The Associated Press

Pope John Paul II ended his 96th international tour Sunday, and the Vatican suggested for the first time that the most-traveled pope might have to scale back future trips because of his increasingly feeble condition.

Here is a look at the trips of John Paul, who, according to Vatican statistics, has traveled nearly three times the distance between the Earth and the moon and spent about 10 percent of his time outside of the Vatican.

In 24 years as pope, John Paul has visited more than 140 countries on 96 different trips.

His first foreign destinations were the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the Bahamas on Jan. 25-Feb. 1, 1979. His second was to his homeland, Poland, in June of that year.

He clocked the most countries in 1985, when he visited 16 countries on four separate tours: Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad; the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Belgium; Togo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Kenya, Morocco; and Switzerland and Leichtenstein.

He visited nine countries on a single tour March 2-10, 1983: Portugal, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Haiti.

In recent years, John Paul has stuck to more limited itineraries and shorter visits. His 96th tour took him to Azerbaijan and Bulgaria, his 95th to Kazakstan and Armenia, and his 94th to Ukraine.

Two of the countries the pope hasn't yet visited: China and Russia.