Over the weekend as we were discussing our plans for an upcoming trip to Europe, I pulled up the list of 324 Destinations on The Travelers’ Century Club List, a club for people who have visited 100 or more of the world’s countries and territories. (Scroll down below if you are curious about the list.)
I have visited 101 of the destinations, and we thought that Mr. Jones had been to 99 of them. I thought there might be a TCC destination in Europe that we could visit during an upcoming trip. The first destination the TCC list under Europe is the Aland Islands (Mariehamn) and the flag is shown in the photo above.
“I’ve been there,” said Mr. Jones. “On a ferry between Helsinki and Stockholm in the Baltic, we stopped in Mariehamn.)
The í…land Islands (also known as í…land) is an autonomous, demilitarized, and Swedish-speaking region of Finland that consists of an archipelago lying at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea.
Baltic ferries often stop at Mariehamn because í…land is not part of the EU customs zone and so duty-free goods can be sold aboard.
The í…land Islands or í…land is an autonomous, Swedish-speaking region of Finland that consists of an archipelago lying at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea. Map is by LocationFinland.svg: via Wikipedia.
The Travelers’ Century Club, or TCC, is a club for people who have visited 100 or more of the world’s countries and territories. The TCC list of countries and territories includes not only sovereign states but also certain territories, exclaves and island groups. The club literature notes that “although some are not actually countries in their own right, they have been included because they are removed from parent, either geographically, politically or ethnologically.”
Anyone who has visited 100 or more of the places on the list is eligible to join. The club has no requirements as to how long the traveler must have stayed in a country to qualify. Travelers who have visited 75 or more of the list places can become provisional members.
In case you are interested in what The Travelers’ Century Club counts as a destination on the list, see the list below. We have noted in BOLD those destinations that we have visited, allowing us to track our progress.
This weekend discovery changes our current total destination count to 100 for Mr. Jones, while my stays at 101. Since we both travel separately for work, and we traveled separately prior to 1996, there are some minor differences in our countries and territories visited.
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 Is.)
- Kiribati (Gilberts, Tarawa, Ocean Island)
- Line/Phoenix Islands (Palmyra, Fanning, Christmas, Canton, Enderbury, Howland)
- Lord Howe Island
- Marquesas Islands
- Marshall Islands, Rep. 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, Western (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 (Mr. Jones only)
- St. Pierre & Miquelon
- United States (continental) (Mrs. Jones has visited all 50 U.S. States)
CENTRAL AMERICA (7)
- Belize (British Honduras)
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
- Panama
SOUTH AMERICA (14)
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guyana (British Guiana)
- Nueva Esparta (Margarita Island)
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Surinam (Netherlands Guiana)
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
CARIBBEAN (30)
- Anguilla
- Antigua & Deps. (Barbuda, Redonda)
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bonaire
- Cayman Islands
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Puerto Rico
- St. Barts
- San Andres & Providencia
- St. Kitts & Nevis
- 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)
- 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 da Cunha
EUROPE & THE MEDITERRANEAN (67)
- Aland Islands (Mariehamn) (Mr. Jones only)
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Minorca)
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- 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
- 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)
- Jersey (Channel Islands)
- Kaliningrad
- Ukraine
- Vatican City
- Wales
ANTARCTICA (7)
- Argentine (Palmer Peninsula)
- Australian Antarctic Territory South Pole (Mawson, Davis, Macquarie, Heard)
- Chilean (Palmer Peninsula)
- British Antarctica (Graham Land, South Shetland, South Orkney)
- French Southern & Antarctic Territory (Kerguelen, Crozet, Amsterdam, St. Paul)
- Norwegian (Queen Maud Land, Bouvet)
- New Zealand (Ross Dependency)
AFRICA (55)
- Algeria
- Angola (Port. West Africa)
- Benin (Dahomey)
- Botswana (Bechuanaland)
- Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)
- Burundi (Urundi)
- Cabinda
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo (Brazzaville)
- Congo (Kinshasa-Zaire)
- Djibouti (French Somaliland, Affars & Issas)
- Egypt in Africa
- Equatorial Guinea (Bioko, Fernando Poo)
- Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni)
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana (Gold Coast, British Togoland)
- Guinea (French Guinea)
- Guinea-Bissau (Port. Guinea)
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Lesotho (Basutoland)
- Liberia
- Libya
- Malawi (Nyasaland)
- Mali (French Soudan)
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Morocco, Spanish (Ceuta, Melilla)
- Mozambique (Port. East Africa)
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda (Ruanda)
- Sao Tome & Principe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia (Italian Somaliland)
- Somaliland (British)
- 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 (21)
- Abu Dhabi
- Ajman
- Bahrain
- Dubai
- Egypt in Asia (Sinai Peninsula)
- 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 Archipelago, Diego Garcia)
- Christmas Island
- Cocos Islands (Keeling)
- Comoro Islands (Anjouan, Moheli, Grand Comoro)
- Lakshadweep
- Malagasy Republic (Madagascar)
- Maldive Islands
- Mauritius & Dependencies (Agalega, St. Brandon)
- Mayotte (Dzaoudzi)
- Reunion & Dependencies (Tromelin, Glorioso)
- Rodrigues Island
- Seychelles
- Zil Elwannyen Sesel (Aldabra, Farquhar, Amirante Islands)
ASIA (51)
- Abkhazia
- Afghanistan
- Armenia (Yerevan)
- Azerbaijan (Baku)
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China, People’s Republic
- China, Republic of Taiwan
- 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, Indonesia)
- Macau
- Malaysia
- Moluka (Moluccas, Indonesia)
- Mongolia, Republic (Mrs. Jones only)
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Nakhichevan
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Sabah (North Borneo)
- Sarawak
- Siberia (Russia in Asia)
- Sikkim
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Sulawesi (Celebes, Indonesia) (Mrs. Jones only)
- Sumatra (Indonesia) (Mrs. Jones only)
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Tibet
- Timor Leste
- Turkey in Asia (Anatolia, Ankara, Izmir)
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
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