There is a great race on now which many are not aware of, and that is to go "everywhere" on the earth.
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There is one awesome group where experienced travelers who have been to 100 countries can join, or 75 as an associate member: Travelers Century Club
TCC's rules and list differ from some other clubs. Their list is loosely based on "Countries" as in UN recognized countries but does include a very few distinct locations that "count" also. For example Puerto Rico which is not technically a different country counts as one point. Also the TCC rules allow a simple landing or plane change as having been there, as long as you have been on the ground.
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Another group is Most Traveled People. MTP is free to join and has distinct differences making it in my opinion the hardest test of who in fact are the most traveled people. Too many people have been to every country on earth to make it a useful measure. MTP uses "places" decided by its members. A place is a distinctive enough or important enough or geographically distinct or isolated to need to be visited to be counted. For example every US state, the UN headquarters, Dry Tortugas, are all "places" in the US. Every state in France is a place. Every state in Brazil is a place... El Salvador is just one place. You can see their list for more examples. The world is 875 parts according to this group. MTP has stricter rules. For a country you must pass immigration. You cannot count a fuel stop in an aircraft for example.
I have met one of the top travelers. Here is his personal site. He is one of the nicest human beings I have ever met and you can see from his site he is a big Ayn Rand fan and libertarian. In the last two years he has been between 1 and 4 on the list and all of the top 4 had over 50 "places" remaining. You can see the race is narrowing and someone may win.
MTP is my favorite personally. See also they track how many UN Heritage sites people have been to.
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If you know of another group like this or a RVF member who may be the most traveled here please share.
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There is one awesome group where experienced travelers who have been to 100 countries can join, or 75 as an associate member: Travelers Century Club
TCC's rules and list differ from some other clubs. Their list is loosely based on "Countries" as in UN recognized countries but does include a very few distinct locations that "count" also. For example Puerto Rico which is not technically a different country counts as one point. Also the TCC rules allow a simple landing or plane change as having been there, as long as you have been on the ground.
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Another group is Most Traveled People. MTP is free to join and has distinct differences making it in my opinion the hardest test of who in fact are the most traveled people. Too many people have been to every country on earth to make it a useful measure. MTP uses "places" decided by its members. A place is a distinctive enough or important enough or geographically distinct or isolated to need to be visited to be counted. For example every US state, the UN headquarters, Dry Tortugas, are all "places" in the US. Every state in France is a place. Every state in Brazil is a place... El Salvador is just one place. You can see their list for more examples. The world is 875 parts according to this group. MTP has stricter rules. For a country you must pass immigration. You cannot count a fuel stop in an aircraft for example.
I have met one of the top travelers. Here is his personal site. He is one of the nicest human beings I have ever met and you can see from his site he is a big Ayn Rand fan and libertarian. In the last two years he has been between 1 and 4 on the list and all of the top 4 had over 50 "places" remaining. You can see the race is narrowing and someone may win.
MTP is my favorite personally. See also they track how many UN Heritage sites people have been to.
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If you know of another group like this or a RVF member who may be the most traveled here please share.