Over 8,000 JetPunk users have filled out a map of countries they have lived in or visited. Which countries were marked by the highest percentage of users?
@Eigengrau, I was also surprised not to see any Caribbean countries on here, but there are dozens of islands people visit (a couple of which are US territories), so it makes sense that there wouldn't be a big enough number for any one country to make this list.
If it's not on the list it doesn't mean nobody'a been there, just that fewer that 17.4% have. And those who travel most are maybe too busy to fill in the map...!
Also, people tend to go to more developed, and safer countries. Not shocking. The US is massive, and I've visited nearly all contiguous US states, but the only time I went to another country was Costa Rica. Even so, some of family and friends have to Canada, Mexico, and parts of western Europe.
@Eigengrau, for many Americans those places aren't very close (and for all Americans South America isn't close). It's the same energy as "oh you live in France? I guess you must go to Azerbaijan all the time"
So, if most JetPunk users were from Southeast Asia, I am guessing that you figure you would see a lot of people visiting Bolivia and Gabon instead of Thailand and Vietnam? Right, of course.
There are so many things wrong with this comment. First, these are the most popular countries for travel. It doesn't say they're the only countries these people go to. Second, these countries are pretty much all easy to travel to and around. They're all relatively safe, first-world countries, so they're likely to get the most travelers. Third, location is huge. Japan, Australia, and New Zealand are notably absent because they are far away from North America and Europe, both of which have lots of people with the means to travel and who speak proficient English (which makes them more likely to be JetPunk users). Fourth, in the case of Europe, it's easy to jump from one country to the next, so if you go to one, you're more likely to visit several (and if you live in Europe, you're very likely to have been to most of Europe). So, maybe hop off that high horse and work on your critical reasoning, is what I'm saying, I guess.
lived in. Surely US citizens are asked to work in Japan or South Korea or Singapore or .... and I sort of expected more Jetpunkers to be people who have such jobs, for some reason.
How can you be that condescending? First of all, U.S. citizens not all having enough money to work across the World, doesn't mean that they don't have jobs. Second of all not everyone will have the same education as you to be invited work across the World. Third of all, not everyone has the connections that you may have to work across the World.
How do you define "lots"? I'm not British, and surely it's a large absolute number, but I'd be very surprised if more than 10% of the country has been stationed outside of Europe for work reasons.
The instructions do say "lived in or visited". You would need a tremendous number of travelers to tip the scales on some of the population numbers. It makes the Vatican surprising, despite the large level of tourism (and the large number of JetPunk users who are cardinals)..
My god your comment is so pretentious and ignorant. You do realise that on an average salary it is often too expensive for people to travel outisde of their continent? People can enjoy traveling without spending all of their money on it. Besides, relatively young families are often unable to go far away because it's simply not doable with children. You really need to get your thoughts straight.
We won't be making a least-visited countries quiz however. Low numbers in poll results are inherently untrustworthy. This has been called Lizardman's Constant.
Please do make a least-visited version! By the way, the theory around Lizardman's Constant doesn't apply here, because people cannot add stupid answers to the answer list by declining to answer countries they haven't been to, because they'll only be a part of the 99% who genuinely haven't been. The only possible incorrecting effect could be that some countries might disappear off the list if people pretend they have been to some obscure countries, but at least let's get the numbers out there so we can start to get a sense of whether that might be happening.
yeah I don't see why it wouldn't apply. Just because you can't see the results as you're filling in your own map doesn't mean that you won't try to amuse yourself by saying that you're from Zimbabwe. Maybe you could make a quiz about least number of visits to JetPunk based on IP, that would be more reliable.
I would still anyway want a least visited country quiz, just to see what would come up. You could maybe put it in the caveats that the results are affected by the Lizardman's Constant.
Well, the UK is the USA's third top destination, and more tourists come to the UK from the USA than any other country except France. Obviously if you add all the European tourists to the UK together they vastly outweigh Americans though. And the fact that European countries are so well represented on the list surely means there must be healthy European representation here. Will that stop people complaining though? I doubt it. Takes a lot for people to give up their favourite hobby :)
How so? Rome is a pretty popular tourist destination. I would wager the percentage is actually a bit higher, but people have forgotten to list it as a separate country when they mark that they have been to Italy.
Not everyone that visites Italy visites Rome. I've been to Italy twice but stayed in the north. Especially people from Western and Central Europe often visit Italy just for skiing or to visit Venice.
Here's my list of visited countries. I'm from Brazil and I have been to Argentina, Paraguay and Peru in South America, Portugal and France in Europe, Qatar in Asia, South Africa in Africa and Australia in Oceania. Targets now are Antarctica and North Pole.
This quiz is really interesting and fun. I've been to 13 of these and will visit #14 this summer. I will never make the full list though because of one country that I don't want to visit.
Very NorthernHemisphere-entric. I guess little ol' New Zealand lucks out here. We are miles away from anywhere! Worth a visit though (and Australia). I have been to 7 of these most visited countries. Time for another trip to Europe...
While I agree, there is a very simple explanation. Copenhagen is a hop, skip and jump from Sweden. So you get a lot of cross travel between the two. Getting to Norway from any major city in Sweden is a lot more difficult.
Norway is also crazy expensive. Not that the rest of Scandinavia is cheap, but I blew through my travel budget in Norway really quickly and didn't do anything extravagant while I was there. I imagine people close enough to Norway to travel there might do the math and reason a cheaper trip to Germany, Netherlands, etc. might be a better option.
So users are either from the US or UK? Makes sense because it's an english language site. Then it makes sense that Brits travel around Europe while USA citizens...stay in the US.
Or, and hear me out here: US citizens travel to all kinds of different countries, including in Europe, and the combination of Americans and Europeans traveling to European countries means those countries skew toward the top? You know, a+b > a? How many different people are going to fail to understand that "most visited countries" is not the same as "the only countries people visit"?
Honestly, I'm fairly surprised that the US is as low as it is - I would've expected more than 64% of users to have been to the US at some point in their lives.
I've only been in 4 countries so far, due to living in a not-so-rich family. I'm planning on reaching the 100 country mark eventually though! Does anyone have any suggestions regarding some less-visited countries?
My personal favorite less-often-visited countries include Israel, Ethiopia, Georgia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Lebanon, and Ukraine. I also loved Egypt, Thailand, Russia, Hong Kong and Japan, though, while none of those countries appear in the above rankings they all receive over 5 million tourists annually so I don't think I would call them "less-visited."
You do not have to be rich to travel! This is a common misconception. When I talk about my experiences traveling I'm always perplexed that people think that I'm bragging about being wealthy and living extravagantly. I'm not. I met people in my travels who were coming from modest families from Colombia, Trinidad, the Philippines, Sudan, Iraq, and many other places. I met people who were traveling for less than $250 a year or for free, and who had been doing this for years. Google things like shoestring travel, global nomads, Couchsurfing, food saving, workaway, rideshare, busking, hostelworld, etc. if you want to know how.
it's truly impressive how absolutely some people can miss the point. Is it a talent? A genetic condition? Anyway, thank you SO MUCH for chiming in I'm sure that everyone was on the edge of their seat waiting to hear what you had to contribute. And you did not disappoint with your insightful, valuable, worthwhile and in no way self indulgent commentary! Bravo, sir! You are an example to us all.
Most of these countries look like they are on the same Contiki tour that goes through Europe. Not that I've been on it, but have some friends that did.
Czech Republic is its official name but I use Czechia in the Countries Of The World quiz because it is quicker anyway Czech Republic is its official name
Saudiarabia is one of the most visited countries in the world. However for non-Muslims, who presumably make up the majority of the visitors to Jetpunk, the country was closed for tourism for many years. Chances are if you are from Europe or North America, you have not been to Saudiarabia. (There are always exceptions)
Sometimes in Western Europe we get from some people an anti American snobbery that American people don't travel , I always answer this by saying cost is a factor and also why would you need to leave the usa you can ski in Colorado get tropical in Florida / Hawaii see the desert in the South west mountains ,wilderness, big cities , musical history native history etc without leaving your country. I'm European by the way .
If you are not from Europe and are doing a tour there, you can visit plenty of countries in a few weeks...If you went to North America for a few weeks holiday, you'd probably only visit or 3 countries at most...if you live in Europe, it would be quite common to visit multiple nearby countries every year
I have visited 5 countries. 3 on this list. 1 of them I cant put on my map because Jetpunk has no way to select overseas territories so I cant select Bermuda :(
Poland is the only one you've listed that is in Eastern Europe.
That's weird
(Although I will say I'd love to visit New Zealand sometime)
You do not have to be rich to travel! This is a common misconception. When I talk about my experiences traveling I'm always perplexed that people think that I'm bragging about being wealthy and living extravagantly. I'm not. I met people in my travels who were coming from modest families from Colombia, Trinidad, the Philippines, Sudan, Iraq, and many other places. I met people who were traveling for less than $250 a year or for free, and who had been doing this for years. Google things like shoestring travel, global nomads, Couchsurfing, food saving, workaway, rideshare, busking, hostelworld, etc. if you want to know how.
It even felt a little weird to spell out 'Czech Republic' again...