Which countries have you been to?

zippy said:
This thread disproves the long held belief that South Africans are knowledgable about the world.

A lot of people don't know the difference between a country and a region/province, even though they have been there :)
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The real test would be to see if they can point them out on maps. I have seen sooo many videos on how the people in the US fail in that regard.
 
Elimentals said:
The real test would be to see if they can point them out on maps. I have seen sooo many videos on how the people in the US fail in that regard.
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The US citizens are very insular people, generally speaking. Don't travel too much outside their own borders.

On another note, why the heck would someone indicate SA on a list of countries they have traveled to when in fact they LIVE in SA?????? That's inane !!!!
 
Namibia
Mozambique
Swaziland
Botswana
Hong Kong
North Korea
China
Taiwan
France
USA

Most of these was for work. Seems I'm the only one with North Korea ?
 
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blunomore said:
On another note, why the heck would someone indicate SA on a list of countries they have traveled to when in fact they LIVE in SA?????? That's inane !!!!
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If you were not born in South Africa, you would travel to it.

If you now live in South Africa you would travel to the country of your birth, counting both as being visited.

Also if you look at the stats for MyBroadband you will find a surprising number of non South African residents accessing the site.
 
Billy said:
If you were not born in South Africa, you would travel to it.

If you now live in South Africa you would travel to the country of your birth, counting both as being visited.

Also if you look at the stats for MyBroadband you will find a surprising number of non South African residents accessing the site.
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If you read some of the previous posts you will see some forumites saying that they traveled to SA and then they put the word 'live' in brackets next to it. Silly to live in a country and then list it as having traveled there !!! Travel implies leaving your country of domicile and traveling elsewhere!
 
blunomore said:
If you read some of the previous posts you will see some forumites saying that they traveled to SA and then they put the word 'live' in brackets next to it. Silly to live in a country and then list it as having traveled there !!! Travel implies leaving your country of domicile and traveling elsewhere!
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Much ado about nothing. The thread is "which countries have you been to", if you live in South Africa, you've been to South Africa. No need to make a fuss.

kthxbi.
 
blunomore said:
If you read some of the previous posts you will see some forumites saying that they traveled to SA and then they put the word 'live' in brackets next to it. Silly to live in a country and then list it as having traveled there !!! Travel implies leaving your country of domicile and traveling elsewhere!
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Read the OP he listed South Africa (Live here) starting a pattern.

My son was born in South Africa and travelled to England a few times before moving there to live. Since he has been there he has travelled to South Africa on several occasions.

Therefore he has travelled to both countries and lived in them.
A number of posters have also lived in multiple countries.
 
Billy said:
Read the OP he listed South Africa (Live here) starting a pattern.

My son was born in South Africa and travelled to England a few times before moving there to live. Since he has been there he has travelled to South Africa on several occasions.

Therefore he has travelled to both countries and lived in them.
A number of posters have also lived in multiple countries.
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Same here. I wasn't born in SA but I live here.

Also, let's assume that you were born and live in Mexico and are a member of this forum. Would you not list "Mexico" as a country that you've been to? THAT would be inane.
 
My rather short list :D

UK: London and surroundings, too many times...stopped counting
UAE: Dubai, Abu Dhabi
Germany: Koln(Colone), Karlsruhe
Pakistan: Karachi
Brazil: Rio, Sao Paulo
 
UK
USA
Germany
France
Italy
Spain
Romania
Holland
Comores
Mauritius
Maldives
Kazaksthan
Tanzania
Thailand
Singapore
Malaysia
Bahamas
Mozambique
Swaziland - lol

maybe some more but prob not important
 
Austria
Belgium
Dubai
England
France
Germany
Holland
Italy
India
Mozambique
Switzerland
Thailand
Zimbabwe
 
Germany
Netherlands
Italy
Spain
UK
Thailand
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Malaysia
India
Kazakhstan
Tanzania
Mozambique
Swaziland
 
:(
Never been out of Africa, or Southern Africa for that matter, planning to change that soon.

Here is my shortlist:
South Africa (home)
Swaziland
Botswana
Lesotho
 
I've listed them so many times before.. sigh.

I've been to 18 countries in 4 continents, that's one country for every year of my age.. not too bad.
 
South Africa
Swaziland
Lesotho
Madagascar

Planning on going to South America this year!
 
Some thread necromancy here.

In order in the last 30ish years....
South Africa (not born here)
Zimbabwe (born here)
Zambia
UK
Lesotho
In the last 2 years...
UAE - Dubai (Ok fair enough transit only, but include it as I've spent 6 nights in the airport hotel)
Afghanistan
Australia
Singapore
Malaysia
Thailand
Hong Kong
South Sudan
Netherlands
Germany
Switzerland
Lichentstien (ok again just transiting through, but in a 5 s/km country not much else to do, but did stop for tea and got passport stamped)
Austria
Italy
Monte Carlo
France
Spain
Czech Republic
Greece
 
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Namibia
Canada
America
Israel
France (Only been in airport)

Would love to visit Switzerland on holiday one day or Japan.
 
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