VATICAN CITY, OCT 13, 2003 (VIS) - Following is a brief summary of the 102 foreign apostolic trips made by Pope John Paul II in the past 25 years of his papacy. These are in addition to the 143 trips within Italy, the latest of which was October 7, 2003, when he went to the shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii. With a total of 245 trips within and outside Italy, the Holy Father has travelled 1,163,865 kilometers (698,310 miles).
1. Dominican Republic I, Mexico I, Bahamas: January 1979 (7 days, 36 speeches, 23,710 kilometers).
2. Poland I: June 1979 (8 days, 36 speeches, 3,185 kilometers).
3. Ireland, United States I: September 1979 (9 days, 76 speeches, 18,093 kilometers).
4. Turkey: November 1979 (2 days, 12 speeches, 3,785 kilometers).
5. Zaire I, Congo, Kenya I, Ghana, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) I, Ivory Coast I: May 1980 (10 days, 72 speeches, 18,914 kilometers).
6. France I: May 1980 (3 days, 30 speeches, 2,509 kilometers).
7. Brazil I: June 1980 (12 days, 51 speeches, 27, 673 kilometers).
8. Germany I: November 1980 (4 days, 29 speeches, 2,880 kilometers).
9. Pakistan, the Philippines I, Guam (United States II), Japan, Anchorage (United States II): February 1981 (11 days, 60 speeches, 35,120 kilometers).
10. Nigeria, Benin, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea: February 1982 (7 days, 44 speeches, 14,734 kilometers).
11. Portugal I: May 1982 (3 days, 22 speeches, 4,433 kilometers).
12. Great Britain: May 1982 (5 days, 27 speeches, 4,880 kilometers).
13. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil II), Argentina I: June 1982 (2 days, 8 speeches, 26,904 kilometers).
14. Geneva (Switzerland I): June 1982 (15 hours, 10 speeches, 1,412 kilometers).
15. San Marino: August 1982 (5 hours, 3 speeches, 235 kilometers).
16. Spain I: October 1982 (9 days, 48 speeches, 7,269 kilometers).
17. Lisbon (Portugal II), Costa Rica, Nicaragua I, Panama, El Salvador I, Guatemala I, Honduras, Belize, Haiti: March 1983 (8 days, 44 speeches, 24,009 kilometers).
18. Poland II: June 1983 (7 days, 23 speeches, 3,597 kilometers).
19. Lourdes (France II): August 1983 (2 days, 14 speeches, 2,096 kilometers).
20. Austria I: September 1983 (3 days, 20 speeches, 1,735 kilometers).
21. Fairbanks (United States III), Republic of Korea I, Papua New Guinea I, Solomon Islands, Thailand: May 1984 (9 days, 46 speeches, 38,441 kilometers).
22. Switzerland II: June 1984 (5 days, 36 speeches, 2,218 kilometers).
23. Canada I: September 1984 (11 days, 50 speeches, 26,843 kilometers).
24. Zaragoza (Spain II), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic II), San Juan (Puerto Rico): October 1984 (4 days, 10 speeches, 16,827 kilometers).
25. Venezuela I, Ecuador, Peru I, Trinidad and Tobago: January 1985 (11 days, 50 speeches, 29,821 kilometers).
26. The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium I: May 1985 (10 days, 59 speeches, 4,721 kilometers).
27. Togo, Ivory Coast II, Cameroon I, Central African Republic, Zaire II, Kenya II, Morocco: August 1985 (11 days, 44 speeches, 25,431 kilometers).
28. Kloten (Switzerland III), Lichtenstein: September 1985 (15 hours, 8 speeches, 1,580 kilometers).
29. India I: January 1986 (10 days, 41 speeches, 20,252 kilometers).
30. Colombia, Saint Lucia: July 1986 (7 days, 35 speeches, 21,127 kilometers).
31. France III: October 1986 (3 days, 27 speeches, 2,031 kilometers).
32. Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia I, the Seychelles: November 1986 (13 days, 57 speeches, 48,974 kilometers).
33. Uruguay I, Chile, Argentina II: March 1987 (13 days, 63 speeches, 36,613 kilometers).
34. Germany II: April 1987 (4 days, 22 speeches, 3,169 kilometers).
35. Poland III: June 1987 (6 days, 27 speeches, 4,559 kilometers).
36. United States IV, Fort Simpson (Canada II): September 1987 (11 days, 48 speeches, 30,465 kilometers).
37. Uruguay II, Bolivia, Lima (Peru II), Paraguay: May 1988 (12 days, 54 speeches, 34,420 kilometers).
38. Austria II: June 1988 (4 days, 20 speeches, 2,503 kilometers).
39. Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique: September 1988 (9 days, 43 speeches, 20,559 kilometers).
40. France IV: October 1988 (3 days, 2 speeches, 2,222 kilometers).
41. Madagascar, La Reunion, Zambia, Malawi: April 1989 (9 days, 36 speeches, 21,712 kilometers).
42. Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden: June 1989 (9 days, 38 speeches, 11,986 kilometers).
43. Santiago de Compostela, Asturias (Spain III): August 1989 (2 days, 9 speeches, 3,908 kilometers)44. Seoul (Republic of Korea II), Indonesia, (East Timor), Mauritius: October 1989 (10 days, 28 speeches, 39,047 kilometers).
45. Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso II, Chad: January 1990 (7 days, 36 speeches, 14,384 kilometers).
46. Czechoslovakia I: April 1990 (1 day, 10 speeches, 2,133 kilometers).
47. Mexico II, Curacao: May 1990 (8 days, 26 speeches, 29,233 kilometers).
48. Malta I: May 1990 (2 days, 12 speeches, 1,537 kilometers).
49. Luqa (Malta II), Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Yamoussoukro (Ivory Coast III): September 1990 (9 days, 41 speeches, 18,737 kilometers).
50. Portugal III: May 1991 (3 days, 12 speeches, 8,957 kilometers)51. Poland IV: June 1991 (8 days, 39 speeches, 4,581 kilometers).
52. Czestochowa (Poland V), Hungary: August 1991 (7 days, 28 speeches, 4,487 kilometers).
53. Brazil III: October 1991 (9 days, 31 speeches, 20,599 kilometers).
54. Senegal, Gambia, Guinea: February 1992 (8 days, 26 speeches, 10,010 kilometers).
55. Angola, Sao Tome and Principe: June 1992 (6 days, 2 speeches, 16,780 kilometers).
56. Dominican Republic III: October 1992 (5 days, 16 speeches, 15,114 kilometers).
57. Benin II, Uganda, Khartoum (Sudan): February 1993 (7 days 28 speeches, 15,331 kilometers).
58. Albania: April 1993 (14 hours, 4 speeches, 1,402 kilometers).
59. Spain IV: June 1993 (5 days, 17 speeches, 3,438 kilometers).
60. Jamaica, Merida (Mexico III), Denver (United States V): August 1993 (7 days, 22 speeches, 20,722 kilometers).
61. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia: September 1993 (6 days, 30 speeches, 5,359 kilometers).
62. Zagreb, Croatia: September 1994 (2 days, 5 speeches, 1,314 kilometers).
63. Manila (the Philippines II), Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea II), Sydney (Australia II), Colombo (Sri Lanka): January 1995 (10 days, 30 speeches, 33,415 kilometers).
64. Prague, Olomouc (Czech Republic I), Skoczow, Bielsko Biala, Zywiec (Poland VI), Ostrava (Czech Republic I): May 1995 (2 days, 11 speeches, 2,315 kilometers).
65. Belgium II: June 1995 (2 days, 7 speeches, 2,362 kilometers).
66. Slovak Republic I: June 1995 (3 days, 11 speeches, 2,642 kilometers).
67. Yaounde (Cameroon II), Johannesburg-Pretoria (Republic of South Africa), Nairobi (Kenya III): September 1995 (6 days 13 speeches, 16,782 kilometers).
68. Newark, New York, United Nations, Yonkers, Baltimore (United States VI): October 1995 (4 days, 15 speeches, 14,488 kilometers).
69. Guatemala II, Nicaragua II, El Salvador II, Venezuela II: February 1996 (6 days, 22 speeches, 24,061 kilometers).
70. Tunisia: April 1996 (12 hours, 6 speeches, 1,282 kilometers).
71. Slovenia: May 1996 (2 days, 8 speeches, 1,714 kilometers).
72. Germany III: June 1996 (2 days, 9 speeches, 2,573 kilometers).
73. Hungary II: September 1996 (2 days, 7 speeches, 1,891 kilometers).
74. France V: September 1996 (3 days, 12 speeches, 3,712 kilometers).
75. Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina): April 1997 (2 days, 11 speeches, 1,062 kilometers).
76. Czech Republic II: April 1997 (2 days, 8 speeches, 2,093 kilometers).
77. Beirut (Lebanon): May 1997 (2 days, 5 speeches, 4,489 kilometers).
78. Poland VII: May 1997 (10 days, 26 speeches, 3,878 kilometers).
79. Paris II (France VI): August 1997 (3 days, 11 speeches, 2,449 kilometers).
80. Rio de Janiero (Brazil IV): October 1997 (4 days, 8 speeches, 18,394 kilometers).
81. Cuba: January 1998 (5 days, 12 speeches, 18,576 kilometers).
82. Nigeria II: March 1998 (2 days, 7 speeches, 8,772 kilometers).
83. Austria III: June 1998 (2 days, 10 speeches, 2,052 kilometers).
84. Croatia II: October 1998 (2 days, 9 speeches, 1,330 kilometers).
85. Mexico City (Mexico), St. Louis (United States VII): January 1999 (6 days, 13 speeches, 21,502 kilometers).
86. Romania: May 1999 (3 days, 9 speeches, 2,640 kilometers).
87. Poland VIII: June 1999 (12 days, 30 speeches, 5,484 kilometers).
88. Slovenia II: September 1999 (1 day, 3 speeches, 1,500 kilometers).
89. New Delhi (India II), Georgia: November 1999 (5 days, 10 speeches, 12,621 kilometers).
90. Jubilee Pilgrimage to Mount Sinai: February 2000 (3 days, 4 speeches, 4,912 kilometers).
91. Jubilee Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: March 2000 (7 days, 14 speeches, 5,626 kilometers).
92. Fatima (Portugal IV): May 2000 (2 days, 1 speech, 4,174 kilometers).
93. Greece, Syria, Malta III: May 2001 (5 days, 19 speeches, 5,223 kilometers).
94. Ukraine: June 2001 (5 days, 11 speeches, 4,022 kilometers).
95. Kazakhstan, Armenia: September 2001 (6 days, 13 speeches, 9,772 kilometers).
96. Azerbaijan, Bulgaria: May 2002 (5 days, 11 speeches, 6,511 kilometers).
97. Toronto (Canada III), Guatemala City (Guatemala III), Mexico City (Mexico V): July - August 2002 (8 days, 11 speeches, 22,226 kilometers).
98. Poland IX: August 2002 (4 days, 6 speeches, 2,653 kilometers).
99. Spain V: May 2003 (2 days, 3 speeches, 2,724 kilometers).
100. Croatia III: June 2003 (5 days, 6 speeches, 2,392 kilometers).
101. Bosnia-Herzegovina II: June 2003 (1 day, 3 speeches, 996 kilometers).
102. Slovak Republic II: September 2003 (4 days, 7 speeches, 2,756 kilometers).
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