Which countries has Tom gehrels travelled to?
 
(109 and counting)*

* What constitutes a country is a question with multiple answers and a question which can be fraught with political pitfalls and personal preferences.  For example, Taiwan is not considered a country by the UN, and let's not even start a discussion about the Palestinian Territories.  I include both in my country count.  I also include Greenland, as it has such a degree of autonomy and is so far removed from its colonial overlord Denmark, that I consider it a separate entity.  Likewise for Antarctica.

My country total is based on a Facebook app I started using many years ago and rather arbitrarily includes places as remote as the Falkland Islands.

The best app I know of to count the places you have visitsed is Most Traveled People.  Instead of using political divisions, it has divided Earth into distinct geographic entities — including sovereign countries, overseas territories, states or provinces, island-groups, and remote or special-status areas.  That list currently counts about 1,500 separate “places.”   Based on The Most Traveled People site, I have visited 408 out of 1500 regions, 95 out of 193 UN-member states and 106 out of 249 ISO regions,

There are currently two MTP members who have visited more than 1400 regions. 

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Neither of them are travel agents.