Canada (1993/2002 West; 2001 Maritimes; 2005 Manitoba/Sask./Nunavut; 2019 Nunavut, NWT, Yukon Northwest Passage cruise) Mexico (1994 Juarez, 2001 Big Bend, 2002 Baja Calif., 2003 Mexico City, 2004 Oaxaca)	Prince Edward Island (2001) St. Pierre & Miquelon United States (continental; 1963 Maryland-2002 South Dakota (50th state visited))
CENTRAL AMERICA (8)
Belize (British Honduras) Costa Rica (1994) El Salvador Guatemala (2000)	Honduras Nicaragua Panama San Blas Islands
SOUTH AMERICA (13)
Argentina (2003) Bolivia Brazil (2003 across the middle of the Parana River near Iguazu) Chile (2003, walked from Ushuaia) Colombia (2023 Vision of the Seas) Ecuador (2004) French Guiana	Guyana (British Guiana) Paraguay Peru (2004) Suriname (Netherlands Guiana) Uruguay (2003 Colonia) Venezuela
CARIBBEAN (30)
Anguilla (2003) Antigua & Deps. (Barbuda, Redonda) Aruba (2023 Vision of the Seas) Bahamas (2003, 2020 via Cirrus with Ray) Barbados Bonaire (2023 Vision of the Seas) Cayman Islands (1994; 2018) Cuba (2018 Havana and Cienfuegos) Curacao (2023 Vision of the Seas) Dominica Dominican Republic (2003) Grenada & Deps. (Carriacou, Grenadines) Guadeloupe & Deps.(Marie Galante) Haiti (2018 Labadee) Jamaica Leeward Islands, French (St. Martin; 2003)	Leeward Islands, Netherlands (Saba, St. Eustatius) Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico (1991 transit; 2002/3 visit; 2012 work) San Andres & Providencia St. Barts St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia (1991) St. Maarten (2003) St. Vincent & Deps. (Bequia, Canouan Grenadines; 1991) Trinidad & Tobago Turks & Caicos Islands (2002) Virgin Islands, U.S. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas; 2003) Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.; 2003) Note: all of the 2003 visits were in a single island-hopping trip by small airplane, chronicled in this story.
ATLANTIC OCEAN (13)
Ascension Azores Islands (cruise with mom, 2017) Bermuda (2020) Canary Islands (cruise with mom, 2017) Cape Verde Islands Falkland Islands Fernando do Noronha	Faroe Islands Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat; 2019 Northwest Passage cruise) Iceland (2013 transit; 2016 transit) Madeira (cruise with mom, 2017) St. Helena Tristan de Cunha
EUROPE & MEDITERRANEAN (67)
Aland Islands (Mariehamn) Albania Andorra Austria (2001, 2002) Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Minorca) Belarus Belgium (2001) Bosnia & Herzegovina (Sarajevo) Bulgaria Corsica Crete (2004) Croatia Cyprus, Republic Cyprus, Turkish Fed. State Czech Federated Rep. (1993) Denmark (2013; cruise with mom, 2016) Dodecanese Is. (Rhodes) England (1983) Estonia (cruise with mom, 2016) Finland (cruise with mom, 2016) France (1968 w/parents, 1983 w/Suzanne) Germany (1983 IJCAI in Karlsruhe; 1993 Freiburg/Berlin; 1999 Munich) Gibraltar Greece (2004, south-central) Guernsey & Deps (Alderney, Herm, Sark, Channel Islands) Hungary (2002) Ionian Islands (Corfu, etc.; 2004 Corfu) Ireland (Eire; 2000) Ireland, Northern (Ulster; 2019) Isle of Man Italy (1983, 1991/2, 1995) Jersey (Channel Islands) Kaliningrad Kosovo	Lampedusa Latvia (cruise with mom, 2016) Liechtenstein Lithuania (cruise with mom, 2016) Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco (1984) Montenegro Netherlands (1984, 2001) Norway (2022) Poland Portugal (cruise with mom, 2017) Romania Russia (cruise with mom, 2016; Moscow 2017) San Marino Sardinia Scotland (2003) Serbia Sicily Slovakia Slovenia Spain (2000) Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Bear Island) Srpska Sweden (1999; cruise with mom, 2016) Switzerland (1983) Trans Dniester Turkey in Europe (Istanbul; 2007) Ukraine Vatican City (1983) Wales (2003)
ANTARCTICA (9)
American (Palmer, McMurdo Sound, South Pole) Argentine South Pole (2013) Australian Antarctic Territory South Pole (Mawson, Davis, Macquarie, Heard) Chilean South Pole (2013) Falkland Islands Dependencies (British Antarctica, Graham Land, So. Sheltland, So. Sandwich, So. Georgia, So. Orkney) (2013)	French Southern & Antarctic Territory South Pole (Kerguelon, Crozet, Amsterdam, St. Paul) Norwegian (Bouvet) New Zealand South Pole (Ross Dependency) Russian (Bellingshausen)
AFRICA (52)
Algeria Angola Benin (Dahomey) Botswana (2007) Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) Burundi (Urundi) Cameroon Central African Rep. Chad Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of Congo Djibouti Egypt (1992) Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni, Fernando Poo) Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana (Gold Coast, British Togoland) Guinea (French) Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya (change planes, 8/2007) Lesotho (Basutoland) Liberia Libya	Malawi (Nyasaland) Mali Mauritania Morocco (cruise with mom, 2017) Morocco,Spanish (Ceuta, Melilla) Mozambique Namibia (2007) Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome & Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia (Italian Somaliland) Somaliland (Brit.) South Africa (2007) Sudan Swaziland Tanzania (Tanganyika) (2007) Togo Tunisia Uganda (2007) Western Sahara (Spanish Sahara) Zambia (Vic Falls cruise 2007) Zanzibar (2007) Zimbabwe (Vic Falls 2007)
MIDDLE EAST (21)
Abu Dhabi Ajman Bahrain Dubai Egypt in Asia (Sinai Peninsula) 1991 Fujeirah Iran Iraq Israel (1992,2000,2003,2012, 2016) Jordan (2012) Kuwait Lebanon	Oman Palestine (1992, 2000, 2012, 2016) Qatar Ras Al Khaimah Saudi Arabia Sharjah Syria Umm Al Qaiwain Yemen
INDIAN OCEAN (14)
Andaman-Nicobar Islands British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos, Arch, Diego Garcia) Christmas Island Cocos Islands (Keeling) Comoro Islands (Anjouan Moheli, Grand Comoro) Lakshadweep,Union Terr. Of ( Laccadive Is.) Madagascar	Maldive Islands Mauritius & Deps. (Agalega, St. Brandon) Mayotte (Dzaoudzi) Reunion & Deps. (Tromelin, Glorioso) Rodriguez Island Seychelles Zil Elwannyen Sesel (Aldabra, Farquhar, Amirante Is.)
ASIA (48)
Afghanistan Armenia (Yerevan) Azerbaijan (Baku) Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China, People's Rep. (Beijing 2000; Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou 2019) East Timor Georgia Hainan Island Hong Kong (2001 Web Conf.) India (2001) Indonesia (Java) Irian Jaya (Dutch New Guinea) Japan (2000,2001,2004 road trip Narita to Hokkaido) Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) Kashmir Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Korea, North Korea, South Laos Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali,Timor, Indonesia)	Macau Malaysia Moluka Mongolia, Rep. Myanmar (Burma) Nepal Pakistan Philippines Sabah (No. Borneo) Sarawak Siberia (Russia in Asia) Sikkim Singapore (2000) Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Sulawesi (Celebes, Indonesia) Sumatra (Indonesia) Taiwan. R.O.C. (2001) Tajikistan Thailand (2001) Tibet Turkey in Asia (Anatolia, Ankara, Izmir; 2007) Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Vietnam

Plans

South America

• Brazil: Rio and the Pantanal (best time for Pantanal is June-September) -- 2 weeks
• Northern Chile and Bolivia -- 4 weeks
• Southern Chile, Easter Island, and Torres del Paine -- 4 weeks
• Southern Ecuador and the ancient sites of northern Peru -- 3 weeks
• Colombia -- 2 weeks
• Venezuela and Angel Falls -- 1 week?

  Europe

• Russia, starting with St. Petersburg and Moscow and maybe including a cruise up and down the rivers -- 3 weeks
• Portugal -- 2 weeks
• Iceland -- 3 weeks
• Turkey, ancient coastal sites -- 2 weeks
• Baltic Countries
• Former Yugoslavian countries, especially coastal
• Norway fjord cruise
• Finland

  Africa

• Southern Africa, starting with a rented Cessna 182 or similar in South Africa, concentrating on Namibia -- 4 weeks
• Kenya, on luxury safari, if the place doesn't deteriorate further into violence -- 2 weeks
• West Africa, Senegal and Ghana, maybe take some drumming lessons -- 3 weeks
• Rift Lakes (Tanganyika and Malawi) to see the cichlids -- 3 weeks including some extra sightseeing in South Africa
• Sardine run off east coast South Africa in June

  Asia/Pacific/Australasia

• Tasmania for helicopter lessons and Western Australia via rented twin-engine Partenavia P68 from http://www.racwa.asn.au/ -- 4 weeks
• Northern Thailand (Chiang Mai), Cambodia, Vietnam -- 4 weeks
• Shanghai (visit Cotton), Guilin, Kunming -- 3 weeks
• Korea -- 2 weeks
• Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan -- 4 weeks
• India, places other than Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Jaipur -- 3 weeks
• Bali
• Fiji, New Zealand, plus myabe some other islands -- 3-5 weeks

  North and Central America

• Mexico in a small plane -- 3 weeks (try to get to to Baja for the whales, mid-Dec to April at Kuyima Eco-Lodge in the San Ignacio Lagoon?)
• Belize (snorkeling), Copan in Honduras, Roatan (snorkeling) -- 3 weeks
• Cuba whenever it becomes legal -- 2 weeks
• Churchill, Manitoba to see the polar bears -- 1 week+
• Alaska and back by light airplane -- 5 weeks

  Misc.

• Antarctica -- photo cruise including South Georgia
• Bermuda -- 1 week maybe during a forecast rainy spring week in Boston