There are many motivations in my life, but one of particular force is the drive to travel. My goal is to experience and adventure in each and every country of the world.
- Abkhazia (Sukhumi)
- Afghanistan (Kabul)
- Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Episkopi)
- Albania (Tirane)
- Algeria (Angiers)
- America Samoa (Pago Pago)
- Andorra (Andorra la Vella)
- Angola (Luanda)
- Anguilla (The Valley)
- Antarctica
- Antigua and Barbuda (Saint John’s)
- Argentina (Buenos Aires) **
- Armenia (Yerevan)
- Aruba (Oranjestad)
- Australia (Canberra)
- Austria (Vienna)**
- Azerbaijan (Baku)
- The Bahamas (Nassau)**
- Bahrain (Manama)
- Bangladesh (Dhaka)
- Barbados (Bridgetown)
- Belarus (Minsk)
- Belgium (Brussels)
- Belize (Belmopan)
- Benin (Porto-Novo)
- Bermuda (Hamilton)
- Bhutan (Thimphu)
- Bolivia (La Paz/Sucre)**
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo)
- Botswana (Gaborone)
- Brazil (Brasilia)
- British Indian Ocean Territory (Diego Garcia)
- British Virgin Islands (Road Town)
- Brunei (Bander Seri Begawan)
- Bulgaria (Sofia)
- Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou)
- Burma/Myanmar (Rangoon[Yangon]/Naypydaw[Nay Pyi Taw])
- Burundi (Bujumbura)
- Cambodia (Phnom Penh)
- Cameroon (Yaounde)
- Canada (Ottawa)**
- Cape Verde (Praia)
- Cayman Islands (George Town)
- Central African Republic (Bangui)
- Chad (N’Djamena)
- Chechen Republic/Chechnya (Grozny)
- Chile (Santiago)**
- China (Beijing)
- Christmas Island (Flying Fish Cove)
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands (West Island)
- Colombia (Bogota)
- Comoros (Moroni)
- Cook Islands (Avarua)
- Costa Rica (San Jose)
- Côte d’Ivoire/Ivory Coast (Yamoussoukro/Abidjan)
- Croatia (Zagreb)
- Cuba (Havana)
- Curaçao (Willemstad)**
- Cyprus (Nicosia)
- Czech Republic (Prague)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)
- Denmark (Copenhagen)
- Djibouti (Djibouti)
- Dominica (Roseau)
- Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo)
- East Timor/Timor-Leste (Dili)
- Ecuador (Quito)**
- Egypt (Cairo)
- El Salvador (San Salvador)
- England (London)**
- Equatorial Guinea (Malabo)
- Eritrea (Asmara)
- Estonia (Tallinn)
- Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
- Falkland Islands (Stanley)
- Faroe Islands (Tórshavn)
- Fiji (Suva)
- Finland (Helsinki)
- France (Paris)**
- French Polynesia (Patpeetē)
- Gabon (Libreville)
- The Gambia (Banjul)
- Gaza Strip
- Georgia (Tbilisi)
- Germany (Berlin)**
- Ghana (Accra)
- Gibraltar (Gibraltar)
- Greece (Athens)
- Greenland (Nuuk)
- Grenada (Saint George’s)
- Guam (Hagåtña)
- Guatemala (Guatemala City)**
- Guernsey (Saint Peter Port)
- Guinea (Conakry)
- Guinea-Bissau (Bissau)
- Guyana (Georgetown)
- Haiti (Port-au-Prince)
- Honduras (Tegucigalpa)
- Hong Kong
- Hungary (Budapest)
- Iceland (Reykjavik)
- India (New Delhi)
- Indonesia (Jakarta)
- Iran (Tehran)
- Iraq (Baghdad)
- Ireland (Dublin)
- Isle of Man (Douglas)
- Israel (Jerusalem)
- Italy (Rome)**
- Jamaica (Kingston)
- Japan (Tokyo)
- Jersey (Saint Helier)
- Jordan (Amman)
- Kazakhstan (Astana)
- Kenya (Nairobi)
- Kiribati (Tarawa Atoll)
- Kosovo (Pristina)
- Kuwait (Kuwait City)
- Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek)
- Laos (Vientiane)
- Latvia (Riga)
- Lebanon (Beirut)
- Lesotho (Maseru)
- Liberia (Monrovia)
- Libya (Tripoli)
- Liechtenstein (Vaduz)**
- Lithuania (Vilnius)
- Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- Macau
- Macedonia (Skopje)
- Madagascar (Antananarivo)
- Malawi (Lilongwe)
- Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
- Maldives (Male)
- Mali (Bamako)
- Malta (Valletta)
- Marshall Islands (Majuro)
- Mauritania (Nouakchott)
- Mauritius (Port Louis)
- Mayotte (Mamoudzou)
- Mexico (Mexico City)
- Micronesia (Palikir)
- Moldova (Chisinau)
- Monaco (Monaco)
- Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
- Montenegro (Podgorica)
- Montserrat (Plymouth/Brades)
- Morocco (Rabat)
- Mozambique (Maputo)
- Nagorno-Karabakh (Stepanakert)
- Namibia (Windhoek)
- Nauru (no official capital/Yaren District)
- Nepal (Kathmandu)
- Netherlands (Amsterdam/The Hague)
- Netherlands Antilles (Willemstad)**
- New Caledonia (Nouméa)
- New Zealand (Wellington)**
- Nicaragua (Managua)
- Niger (Niamey)
- Nigeria (Abuja)
- Niue (Alofi)
- Norfolk Island (Kingston)
- North Korea (Pyongyang)
- Northern Cyprus (Nicosia)
- Northern Ireland (Belfast)
- Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan)
- Norway (Oslo)
- Oman (Muscat)
- Pakistan (Islamabad)
- Palau (Melekeok)
- Palestine (Jerusalem/Ramallah)
- Panama (Panama City)
- Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby)
- Paraguay (Asuncion)
- Peru (Lima)**
- Philippines (Manila)
- Pitcairn Islands (Adamstown)
- Poland (Warsaw)
- Portugal (Lisbon)
- Puerto Rico (San Juan)
- Qatar (Doha)
- Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)
- Romania (Bucharest)
- Russia (Moscow)
- Rwanda (Kigali)
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (El Aaiun/Ber Lehlou/Sahrawi)
- Saint Barthelemy (Gustavia)
- Saint Helena (Jamestown)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis (Basseterre)
- Saint Lucia (Castries)
- Saint Martin/Sint Maarten (Marigot)
- Saint Pierre and Miguelon (Saint-Pierre)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Kingstown)
- Samoa (Apia)
- San Marino (San Marino)
- São Tomé and Príncipe (São Tomé)
- Saudi Arabia (Riyadh)
- Scotland (Edinburgh)
- Senegal (Dakar)
- Serbia (Belgrade)
- Seychelles (Victoria)
- Sierra Leone (Freetown)
- Singapore (Singapore)
- Slovakia (Bratislava)
- Slovenia (Ljubljana)
- Solomon Islands (Honiara)
- Somalia (Mogadishu)
- Somaliland (Hargeisa)
- South Africa (Pretoria/Cape Town/Bloemfontein)
- South Korea (Seoul)
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (King Edward Point)
- South Ossetia (Tskhinvali)
- South Sudan (Juba/Ramciel)
- Spain (Madrid)
- Sri Lanka (Colombo/Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte)
- Sudan (Khartoum)
- Suriname (Paramaribo)
- Svalbard (Longyearbyen)
- Swaziland (Mbabane)
- Sweden (Stockholm)
- Switzerland (Bern)**
- Syria (Damascus)
- Taiwan (Taipei)
- Tajikistan (Dushanbe)
- Tanzania (Dar es Salaam/Dodoma)
- Thailand (Bangkok)
- Togo (Lome)
- Tokelau (Atafu)
- Tonga (Nuku’alofa)
- Transnistria (Tiraspol)
- Trinidad and Tobago (Port-of-Spain)
- Tunisia (Tunis)
- Turkey (Ankara)
- Turkmenistan (Ashgabat)
- Turks and Caicos Islands (Cockburn Town)
- Tuvalu (Vaiaku Village/Funafuti Province)
- Uganda (Kampala)
- Ukraine (Kyiv)
- United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi)
- United Kingdom (London)**
- United States (Washington D.C.)**
- Uruguay (Montevideo)
- U.S. Virgin Islands (Charlotte Amalie)
- Uzbekistan (Tashkent)
- Vanuatu (Port-Vila)
- Vatican City/Holy See (Vatican City)**
- Venezuela (Caracas)
- Vietnam (Hanoi)
- Wales (Cardiff)
- Wallis and Futuna (Mata-Utu)
- West Bank
- Western Sahara (El Aaiun)
- Yemen (Sanaa)
- Zambia (Lusaka)
- Zimbabwe (Harare)
Secondary list of countries by region:
North America
Bermuda (Hamilton)
Canada (Ottawa)** – 1996, 2010, 2015, 2016
Greenland (Nuuk)
Mexico (Mexico City)
Saint Pierre and Miguelon (Saint-Pierre)
United States (Washington D.C.)** – native
South America
Argentina (Buenos Aires) ** – 2012
Bolivia (La Paz/Sucre)** – 2011-2012
Brazil (Brasilia)
Chile (Santiago)** – 2012
Colombia (Bogota)
Ecuador (Quito)** – 2011
Falkland Islands (Stanley)
French Guiana (Cayenne)
Guyana (Georgetown)
Paraguay (Asuncion)
Peru (Lima)** – 2011
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (King Edward Point)
Suriname (Paramaribo)
Uruguay (Montevideo)
Venezuela (Caracas)
Central America
Belize (Belmopan)
British Indian Ocean Territory (Diego Garcia)
Costa Rica (San Jose)
Curaçao (Willemstad)** – 2010
El Salvador (San Salvador)
Guatemala (Guatemala City)** – 2009, 2010
Honduras (Tegucigalpa)
Nicaragua (Managua)
Panama (Panama City)
Saint Martin/Sint Maarten (Marigot)
Caribbean
Anguilla (The Valley)
Antigua and Barbuda (Saint John’s)
Aruba (Oranjestad)
The Bahamas (Nassau)** – 2008
Barbados (Bridgetown)
British Virgin Islands (Road Town)
Cayman Islands (George Town)
Cuba (Havana)
Dominica (Roseau)
Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo)
Grenada (Saint George’s)
Haiti (Port-au-Prince)
Jamaica (Kingston)
Montserrat (Plymouth/Brades)
Netherlands Antilles (Willemstad)** – 2010
Puerto Rico (San Juan)
Saint Barthelemy (Gustavia)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (Basseterre)
Saint Lucia (Castries)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Kingstown)
Trinidad and Tobago (Port-of-Spain)
Turks and Caicos Islands (Cockburn Town)
U.S. Virgin Islands (Charlotte Amalie)
Europe
Abkhazia (Sukhumi)
Albania (Tirane)
Andorra (Andorra la Vella)
Armenia (Yerevan)
Austria (Vienna)** – 2005
Azerbaijan (Baku)
Belarus (Minsk)
Belgium (Brussels)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo)
Bulgaria (Sofia)
Croatia (Zagreb)
Czech Republic (Prague)
Denmark (Copenhagen)
Estonia (Tallinn)
England (London)** – 2005
Faroe Islands (Tórshavn)
Finland (Helsinki)
France (Paris)** – 2005
Georgia (Tbilisi)
Germany (Berlin)** – 2005
Greece (Athens)
Gibraltar (Gibraltar)
Guernsey (Saint Peter Port)
Hungary (Budapest)
Iceland (Reykjavik)
Ireland (Dublin)
Isle of Man (Douglas)
Italy (Rome)** – 2005, 2009
Jersey (Saint Helier)
Kosovo (Pristina)
Latvia (Riga)
Liechtenstein (Vaduz)** – 2005
Lithuania (Vilnius)
Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Macedonia (Skopje)
Malta (Valletta)
Moldova (Chisinau)
Monaco (Monaco)
Montenegro (Podgorica)
Netherlands (Amsterdam/The Hague)
Northern Ireland (Belfast)
Norway (Oslo)
Poland (Warsaw)
Portugal (Lisbon)
Romania (Bucharest)
Russia (Moscow)
San Marino (San Marino)
Scotland (Edinburgh)
Serbia (Belgrade)
Slovakia (Bratislava)
Slovenia (Ljubljana)
Spain (Madrid)
Svalbard (Longyearbyen)
Sweden (Stockholm)
Switzerland (Bern)** – 2005
Ukraine (Kyiv)
United Kingdom (London)** – 2005
Vatican City/Holy See (Vatican City)** – 2005
Wales (Cardiff)
Pacific Islands
America Samoa (Pago Pago)
Antarctica
Australia (Canberra)
Christmas Island (Flying Fish Cove)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands (West Island)
Cook Islands (Avarua)
Fiji (Suva)
French Polynesia (Patpeetē)
Guam (Hagåtña)
Kiribati (Tarawa Atoll)
Marshall Islands (Majuro)
Micronesia (Palikir)
Nauru (no official capital/Yaren District)
New Caledonia (Nouméa)
New Zealand (Wellington)** – 2010
Niue (Alofi)
Norfolk Island (Kingston)
Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan)
Palau (Melekeok)
Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby)
Pitcairn Islands (Adamstown)
Samoa (Apia)
Solomon Islands (Honiara)
Tokelau (Atafu)
Tonga (Nuku’alofa)
Tuvalu (Vaiaku Village/Funafuti Province)
Vanuatu (Port-Vila)
Wallis and Futuna (Mata-Utu)
Asia
Afghanistan (Kabul)
Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Episkopi)
Bahrain (Manama)
Bangladesh (Dhaka)
Bhutan (Thimphu)
Brunei (Bander Seri Begawan)
Burma/Myanmar (Rangoon[Yangon]/Naypydaw[Nay Pyi Taw])
Cambodia (Phnom Penh)
Chechen Republic/Chechnya (Grozny)
China (Beijing)
Cyprus (Nicosia)
East Timor/Timor-Leste (Dili)
Gaza Strip
Hong Kong
India (New Delhi)
Indonesia (Jakarta)
Iran (Tehran)
Iraq (Baghdad)
Israel (Jerusalem)
Japan (Tokyo)
Jordan (Amman)
Kazakhstan (Astana)
Kuwait (Kuwait City)
Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek)
Laos (Vientiane)
Lebanon (Beirut)
Macau
Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
Maldives (Male)
Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
Nagorno-Karabakh (Stepanakert)
Nepal (Kathmandu)
North Korea (Pyongyang)
Northern Cyprus (Nicosia)
Oman (Muscat)
Pakistan (Islamabad)
Palestine (Jerusalem/Ramallah)
Philippines (Manila)
Qatar (Doha)
Russia (Moscow)
Saudi Arabia (Riyadh)
Singapore (Singapore)
South Korea (Seoul)
South Ossetia (Tskhinvali)
Sri Lanka (Colombo/Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte)
Syria (Damascus)
Taiwan (Taipei)
Tajikistan (Dushanbe)
Thailand (Bangkok)
Transnistria (Tiraspol)
Turkey (Ankara)
Turkmenistan (Ashgabat)
United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi)
Uzbekistan (Tashkent)
Vietnam (Hanoi)
West Bank
Yemen (Sanaa)
Africa
Algeria (Angiers)
Angola (Luanda)
Benin (Porto-Novo)
Botswana (Gaborone)
Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou)
Burundi (Bujumbura)
Cameroon (Yaounde)
Cape Verde (Praia)
Central African Republic (Bangui)
Chad (N’Djamena)
Comoros (Moroni)
Côte d’Ivoire/Ivory Coast (Yamoussoukro/Abidjan)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)
Djibouti (Djibouti)
Egypt (Cairo)
Eritrea (Asmara)
Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
Equatorial Guinea (Malabo)
Gabon (Libreville)
The Gambia (Banjul)
Ghana (Accra)
Guinea (Conakry) – PLANS FOR 2017/18
Guinea-Bissau (Bissau)
Kenya (Nairobi)
Lesotho (Maseru)
Liberia (Monrovia)
Libya (Tripoli)
Madagascar (Antananarivo)
Malawi (Lilongwe)
Mali (Bamako)
Mauritania (Nouakchott)
Mauritius (Port Louis)
Mayotte (Mamoudzou)
Morocco (Rabat)
Mozambique (Maputo)
Namibia (Windhoek)
Niger (Niamey)
Nigeria (Abuja)
Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)
Rwanda (Kigali)
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (El Aaiun/Ber Lehlou/Sahrawi)
Saint Helena (Jamestown)
São Tomé and Príncipe (São Tomé)
Senegal (Dakar)
Seychelles (Victoria)
Sierra Leone (Freetown)
Somalia (Mogadishu)
Somaliland (Hargeisa)
South Africa (Pretoria/Cape Town/Bloemfontein)
South Sudan (Juba/Ramciel)
Sudan (Khartoum)
Swaziland (Mbabane)
Tanzania (Dar es Salaam/Dodoma) – PLANS FOR 2017/18
Togo (Lome)
Tunisia (Tunis)
Uganda (Kampala)
Western Sahara (El Aaiun)
Zambia (Lusaka)
Zimbabwe (Harare)
I am aware that not all locations listed are fully recognized as independent countries or countries at all. However, it is the list I have generated through careful consideration of the following articles and links:
Elizabeth Erickson 