Thread 2819222

Post your travel maps in this thread. Pic related is the official /trv/ Real Traveler's map™, edition 4.0.5

Fill in the countries and subdivisions you have visited, talk about your map and ask others about their maps. You can use the map however you like, the colors are more like suggestions, you don't have to use them, and you don't have to use all of them. You can add or remove colors and change the map as much as you want in any way you want. Don't like this map? Upload a completely different one. Up to you. Despite what some might say, there's no "wrong" way to use the map, and new posters and less travelled people are welcome and encouraged to stay and post :) This map is a group effort by our board, and we can only improve it if people reach out to share suggestions or corrections.

This is the newest edition of the map, edition 4.0.5, updated for September 2025. Thanks to an Anon in the previous thread, it is now easier than ever to fill in the map. You can use the website splored.com to easily color in entire countries with a single click. At the time of making this thread, it uses the old 4.0.4 template, so you still need to update it to 4.0.5 with the simplified template, but hopefully Anon will update the website after I make this thread.

Topic for this thread: Should we have a Real Traveler's Discord? Just something I've been thinking about. I don't use Discord myself, so it's not important to me, but it could be nice to have a hangout for the regulars or a "backup" in case 4chan goes down again or somewhere to share subdivision news if there's no thread up. Just interested in hearing your opinions on this.

Pic rel is a simple template you can paste over your old map to update it, but only if your old map is the 4.0.4 edition. Otherwise you have to use the template in the OP.

Changelog for the 4.0.5 edition:
>changed to the borders of the Historical Latvian Lands, formerly the Cultural Regions of Latvia
>added three new provinces of Angola
>added nine new regions of Mali
>reduced the number of provinces in Burundi as per their new administrative reform
>added five new city and city-and-county councils in Ireland (Galway, Cork, Dublin)
>merged the provinces of Vietnam following their regional reform
>tweaked the borders of Iraq and the Republic of the Congo
>joined Trinidade and Martim Vaz to Espiritu Santu in Brazil, as per an Anon's request
>fixed some pixels in Indonesia
>new DLC, Danish counties and Montenegrin municipalities (IMHO they didn't turn out that pretty, but hey, they're there if you want to use them)
>the British Indian Ocean Territory will be handed over to Mauritius, but the deal isn't ratified yet so I've waited to include it on the map
Philippines. Too complicated for a single line of greentext. Fixed the regional borders, I added Negro Islands Region as well as separated Sulu from Bangsamoro, Sulu is not a part of any region anymore but it's not a region in itself either, so who knows what they're doing. I then replaced the regions with the provinces, as those are the ones actually used for administrative purposes, I THINK. It's not entirely clear. I asked /asean/ on /int/ and that was how I understood it, that the provinces are the primary administrative division, and the regions are more statistical groupings. Manila and Zamboanga City are not part of any province, so they are added separately. The city of Isabela is part of Zamboanga REGION, but Basilan PROVINCE. Correct me if I'm wrong in any of this. In any case, the regions have been added as DLC.

This map comes with "DLC", which are optional regions you can add for a few select countries. It's hard to make a good Real Traveler's Map without having some regions be too small or too large, or sometimes the official divisions are not perfect for a traveler for whatever reason. Up to you if you want to change one or more countries. Feel free to add or suggest others if you want.

What counts as having visited or lived in a subdivision? Completely up to you, use your own definition. If you need official guidance however, I personally like this Anon's post:
https://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2337267/#2340603

In short, any visit of any length counts as a visit as long as you made a conscious effort to go there for touristic reasons. This excludes layovers and transits and such, but includes short visits such as leaving the airport for a few hours during a layover. For living, more than a month for non-touristic reasons, meaning you could travel around while there, but the reason you went was work or study or such.

There's also the Ultra Deluxe Autism Edition, with second level subdivisions for the USA, Canada, Russia, China and India. This was made as a one-off and won't be updated regularly. It's accurate as of March 2023, if you spot a mistake, please notify OP and it'll be fixed.
Changelog for US and Canada:
https://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2337267/#2342099
There's also this map:
https://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2427017/#2427024
with more second level subdivisions, but I haven't gone over it and can't guarantee its accuracy.

I combined it all into one map for simplicity. Link to the individual countries here:
>USA
https://i.imgur.com/XpinlB0.png
>Canada
https://i.imgur.com/KgWPFHe.png
>USA and Canada
https://i.imgur.com/cU5xf8N.png
>Russia
https://i.imgur.com/WvR20fF.png
>China
https://i.imgur.com/cXZls4F.png
>India
https://i.imgur.com/oOInCV5.png

Instructions on how to use the map with MS Paint, courtesy of Dutch Anon.

How do you fill in the map? It's very easy. You only need to use two buttons, which I have circled in red.
Say you want to colour a specific region light red, you click the tool that I marked B, and you'll see your cursor takes the shape of that tool. Then you left click the colour you want to use, i.e. the big circle. You'll notice that colour 1, which I marked C, changes to light red.
If you repeat this process but you RIGHT click a coloured circle instead of left clicking it, you will select the colour as colour 2. Let's click dark red. This way you can have both shades of red selected at the same time, which makes colouring in the map more convenient, especially when doing big countries.
Now you select the tool which I marked A. Let's get to colouring. Say you want to colour Indiana in light red and you want to colour Ohio in dark red. Easy. Left click Indiana and right click Ohio.

Obscure and overlooked territories cheat sheet. Fun and useful map made by another Anon about the small island nations, various dependencies and other territories that can be difficult to pinpoint on the map.

And finally, here's my map. As usual I haven't done anything particularly interesting the past year. Only addition so far in 2025 is that I went on a roadtrip to Møre og Romsdal county. Super nice nature, you should go there if you get the chance.

>>2819228
Great map right there, I'd add Åland and Man for completeness, Mt. Athos for maximum autism.

Next destination: INDIA!!!

I love map autism
My plans have changed since the last map thread, I'm going to do an epic 22 night trip through the Balkans next summer. Focusing strongly on Montenegro, Macedonia, and Bosnia, with the other countries just 2-3 nights or as a day trip.

>>2819229
I'm jealous of your far-Eastern European travels, I hope I can safely visit Ukraine and Russia some day.
What'd you do in Belarus and Moldova?
>>2819255
I'd go insane moving my home that much

>>2819229
I hope someday I can visit Ukraine and Russia. Really wanna see their military museums and Ukraine has a kino missile silo museum

>>2819223
Damn, appreciate your thread as always. Just updated mine. It was fun (but predictable) to shade the provinces of Philippines again.
Anywho, from my previous update, I just came back from 2 trips. First one was a first time visit to Fiji & Tonga to swim with the whales. Expensive but one of the most fucking kino experience ever. Really highly recommend.
Second was my family's dream trip to Japan, though I've been there many times so the trip didn't excite me that much. Shaded Tochigi and Yamanashi prefectures. Nikko & Kawaguchiko were great. Definitely don't recommend traveling in August though unless you don't mind the summer heat.

>>2819308
How was Silesia mate?

>>2819255
Did you see any of the gangs or was this map a lie

>>2819222 (OP)
This is splored anon, great work bro.

I'll add the map update to the todo list. I'm currently working on a map model which can be used to add a bunch of new features like map region labels, more advanced filters for the community page, give stats for your map and other stuff. It's a pretty long tedious task so it won't be that fun but I'll chip away at it.

I think the discord is a good idea, if you set it up I'll add a link to it in the sites nav.

>>2819918
Wrocław was neat, I went after Christmas so they had a nice Christmas market. To be honest, I vastly preferred Krakow and the surrounding area, but that might just be because it was grey and rainy when I was in Wrocław.
Pic related is some graffiti I saw there

>>2819308
There's a simple solution. Don't own anything. It makes moving to a new place as hassle-free as can be.
>>2819919
You mean Mexican cartels? I crossed paths with unsavory characters a few times, but they were always the lowest tier. The higher-ups wear cowboy hats and stroll around the plaza with their families on Sunday evening.

>>2819308
>I'm jealous of your far-Eastern European travels
Yeah, that was a fun trip. It was my first proper solo backpacking trip, just a student with all the time and not a care in the world. This was back in 2014 too so it was very budget friendly.
>What'd you do in Belarus and Moldova?
In Belarus I stayed mostly in Minsk. I found it difficult to get around as not a single soul in the entire country speaks a word of English, and I was very much a travel noob at the time too. The hostel I stayed at was quite dead, but me and a guy there went to the Khatyn memorial. Minsk itself was a very fascinating city to stroll around in, the city was completely demolished in the war, so everything was rebuilt in grand communist fashion. I went out for drinks by myself a few times, but the nightlife there was non-existent. Highly rated places on Google were completely dead, as in I was the only guest there. It was really weird, worst nightlife of any city I visited in Eastern Europe. I wish I had any exciting stories from Moldova, but alas I got a nasty case of food poisoning literally my first day there, so I spent most of my time on the shitter in Tiraspol and Chisinau. I spent a week recuperating in Brasov afterwards.
>>2819885
Thanks man. I really like your map, you must have a lot of exciting stories to tell. Please share some photos from Fiji and Tonga :)

>>2819989
>Don't own anything.
Ok Klaus

Just got back from Japan and I'm already thinking about a second trip there.

But before that I probably will want to do a trip to Italy and one to Poland for genealogy stuff.

My trip to Japan was two weeks but now I think it might be a more efficient use of PTO to do two one week trips a year than one two week trips. At least until I switch jobs and have an opportunity to take a longer one between jobs.

Learned a few things from Japan, including not to go there during the summer and also it's probably worth not being so cheap with hotels and also that it's a good idea to include rest days on a longer trip.

If I go to Italy I can't decide if I would rather do Florence Rome and Naples or a Northern Italy trip to Venice during Carnival and then go skiing and see an Opera in Milan.

If I go to Poland I'm not sure if I would rather do the entire trip in Poland, or add on either Ukraine or Czechia.

>>2820841
Rome, Florence, Bologna, Verona and Venice are all on the high speed train route. That's the way to do it your first time. Do a day in Bologna. Climb the tower.

>>2819222 (OP)
Lol why would I give you free data so you earn money? Go scrape this site like everyone else.

>Own country
Tijuana, Saltillo, San luis, Guadalajara, Cdmx, Cd Neza
>USA
Los Angeles, Hoboken, Manhattan
>Japan
Tokyo, Chiba, Nagoya, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka
>China
Beijing.

No hate against China but that was my first time traveling to a country where I couldn't communicate efficiently with people. Their broken english was worse than the japanese and even when they used their phones to translate to english it was a nightmare.
Plus it's not my first language either so I'll just stick with more Japan, English and Spanish speaking countries in the future.

>>2820011
>Thanks man. I really like your map, you must have a lot of exciting stories to tell. Please share some photos from Fiji and Tonga :)
Yeah for sure. I honestly have no exciting stories to tell since I only did the normie stuff, but it was an adventure nevertheless. Traveling to this part of the world was interesting & I'm glad it wasn't dull as people on /trv/ make it seem.
Fiji is honestly what you'd expect: tropical paradise, boat cruises, expensive. But it's not sovless. Locals were very welcoming and laidback, cuisine was delicious, and the airport was interesting.
It's interesting how Fiji and Tonga are practically neighbors but are very different. Fiji's islands are mostly mountainous. Then you see Tonga and realize how the environment changed quickly. Landing in Vava'u, you're greeted by cliffs, deep blue waters, islands filled with palm trees with no resorts in sight. Driving from the airport was wild. Unpaved roads, chickens, cows and pigs running about, a boring main town, no infrastructure for tourism at all. But I was there for the whale swim (which I saw plenty), so it was great.
If traveling around Polynesia wasn't so expensive, I could probably do 2 separate trips there per year. I'm already planning for another visit 2 years from now to other nations.