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I am currently conducting research through visits to all 198 countries of the world.

The reason? To figure out where I eventually want to go on proper holiday. I have been to 196 countries so far and I often wondered which countries are the very least visited ones. Remoteness, visa regulations, governments, available travel information and how many visitors I see on my travels give me a certain idea, but what do the statistics say? If they even exist? And where can I find such official statistics?

UNWTO, World Tourism Organization has a pretty good overview. Some countries, especially some of which are likely to receive very few visitors per year, are still left out, which means that the information must be found elsewhere. I have found info on the remaining ones from various sources, such as newspaper articles or independent travel reports. Do also note that such statistics will never be entirely accurate. Some countries only measure tourists arriving by air, others only track boat arrivals, yet others base their info on information from hotels. And some people on business still say that they are in a country as a tourist to avoid extra bureaucracy.

Of the 25 least visited countries in the world, the most visited country only has 73,000 foreign tourists in a year, and the least visited has less than 200. That is way behind number one, France, with 79.5 million annual foreign visitors.

A version of this post originally appeared on Garfors.com, and is republished here with permission.