Least visited countries - a new poll

OK fellow travellers, this is the (possibly inaccurate) list of the 30 least visited countries in the world.

How many have you been to?

30: Moldova – 145,000 visitors per year
29: Eritrea – 142,000 visitors per year
28: North Korea – around 100,000 visitors per year
26: San Marino – 85,000 visitors per year
25: St Vincent and the Grendines- 80,000 visitors per year
24: – Timor Leste (East Timor)- 75,000 visitors per year
23: Dominica – 63,000 visitors per year
22: Sierra Leone- 57,000 visitors per year
21: Tonga – 54,000 visitors per year
20: Djibouti – 51,000 visitors per year
19: Guinea-Bissau – 45,000 visitors per year
18: Guinea – 45,000 visitors per year
17: Liberia – 45,000 visitors per year
16: Comoros – 36,000 visitors per year
15: Mauritania – 30,000 visitors per year
14: Solomon Islands – 27,000 visitors per year
13: Federated States of Micronesia – 19,000 visitors per year
12: Afghanistan – about 20,000 visitors per year
11: Mali – 14,000 visitors per year
10: Turkmenistan – less than 9,000 visitors per year
9: São Tomé and Príncipe – around 8,000 visitors per year
8: Libya – around 6,000 visitors per year
7: Marshall Islands – around 6,000 visitors per year
6: South Sudan – 5,500 visitors per year
5: Kiribati – around 4,000 visitors per year
4: Tuvalu – 2,000 visitors per year
3: Equatorial Guinea – less than 1,000 visitors per year
2: Yemen – less than 500 visitors per year
1: Somalia* – less than 100* visitors per year

All the best,

DAO

[ Edit: Edited on 16 Jan 2023, 13:07 GMT by DAOonVT ]

Sadly, only nine for me: Moldova, San Marino, Timor Leste, Tonga, Guinea-Bissau (including the Bijagos archipelago), Mauritania, Solomon Islands, Afghanistan and Sao Tome & Principe. Hope to add more. Now also focusing on regions such as those on the NomadMania list. Among the places visited last year: Channel Islands (Guernsey, Sark, Jersey), Northeast India (six-week road trip in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur), the sub-Antarctic islands of Australia and New Zealand (Macquarie Island, Auckland Islands, The Snares, Campbell Island). Most thrilling experience, ever: Hiking active volcanoes in Kamchatka, including Tolbachik and Mutnovsky (photo below).

Only St Vincent, some of the Grenadines, and Dominica for me. And only a couple of countries on that list are on my radar - Moldova (and Transnistria) and North Korea.

I'm finding I'm repeating countries a lot, seeing places I like in more depth. For example, my current planning is an Iceland road trip, which will be my third visit to the country.

I'm not very interested in arid landscapes. Mainly glaciers, volcanoes, interesting landforms, architecture, and places with a bit of life.

I'm very envious of Berner's Kamchatka trip. That's high up my post-retirement list when I'll be able to do longer trips.

Seven (including Somalia at the bottom of the list) so far with Moldova to come in a couple of days. Would have travelled through Turkmenistan by now if Covid hadn't reared its ugly head in 2020.

Quoting Borisborough

with Moldova to come in a couple of days

Grr

I'm on 11 and I must say Equatorial Guinea is really easy if you have a USA passport. No visa and on the island where Malabo is - no hassles, no security issues. San Marino - super easy. Book Ryanair to Rimini and take the bus there.

Agreed, San Marino was a doddle. We had a train from Venice to Rimini and took the local bus to SM. It was a great place to stay for a couple of nights. Tonga is easy if you live in the South Pacific area and the Caribbean Islands are fairly easy if you live in the Americas. Djibouti's straightforward too.

Yemen used to be 'easy', but (like Syria and a few others) not the best choice.

Waiting on Libya to reopen to tourists. The Taliban will have Afgan Tours by next year I predict...

Syria was great in 2019 - but not for US passport holders. We're looking to go to North Africa - Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya but that might be difficult to sort out in one go.

Afghan tours - not so sure. Perhaps for men only, the way the regime is going!

@DAOonVT - what happened to no 27???!

After a bit of Googling, 27 might be Liechtenstein - been there!

[ Edit: Edited on 17 Jan 2023, 18:43 GMT by Borisborough ]