Turks and Caicos Islands
The Turks and Caicos Islands is a British Overseas Territory, in Caribbean. UN Tourism counted 1.6 million international arrivals there in 2019, rarer than 59% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Hologram.
- International arrivals
- 1.6 millionin 2019, UN Tourism
- Rank by visitors
- 117th of 199most visited first
- Stamp finish
- Hologramrarer than 59%
- Area
- 446 km² (172 sq mi)
- Population
- 38,000Natural Earth estimate
- Regions
- 6in Globestamp’s regions layer
- Airports
- 5with scheduled flights
Does the Turks and Caicos Islands count as a country?
It depends on the list. The Turks and Caicos Islands is a British Overseas Territory, so it is not one of the UN’s 193 members, but Globestamp’s list of 250 countries and territories counts it on its own. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Turks & Caicos Islands”.
| List | Counts the Turks and Caicos Islands? |
|---|---|
| UN member states (193) | No |
| Globestamp’s countries and territories (250) | Yes |
| Travelers’ Century Club (330) | Yes, as Turks & Caicos Islands |
| European Union | No |
| Schengen area | No |
The Turks and Caicos Islands belongs to the United Kingdom, but travelers usually count it on its own, because it has its own entry rules, its own flag or its own place on the map. Other places in the same family: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar and Guernsey.
The Turks and Caicos Islands stamp
Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. The Turks and Caicos Islands’s is Hologram: cracked ice, a mosaic of small mirrors, the finish for places with 500,000 to 2 million visitors a year. With 1.6 million international arrivals in 2019, the Turks and Caicos Islands is rarer than 59% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.
What counts as a visit to the Turks and Caicos Islands
The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts the Turks and Caicos Islands when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.
Airports
The Turks and Caicos Islands has 5 airports with scheduled flights, 1 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).
6 regions to fill in
Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits the Turks and Caicos Islands into 6 regions (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.
All 6
Grand Turk · Middle Caicos · North Caicos · Providenciales and West Caicos · Salt Cay · South Caicos and East Caicos
Questions people ask
Is the Turks and Caicos Islands a country?
It depends on the list. The Turks and Caicos Islands is a British Overseas Territory, so it is not one of the UN’s 193 members, but Globestamp’s list of 250 countries and territories counts it on its own. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Turks & Caicos Islands”.
How many tourists visit the Turks and Caicos Islands a year?
UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 1,599,000 international arrivals in the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2019, the 117th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.
How rare is a Turks and Caicos Islands stamp in Globestamp?
It is printed in Hologram, the finish for places with 500,000 to 2 million visitors a year, rarer than 59% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.
Does the Turks and Caicos Islands count for the Travelers’ Century Club?
Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Turks & Caicos Islands”, one of its 330 destinations.
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Sources
- Countries, cities and regions: Natural Earth 10m admin-0 (public domain); lists as of October 2026.
- Visitors: UN Tourism via the World Bank, ST.INT.ARVL (International tourism, number of arrivals), CC BY 4.0, data updated 2026-10-08. Each country's latest year before 2020. Countries count visitors differently; use as a rough rank.
- World Heritage Sites, parks, landmarks and the bucket-list places: Wikidata (CC0), as compiled in the app, October 2026.
- Airports: OurAirports (public domain), airports with scheduled service.
- Travelers’ Century Club: the club’s list of 330 destinations, as of January 2022.