Visited countries map maker
Colour in the countries you have been to and you have a visited countries map you can post anywhere. Separate the places you lived from the places you saw and the airports you only changed planes in, then export the picture. The world map holds all 206 of them.
Also known as: map of countries i have visited, countries visited map maker, travel map maker, been there world map, countries i have been to.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
How to split a travel map
There are 206 countries and territories on the map to account for. Four categories keep it honest, and the wording is yours to change.
| Legend entry | What it means |
|---|---|
| Lived there | Months rather than days. Usually the shortest list on the map and the one with the best stories. |
| Visited | Stayed, ate, walked around, remember it. The main category on almost every version of this map. |
| Layover only | Changed planes, crossed a border on a train, stopped at a port. On the map, but not really. |
| Want to go | The best category to add, because it turns a record of the past into a plan. |
How to make a visited countries map
- Decide what a visit is. Set the rule before you start: a night stayed, a border crossed, a plane changed. Whatever you pick, the map is more interesting when the weakest category is visible rather than quietly counted as a win.
- Write the legend. Lived, visited, layover, want to go. Four entries covers nearly everyone, and the fourth one is what makes the map worth keeping instead of finishing once and forgetting.
- Fill the map. Click each country. Small countries are easier once you zoom, and a country can be opened into its own regions if you have only really seen one part of a big one.
- Export, post, come back to it. Download a PNG or publish for a link with a preview image. A published map can be edited and published again after the next trip, so it does not go stale the moment you make it.
What you can do
- Every country on the world map, 206 of them, each separately clickable.
- Categories you define: lived, visited, layover, want to go, or whatever your travelling needs.
- Colour or pattern fills, so a layover does not look the same as a fortnight.
- Open a country into its own regions when you have only really seen part of it.
- A legend you write yourself and place where the oceans leave room.
- Globe mode, which is a better picture than a flat map when your travelling is spread across the Pacific.
- Crop the exported view to the part of the world your map is actually about.
- Works on a phone, and the map is saved in the browser while you build it.
- A full-size PNG at the end, with no watermark sitting over the map you just filled in.
Make your own visited countries map
The profile picture map
One colour, every country you have been to, no categories. The simplest version of this map is the one that gets used most, and it takes about three minutes.
Trip by trip
A colour per trip or per year, so the map shows how the travelling happened rather than just where. Interrailing, a gap year and one work trip look completely different on the same map.
The plan
Been, booked, next, someday. Half a travel map and half a to-do list, and the only version of this map that keeps being useful after you have made it.
Family and heritage
Where the family came from, where it ended up, where everyone has been between them. One colour per branch turns the map into a family record.
The honest count
Separate the airports and the border crossings from the real visits, and most people find their number drops by a third. The map is better for it, and the argument in the replies is guaranteed.
Other map makers
Common questions
Does a layover count as a visited country?
Only if you say it does. The common answer is to give layovers their own colour, which keeps the country on the map while being honest that you saw an airport and a duty free shop.
How many countries are on the map?
206, which is every country and dependent territory in the map data, so island territories and dependencies are separately clickable rather than folded into the country that governs them.
Can I show which parts of a country I have seen?
Yes, for many countries. A country can be replaced by its own internal regions, so you can colour the four or five you actually visited instead of claiming the whole of a country the size of a continent.
Can I make the US states version instead?
Yes. The visited states map is the same idea at state level, which is the better map if most of your travelling has been inside one country.
Can I update it after the next trip?
Yes. Publish it and the map keeps a private edit link, so the next country goes on the same map at the same address rather than becoming a second one.
Are territories like Greenland and Puerto Rico separate?
Yes, they are their own shapes on the map rather than being coloured in with the country that governs them, so a trip to Puerto Rico does not accidentally paint the whole of the United States.
Can I show a percentage of the world?
Nothing counts it for you. Put the number in the title or in a legend entry instead, which is what most people do, and it reads better than a figure buried in a corner of the image.
Is it free, and does it watermark the image?
It is free, there is no watermark, and no account is needed to export. The site is paid for by the ads around the page rather than by charging for the map.