Countries & Territories Visited According to The British FCO

As of November 2023, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office lists 226 different Countries or Territories.

Backpacking the Famagusta Ghost Town in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, not recognised by anyone, except Turkey, of course:

Nomadic Backpacker in the abandoned city of Varosha in Northern Cyprus

I like their list better than the UN Member States List because they list Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Kosovo (photo below from Peja in Kosovo, and Western Sahara separately. They also include the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which pleases me.

van in Peja, Kosovo, with Birra Peja advertising,

Checkpoint Charlie, Germany, 2010:

But if they can include Western Sahara and San Marino, why not also include Transnistria (below) or Nagorno-Karabakh?

But weirdly, they don’t list England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Hell, they don’t even list The United Kingdom. It exists. I went there. I have a passport from there. And a birth certificate.

So the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office list is no better, no worse than the UN Member State list. Yup, it´s all just politics

Backpacking in The United Kingdom – England: