There Are Only 22 Countries in the World That the British Haven’t Invaded — mentalfloss.com

Of the almost 200 current member states (and one observer state) of the United Nations, the British have, at some point in history, invaded and established a military presence in 171 of them. This is what British historian Stuart Laycock learned after his son asked him how many countries Britain had invaded. He dug into the history of almost 200 nations and found only 22 that the Brits hadn’t marched into. He talks about each one in All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To, released earlier this year.

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