Most Visited Countries by JetPunkers

Clever idea!

LOL what about the Caribbean, South America and Central America? Pretty interesting place there, and also vacation spots, but no travellers?

Well, Americans generally tend to travel within the United States since it is such a huge country.

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...!

Are you telling me that there aren't as many Jetpunk users from Angola?

@Gohokiesandturtles thats why europe is named so much, cos of the schengen area. i have never used a passport in my life and im thankful for it!

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.

I doubt that most people who live in Europe have been to most countries in Europe.

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.

hybrid, if you want us to travel longer distances so badly, you can pay for our tickets to Tanzania, Brazil, and New Zealand. I'll gladly go.

Come and visit New Zealand! You'll need at least 3 weeks here to justify spending the amount to get here.

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.

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@LudwigVonKoopa

Poland is the only one you've listed that is in Eastern Europe.

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)..

People who are visting Rome, Italy probably pop into Vatican city so it makes sense

Would be weird, if more than 17% traveled to Fiji, Taiwan or Kosovo.

Thank you, it was fun!

Why'd you remove the map? It was cool to see all the green in 2 places.

Well, every country I've been to is on this list... as are a lot more that I've never been to. I'd really like to travel more.

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.

How about a version with the most visited US states. I would find that pretty interesting.

Is there a reason Czech Republic is listed as Czechia here? I know I almost always type it in as Czechia, but usually it comes up as Czech Republic.

Cool quiz, but no surprises. I've visited all but 1 (Canada) and even lived in 3 of these.

Interesting but unsurprising quiz.

Does the fact that the UK almost ties the USA here mean that we can stop complaining about results being skewed by too many Americans taking the quiz?

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 :)

Do a version with most visited countries per continent (maybe exclude continents that get hardly any visitors)

Based on the results of this quiz, that would exclude 5 of the 7 continents ;)

Vatican City ?

That's weird

It's probably accurate- the average JetPunker who will fill out a map would be abnormally excited to record their visit to a European micronation

Too Europe-centric! Need more American answers! :-)

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...

Well, that's what happens when most of the world's land/population resides in the Northern Hemisphere!

(Although I will say I'd love to visit New Zealand sometime)

My favourite country I have visited (out of 22): Turkey.

My least favourite is Turkey because it was too hot

Wasn't expecting the Vatican to be on there

I've been in 7 of these

Sweden but no norway? I wonder why, while you are up there you might aswell visit the neighbours.

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.

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.

Maybe, everyvoby arent Americans. The world doesnt turn around USA... ;)

Could there be a complete list?

Yeah it's called the Countries of the World Quiz.

I guessed Vatican and forgot Italy... HOW!?

You probably typed "Vatican", but didn't type "Italy".

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.

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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

Woah! You guys need to visit Eastern Hemisphere. I was shocked not to see Japan, China, India, Egypt, Saudi in the list.

Saudi Arabia? I would be surprised if they were on the list.

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)

I tried Ukraine and North Korea.

To see yourself fail miserably?

who wants to go to North Korea?

I think more people should visit Romania. It's an interesting country.

You're telling me that 23% of people on here have been to the Vatican? The Catholic Church much really be good at attracting all that tourist money.

I tried Asian countries China,India and for some reason even Uzbekistan

Rome is one of the most visited cities in the world.

Please update the quiz :)

Wow no australia

Vatican City is on here? Wow

on the featured page the tagline should say ‘countries’ not ‘counties’

The fact that 18 countries are from europe

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 :(

So far, I've been to 2 of these.

also known as the schengen area quiz

The largest country isn’t on this list, but the smallest is.