• What Defines A Country, and How Many are There?

    What Defines A Country, and How Many are There?

    After many years of travel, I regularly get asked how many countries have you visited. In short, I wasn’t really sure until I researched this post. It seems the United Nations list of 192, is based more on politics and economics, and less on how the dictionary defines a country.

     
     
  • Tourist Heat Map

    Tourist Heat Map

    A heat map of the world that indicates the most popular places in the world based on the number of geo-tagged image uploads to the Panoramio service. The map seems to line up with the United Nations World Tourism Organizations rankings from 2009.