You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps
if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at
the very least you need a beer.
- Frank Zappa
By popular demand, I now use ISO 3166 as my reference, but still use common names when they are better known than the official ones. I include a country if it existed at the time I was there. Unless needed for disambiguation, I leave off "Republic of" and other prefixes.
Albania France Liechtenstein Slovakia Algeria Germany Macau Slovenia Australia Gibraltar Macedonia (FYROM) South Korea (KOR) Austria Greece Malaysia Soviet Union Belgium Hong Kong Mexico Spain Bermuda Hungary Monaco Switzerland Bulgaria India Morocco Syria Canada Indonesia Nepal Thailand China Ireland Netherlands Tunisia Croatia (Hrvatska) Israel Philippines Turkey Cuba Italy Poland UK Czech Republic Jamaica Portugal United States DDR (East Germany) Japan Romania Vatican Dominican Republic Jordan Russian Federation Vietnam Egypt Laos (Lao PDR) Singapore
Places where I got stuck in the transit lounge at the airport, walked across the border without a visa, or passed through on the train with a transit visa.
Abu Dhabi (UAE) Burma (MMR) Mongolia North Korea (PRK)Jim Rees