The world is made up of 757 countries, territories, autonomous regions, enclaves, geographically separated island groups, and major states and provinces, according to MostTraveledPeople.com.
You can't use just countries as the measure of the world's places, because then Tahiti would be France and Greenland Denmark, which they're clearly not. I quibble with MostTraveledPeople.com that individual provinces should be distinct places though: what's the difference between one side or the other of the North/South Dakota border? Seems like just a way of running up the score.
On the other hand, it's all exhibitionism, and we all do it. We're proud of the just-over-one-hundred countries and territories we've visited and we've proudly displayed this countries-visited map here before:
This map can be manipulated, too, of course. Fly in and out of Moscow and it looks like you've been a whole lot more places than if you've visited a couple of dozen Caribbean countries.
(Make your own Countries Visited map here or here.)
Still, it's fun to read profiles of some of the most traveled people. Looks like they do a profile a day on their home page. Their most traveled person is Charles Veley (More: 1, 2, 3, 4), who says he's visited 709 places, with 48 remaining.
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