It depends who's counting. Voymark lets you pick the rules — and keeps the answer honest.
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The classic "world" list has 197 countries; the UN recognizes 193 members; ISO lists 249 countries and territories. Voymark supports all three definitions, and every number in the app — passport, stats, continents, share cards — follows the one you choose. What sits inside each of those numbers is unpacked on how many countries there are in the world.
Travelers argue about this forever. Voymark's answer: you decide. Mark a country as visited, overnight, lived — or as transit, airport-only or border-dash, which ink the map without adding to your count.
Turkey in Europe or Asia? Is Taiwan its own count? Voymark lets you set your viewpoint for transcontinental countries and disputed territories, and every statistic follows it consistently.
Whichever definition you pick, it governs the whole app — not just the headline. Your percentage of the world, your continent rows, your share cards and even your seals follow it: around 29 seals press themselves from your record, and change the rule and a borderline seal can honestly lock again. The statistics go further than a count, too — total distance travelled, your longest run of consecutive travelling years, and the furthest place from home with the kilometres to prove it.
Visited, stayed overnight, lived there, in transit, airport only, border crossing. Three of them add to your count and three of them do not, and the app is explicit about which is which rather than quietly deciding for you.
The non-counting kinds still ink the country on the map, in a lighter shade, so a nine-hour layover in Doha shows up in your history without pretending you saw Qatar. Change a country's kind later and every number recomputes.
"I've done 12% of the world" only means something if the denominator is stated. Voymark shows both halves of the fraction — countries counted over countries in your chosen definition — so the claim survives being questioned at a dinner table.
The same honesty runs through the continents: seven rows, each with its own fraction, and a setting for where you put the countries that sit on two of them. Nothing rounds in your favour without telling you.
There is no single answer. The travellers' list is 197 — the 193 UN member states plus the two observers and two widely recognized states. The ISO country code standard lists 249 entries including territories. Voymark supports all three.
Most seasoned travellers say no, and Voymark's default agrees: airport-only and transit ink the map without adding to your count. But it is a setting, not a verdict — if leaving the terminal counts for you, mark it as visited and the number follows.
Yes, at any time, and nothing is lost. The rule is a lens over the same records, so switching from 197 to 193 changes every total, percentage, continent row and seal at once — and switching back restores exactly what you had.
"Lived there" is its own visit kind and counts like a visit, but stays distinguishable in your history — so a year in Berlin never reads as a weekend. The home area you set is separately excluded from photo scanning, so everyday photos never invent trips.
None. There is no ranking, no follower count and no feed, because there is no server to host one. If you want to compare, you can exchange a passport with a friend directly — by QR code or a file — and see the overlap side by side.