{"id":645,"date":"2002-09-27T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2002\/09\/27\/what-counts-as-having-visited-a-country-2\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T11:34:33","slug":"what-counts-as-having-visited-a-country-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/what-counts-as-having-visited-a-country-2.html","title":{"rendered":"What\n Counts as Having Visited a Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Darrell from Washington, DC, wrote in: &ldquo;someone who visited both<br \/>\n Prague and Bratislava before Czechoslovakia split should get credit for<br \/>\n two countries. Likewise, chalk up two countries if someone visited East<br \/>\n and West Germany separately before 1990&rdquo;. <\/p>\n<p> Del from Texas says: &ldquo;Easy, it counts if the part that split was<br \/>\n visited&rdquo;. <\/p>\n<p> Henry from Hawaii says: No, one could count two countries if both Prague<br \/>\n and Bratislava were visited before the split. It is the territory that<br \/>\n counts since it is pretty much the same regardless of who owns it at any<br \/>\n given time. A purist would argue that it would require visitation when<br \/>\n the current state was in operation and one could agree with that view<br \/>\n in order to keep the counting as standard as possible. <\/p>\n<p> Nick from London wrote in to say: I liked the What Counts as having<br \/>\n visited a Country? section in the newsletter this month. Years ago I visited<br \/>\n a couple of bits of Yugoslavia, and I would note that as several countries<br \/>\n now. <\/p>\n<p> Our webmaster Paul sent in a link of the official ISO country list,<br \/>\n for worldly travellers to tick &lsquo;em off! Take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iso.org\/iso-3166-country-codes.html\"><br \/>\n http:\/\/www.iso.ch\/iso\/en\/prods-services\/iso3166ma\/02iso-3166-code-lists\/index.html<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<p> <b>This month&rsquo;s question, from Nick from London is: I would be<br \/>\n interested if people think it counts if you have visited a country for<br \/>\n a stopover.<\/b> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darrell from Washington, DC, wrote in: &ldquo;someone who visited both Prague and Bratislava before Czechoslovakia split should get credit for two countries. 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