Category:World Travels
I have travelled the world quite a lot in my life. I love to travel and usually go out of my way to visit a new country or place. I call this collective habit my "World Travels".
Definitions
First, let me define how I categorise the countries I have been to. This is necessary because I have stayed for variable lengths of time in many countries. It is a somewhat arbitrary distinction, however, it will help me categorise my World Travels.
Below is how I define my stay in countries:
- Countries I have lived in
- any country I have stayed in for at least six months
- Countries I have stayed in
- any country I have stayed in for at least one month but less than six months
- Countries I have visited
- any country I have stayed in for at least one week but less than one month
- Countries I have travelled to or through
- any country I have stayed in for less than one week
Countries
Below is an alphabetical list of the 56 countries I have lived in or have travelled to so far (a work in progress). Click on the individual countries (where link present) for more information on that particular country.
Asia
- Japan: Tokyo and Chiba; September 1995—June 1996
- Taiwan: Taipei, December 1995
Europe
- Albania: 1987
- Austria: Vienna (Wien), Salzburg, Graz, Innsbruck, Villach, Linz, Feldkirch; Home country
- Belarus: Minsk, Brest; 1985, June 1994
- Belgium: 1988, 2018
- Bosnia i Herzegovina: Sarajevo, Mostar, Banja Luka; 1987, 1988, 2018
- Bulgaria: Sofia; 1988
- Croatia: Zagreb, Rijeka, Vukovar, Šibenik, Split, Dubrovnik; 1984, 1988, 1995, 1996, 2018
- Czech Republic: 1985, 1994
- Denmark: Copenhagen (København), Århus, Roskilde; August 1997, 2005-2006, 2019
- Estonia: Tallinn; December 2019, January 2020
- Finland: Helsinki; December 2019, January 2020
- France: Paris, Strasbourg, Nice, Beausoleil, Antibes, Cannes, Toulon, Marseille, Nimes, Montpellier, Perpignan; 1988, 1993, 2006, 2016
- Germany: (All 16 Bundesländer / federated states); Hamburg, Berlin, München, Köln, Stuttgart, Kassel; 1984, 1988, 1996, 1997, 2006
- Baden-Württemberg
- Bavaria (Bayern)
- Berlin
- Brandenburg
- Bremen
- Hamburg
- Hesse (Hessen)
- Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen)
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
- North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
- Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz)
- Saarland
- Saxony (Sachsen)
- Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt)
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Thuringia (Thüringen)
- Greece: 1987
- Hungary: Budapest, Esztergom, Győr, Miskolc, Szeged, Debrecen, Sopron, Szombathely, Székesfehérvár, Balaton, Nagykanizsa, Zalaegerszeg, Pécs; Home country
- Iceland: 2017, 2018
- Ireland: Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Galway, Sligo; December 1999—January 2000
- Italy: Rome, Milano, Venice, Padua, San Remo, Genova, Verona; 1988, 1997, 2005, 2006
- Kosovo: Priština; 1987, 1988
- Latvia: Riga; January 1994
- Liechtenstein: Vaduz; August 1996
- Lithuania: Vilnius; January 1994
- Luxembourg: 1988
- Moldova: November 1985
- Monaco: Monaco-Ville, La Condamine, Monte Carlo, Fontvieille, Moneghetti, Larvotto - Tenao, and Saint Roman; February 2006-June 2006.
- Montenegro (Crna Gora): 1987
- North Macedonia: Skopje, Ohrid; 1987
- Netherlands, The: Amsterdam, Rotterdam; 1984, 1988, December 1999, April 2006, March 2015, November 2016
- Norway: Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim; August 1997
- Oslo
- Viken
- Vestland
- Innlandet
- Trøndelag
- Poland: Warsaw, Katowice, Kraków, Łódź, Białystok; 1985, December 1993—June 1994, September 1994
- Portugal: Lisbon, Porto; November 2016
- Romania: November 1985
- Russia: Moscow; September 1985—November 1985, June 1994—September 1994
- Serbia (including Vojvodina, Kosovo, and Metohija): 1987
- Slovakia: Bratislava; 1984, 1993, 1994
- Slovenia: Ljubljana, Postojna, Novo Mesto, Kranj; 1984, 1988, 1995, 1996-1997, April 2006
- Spain: Barcelona; April 2006
- Sweden: Stockholm, Malmö, Göteborg, Uppsala, Östersund, Umeå, Luleå, Kiruna, Abisko; August 1997, January 2020
- Switzerland: Zürich, Zug, Lugano, Lucerne, Winterthur, Interlaken, Bern, Basel; 1988, August 1996
- Ukraine: Kiev, Odessa; November 1985
- United Kingdom: England, Northern Ireland; January 2000, June 2006
- [Former] Czechoslovakia: 1984
- [Former] USSR: 1984
- [Former] Yugoslavia: 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988
North America
- Canada: 2001, 2018
- Quebec
- Ontario
- Manitoba
- Saskatchewan
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Mexico: 1999
- United States of America (all 50 US states)
Central America
- Costa Rica: April 2014
South America
- Bolivia: 1991
- Chile: 1991
- Colombia: 1992
- Ecuador: 1992
- Peru: 1989—1992
- Venezuela: 1992
Traveler's Century Club
See here for details.
- Alaska
- Albania
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bolivia
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- England
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland (Eire)
- Ireland, Northern
- Italy
- Japan
- Kaliningrad
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Srpska
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Transnistria (Pridnestrovie)
- Ukraine
- United States (Contiguous)
- Venezuela
Global cities
Below is a list of the Global cities I have been to (and I have lived in some of these):
Alpha world cities (full service world cities)
12 points:
- London
- New York City
- Paris
- Tokyo
10 points:
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Beta world cities (major world cities)
9 points:
- Toronto
- Zürich
8 points:
- Brussels
- Mexico City
7 points:
- Moscow
Gamma world cities (minor world cities)
6 points
- Amsterdam
- Boston
- Caracas
- Dallas
- Düsseldorf
- Houston
- Prague
- Taipei
- Washington, D.C.
5 points:
- Montreal
- Rome
- Stockholm
- Warsaw
4 points:
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Barcelona
- Berlin
- Budapest
- Copenhagen
- Hamburg
- Miami
- Minneapolis
- Munich
Evidence of world city formation
Strong evidence
3 points
- Dublin
- Luxembourg
- Philadelphia
- Vienna
Some evidence
2 points:
- Bratislava
- Bucharest
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Cologne
- Kiev
- Lima
- Oslo
- Rotterdam
- Seattle
- Stuttgart
- The Hague
- Vancouver
Minimal evidence
1 point:
- Antwerp
- Aarhus
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Calgary
- Columbus, Ohio
- Dresden
- Genoa
- Gothenburg
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Marseille
- Richmond, Virginia
- Tijuana
- Utrecht
External links
- A Google Map of my travels (incomplete)
- Generate "Visited Countries" Map
- FlightDiary
- TrekEarth
- Geotagging files with libferris and Google Earth
- TripTracker - Christoph
- TripTracker — Monaco - Slovenia - Rotterdam - Berlin - Copenhagen
- visited countries - map gen
- Printable world map
- Farecast — find cheap flights
- Rough Guides — travel information
- The Travelers' Century Club
Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Pages in category "World Travels"
The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.