Least visited countries in the world
By Ryan Lenora Brown
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 29, 2013
For some travelers, getting off the beaten path is a point of pride, a way to see the parts of the world that don’t make it into glossy guidebooks.
But how many of those same adventurous travelers would be willing to visit, say, Somalia? About 500, it turns out. At least, that’s how many tourists found their way to the war-torn east African nation last year. That makes Somalia the second-least visited country in the world, after the tiny pacific island nation Nauru, according to a recent list compiled by travel writer Gunnar Garfors from UN statistics.
Little Nauru – 8.1 square miles in size, population 9,378 – got just 200 visitors last year, and it’s pretty clear why.
“There is almost nothing to see there,” writes Garfors, “as most of the island … is a large open phosphate mine.”
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