Globe-trotting Clinton reaches 100-country mark

The globe-trotting Clinton hit the century mark when she stepped off her Air Force Boeing 757 plane in Latvia's capital, Riga. No other secretary of state has visited more than 96 countries while in office, according to the State Department.

The previous record-holder was Madeleine Albright, the top U.S. diplomat during President Bill Clinton's second term.

In 3½ years on the job, Clinton has logged 70 trips to countries from Afghanistan to Zambia, the department said. She has spent 337 days on the road, including more than 1,750 hours, or more than 73 days, on her Air Force 757, according to the department.

Counting her trips abroad as first lady, Clinton has now represented the United States in 122 countries, according to her staff.

Clinton, who first visited Riga with her husband in 1994, was in Latvia on the second stop of a four-nation European swing. She visited Finland on Wednesday and plans later stops in St. Petersburg, Russia, and then Geneva, where she will attend an international conference aimed at ending the crisis in Syria.