John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Apr 28, 2018 9:55 pm

Brewer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 28, 2018 9:19 pm
No, landing but not leaving a countries airport should by no measure constitute "visiting" a country.

Sure, being in an airport in transit doesn't count, otherwise I'd have been in about twice as many countries as I believe I have been. I'm not sure what the rules are, but you should at least go outside the airport/ port and stay the night in the country. As stated above, some tiny enclaves like Djibouti or Andorra don't merit a long trip, but landing in Kinshasa for a couple of hours waiting for a transfer to Equatorial Guinea doesn't mean you have "visited the Democratic Republic of Congo", which is 4 times the size of France and deserves at least a weekend.

...she didn't leave the airport at all in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Guyana, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Qatar, Tajikistan, or Ireland. In Guyana, she actually arrived at 7:00 a.m. and left at 10:45 p.m. She spent the entire 15+ hours in the airport. In Afghanistan, she paid $100+ for a visa and got stamped into Afghanistan but then just connected to another flight and never left the airport.
She spent an hour driving around Dominica and three hours at the airport waiting for her next flight. She spent five hours in Ukraine changing airports.
In Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, Bahrain, Moldova, Oman, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan she left the airport, got a taxi to her hotel, stayed in the hotel sleeping or working on emails or eating room service food, then got a taxi back to the airport the next day.