COUNTRIES VISITED

As of December 2019, I'm eligible to join the Travelers' Century Club! This is the TCC’s official list of countries and territories, a total of 324 as of January 1, 2014. According to TCC, "Although some are not actually countries in their own right, they have been included because they are removed from the parent country, either geographically, politically or ethnologically. After consideration as to how long one must have stayed in a country or territory to qualify, it was decided that even the shortest visit would suffice — even if only a port-of-call, or a plane fuel stop. This greatly widens the field and will give the traveler a better chance to qualify for one of the most unusual clubs in the world. Anyone who has visited 100 or more of the places listed below is eligible to join."

It's not easy for Filipinos to complete this list since we need visas to almost everywhere! But I've been to 126. Hopefully we cross-out more from the list soon!

PACIFIC OCEAN (6/39)
■ Australia August 7, 2014
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 November 24, 2006
■ Hawaiian Islands June 11, 2016
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) November 28, 2006
Ogasawara (Bonin, Volcano Island, Iwo Jima)
Palau, Republic of
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Island
■ Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) September 2002
Samoa, American (Pago Pago)
Samoa (Apia)
Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, New Georgia,Tulagi)
■ Tasmania August 11, 2014
Tokelau Islands (Fakaofu, Atafu, Union)
Tonga (Nukualofa)
Tuvalu (Ellice Island, Funafuti, Vaitapu)
Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands)
Wake Island
Wallis & Futuna Islands

NORTH AMERICA (4/6)
■ Alaska August 2020
■ Canada September 25, 2008
■ Mexico April 18, 2011
Prince Edward Island
St. Pierre & Miquelon
■ United States (continental) March 28, 1993

CENTRAL AMERICA (6/7)
Belize (British Honduras)
■ Costa Rica
■ El Salvador
■ Guatemala May 2, 2011
■ Honduras May 5, 2011
■ Nicaragua
■ Panama

SOUTH AMERICA (6/13)
■ Argentina April 2013
■ Bolivia May 2013
■ Brazil April 2013
■ Chile April 2013
Colombia
Ecuador
French Guiana
Guyana (British Guiana)
Paraguay
■ Peru May 2013
Suriname (Netherlands Guiana)
■ Uruguay April 2013
Venezuela

CARIBBEAN (12/31)
Anguilla
■ Antigua & Deps. (Barbuda, Redonda) May 15, 2018
■ Aruba May 30, 3018
Bahamas
■ Barbados May 16, 2018
■ Bonaire June 1, 2018
Cayman Islands
■ Cuba
■ Curacao June 1, 2018
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada & Deps. (Carriacou, Grenadines)
Guadeloupe & Deps.(Marie Galante)
Haiti
Jamaica
■ Leeward Islands, French (St. Martin) May 19, 2018
Leeward Islands, Netherlands (Saba, St. Eustatius)
Martinique
Montserrat
Nueva Esparta (Margarita Island)
■ Puerto Rico May 7, 2018
St. Barts
San Andres & Providencia
■ St. Kitts & Nevis May 18, 2018
■ St. Lucia May 17, 2018
■ St. Maarten (formerly Netherlands Antilles) May 19, 2018
St. Vincent & Deps. (Bequia, Canouan Grenadines)
Trinidad & Tobago
Turks & Caicos Islands
■ Virgin Islands, U.S. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas) May 14, 2018
Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.)

ATLANTIC OCEAN (0/14)
Ascension
Azores Islands
Bermuda
Canary Islands
Cape Verde Islands
Equatorial Guinea (Fernando Pṓ, Bioko Island, Malabo)
Falkland Islands
Fernando do Noronha
Faroe Islands
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)
Iceland
Madeira
St. Helena
Tristan de Cunha

EUROPE AND MEDITERRANEAN (49/67)
Aland Islands (Mariehamn)
Albania December 19, 2019
■ Andorra November 23, 2011
■ Austria November 14, 2011
Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Minorca) October 6, 2019
Belarus
■ Belgium June 25, 2010
Bosnia & Herzegovina (Sarajevo) December 21, 2019
Bulgaria December 16, 2019
Corsica
Crete
■ Croatia July 24, 2015
Cyprus, Republic December 27, 2019
Cyprus, Turkish Fed. State December 28, 2019
■ Czech Republic November 16, 2011
■ Denmark
Dodecanese Is. (Rhodes)
■ England March 28, 2012
■ Estonia
■ Finland
■ France June 24, 2010
■ Germany June 30, 2010
Gibraltar
Greece December 14, 2019
Guernsey & Deps (Alderney, Herm, Sark, Channel Islands)
■ Hungary November 15, 2011
Ionian Islands (Corfu, etc.)
Ireland (Eire)
Ireland, Northern (Ulster)
Isle of Man
■ Italy November 10, 2011
Jersey (Channel Islands)
Kaliningrad
Kosovo December 18, 2019
Lampedusa
■ Latvia
■ Liechtenstein November 8, 2011
■ Lithuania
■ Luxembourg June 27, 2010
Macedonia December 18, 2019
Malta
■ Moldova
■ Monaco November 25, 2011
Montenegro December 21, 2019
■ Netherlands June 16, 2010
■ Norway
Poland December 26, 2019
■ Portugal June 16, 2010
■ Romania
Russia
■ San Marino November 13, 2011
Sardinia
■ Scotland March 30, 2012
Serbia December 22, 2019
■ Sicily December 24, 2012
■ Slovakia November 15, 2011
■ Slovenia November 14, 2011
■ Spain April 27, 2008
Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Bear Island)
Srpska December 21, 2019
■ Sweden
■ Switzerland November 8, 2011
■ Trans Dniester
Turkey in Europe (Istanbul) December 12, 2019
■ Ukraine
■ Vatican City November 12, 2011
■ Wales April 10, 2012

ANTARCTICA (0/7)
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 (3/54)
Algeria
Angola
Benin (Dahomey)
Botswana (Bechuanaland)
Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)
Burundi (Urundi)
Cabinda
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Republic of Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo
Djibouti
Egypt December 28, 2020
Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni, Fernando Poo)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana (Gold Coast, British Togoland)
Guinea (French)
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
■ Kenya September 27, 2015
Lesotho (Basutoland)
Liberia
Libya
Malawi (Nyasaland)
Mali
Mauritania
Morocco October 12, 2019
Morocco, Spanish (Ceuta, Melilla)
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sao Tome & Principe
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia (Italian Somaliland)
Somaliland (Brit.)
South Africa
Sudan, North
Sudan, South
Swaziland
Tanzania (Tanganyika)
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara (Spanish Sahara)
Zambia (No. Rhodesia)
Zanzibar
Zimbabwe (So. Rhodesia)

MIDDLE EAST (8/20)
■ Abu Dhabi January 21, 2015
■ Ajman January 18, 2015
Bahrain
■ Dubai January 17, 2015
■ Fujeirah January 23, 2015
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
Palestine
■ Qatar April 26, 2008
■ Ras Al Khaimah January 18, 2015
Saudi Arabia
■ Sharjah January 18, 2015
Syria
■ Umm Al Qaiwain January 18, 2015
Yemen

INDIAN OCEAN (2/14)
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 March 5, 2014
Mauritius & Deps. (Agalega, St. Brandon)
Mayotte (Dzaoudzi)
Reunion & Deps. (Tromelin, Glorioso)
Rodriguez Island
■ Seychelles October 19, 2015
Zil Elwannyen Sesel (Aldabra, Farquhar, Amirante Is.)

ASIA (30/52)
Abkhazia
Afghanistan
■ Armenia (Yerevan)
Azerbaijan (Baku)
Bangladesh
■ Bhutan March 13, 2015
■ Brunei April 20, 2005
■ Cambodia April 5, 2006
■ China, People’s Republic October 22, 2006
Egypt in Asia (Sinai Peninsula)
■ Georgia
Hainan Island
■ Hong Kong March 29, 1991
■ India August 30, 2013
■ Indonesia (Java) June 3, 2007
Irian Jaya (Dutch New Guinea)
■ Japan April 15, 1985
Jeju Island (South Korea)
Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo)
■ Kashmir September 1, 2013
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
■ Korea, North September 6, 2014
■ Korea, South April 5, 1996
■ Laos April 12, 2006
■ Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Timor, Indonesia) July 12, 2009
■ Macau November 19, 2005
■ Malaysia October 9, 2002
Moluka
Mongolia, Republic
■ Myanmar (Burma) July 18, 2012
Nakhichevan
Nepal August 22, 2013
■ Pakistan November 22, 2016
■ Philippines
■ Sabah (No. Borneo) April 18, 2005
Sarawak
Siberia (Russia in Asia)
Sikkim
■ Singapore October 23, 2002
■ Sri Lanka (Ceylon) July 27, 2012
■ Sulawesi (Celebes, Indonesia) October 2, 2002
■ Sumatra (Indonesia) February 17, 2014
■ Taiwan. R.O.C. April 21, 1985
Tajikistan
■ Thailand October 4, 1996
Tibet
Timor Leste
Turkey in Asia (Anatolia, Ankara, Izmir) December 13, 2019
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
■ Vietnam September 24, 2002


I've been to all 50 states as well!

STATES
■ Alabama March 2018
Alaska August 2020
■ Arizona July 2019
■ Arkansas March 2018
■ California April 1993
Colorado July 2019
■ Connecticut December 2017
■ Delaware November 2000
■ Florida March 1993
■ Georgia November 2000
■ Hawaii June 2016
Idaho July 2019
■ Illinois June 2008
■ Indiana August 2017
■ Iowa July 2018
■ Kansas December 2018
■ Kentucky March 2018
■ Louisiana March 2018
■ Maine October 2018
■ Maryland April 1993
■ Massachusetts October 2018
■ Michigan April 1999
■ Minnesota July 2018
■ Mississippi March 2018
■ Missouri June 2008
■ Montana July 2018
■ Nebraska July 2018
Nevada July 2019
■ New Hampshire October 2018
■ New Jersey March 1993
New Mexico July 2019
■ New York April 1993
■ North Carolina November 2000
■ North Dakota July 2018
■ Ohio July 2018
Oklahoma December 2018
Oregon July 2019
■ Pennsylvania October 2008
■ Rhode Island October 2018
■ South Carolina November 2000
■ South Dakota July 2018
■ Tennessee February 2018
■ Texas January 2018
Utah July 2019
■ Vermont October 2018
■ Virginia March 1993
Washington July 2019
■ West Virginia July 2018
■ Wisconsin July 2018
■ Wyoming July 2018

FEDERAL DISTRICT
■ Washington, D.C. March 1993

TERRITORIES
American Samoa
■ Guam November 2006
■ Northern Mariana Islands November 2006
■ Puerto Rico May 2018
■ U.S. Virgin Islands May 2018

As of October 28, 2013, there are 81 provinces in the Philippines. I've been to all 81 provinces plus the defunct province of Shariff Kabunsuan. The country also has 35 highly-urbanized and 5 independent component cities which I've been to as well. The "■" character indicates provinces and cities that I have already visited.

REGION I - ILOCOS REGION
■ Ilocos Norte
■ Ilocos Sur
■ La Union
■ Pangasinan
■ Dagupan City

REGION II - CAGAYAN VALLEY
■ Batanes
■ Cagayan
■ Isabela
■ Nueva Vizcaya
■ Quirino
■ Santiago City

CAR - CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
■ Abra
■ Apayao
■ Benguet
■ Ifugao
■ Kalinga
■ Mountain Province
■ Baguio City

REGION III - CENTRAL LUZON
■ Aurora
■ Bataan
■ Bulacan
■ Pampanga
■ Nueva Ecija
■ Tarlac
■ Zambales
■ Angeles City
■ Olongapo City

NCR - NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
■ Caloocan City
■ Las Piñas City
■ Makati City
■ Malabon City
■ Mandaluyong City
■ City of Manila
■ Marikina City
■ Muntinlupa City
■ Navotas City
■ Parañaque City
■ Pasay City
■ Pasig City
■ Quezon City
■ San Juan City
■ Taguig City
■ Valenzuela City

REGION IVA - CALABARZON
■ Batangas
■ Cavite
■ Laguna
■ Quezon
■ Rizal
■ Lucena City

REGION IVB - MIMAROPA
■ Marinduque
■ Occidental Mindoro
■ Oriental Mindoro
■ Romblon
■ Palawan
■ Puerto Princesa City

REGION V - BICOL REGION
■ Albay
■ Camarines Norte
■ Camarines Sur
■ Catanduanes
■ Masbate
■ Sorsogon
■ Naga City

REGION VI - WESTERN VISAYAS
■ Aklan
■ Antique
■ Capiz
■ Guimaras
■ Iloilo
■ Iloilo City

NIR - NEGROS ISLAND REGION
■ Negros Occidental
■ Negros Oriental
■ Bacolod City

REGION VII - CENTRAL VISAYAS
■ Bohol
■ Cebu
■ Siquijor
■ Cebu City
■ Lapu-Lapu City
■ Mandaue City

REGION VIII - EASTERN VISAYAS
■ Biliran
■ Eastern Samar
■ Leyte
■ Northern Samar
■ Samar
■ Southern Leyte
■ Ormoc City
■ Tacloban City

REGION IX - ZAMBOANGA PENINSULA
■ Zamboanga del Norte
■ Zamboanga del Sur
■ Zamboanga Sibugay
■ Zamboanga City

REGION X - NORTHERN MINDANAO
■ Bukidnon
■ Camiguin
■ Misamis Occidental
■ Misamis Oriental
■ Lanao del Norte
■ Cagayan de Oro City
■ Iligan City

REGION XI - DAVAO REGION
■ Davao de Oro (Compostela Valley)
■ Davao del Norte
■ Davao del Sur
■ Davao Occidental
■ Davao Oriental
■ Davao City

REGION XII - SOCCSKSARGEN
■ South Cotabato
■ Cotabato (North Cotabato)
■ Sarangani
■ Sultan Kudarat
■ Cotabato City
■ General Santos City

REGION XIII - CARAGA REGION
■ Agusan del Norte
■ Agusan del Sur
■ Dinagat Islands
■ Surigao del Norte
■ Surigao del Sur
■ Butuan City

ARMM - AUTONOMOUS REGION IN MUSLIM MINDANAO
■ Basilan
■ Lanao del Sur
■ Maguindanao
■ Sulu
■ Tawi-Tawi

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