Originally Posted by
ranles
A lot of the countries we have visited have been from a ship. No airport. Do these count?
There's a 72-post (as of when this is posted) thread on how to count countries in TravelBuzz here:
What parameters do people use for determining number of countries visited?
Bottom line is that there's a lot of room for personal choice, both in terms of what counts as a country and what counts as a visit. Personally, I'd count cruise ship stops where I went ashore, though I haven't had any in countries where I didn't also stay on land overnight at some point.