Continent by continent
Unique countries against each continent’s full count.
Africa6 / 54
Asia17 / 48
Europe38 / 46
North America17 / 23
Oceania6 / 14
South America4 / 12
The travellers / Joint first
Dense.
Home base: St Albans. A world of possibilities beyond the doorstep.
Meet the rival, Rat88of 197 countries44.7% of the world · Joint first
The personal atlas
Dense’s world.
Unfolding the world…
Dense 88Neither 109
Countries visited
88
44.7% of the world · All square
Distance travelled
566,520
≈ km · 14.1 laps of the equator
Days since a new country
229
From the most recent first visit
World land area
66.1%
70.2% of world population in visited countries
A calendar of escapes
Every visit, including the return trips.
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The personal record book
- First country
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia · Feb 2006 (approx.)
- Latest visit
- 🇹🇴 Tonga · 1 Mar 2026
- Furthest from home
- New Zealand · ≈ 18,795 km
- Longest hop
- Peru → Vietnam · ≈ 18,970 km
- Longest country drought
- ≈ 365 days · 2008-07-01–2009-07-01
- Favourite return
- Australia · 3 visits
- Busiest year
- 2011 · 9 visits (approx. dates)
- Alphabet bingo
- 22 of 24 possible initials
- Local details
- 20 capital UTC offsets · 66 currencies · 75 languages
Distances are illustrative home-to-capital chains, not flight logs. ≈ marks estimates or fuzzy dates. Capital UTC offsets use the listed offset nearest the capital’s longitude, excluding overseas offsets.
Compare the full race →The travel log
Every journey, on the record.
108 visits · newest first