Ton van Zutphen:  updated list of countries traveled to, and worked in / February 2023

Below is a list that I created to keep track of where I have been throughout my life. To be updated every year.

I was born in 1951......therefore  traveling to many new countries will not be frequent anymore.

Here are the countries and continents:

EUROPE  //  50

Netherlands (1951)

Belgium (1954) 

Luxemburg (1970)

France (1970)

West Germany (1954)

East Germany (1971)

San Marino (2011)

Ireland (1988)

Spain (1969)

Portugal (1972)

Italy (1973)

Yugoslavia (1973)

Switzerland (1974)

Austria (1971)

Hungary (1973)

Czechoslovakia (1971)

Germany (1992)

Denmark (1975)

Norway (1975)

Sweden (1975)

USSR (1984)

Russia (2002)

Ingushetia (2002)

North Ossetia - Alania (2002)

Estonia (2022)

Chechnya (2004)                                

Monaco (1970)                                

Romania (2003)

Bulgaria (1973)                                        

Greece (1973)                              

Albania (2002)

Kosovo (2002)                                        

Serbia-Montenegro (2002)              

Liechtenstein (2003)

Bosnia-Herzegovina(2003)                        

Respublika  Srpska (2003)                

the Vatican (2007)

Malta (2002)                                        

Cyprus (2003)                                

Northern Cyprus (2003)

Slovenia (2003)                                        

Czech Rep. (2003)                        

Slovakia (2002)

Macedonia (2002)                                

United Kingdom (1972)                        

Gibraltar (2013)             

Poland (2022)

Lithuania (2022)

Latvia (2022)

Finland (2022)

AFRICA   //    42

Morocco (1975)                                        

Algeria (1975)                                

Tunisia (1970)

Egypt (1975)                                        

Sudan (1999)                                

Niger (1979)

Mauritania (1999)                                

Mali (1983)                                

Senegal (1983)

Upper Volta (1981)                                

Burkina Faso (1983)                        

Central African Rep. (1991)

Ethiopia (1999)                                        

Eritrea (2000)                                

Zaire (1991)

DR Congo (1998)                                

Burundi (1998)                                

Rwanda (1998)

Zambia (1975)                                        

Tanzania(1975)                                                    

Republic the Sudan (2018)

Botswana (1975)

Rhodesia (1975)                                

Zimbabwe (1990)                        

Mozambique (1992)

South Africa (1975)                                

Malawi (1975)                                

Nigeria (1982)

Benin (1980)                                        

Togo (1983)                                

Ghana (1984)

Ivory Coast (1983)                                

Liberia (2000)                                

Guinea (1993)

the Gambia (1993)                                

Sierra Leone (2000)                        

Swaziland (1999)

Angola (1999)                                        

Transkei (1975)                                

Kenya (1997)

Chad (2012)

Cameroon (2014)

ASIA   //    36

Israel (1975)                                        

Turkey-Türkiye (1974)                                

Palestine (1975)

Jordan (1974)                                        

Kuwait (2003)                                

Iraq (2003)

Iran (1974)                                      

Armenia (2002)                                

Georgia (2002)

Abkhazia (2004)                                

Azerbaijan (2002)                        

Afghanistan (1974)

Pakistan (1973)                                      

United Arab Emirates (1994)                       

India (1974)

Sri Lanka (2005)                                        

Nepal (1974)

New Zealand (2016)                                                              

Bangladesh (1994)

Thailand (1974)                                      

Laos (1974)                                

the Lebanon (2002)

Hong Kong (1974)                                

Uzbekistan (2003)                      

Japan (1996)

Rep. South Korea (2006)                        

Malaysia (2011)                                

Singapore (2005)

Indonesia (2005)                                

Australia (2002)                                

Syria (1974)

Vietnam (1996)                                        

Kurdistan Republic – Iraq (2014)

China (2014)

Philippines (2014)

Taiwan (2015)

AMERICAS   //     10

USA (1988)                                        

Canada (1988)                                

Dominican Rep. (2008)                        

Brazil (2008) 

Panama (2011)

Haiti (2010)                                        

Cuba (2011)

Mexico (2022)

Guatemala (2022)

Belize (2023)

A grand total of 138.

Countries where I only touched down at their airports:  Libya (Tripoli-1982), Gabon (Libreville-1999),  Bahrain (Manama-1973), amongst others, I do not count.

Notes:

1.     I have been to the same geographic area several times....a country may have changed its name....I count both...example:  Zaire first, now DR Congo; but there are quite a few others...DDR/East Germany, Bundesrepublik  Germany...and now simply Germany; this makes 3 counts.

2.     I was travelling through South Africa during the Apartheid regime / hitchhiking... a period many independent states with their own governments  (homelands) were created...I have included Transkei where I overnighted in the capital Umtata in 1975

3.     I do not count when I have only touched down or have been to an airport in a country (see above examples)

4.     In the period after 1992...the break-up of the USSR...many quasi-independent states were created...I have counted my visits there...including Abkhazia (inside Georgia)...And you remember Vladikavkaz....where we had a World Vision office on and off...when security was bad in Nazran (Ingushetia). Vladikavkaz is now the capital of  the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.

5.     The UAE...the Emirates...there are 7 of them....Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Ras al-Khaimah, Umm al-Quwain .....do we count these individually? I have decided no. I have visited 3 out of the 7.  

6.     I have not included 'colonies, protectorates’, and departments outre-mer  like Netherlands Antilles,  Guadeloupe, But this is open for debate....

7.     And...the United Kingdom includes England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland........I counted 1 country. However, please note that the Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey) and the Isle of Man are not part of the UK! And Gibraltar also has a special status and is therefore counted as a country!

8.     The Balkans; Yugoslavia etc. The state construction Serbia-Montenegro broke up in 2003.... In case  I would visit the coming years Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia ..that would count for 3 new countries

9.     And…The Sudan is also a special case with South Sudan independent since 2011 and the Republic of The Sudan (visited Khartoum in Nov.2018)

Here is another list...those countries where I lived in / worked in for considerable time ....rented/owned  a house, worked in an office for months.... counting 26 locations….

 

1.     Netherlands (1951)

2.     Zambia (1975)

3.     Tanzania (1976)

4.     Germany (1979)

5.     Niger (1979)

6.     Upper Volta - Burkina Faso (1982)

7.     Mali (1983)

8.     Belgium (1987)

9.     the Gambia (1993)

10. Bangladesh (1994)

11. Kenya (1998)

12. Austria (2001)

13. Iran (2002)

14. Jordan (2002)

15. France (2004)

16. Switzerland (2004)

17. DR Congo  (2009)

18. Haiti (2010)

19. Italy  (2011)

20. the Vatican (2011)

21. Senegal (2012)

22. USA (2013)

23. Central African Republic  (2014)

24. Turkey-Türkiye  (2014)

25. Burundi (2017)

26. Republic of South Korea (2017)

27. Cuba (2019)

I realize that adding countries will become ever more difficult. I have travelled little in Southern America.

I wish you all a good and healthy 2023 with many travel mercies.