The following is a list of explorers. Their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries when they were active and main areas of exploration are listed below.
^"Travellers on the Silk Road before the year 1000 AD - Silk-Road.com". Archived from the original on 11 April 2001. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
^Battuta's Travels: Part Three – Persia and Iraq Archived 23 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^"Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky: Consisting of His Military Operations in Poland, His Exile into Kamchatka, His Escape and Voyage from that Peninsula through the Northern Pacific Ocean, Touching at Japan and Formosa, to Canton in China, with an Account of the French Settlement He Was Appointed to Form upon the Island of Madagascar". World Digital Library. 1790. Archived from the original on 22 April 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
^"Sahara and Sudan: The Results of Six Years Travel in Africa". World Digital Library. 1879–1889. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2013.