Continent by continent
Unique countries against each continent’s full count.
Africa7 / 54
Asia24 / 48
Europe46 / 46
North America2 / 23
Oceania2 / 14
South America7 / 12
The travellers / Joint first
Rat.
Home base: Amsterdam. A world of possibilities beyond the doorstep.
Meet the rival, Dense88of 197 countries44.7% of the world · Joint first
The personal atlas
Rat’s world.
Unfolding the world…
Rat 88Neither 109
Countries visited
88
44.7% of the world · All square
Distance travelled
515,112
≈ km · 12.9 laps of the equator
Days since a new country
1
From the most recent first visit
World land area
69.8%
73.5% 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
- 🇦🇹 Austria · Feb 2006 (approx.)
- Latest visit
- 🇦🇲 Armenia · 15 Oct 2026
- Furthest from home
- New Zealand · ≈ 18,566 km
- Longest hop
- New Zealand → Spain · ≈ 19,851 km
- Longest country drought
- ≈ 336 days · 2008-07-30–2009-07-01
- Favourite return
- Austria · 3 visits
- Busiest year
- 2017 · 10 visits (approx. dates)
- Alphabet bingo
- 20 of 24 possible initials
- Local details
- 19 capital UTC offsets · 61 currencies · 88 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