How Many Countries?

We just ran across this website, which allows us to click on a list of countries to come up with a html code that enables us to reproduce a map of the world, the red areas indicating the 72 countries it states we've visited.


visited 72 states (32%)
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If we use as our reference an atlas that only lists countries by political divisions, we've visited "only" 65*. If we rely on the Century Club's more extensive list, we've visited 82.

Of course, as we always say, who's counting?

*Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Brazil
Canada
Cape Verde
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Egypt
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Korea, North
Korea, South
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Malta
Mexico
Micronesia
Monaco
Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Panama
Poland
Portugal
Russian Federation
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Senegal
Singapore
Slovakia
South Africa
Spain
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Vatican City