How many countries have you actually been to? Most people can’t say for sure — the trips blur together, and the list lives in your head. The Travel Bucket-List & Countries-Visited Tracker answers it for you. Its Countries tab comes pre-loaded with all 195 countries, already sorted by continent and region, so you never build a list — you just mark the ones you’ve been to, and a live dashboard counts your map.
It works in Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice, and it’s yours to keep.
What does the Travel Tracker do?
Five connected tabs turn a lifetime of travel into a picture you can read at a glance:
- Dashboard — your whole map at a glance: countries visited out of 195, your percentage of the world, continents reached (of 7), trips logged, bucket-list progress, a continent-by-continent coverage map, a year-in-travel recap, your most-visited countries, and your favorite trips. Every number updates itself.
- Countries — the heart of it: all 195 countries, pre-sorted by continent and region. Set a status — Visited, Lived There, Layover Only, or Want to Go — and the counting is done for you.
- Trips & Memories — a row per trip: the destination, country, year, who you went with, a rating, and the highlights you’ll want to remember. The country field is a dropdown of all 195, so everything links up.
- Bucket List — the places and experiences you’re dreaming of, with a priority, a target year, a rough budget, and a status from Dreaming to Booked to Done.
- Read Me — a plain-English orientation, plus a Start Here guide, The Art of the Travel Bucket List guide, and a printable travel log & checklist.
What counts as a country visited?
Every traveler eventually argues about this. Does a layover count? A border town? This tracker takes a clear line so your number means something: Visited and Lived There count; Layover Only and Want to Go don’t — a layover isn’t really a visit, and a wish isn’t a stamp. Disagree? Just mark those countries Visited instead. It’s your map.
Why buy this instead of a blank spreadsheet?
Because the hard parts are already done. The list of all 195 countries — the 193 UN members plus the Vatican and Palestine — is pre-sorted into continents and regions for you, so you never research or type a country. The continent math, the percentage of the world, and the coverage bars are computed, not blank cells you wire up yourself. Status, trip type, priority, and a dropdown of all 195 countries are built in. And it’s pre-loaded with a worked example — a traveler across all six inhabited continents — so nothing looks empty on the first open. Clear it, and it’s yours.
Prefer Google Sheets? One click, no import
Your download includes a link to a ready-made native Google Sheet. Just click Make a copy and the whole workbook lands in your Drive — all 195 countries, every dropdown, formula, and color already set up. No lossy import, nothing to rebuild. Or use the .xlsx in Excel or LibreOffice. It’s your file either way.
Own it, don’t rent it
There’s a blank spreadsheet on one side and a subscription travel app on the other. This sits in between: the structure of an app, in a file you own outright. No account, no monthly fee, no app that forgets your travels the day you stop paying — just a workbook you keep, that will still open in ten years and still remember where you’ve been.
Want to try it first? The free places-I’ve-been starter is a one-tab taste of the full workbook. And if you track more than passport stamps, the rest of the Trackers line catalogs the other things you love the same way.
A personal travel log — a record-keeping template, not travel, safety, or professional advice. The example travel history is fictional and illustrative. The country, continent, and region list is a factual geographic reference; groupings follow common convention and are not a political statement.
