Regions Review

As we continue progressing with the regional changes process, we are now approaching Europe. The updates below are based on our Roadmap and the NomadMania Optimal Score methodology. European countries where ONE NEW region is being added: Austria - Bulgaria - Croatia -...

As we began the regional changes process, many NomadMania members actively sent us their proposals — from adding new regions based on the guidelines to offering thoughtful revisions of internal borders. The level of engagement and expertise has been incredible. In...

As we began the regional changes process, members of NomadMania have been gathering around the world to actively participate in reviewing regions in their areas. Recently, an important meeting took place in Bangkok, bringing together local Thai travellers, expats...

As announced in the Regions Review Roadmap, we are officially beginning the implementation of regional changes across selected countries. This post presents the first batch of countries where changes were approved through community voting. The countries included in...

As part of the NomadMania regions review project we have developed Criteria for New Regions, the Optimal Score system for regions per country and the Region Review Guide to define what can and should be done. We have also consulted the community through two polls and...

As we recently began the process of reviewing the NomadMania Masterlist of Regions (see this Guide to Regions Review), many members have reached out to us with thoughtful suggestions on how regional divisions could be improved in their home countries. Below is a...

We are currently going through one of the most important stages in NomadMania’s existence: the review of the Regions Masterlist, which forms the backbone of our community. While there is no single “correct” way to divide the world, our goal is to address past mistakes...

One of NomadMania’s core missions is to help people explore the world in a meaningful way and understand it better. For this reason, we approach travel beyond the conventional division into continents and countries — we aim to go deeper and further. At the heart of...

The UPDATED optimal number of regions by country, compared with the current NomadMania division, is outlined below. This will serve as our primary reference when reviewing and updating regional classifications, alongside common sense and traditional regional division...

Happy 2026 to everybody and a special thanks to those who participated in our second poll regarding our possible changes to the Regions Masterlist. Based on both the first and the second polls, we will try to ‘theme’ results as best we can to make some directions...

Since its inception, NomadMania has always attempted to make a rational division of the world. Here, we will review the criteria that we use to decide how many regions a country should have and how these have developed across the almost 14 years of NomadMania history....