The world travel map is the simplest way to see every trip you've ever taken in one picture. Click a country to mark it visited. Click a US state to mark that one too. Watch your percentage of the world and your continent count grow with every click. No account, no upload, no sign-in wall — just a map and your memories, saved quietly in your own browser.
What is My Travel Maps?
It's a full-screen, interactive world map combined with a US states map in a single tool. You can flip between the two views using the tabs above the map, but both views share one visited list. Mark Italy on the world view; mark Oregon on the US view; both count toward the same running travel tally.
Under the hood, the countries are drawn from Natural Earth's 110-metre boundaries and the states from the US Census Bureau's TIGER dataset. The cream basemap is CartoDB Voyager, built on OpenStreetMap. All of your selections live in your browser's local storage under the key mtm_state — so they persist through browser restarts, but never leave your device.
Who uses My Travel Maps?
- Frequent international travelers who also road-trip the US and want a single dashboard for both kinds of trips.
- Families recapping the summer — parents and kids can take turns marking everywhere they went together.
- Flight attendants, pilots, and crew who spend their careers landing in new cities and want a visual of the last ten years.
- Digital nomads and remote workers who want to look back at where they worked from each year, without spreadsheets.
- Anyone with a scratch map at home who wants a digital version they can share and update.
How to create your travel map
The interface is designed so that you never have to read instructions. But here's the full flow if you want to know every corner of it:
- Mode toggle (top-right): decides what clicking a country does. “Visited” marks it green. “Want to visit” marks it sage. Clicking the same country again removes the mark.
- Clear all (top-right, red): wipes every country and state from both your visited list and wish list. You'll be asked to confirm.
- View tabs (top): switch between the world and US states views without losing any of your selections.
- Stats bar (bottom): shows countries visited, percentage of the world, continents touched, US states, and wish-list count — all in real time.
What you can do with your travel map
People use the world travel map for different reasons, and we've deliberately left it flexible enough to work for all of them:
- Travel journal: a living record of where you've been.
- Bucket list: mark the places you want to go before the ones you've been.
- Trip planning: see gaps on your map and pick the next destination to fill them.
- Family recap: a shared visual of every family trip, for the mantel or the Christmas card.
- Personal milestones: mark the country where you got married, studied abroad, or met someone important.
Five real examples from our users
1. The backpacker catching up
Someone who's backpacked through 40 countries over six years but never kept a list. Ten minutes on the world map and they suddenly have a colored-in Europe, most of Southeast Asia, and a precise number to put on their travel CV: “43 countries, 5 continents.”
2. The family summer recap
A family returns from a summer road trip across the western US, marks California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado on the states map, screenshots it, and prints it as a keepsake for the kids' bedroom wall.
3. The flight attendant snapshot
A long-haul flight attendant with 15 years on international routes marks every country she's laid over in, then flips to US states to catch the domestic legs. The result is a birds-eye view of a career spent in airports.
4. The couple planning a year off
A couple plotting a one-year sabbatical uses “Want to visit” mode to highlight 20 candidate countries in pale sage. As they book tickets, they flip each one from wish list to green visited — a satisfying progress bar for the trip.
5. The yearly review
A remote worker opens the map every December to mark the new countries and states they spent time in that year. Comparing last year's map to this year's makes an otherwise abstract lifestyle feel tangible.