half the world

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

We are half way! Having reached the Maldives, we have now visited half the countries in today’s world. There are 193 UN countries, so country #97 is right in the middle. Of course we’ve visited several non-UN countries such as Kosovo and Turkish North Cyprus, and even a whole continent that isn’t a country; Antarctica. And we have visited one UN country that doesn’t even exist any more; Yugoslavia. So although “countries visited” is a bit of a moving target, we can definitely say that we’ve visited half of today’s world.

Half the countries of the world!