Been or gone?
We often use been to, instead of gone to, when we refer to completed visits to a place: …

been | American Dictionary

been
us/bɪn/
past participle of be
Been is also used to mean visited or traveled:
"Have you ever been to Africa?" "No, I’ve never been there, but I’d love to go."

Examples of been

been
Originals of figures should not be sent until the paper has been accepted.
They may have been a movie, but a movie about what?
In circumstances where effectiveness has not been proven, then the usual treatment, which is the most widely used treatment, should be used.
Six diverse trials of potentially universal postnatal interventions have been reported.
In the past, there has been no evidence of the cost-effectiveness of treatment.
However, examples exist of programs for both adults and children that have been successful, at least in the short term.
They have not always been seen in this light.
There has been no systematic study of the optimal conditions for facilitation.
This difference has also been found in other vertebrate systems.
Many factors have been reported to be responsible.
Other cell types have been much more difficult to study because they are relatively rare and difficult to identify in living preparations.
In modern times, too, quantification has been as closely tied to administration as to science.
But it had no tradition of doing this, because in the past there had never been any need.
It holds that it is never permitted to pay for an object x, if x could have been obtained for free.
Although many countries are planning to privatise, there has been little research into the effects of water privatisation.
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