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My 50 by 50 countries quest

Spurred on by Jen’s personal travel quest, I’ve adopted a new quest: visiting 50 countries by the time I turn 50 (in November 2028).

I’ll be using a generous definition of the term “country,” however, adopting the definition used by the Travelers Century Club, which includes both countries and territories. Basically, that means that far-flung territories and states like Guam and Alaska count as separate countries for the purposes of this quest—read the more complicated rules for more details on exactly what counts and doesn’t count. Using their master list, here are the countries I’ve been to thus far.

💯 By the way—I completed the quest in December 2024! I’m now shooting for 100.

According to Been, I’ve visited just 21% of countries.
  1. United States (born)
  2. Canada (1985)
  3. Scotland (1990)
  4. Northern Ireland (1990)
  5. Ireland (1990)
  6. Mexico (2014)
  7. Puerto Rico (2016)
  8. US Virgin Islands (2016)
  9. British Virgin Islands (2016)
  10. Hawaii (2016)
  11. Netherlands (2017)
  12. Switzerland (2017)
  13. Liechtenstein (2017)
  14. Austria (2017)
  15. Italy (2017)
  16. Vatican City (2017)
  17. France (2017)
  18. Guam (2017)
  19. Northern Mariana Islands (2017)
  20. Alaska (2018)
  21. American Samoa (2018)
  22. Samoa (2018)
  23. Fiji (2018)
  24. Cayman Islands (2019)
  25. Iceland (2021)
  26. Turks & Caicos (2021)
  27. Prince Edward Island (2022)
  28. Belize (2022)
  29. Guatemala (2022)
  30. Sint Maarten (2023)
  31. Saint Martin (2023)
  32. Antigua and Barbuda (2023)
  33. Barbados (2023)
  34. Saint Kitts and Nevis (2023)
  35. Isle of Man (2023)
  36. Wales (2023)
  37. Portugal (2023)
  38. Madeira (2023)
  39. The Azores (2023)
  40. Spain (2023)
  41. South Korea (2024)
  42. Taiwan (2024)
  43. Hong Kong (2024)
  44. Macao (2024)
  45. United Arab Emirates1 (2024)
  46. South Africa (2024)
  47. Lesotho (2024)
  48. Botswana (2024)
  49. Zimbabwe (2024)
  50. Zambia (2024)
  51. Malawi (2024)
  52. Tanzania (2025)
  53. Zanzibar (2025)
  54. Mauritius (2025)
  55. Seychelles (2025)
  56. Sri Lanka (2025)
  57. Singapore (2025)
  58. Australia (2025)
  1. Ok, so we technically visited 6 of the 7 emirates, which all technically count as separate territories on the list. However, I’m overriding that to count the UAE as a single objective. ↩︎

Last updated on March 6, 2025.