Scouting may have originated in the UK after Robert Baden-Powell founded the organization in 1907, but the Scouting movement itself now spans 216 countries, with over 38 million Scout and Guide members.

International organizations vary across the globe with different uniforms, traditions and activities but all hold the same core values.

The Scouts website says: “The big step across the Atlantic, and into the United States, came more by chance. In 1909, an American businessman, William Boyce, was lost in the fog of London, when a small boy approached him, and offered to take him to his hotel. Once there, the boy refused any offer of money for the service, saying that it was his good turn as a Boy Scout.

Boyce was intrigued by this and tracked down Baden Powell before he left London to learn more. When he got back to the USA, he went about setting up the Boy Scouts of America.”

The national Scouting organization of Indonesia, Gerakan Pramuka Indonesia, has over 17 million members making it the world’s largest Scouting organization.

Many think that as it originated here, UK Scouting would be the world’s largest but actually only comes in around ninth (as of 2012).

Five countries around the world don’t have any kind of Scouting organization in their country. They include Andorra, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vatican City – the last of which often isn’t included.

Up until 2008, even Mainland China didn’t have a Scouting organization, but now have various Scouting activities.