The world, filed the way it has been since 1996
Every place we cover
vTourist files the world region first, then country, then the places within it. Pick a region from the map or the list below — each one opens onto the countries we have written up, and every country page answers the same two questions: what is actually there, and how you would travel it.
Choose a region
North America
Three countries and, in the United States, the only coverage the old gazetteer filed all the way down to state level.
Central America
The isthmus and the Caribbean islands, filed apart because they travel nothing alike.
South America
A continent where the Andes, the Amazon and the Southern Cone decide the trip long before the borders do.
Europe
Fifty-five countries, the densest coverage in the gazetteer, and the shortest distances between very different places.
Africa
The widest country coverage here and the most uneven - five regions that share a landmass and very little else.
Middle East
Its own section, as it always was: the Gulf, the Levant, Turkey and Iran as four different propositions.
Asia
Five sub-regions, two calendars - the monsoon and the continental winter - and the widest cost range of anywhere.
Oceania
Australia and New Zealand, plus the Pacific states, where distance is the fact that shapes everything.