Youngest person to visit 196 countries was 24 years old
James Asquith from the United Kingdom became the youngest person to visit all sovereign countries when he was 24 years and 192 days old in 2013, according to the Guinness World Records. James, who visited 196 countries in a span of five years, ended his journey in the Federated States of Micronesia on 8 July 2013.