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Countries & Territories List

Here is the Travelers’ Century Club’s official list of countries and territories, a total of 325 as of Jan. 1, 2016. Although some are not actually countries in their own right, they have been included because they are removed from the parent country, either geographically, politically or ethnologically (see the Territory Status page for detailed criteria). After consideration as to how long one must have stayed in a country or territory to qualify, it was decided that even the shortest visit would suffice — even if only a port-of-call, or a plane fuel stop. This greatly widens the field and will give the traveler a better chance to qualify for one of the most unusual clubs in the world. Anyone who has visited 100 or more of the places listed below is eligible to join.

PACIFIC OCEAN (39)

• Australia

• 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

• Guam

• Hawaiian Islands

• 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 Caledonia & Deps. (Noumea, Loyalty Islands)

• New Zealand

• 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 (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

• Canada

• Mexico

• Prince Edward Island

• St. Pierre & Miquelon

• United States (continental)

CENTRAL AMERICA (7)

• Belize (British Honduras)

• Costa Rica

• El Salvador

• Guatemala

• Honduras

• Nicaragua

• Panama

SOUTH AMERICA (14)

• Argentina

• Bolivia

• Brazil

• Chile

• Colombia

• Ecuador

• French Guiana

• Guyana (British Guiana)

• Nueva Esparta (Margarita Island)

• Paraguay

• Peru

• Suriname (Netherlands Guiana)

• Uruguay

• Venezuela

CARIBBEAN (30)

• Anguilla

• Antigua & Deps. (Barbuda, Redonda)

• Aruba

• Bahamas

• Barbados

• Bonaire

• Cayman Islands

• Cuba

• Curacao

• Dominica

• Dominican Republic

• Grenada & Deps. (Carriacou, Grenadines)

• Guadeloupe & Deps.(Marie Galante)

• Haiti

• Jamaica

• Leeward Islands, French (St. Martin)

• Leeward Islands, Netherlands (Saba, St. Eustatius)

• Martinique

• Montserrat

• Puerto Rico

• St. Barts

• San Andres & Providencia

• St. Kitts & Nevis

• St. Lucia

• St. Maarten (formerly Netherlands Antilles)

• St. Vincent & Deps. (Bequia, Canouan Grenadines)

• Trinidad & Tobago

• Turks & Caicos Islands

• Virgin Islands, U.S. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas)

• Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.)

ATLANTIC OCEAN (13)

• Ascension

• Azores Islands

• Bermuda

• Canary Islands

• Cape Verde Islands

• Falkland Islands

• Fernando do Noronha

• Faroe Islands

• Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)

• Iceland

• Madeira

• St. Helena

• Tristan da Cunha

EUROPE & MEDITERRANEAN (67)

• Aland Islands (Mariehamn)

• Albania

• Andorra

• Austria

• Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Minorca)

• Belarus

• Belgium

• Bosnia & Herzegovina (Sarajevo)

• Bulgaria

• Corsica

• Crete

• Croatia

• Cyprus, Republic

• Cyprus, Turkish Fed. State

• Czech Republic

• Denmark

• Dodecanese Is. (Rhodes)

• England

• Estonia

• Finland

• France

• Germany

• Gibraltar

• Greece

• Guernsey & Deps (Alderney, Herm, Sark, Channel Islands)

• Hungary

• Ionian Islands (Corfu, etc.)

• Ireland (Eire)

• Ireland, Northern (Ulster)

• Isle of Man

• Italy

• Jersey (Channel Islands)

• Kaliningrad

• Kosovo

• Lampedusa

• Latvia

• Liechtenstein

• Lithuania

• Luxembourg

• Macedonia

• Malta

• Moldova

• Monaco

• Montenegro

• Netherlands

• Norway

• Poland

• Portugal

• Romania

• Russia

• San Marino

• Sardinia

• Scotland

• Serbia

• Sicily

• Slovakia

• Slovenia

• Spain

• Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Bear Island)

• Srpska

• Sweden

• Switzerland

• Trans Dniester

• Turkey in Europe (Istanbul)

• Ukraine

• Vatican City

• Wales

ANTARCTICA (7)

• Argentine (Palmer Peninsula)

• Australian Antarctic Territory South Pole (Mawson, Davis, Macquarie, Heard)

• Chilean (Palmer Peninsula)

• Falkland Islands Dependencies (British Antarctica, Graham Land, So. Shetland, So. Sandwich, So. Georgia, So. Orkney)

• French Southern & Antarctic Territory (Kerguelen, Crozet, Amsterdam, St. Paul)

• Norwegian (Queen Maud Land, Bouvet)

• New Zealand (Ross Dependency)

AFRICA (55)

• Algeria

• Angola

• Benin (Dahomey)

• Botswana (Bechuanaland)

• Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)

• Burundi (Urundi)

• Cabinda

• Cameroon

• Central African Republic

• Chad

• Republic of Congo

• Democratic Republic of Congo

• Djibouti

• Egypt in Africa

• Equatorial Guinea (Bioko Fernando Poo)

• Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni)

• Eritrea

• Ethiopia

• Gabon

• Gambia

• Ghana (Gold Coast, British Togoland)

• Guinea (French)

• Guinea-Bissau

• Ivory Coast

• Kenya

• Lesotho (Basutoland)

• Liberia

• Libya

• Malawi (Nyasaland)

• Mali

• Mauritania

• Morocco

• Morocco,Spanish (Ceuta, Melilla)

• Mozambique

• Namibia

• Niger

• Nigeria

• Rwanda

• Sao Tome & Principe

• Senegal

• Sierra Leone

• Somalia (Italian Somaliland)

• Somaliland (Brit.)

• South Africa

• South Sudan

• Sudan

• Swaziland

• Tanzania (Tanganyika)

• Togo

• Tunisia

• Uganda

• Western Sahara (Spanish Sahara)

• Zambia (No. Rhodesia)

• Zanzibar

• Zimbabwe (So. Rhodesia)

MIDDLE EAST (21)

• Abu Dhabi

• Ajman

• Bahrain

• Dubai

• Egypt in Asia (Sinai Peninsula)

• Fujeirah

• Iran

• Iraq

• Israel

• Jordan

• Kuwait

• Lebanon

• Oman

• Palestine

• Qatar

• Ras Al Khaimah

• Saudi Arabia

• Sharjah

• Syria

• Umm Al Qaiwain

• Yemen

INDIAN OCEAN (15)

• Andaman-Nicobar Islands

• British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Arch, Diego Garcia)

• Christmas Island

• Cocos Islands (Keeling)

• Comoro Islands (Anjouan, Moheli, Grand Comoro)

• Lakshadweep

• Madagascar

• Maldive Islands

• Mauritius & Deps. (Agalega, St. Brandon)

• Mayotte (Dzaoudzi)

• Reunion & Deps. (Tromelin, Glorioso)

• Rodriguez Island

• Seychelles

• Socotra

• Zil Elwannyen Sesel (Aldabra, Farquhar, Amirante Is.)

ASIA (51)

• Abkhazia

• Afghanistan

• Armenia (Yerevan)

• Azerbaijan (Baku)

• Bangladesh

• Bhutan

• Brunei

• Cambodia

• China, People’s Republic

• Georgia

• Hainan Island

• Hong Kong

• India

• Indonesia (Java)

• Japan

• Jeju Island (South Korea)

• Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo)

• Kashmir

• Kazakhstan

• Kyrgyzstan

• Korea, North

• Korea, South

• Laos

• Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali,Timor, Indonesia)

• Macau

• Malaysia

• Moluka

• Mongolia, Republic

• Myanmar (Burma)

• Nakhchivan

• Nepal

• Pakistan

• Papua (Irian Jaya)

• Philippines

• Sabah (No. Borneo)

• Sarawak

• Siberia (Russia in Asia)

• Sikkim

• Singapore

• Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

• Sulawesi (Celebes, Indonesia)

• Sumatra (Indonesia)

• Taiwan. R.O.C.

• Tajikistan

• Thailand

• Tibet

• Timor Leste

• Turkey in Asia (Anatolia, Ankara, Izmir)

• Turkmenistan

• Uzbekistan

• Vietnam

This list is recognized by the world as the standard of countries and territories that are politically, ethnologically or geographically different.