Places to see 👀, eat 😋, and drink 🍸 all over the world 🌎
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Canada - Oh, Canada! Includes all 10 provinces (Alberta (AB), British Columbia (BC), Manitoba (MB), New Brunswick (NB), Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), Nova Scotia (NS), Ontario (ON), Prince Edward Island (PE), Quebec (QC), Saskatchewan (SK)), 3 territories (Northwest Territories (NT), Nunavut (NU,) Yukon (YT)), places like Banff, Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Ottawa, Quebec City, St John's, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Whistler, Winnipeg.
Northwest USA - Northwestern United States. - Includes 6 states (Alaska (AK), Idaho (ID), Montana (MT), Oregon (OR), Washington (WA), Wyoming (WY)), places like Bend, Boise, Crater Lake, Mount Rainier, Olympic, Spokane, Yellowstone. - Excludes Portland, Seattle (separate lists).
Portland - Oregon (OR), USA.
Seattle - Washington (WA), USA.
Central Valley - California (CA), USA. - Includes Bakersfield, Clovis, Fresno, Hanford, Lodi, Merced, Modesto, Stockton, Turlock, Visalia.
East Bay - California, USA. - Includes Alameda, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Fremont, Piedmont, Pleasanton, Walnut Creek. - Excludes Oakland (separate list).
Marin County - California (CA), USA. - Includes Corte Madera, Mill Valley, Muir Woods, San Rafael, Sausalito, Stinson Beach.
Napa Valley - Napa County, California (CA), USA. - Includes American Canyon, Calistoga, Napa, Oakville, Rutherford, St. Helena, Yountville.
Oakland - California (CA), USA.
San Francisco - California (CA), USA.
San Mateo County - California (CA), USA. - Includes Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, Foster City, Half Moon Bay, Hillsborough, La Honda, Moss Beach, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Pacifica, Pescadero, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Mateo, South San Francisco, Woodside.
Santa Clara County - California (CA), USA. - Includes Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Clara, Saratoga, Stanford, Sunnyvale.
Sonoma County - California (CA), USA. - Includes Bodega Bay, Calistoga, Duncans Mills, Geyserville, Guerneville, Healdsburg, Kenwood, Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Sonoma.
Yosemite - California (CA), USA.
Monterey County - California (CA), USA. - Includes Big Sur, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Carmel Valley, Castroville, Moss Landing, Pacific Grove, Pajaro, Pebble Beach, Salinas.
San Luis Obispo County - California (CA), USA. - Includes Arroyo Grande, Avila Beach, Cambria, Morro Bay, Paso Robles, Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo, San Simeon.
Santa Barbara County - California (CA), USA. - Includes Carpinteria, Goleta, Isla Vista, Lompoc, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Solvang.
Santa Cruz County - California (CA), USA. - Includes Aptos, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek, Capitola, Davenport, Felton, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, Soquel, Watsonville.
Los Angeles County - "LA", California (CA), USA. - Includes Beverly Hills, Burbank, Compton, Culver City, El Segundo, Glendale, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Malibu, Manhattan Beach, Pasadena, Redondo Beach, San Pedro, Santa Clarita, Santa Monica, Venice Beach, West Hollywood.
Orange County - "The OC", California (CA), USA. - Includes Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Dana Point, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Orange, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, Tustin.
San Diego County - California (CA), USA. - Includes Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, Del Mar, El Cajon, Encinitas, Escondido, La Jolla, La Mesa, Oceanside, Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Vista.
Austin - Texas (TX), USA.
Las Vegas - Clark County, Nevada (NV), USA. - Includes Boulder City, Henderson, Hoover Dam, Laughlin, Red Rock Canyon, Valley of Fire.
New Mexico - NM, USA. - Includes Albuquerque, Carlsbad Caverns, Roswell, Santa Fe, Taos, White Sands.
Reno/Tahoe - California (CA) & Nevada (NV), USA. - Includes Carson City, Incline Village, King's Beach, Lake Tahoe, Sparks, Stateline, Truckee, Virginia City.
Southwest USA - Southwestern United States. - Includes 5 states (Arizona (AZ), a lot of less-populated California (CA), Colorado (CO), Nevada (NV), Utah (UT)), places like Boulder, Denver, Grand Canyon, Moab, Monument Valley, Phoenix, Route 66, Salt Lake City, Sedona, Tucson, Zion. - Excludes Austin, more-populated California, Las Vegas, New Mexico, Reno/Tahoe, Texas (separate lists).
Texas - TX, USA. - Includes Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio. - Excludes Austin (separate list).
Kansas City - Kansas (KS)/Missouri (MO), USA. - Includes Independence, Leawood, Lee's Summit, Lenexa, Olathe, Overland Park.
Midwest USA - Midwestern United States. - Includes 13 states (Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Iowa (IA), Kansas (KS), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), Nebraska (NE), North Dakota (ND), Ohio (OH), Oklahoma (OK), South Dakota (SD), Wisconsin (WI)), places like Badlands, Branson, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Fargo, Grand Rapids, Green Bay, Indianapolis, Omaha, Mackinac Island, Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St Paul (aka "Twin Cities"), Mount Rushmore, Ozarks, Springfield, St Louis, Tulsa.
DC - Washington D.C. (District of Columbia), the capital of the United States of America (USA). - Includes Alexandria, Arlington, Bethesda, Capitol Hill, Dupont Circle, Georgetown, Silver Spring.
Northeast USA - Northeastern United States. - Includes 11 states (Connecticut (CT), Delaware (DE), Maine (ME), Massachusetts (MA), Maryland (MD), New Hampshire (NH), New York (NY), Pennsylvania (PA), Rhode Island (RI), Vermont (VT), Virginia (VA)), places like Acadia, Boston, Cape Cod, Montauk, Niagara Falls, The Adirondacks, The Hamptons, The Poconos. - Excludes Brooklyn, DC, Manhattan, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Queens, Staten Island, The Bronx, West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania (separate lists).
Philadelphia - "The City of Brotherly Love", "Philly", Pennsylvania (PA), USA.
West Virginia - WV, USA. - Includes Charleston, Huntington, Morgantown, Parkersburg, Wheeling.
Western Pennsylvania - PA, USA. - Includes Applewold, Ford City, Foxburg, Kittanning, Oakmont, Pittsburgh, Punxsutawney, Rural Valley, Vicksburg, Yatesboro.
Brooklyn - New York (NY), USA. - Includes Brooklyn Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy), Bushwick, Coney Island, DUMBO, Greenpoint, Park Slope, Williamsburg.
Manhattan - New York (NY), USA. - Includes East Village, Greenwich Village, Financial District (FiDi), Harlem, Lower East Side (LES), Midtown, SoHo, Tribeca, Upper East Side (UES), Upper West Side (UWS).
New Jersey - NJ, USA. - Includes Atlantic City, Asbury Park, Cape May, Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark.
Queens - New York (NY), USA. - Includes Astoria, Forest Hills, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Long Island City, Ridgewood.
Staten Island - New York (NY), USA. - Includes Great Kills, New Dorp, Snug Harbor, Stapleton, St. George, Sunnyside, Tottenville.
The Bronx - New York (NY), USA. - Includes City Island, Fordham, Morris Park, Pelham Bay, Riverdale, South Bronx.
Atlanta - Georgia (GA), USA.
Nashville - Tennessee (TN), USA.
New Orleans - Louisiana (LA), USA.
Savannah - Georgia (GA), USA.
Southeast USA - Southeastern United States. - Includes 10 states (Alabama (AL), Arkansas (AR), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Kentucky (KY), Louisiana (LA), Mississippi (MS), North Carolina (NC), South Carolina (SC), Tennessee (TN)), places like Asheville, Birmingham, Charleston, Chattanooga, Fort Lauderdale, Key West, Little Rock, Memphis, Miami, Orlando, Tampa. - Excludes Atlanta, Nashville, New Orleans, Savannah (separate lists).
Bermuda - British Overseas Territories (181 Islands).
Central America - Includes Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.
Los Cabos - Cabo San Lucas & San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico.
Mexico - Includes Acapulco, Cancún, Ensenada, Guadalajara, Mazatlan, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Puerta Vallarta, Puerto Nuevo, Rosarito, San Miguel de Allende, Tijuana, Tulum. - Excludes Los Cabos (separate list).
The Caribbean - Includes Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands (BVI), Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saba, Sint Eustatius, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, The Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos, US Virgin Islands.
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.
South America - Includes Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay, Venezuela. - Excludes Rio de Janeiro (separate list).
Central/Eastern Europe - Includes Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine. The Balkans. - Excludes Greece, Middle East, Moscow, Scandinavia, Western Europe (separate lists).
Greece - Hellas (Ελλάς) / Hellada (Ελλάδα). - Includes Greek Islands (Corfu, Crete, Kos, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Rhodes, Santorini, Skiathos, Zakynthos), places like Athens, Delfi, Meteora, Nafplio, Thessaloniki.
Moscow - Moskva (Москва), Russia/Rossiya (Россия).
Iceland - Ísland. - Includes Geysir, Gullfoss, Reykjavik.
Scandinavia - Includes 4 "Nordic" countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden), territories (Åland Islands, Greenland, Faroe Islands), places like Bergen, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Tallinn. - Excludes Iceland (separate list).
Amsterdam - Netherlands/Nederland.
England & Wales - Part of the United Kingdom (UK). - Includes Bath, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, ...), Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford, Wrexham. - Excludes Ireland, London, Scotland (separate lists).
Florence - Firenze, Italia. - Includes Centro Storico, Oltrarno, San Lorenzo, San Niccolò, Santa Croce, Santa Maria Novella.
France - Includes Bordeaux, French Riviera, Lyon, Marseille, Monaco, Nice. - Excludes Paris (separate list).
Germany - Deutschland. - Includes Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich.
Ireland - Éire. Includes Ireland (aka The Republic of Ireland) & Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom (UK)).
Italy - Italia (and San Marino). - Includes Bologna, Cinque Terre, Naples, Pisa, Siena, Verona. - Excludes Florence, Milan, Rome, Venice (separate lists).
London - England (part of the United Kingdom (UK)).
Milan - Milano, Italia. - Includes Brera, Centro Storico, CityLife, Isola, Navigli, Porta Nuova, Porta Romana.
Paris - "The City of Light" (La Ville Lumière), France. - Includes Canal Saint-Martin (10th), Gros Caillou (7th), Latin Quarter (5th), Le Marais (3rd & 4th), Montmartre (18th), Saint-Germain-des-Prés (6th).
Portugal - Includes most of the Azores/Açores, Lisbon, Faro, Porto, Madeira, Sintra. - Excludes Terceira (separate list).
Rome - "The Eternal City", Roma, Italia (and Vatican City). - Includes Centro Storico, EUR, Monti, Prati, San Lorenzo, Testaccio, Trastevere.
Scotland - Alba. Part of the United Kingdom (UK). - Includes Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness.
Spain - España. - Includes Barcelona, Bilbao, Granada, Madrid, Seville, Valencia.
Switzerland - Schwiiz. - Includes Bern, Basel, Geneva, Interlaken, Lucerne, Zermatt, Zurich.
Terceira - Azores/Açores, Portugal.
Venice - Venezia, Italia. - Includes all six sestieri (neighborhoods): Cannaregio (residential), Castello (peaceful), Dorsoduro (art/student), San Marco (center), San Polo (food/market), Santa Croce (transportation).
Western Europe - Includes Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands. - Excludes Amsterdam, Central/Eastern Europe, England & Wales, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Scandinavia, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland (separate lists).
China - Zhōngguó (中國). - Includes Beijing, Chengdu, Hong Kong, Macao, Shanghai, Taiwan, Xi'an.
India - Includes 4 countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India/Bhārat (भारत), Sri Lanka), places like Agra, Delhi, Dhaka, Mumbai, Goa, Jaipur, Kerala, Rajasthan, Varanasi.
Japan - Nihon (日本). - Includes Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Nagoya, Nara, Okinawa, Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo.
Korea - Includes South Korea/Namhan (남한, 南韓) & North Korea/Bukhan (북한, 北韓), places like Busan, Pyongyang, Seoul.
Maldives - Dhivehi Raajje.
Middle East - Includes Bahrain, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Yemen.
Mongolia - Монгол Улс (ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ). - Includes Ulaanbaatar.
Nepal - नेपाल. - Includes Kathmandu.
Philippines - Republika ng Pilipinas. - Includes Cebu City, Davao City, Manila.
Southeast Asia - Includes Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Singapore, Vietnam. - Excludes India, Nepal, Palau, Philippines, South Pacific, Thailand (separate lists).
Stans - Includes 7 countries (Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan (پاکِستان), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), places like Almaty, Ashgabat, Fann Mountains, Karachi.
Thailand - Prathet Thai (ประเทศไทย). - Includes Ayutthaya, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Phuket.
Australia - "The land down under". - Includes Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef, Melbourne, Perth, The Outback. - Excludes Sydney (separate list).
Guam & Mariana Islands - Guåhan & Manislan Mariånas.
New Zealand - Aotearoa. - Includes Auckland, Christchurch, Queenstown, Wellington.
Palau - Belau.
South Pacific - Includes American Samoa, Bora Bora, Cook Islands, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna. - Excludes Australia, Guam & Mariana Islands, New Zealand, Palau, Southeast Asia (separate lists).
Sydney - New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
Hawaii - "The Big Island", Hawaii (HI), USA. - Includes Hilo, Kona.
Kauai - "The Garden Isle", Hawaii (HI), USA. - Includes Hanalei, Hanapepe, Kapa'a, Koloa, Lihue, Poipu.
Maui - "The Valley Isle", Hawaii (HI), USA. - Includes Kihei, Lahaina, Paia, Wailea.
Oahu - "The Gathering Place", Hawaii (HI), USA. - Includes Haleiwa, Honolulu, Kailua, The North Shore, Waikiki.
Africa - Includes Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini (Swaziland), Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Antarctica - The Ice.
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