<Li> Skirmishing across a border by foot, vehicle or otherwise without passing through immigration </Li> <P> Where a country splits into independent states, such as the USSR, then travellers CAN count the new states if they had formerly travelled in them, but NOT count states they had not physically visited prior to disintegration . For example, if a traveller had visited Kiev and Moscow in the former USSR, they could count the new independent states of Ukraine and Russia, but not Armenia . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Person </Th> <Th> Date </Th> <Th> Countries / Territories visited </Th> <Th> Citizenship </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Sascha Grabow </Td> <Td> 1987--2016 </Td> <Td> 207 </Td> <Td> German </Td> <Td> Sascha Grabow is a Getty photographer and former ATP tennis player . He is the founder of the website GreatestGlobetrotters.com . His final country was Somalia where he arrived on 2 June 2016 . Visited: 207 (193 UN members + Taiwan + Vatican City + Antarctica + Gagauzia + Kosovo + Northern Cyprus + Palestine + Pridnestrovie + Western Sahara + Scotland + Wales + Northern Ireland + South Ossetia + Abkhazia). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Igor Sergeev & Nadezda Lazareva </Td> <Td> 1978 - 2017 </Td> <Td> 205 </Td> <Td> Russian </Td> <Td> Only they visited all 193 UN countries together (most of them before 2010). They are members of TheBestTravelled.com and MostTraveledPeople.com . Visited: 205 (193 UN members + Antarctica + Gagauzia + Kosovo + Northern Cyprus + Northern Ireland + Palestine + Pridnestrovie + Scotland + Taiwan + Vatican City + Wales + Western Sahara). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Artemy Lebedev </Td> <Td> 1987 - 2015 </Td> <Td> 202 </Td> <Td> Russian </Td> <Td> First person in Russia (even more precisely - among all the inhabitants of the former USSR and Eastern Europe) to visit every country in the world . His final country was Saudi Arabia (17 September 2015), where he was trying to get for five years . Visited: 202 (193 UN members + Taiwan + Vatican City + Antarctica + Kosovo + Palestine + Western Sahara + Scotland + Wales + Northern Ireland). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Graham Hughes </Td> <Td> January 2009--December 2012 </Td> <Td> 201 </Td> <Td> British </Td> <Td> Guinness certified him for 193 UN member countries, while TheBestTravelled.com certified him for 192 UN member countries only, for merely stepping over the DMZ (Korea). He visited all Countries without using any aircraft and the first person to do so . Target: 193 . Visited: 201 (193 UN members + Taiwan + Vatican City + Kosovo + Palestine + Western Sahara + Scotland + Wales + Northern Ireland). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Gunnar Garfors </Td> <Td> 2000--2013 </Td> <Td> 198 </Td> <Td> Norwegian </Td> <Td> Gunnar decided to make it his mission to travel to every single country in the world . He accomplished his goal on May 8, 2013, earning him the title of the youngest person to travel to every country, while maintaining a full - time job . He was 37 years old . (193 UN members + Taiwan + Vatican City + Kosovo + Palestine + Western Sahara). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Johnny Ward </Td> <Td> 2006--2017 </Td> <Td> 197 </Td> <Td> Irish </Td> <Td> Ward is an Irish entrepreneur and travel blogger who has visited every country in the course of his blogging efforts . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> James Asquith </Td> <Td> 2008--2013 </Td> <Td> 196 </Td> <Td> British </Td> <Td> A British traveller who is the official Guinness World Record holder for being the youngest person to visit every country in the world . Target: 196 (193 UN members + Taiwan + Vatican City + Kosovo). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Albert Podell </Td> <Td> 1962--2012 </Td> <Td> 196 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> <P> Albert Podell, a former editor of Playboy magazine . (193 UN members + Taiwan + Vatican City + Kosovo). </P> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Chris Guillebeau </Td> <Td> 2002--April 2013 </Td> <Td> 193 </Td> <Td> American </Td> <Td> Chris Guillebeau writes books and travels . Over the past ten years he has visited every country in the world . Travelers' Century Club . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Anthony Asael </Td> <Td> 2005--2009 </Td> <Td> 193 </Td> <Td> Belgian </Td> <Td> Anthony Asael is an international photographer who works for the Corbis / Getty agency . He is also the founder of the not - for - profit organization Art in All of Us . He photographed and organised creative programs in schools in each of the 193 UN countries . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Mike Spencer Bown </Td> <Td> 1990--2013 </Td> <Td> 193 </Td> <Td> Canadian </Td> <Td> Canadian Adventurer </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Kashi Samaddar </Td> <Td> 1995--2011 </Td> <Td> 193 </Td> <Td> Indian </Td> <Td> First person to have visited all countries on 27 May 2008 at Kosovo . Later visited South Sudan on 9 July 2011 on the Independence day of South Sudan and also certified as most travelled person & fastest to travel all Sovereign Countries . Holder of four World records - certified by Guinness World records, World Records Academy, World Amazing Records, Asia book of Records, Limca Book of Records, India book of Records & Others . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Audrey Walsworth </Td> <Td> 1969 - 2013 </Td> <Td> 193 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Walsworth has visited all 193 United Nations member states, including all 324 territories listed by the Travelers' Century Club (an organization for the world's most widely travelled people), which counts separately regions that are geographically, politically, or ethnologically removed from their parent country . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> John Bougen and James Irving </Td> <Td> 28 August 2002--12 February 2003 </Td> <Td> 191 </Td> <Td> New Zealander </Td> <Td> Two New Zealanders who attempted to visit all the world's sovereign countries in existence at the time in six months, raising money for charity . They visited all but two countries: Afghanistan and São Tomé and Príncipe . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Cassandra DePecol </Td> <Td> 2015 - 2017 </Td> <Td> 196 </Td> <Td> American </Td> <Td> She visited 196 sovereign countries from July 24, 2015, to February 2, 2017; she thus obtained the Guinness World Record for "Fastest Person (Female) to Travel to All Sovereign Nations" fastest American, and youngest American to do such a trip . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Albert Podell </Td> <Td> 1962--2012 </Td> <Td> 196 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> <P> Albert Podell, a former editor of Playboy magazine . (193 UN members + Taiwan + Vatican City + Kosovo). </P> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh </Td> <Td> 1939 - 2017 </Td> <Td> 143 </Td> <Td> British </Td> <Td> Prince Philip accompanied Her Majesty The Queen around the world, on Commonwealth tours, state visits and trips across the UK . That globetrotting has seen him visit 143 countries in an official capacity in the decades that followed </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Pope John Paul II </Td> <Td> 1978--2005 </Td> <Td> 129 </Td> <Td> Polish </Td> <Td> In his 26 years of travel, the Pope John Paul II made 104 pastoral trips outside Italy . In all, he visited 129 countries . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Queen Elizabeth II </Td> <Td> 1952--Present </Td> <Td> 120 </Td> <Td> British </Td> <Td> The Queen has travelled the equivalent of 42 circumnavigations of the Earth, visiting 120 countries, according to royal historian Kate Williams </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Hillary Clinton </Td> <Td> 2009 - 2013 </Td> <Td> 112 </Td> <Td> American </Td> <Td> During her tenure as the US Secretary of state, she visited 112 countries covering a total of 956,733 air miles making her the most widely travelled secretary of state in history . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Michael Palin </Td> <Td> 1980--Present </Td> <Td> 96 </Td> <Td> British </Td> <Td> As part of numerous travel documentaries . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Matt Harding </Td> <Td> 2005--Present </Td> <Td> 93 + </Td> <Td> American </Td> <Td> He has filmed several videos with his travels that have become quite popular . See details in Where the Hell is Matt? </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Recep Tayyip Erdoğan </Td> <Td> 2003--Present </Td> <Td> 93 </Td> <Td> Turkish </Td> <Td> Erdogan visited 93 countries during his time as prime - minister and president . (Including Vatican City + Kosovo + Palestine + Wales + Monaco) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Dumitru Dan </Td> <Td> 1910--1923 </Td> <Td> 76 </Td> <Td> Romanian </Td> <Td> He crossed five continents over three oceans, through 76 countries and over 1,500 cities . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Person </Th> <Th> Date </Th> <Th> Countries / Territories visited </Th> <Th> Citizenship </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr>

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