| Pope John Paul II�s Travels Journeys Outside of Italy |
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| 1979 January 25�February 1 Dominican Republic, Mexico, with a stopover in the Bahamas June 2�10 Poland September 29�October 7 Ireland and the United States. The US leg of the trip began October 1. November 28�30 Turkey 1980 May 2�12 Zaire, Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and Ivory Coast May 30�June 2 France June 30�July 12 Brazil November 15�19 West Germany 1981 February 16�27 Philippines, Guam, and Japan, with stopovers of several hours in Pakistan and in Anchorage, Alaska 1982 February 12�19 Nigeria, Benin, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea May 12�15 Portugal (including Fatima) May 28�June 2 Great Britain June 10�13 Argentina (stopover in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) June 15 Switzerland August 29 San Marino October 31�November 9 Spain 1983 March 2�10 Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Haiti (stopover in Lisbon, Portugal) June 16�23 Poland August 14�15 Lourdes, France September 10�13 Austria 1984 May 2�12 South Korea, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Thailand (stopover in Fairbanks, Alaska) June 12�17 Switzerland September 9�20 Canada October 10�12 Spain, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico 1985 January 26�February 6 Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago May 11�21 Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg August 8�19 Togo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Kenya, Morocco September 8 Liechtenstein 1986 February 1�February 10 India July 1�8 Colombia, St. Lucia October 4�7 France November 19�December 1 Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Fiji, Singapore, Seychelles 1987 March 31�April 13 Uruguay, Chile, Argentina April 30�May 4 West Germany June 8�14 Poland September 10�20 United States and Canada 1988 May 7�18 Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay June 23�27 Austria September 10�19 Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, with a detour through South Africa October 8�11 France 1989 April 28�May 6 Madagascar, Reunion, Zambia, and Malawi June 1�10 Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden August 19�21 Spain October 6�16 South Korea, Indonesia, East Timor, Mauritius 1990 January 25�February 1 Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad April 21�22 Czechoslovakia May 6�13 Mexico, Curacao May 25�27 Malta September 1�10 Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ivory Coast 1991 May 10�13 Portugal June 1�9 Poland August 13�20 Poland, Hungary October 12�21 Brazil 1992 February 19�26 Senegal, Gambia, Guinea June 4�10 Angola, S�o Tom�, Principe October 9�14 Dominican Republic 1993 February 3�10 Benin, Uganda, Sudan April 25 Albania June 12�17 Spain August 9�16 Jamaica, Mexico, United States (World Youth Day held in Denver) September 4�10 Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia 1994 September 10�11 Croatia 1995 January 12�21 Philippines, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka May 20�22 Czech Republic, Poland June 3�4 Belgium June 30 Slovakia September 14�20 Cameroon, Kenya, South Africa October 4�8 United States 1996 February 5�12 Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela April 14 Tunisia May 17�19 Slovenia June 21�23 Germany September 6�7 Hungary September 19�22 France 1997 April 12�13 Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina April 25�27 Czech Republic May 10�11 Lebanon May 31�June 10 Poland August 21�24 France October 2�5 Brazil 1998 January 21�25 Cuba March 21�23 Nigeria June 19�21 Austria October 2�4 Croatia 1999 January 22�25 Mexico City, Mexico January 26�27 St. Louis, Missouri May 7�9 Romania June 5�17 Poland September 19 Slovenia November 5�9 New Delhi, India, and Tbilisi, Georgia 2000 Feb. 24�26 Egypt March 20�26 Jordan, Israel, Palestinian Autonomous Territory May 12�13 Fatima, Portugal 2001 May 4�5 Athens, Greece May 5�6 Syria May 8�9 Malta June 23�27 Ukraine September 22�27 Armenia and Kazakstan 2002 May 22�26 Azerbaijan and Bulgaria July 23�August 1 Canada, Guatemala, and Mexico August 16�19 Poland 2003 May 3�4 Spain June 5�9 Croatia June 22 Bosnia-Herzegovina September 11-14 Slovakia 2004 June 5-6 Switzerland August 14-15 Lourdes, France |
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| Pope John Paul II has traveled approximately 742,000 miles, according to an October 15, 2002, report from the Vatican Information Service marking the 24th anniversary of the Holy Father�s election as Pope. | |||||||||
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