The United Nations counts 193 countries, while the Travelers’ Century Club, a Los Angeles organization, has kept its own tally at 330 since 1954. The extras are territories, islands and autonomous regions that the United Nations folds into member states, but the club counts them on its own terms. Membership in the Century Club requires reaching 100 of those 330 in person, and with American outbound travel rising steadily this year, the most serious travelers are already counting.
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