The past few blog posts have focused on travel – and my attempts to organize and chronicle my travels on this blog. In my research for resources and ways to organize everything, I came across The Traveler’s Century Club List of Countries. The Traveler’s Century Club is a club for travelers who have visited more than 100 countries.

From the website:

Membership in the Travelers’ Century Club (TCC) is limited to those travelers who have visited one hundred or more countries of the world. It was first organized in Los Angeles in 1954 by a group of the world’s most widely traveled people. The idea has attracted the interest of the world travelers everywhere and we now have members throughout the world, as well as the United States.

Sounds good – CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

The club publishes a very comprehensive list of 320 “countries”, last updated in March 2010. They define the list as “countries and destinations that are politically, ethnologically, or geographically different”, so there a bunch on there that are really just islands and territories.

I’m going to be posting this list in my Travelogue project – and, hopefully someday soon, joining the club, and then completing the list.

Listening to: Daft Punk – Around The World (Strangely, coincidentally appropriate….) (Gondry video)

PACIFIC OCEAN (39)
Australia Bismark Archipelago (New Ireland, New Britain, Bougainville, Admiralty Islands) Chatham Islands Cook Islands (Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Penrhyn) Easter Island Fiji Islands French Polynesia (Tahiti,Tuamotu, Austral, Gambier) Galapagos Islands Guam Hawaiian Islands Juan Fernandez Islands (Robinson Crusoe Island) Kiribati (Gilberts,Tarawa, Ocean Island) Line/Phoenix Islands (Palmyra, Fanning, Christmas, Canton, Enderbury, Howland) Lord Howe Island Marquesas Islands Marshall Islands, Republic of (Majuro, Kwajalein, Eniwetok) Micronesia, Fed.States of (Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk,Yap,Caroline Islands) Midway Island	Nauru New Caledonia & Deps. (Noumea, Loyalty Islands) New Zealand Niue Norfolk Island Northern Marianas (Saipan, Tinian) Ogasawara (Bonin, Volcano Island, Iwo Jima) Palau, Republic of Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Island Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) Samoa, American (Pago Pago) Samoa (Apia) Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, New Georgia,Tulagi) Tasmania Tokelau Islands (Fakaofu, Atafu, Union) Tonga (Nukualofa) Tuvalu (Ellice Island, Funafuti, Vaitapu) Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands) Wake Island Wallis & Futuna Islands
NORTH AMERICA (6)
Alaska Canada Mexico	Prince Edward Island St. Pierre & Miquelon United States (continental)
CENTRAL AMERICA (7)
Belize (British Honduras) Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala	Honduras Nicaragua Panama
SOUTH AMERICA (13)
Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador French Guiana	Guyana (British Guiana) Paraguay Peru Suriname (Netherlands Guiana) Uruguay Venezuela
CARIBBEAN (30)
Anguilla Antigua & Deps. (Barbuda, Redonda) Aruba Bahamas Barbados Bonaire Cayman Islands Cuba Curacao Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada & Deps. (Carriacou, Grenadines) Guadeloupe & Deps.(Marie Galante) Haiti Jamaica	Leeward Islands, French (St. Martin) Leeward Islands, Netherlands (Saba, St. Eustatius) Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico St. Barts San Andres & Providencia St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia St. Maarten (formerly Netherlands Antilles) St. Vincent & Deps. (Bequia, Canouan Grenadines) Trinidad & Tobago Turks & Caicos Islands Virgin Islands, U.S. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas) Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.)
ATLANTIC OCEAN (13)
Ascension Azores Islands Bermuda Canary Islands Cape Verde Islands Falkland Islands Fernando do Noronha	Faroe Islands Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) Iceland Madeira St. Helena Tristan de Cunha
EUROPE & MEDITERRANEAN (67)
Aland Islands (Mariehamn) Albania Andorra Austria Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Minorca) Belarus Belgium Bosnia & Herzegovina (Sarajevo) Bulgaria Corsica Crete Croatia Cyprus, Republic Cyprus, Turkish Fed. State Czech Republic Denmark Dodecanese Is. (Rhodes) England Estonia Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Guernsey & Deps (Alderney, Herm, Sark, Channel Islands) Hungary Ionian Islands (Corfu, etc.) Ireland (Eire) Ireland, Northern (Ulster) Isle of Man Italy Jersey (Channel Islands) Kaliningrad Kosovo	Lampedusa Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Sardinia Scotland Serbia Sicily Slovakia Slovenia Spain Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Bear Island) Srpska Sweden Switzerland Trans Dniester Turkey in Europe (Istanbul) Ukraine Vatican City Wales
ANTARCTICA (7)
Argentine(Palmer Peninsula) Australian Antarctic Territory South Pole (Mawson, Davis, Macquarie, Heard) Chilean(Palmer Peninsula) Falkland Islands Dependencies (British Antarctica, Graham Land, So. Shetland, So. Sandwich, So. Georgia, So. Orkney)	French Southern & Antarctic Territory (Kerguelen, Crozet, Amsterdam, St. Paul) Norwegian(Queen Maud Land, Bouvet) New Zealand (Ross Dependency)
AFRICA (53)
Algeria Angola Benin (Dahomey) Botswana (Bechuanaland) Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) Burundi (Urundi) Cabinda Cameroon Central African Rep. Chad Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni, Fernando Poo) Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana (Gold Coast, British Togoland) Guinea (French) Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho (Basutoland) Liberia Libya	Malawi (Nyasaland) Mali Mauritania Morocco Morocco,Spanish (Ceuta, Melilla) Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome & Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia (Italian Somaliland) Somaliland (Brit.) South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania (Tanganyika) Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara (Spanish Sahara) Zambia (No. Rhodesia) Zanzibar Zimbabwe (So. Rhodesia)
MIDDLE EAST (20)
Abu Dhabi Ajman Bahrain Dubai Fujeirah Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait	Lebanon Oman Palestine Qatar Ras Al Khaimah Saudi Arabia Sharjah Syria Umm Al Qaiwain Yemen
INDIAN OCEAN (14)
Andaman-Nicobar Islands British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Arch, Diego Garcia) Christmas Island Cocos Islands (Keeling) Comoro Islands (Anjouan, Moheli, Grand Comoro) Lakshadweep Madagascar	Maldive Islands Mauritius & Deps. (Agalega, St. Brandon) Mayotte (Dzaoudzi) Reunion & Deps. (Tromelin, Glorioso) Rodriguez Island Seychelles Zil Elwannyen Sesel (Aldabra, Farquhar, Amirante Is.)
ASIA (51)
Abkhazia Afghanistan Armenia (Yerevan) Azerbaijan (Baku) Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China, People’s Rep. Georgia Hainan Island Hong Kong India Indonesia (Java) Irian Jaya (Dutch New Guinea) Japan Jeju Island (South Korea) Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) Kashmir Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Korea, North Korea, South Laos Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali,Timor, Indonesia) Macau	Malaysia Moluka Mongolia, Rep. Myanmar (Burma) Nakhichevan Nepal Pakistan Philippines Sabah (No. Borneo) Sarawak Siberia (Russia in Asia) Sikkim Singapore Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Sulawesi (Celebes, Indonesia) Sumatra (Indonesia) Taiwan. R.O.C. Tajikistan Thailand Tibet Timor Leste Turkey in Asia (Anatolia, Ankara, Izmir) Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Vietnam
THIS LIST IS RECOGNIZED BY THE WORLD AS THE STANDARD OF COUNTRIES AND DESTINATIONS THAT ARE POLITICALLY, ETHNOLOGICALLY OR GEOGRAPHICALLY DIFFERENT.