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Australia
Australia is massive, and very sparsely peopled: in size it rivals the USA, yet its population is just over eighteen million - little more than that of the Netherlands. More
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia

Austria
It's the spectacular, snowcapped mountains of regions like the Tyrol that provide the most familiar images of Austria - a landscape of jagged peaks and rampaging rivers, giving way to green pastures studded with onion-domed churches. More
Salzburg and the Salzburger Land
Vienna

Belgium
A federal country, with three official languages and an intense regional rivalry, Belgium has a cultural diversity that belies its rather dull reputation. More
Brussels
Northern Belgium
Southern Belgium

Bulgaria
In many ways, Bulgaria remains the unknown country of the Balkans. More
Balkan Range
Black Sea Coast
Kazanlâk
Plovdiv
Rhodopes
Shipka Pass
Sofia
Southwest
Sredna Gora
Stara Zagora

Canada
The time and expense involved in covering Canada's immense distances means that most visitors confine their explorations to the area around one of the main cities - usually Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver or Calgary for arrivals by air. More
Alberta
Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Maritime Provinces
Newfoundland and Labrador
Ontario
Québec
Southern British Columbia
Yukon, Northwest Territories and Northern British Columbia

Caribbean
Palm trees swaying over white-sand beaches, pellucid waters with teeming reefs just a flipper-kick from the shore and killer rum cocktails brought right to your lounge chair - this is the Caribbean, as per everyone's favourite tropical fantasy. More
ABC Islands
Anguilla
Antigua
Bahamas
Barbados
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
French West Indies
Grenada
Jamaica
Puerto Rico
Saba and St Eustatius
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Martin/St Maarten
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos
Virgin Islands

Croatia
Croatia (Hrvatska) has come a long way since the summer of 1991, when foreign tourists fled from a region standing on the verge of war. More
Dalmatia
Istria
Zagreb

Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Revolution" in November 1989 was probably the most unequivocably positive of eastern Europe's anti-Communist upheavals, as the Czechs and Slovaks shrugged off 41 years of Communist rule without a shot being fired. More
Bohemia
Moravia
Prague

Egypt
Egypt is the oldest tourist destination on earth. More
Alexandria and the Mediterranean coast
Cairo
Nile Valley
Pyramids
Red Sea Coast and Eastern Desert
Sinai
Western Desert Oases

England
London is the place to start. More
Cotswolds and Somerset
Cumbria and the Lakes
Devon and Cornwall
East Anglia
East Midlands
Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire
London
Northeast
Northwest
Oxford and around
Surrey, Kent and Sussex
West Midlands and the Peak District
Yorkshire

Estonia
It's a tribute to the resilience of the Estonians that in the decade or so since the Declaration of Independence in August 1991 they've transformed their country from a dour outpost of the former Soviet Union into a viable nation with the most stable economy in the Baltic region. More
Beyond Tallinn
Tallinn

France
The sheer physical diversity of France would be hard to exhaust in a lifetime of visits. More
Alps
Alsace-Lorraine and the Jura mountains
Brittany
Burgundy
Corsica
Côte d'Azur
Dordogne, Limousin and Lot
Languedoc
Loire
Massif Central
Normandy
North
Paris
Poitou-Charentes and the Atlantic Coast
Pyrenees
Rhône valley and Provence

Germany
Germany has always been the problem child of Europe. More
Bavaria
Berlin and Brandenburg
Frankfurt am Main
Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland

Gibraltar
GIBRALTAR's interest is essentially its novelty: the genuine appeal of the strange, looming physical presence of its rock, and the dubious one of its preservation as one of Britain's last remaining colonies. More
Greece
With well over a hundred inhabited islands and a territory that stretches from the south Aegean to the Balkan countries, Greece offers enough to fill months of travel. More
Argo-Saronic
Athens and around
Crete
Cyclades
Dodecanese
East and North Aegean
Epirus and the west
Ionian Islands
Macedonia and Thrace
Peloponnese
Sporades and Évvia
Thessaly and central Greece

Hungary
Visitors who refer to Hungary as a Balkan country risk getting a lecture on how this small, landlocked nation of just over ten million people differs from "all those Slavs". More
Budapest
Danube Bend
Lake Balaton

Iceland
Resting on the edge of the Arctic Circle and sitting atop one of the world's most volcanically active hotspots, Iceland is nowadays thought of for its striking mix of magisterial glaciers, bubbling hot springs and rugged fjords, where activities such as hiking under the Midnight Sun are complemented by healthy doses of history and literature. More
Reykjavík

India
"Unity in Diversity" was the slogan chosen when India celebrated fifty years of Independence in 1997, a declaration replete with as much optimism as pride. More
Agra
Bombay (Mumbai)
Calcutta (Kolkata)
Delhi
Fatehpur Sikri
Goa
Kerala
Rajasthan
Varanasi

Ireland
Landscape and people are what bring most visitors to Ireland - the Republic and the North. More
Cavan and Monaghan
County Clare
County Cork
County Donegal
County Kerry
Dublin
Galway, Mayo and Roscommon
Laois and Offaly
Louth, Meath, Westmeath and Longford
Northern Ireland
Sligo and Leitrim
Waterford, Tipperary and Limerick
Wexford, Carlow and Kilkenny
Wicklow and Kildare

Italy
Of all European countries, Italy is perhaps the hardest to classify. More
Abruzzo and Molise
Calabria and Basilicata
Campania
Emilia-Romagna
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Lazio
Liguria
Lombardy and the lakes
Marche
Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta
Puglia
Sardinia
Sicily
Trentino-Alto Adige
Tuscany
Umbria
Venice and the Veneto

Japan
For a country that lived in self-imposed isolation until 150 years ago, Japan has not hesitated in making up for lost time since the world came calling. More
Around Tokyo
Central Honshu
Hokkaido
Kansai
Kyushu
Northern Honshu
Okinawa
Shikoku
Tokyo
Western Honshu

Liechtenstein
Only slightly larger than Manhattan island, Liechtenstein is the world's fourth-smallest country. More
Luxembourg
Some 100km southeast of Namur, across the border from the Belgian province of Luxembourg, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is one of Europe's smallest sovereign states, a tiny principality with a population of around 420,000. More
Luxembourg City

Mexico
Mexico enjoys a cultural blend that is wholly unique: among the fastest growing industrial powers in the world, its vast cities boast modern architecture to rival any in the world, yet it can still feel, in places, like a half-forgotten Spanish colony, while the all-pervading influence of native American culture, five hundred years on from the Conquest, is extraordinary. More
Acapulco
Chiapas
Guadalajara
Mexico City and around
Oaxaca
Puerto Vallarta
Tijuana and the Baja Peninsula
Yucatán

Monaco
The oldest part of the two-kilometre-long state is Monaco-Ville, around the palace on the high rocky promontory, with the new suburb and marina of Fontvieille in its western shadow. More
Monte-Carlo

Netherlands
The Netherlands is a country partly reclaimed from the waters of the North Sea, and around half of it lies at or below sea level. More
Amsterdam
Beyond the Randstad
Randstad towns

New Zealand
New Zealand comes with a reputation as a unique land packed with magnificent, raw scenery: craggy coastlines, sweeping beaches, primeval forests, snow-capped alpine mountains, bubbling volcanic pools, fast-flowing rivers and glacier-fed lakes, all beneath a brilliant blue sky. More
Auckland and around
Christchurch and south to Otago
Queenstown, Wanaka and the Gold Country
Wellington and around

Poland
In many ways, Poland is one of the success stories of the new Europe, transforming itself from a one-party state to a parliamentary democracy in a remarkably short period of time. More
Kraków, Malopolska and the Tatras
Warsaw

Portugal
Portugal is around the size of Scotland with twice the population and has tremendous variety both geographically and in its ways of life and traditions. More
Central Portugal
Lisbon
Northern Portugal
Southern Portugal

Romania
Travel in Romania is an rewarding as it is challenging. More
Bucharest
Transylvania

Russia
European Russia stretches from the borders of the states of Belarus and Ukraine to the Ural mountains, over 1000km east of Moscow; even without the rest of the Russian Federation, it constitutes by far the largest country in Europe. More
Moscow
Novgorod
St Petersburg

Scandinavia
Scandinavia - Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland - conjures up resonant images: wild, untamed lands, fjords, reindeer and the Midnight Sun; and wealthy, healthy, blue-eyed blondes enjoying life in a benevolent welfare state. More
Denmark
Finland
Norway
Sweden

Scotland
The Scottish capital, Edinburgh, is a handsome and ancient city, famous for its magnificent castle and Palace of Holyroodhouse as well as for a world-acclaimed international arts festival and some excellent museums - not least the outstanding National Museum of Scotland. More
Argyll
Central Scotland
Edinburgh
Glasgow and the Clyde
Highland region
Lothians
Northeast Scotland
Orkney and Shetland
Skye and the Western Isles
Southern Scotland

Spain
If you are coming to Spain for the first time, be warned: this is a country that fast becomes an addiction. More
Andalucía
Around Madrid
Balearic Islands
Barcelona
Madrid
Tenerife

Switzerland
Switzerland is one of Europe's most visited countries, but one of its least understood. More
Alpine Switzerland
Northern cities
Suisse-Romande
Ticino

Turkey
Turkey is a country with multiple identities, poised uneasily between East and West. More
Aegean coast
Central Turkey
Istanbul
Mediterranean coast
Sea of Marmara

USA
Traveling in the United States is extremely easy; in a country where everyone seems to be forever on the move, there's rarely any problem finding a room for the night, and you can almost invariably depend on being able to eat well and inexpensively. More
Alaska
California
Capital Region
Florida
Great Lakes
Great Plains
Hawaii
Louisiana
Mid-Atlantic
New England
Pacific Northwest
Rockies
South
Southwest
Texas

Wales
Although Cardiff boasts most of Wales' national institutions, including the National Museum, the appeal of a visit lies outside the towns, where there is ample evidence of the war-mongering which shaped the country's development. More
Mid-Wales
North Wales
South Wales

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