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Danish traveller Thor Pedersen completes 10-year round-the-world journey without flying

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Thor Pedersen has spent nearly 10 years travelling the globe via train, bus, car, boat and foot. (Supplied: Thor Pedersen)

After almost a decade of travel, a Danish man has become the first person to visit every country in the world in an unbroken journey without flying.

44-year-old Torbjørn "Thor" Pedersen set off in October 2013 on an ambitious mission he expected would take four years.

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