Countries with the Best Passports

Some are not in the Schengen area yet - Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus.

Before I saw your comment and after taking the quiz, I was hoping someone would do a quiz for the least welcoming countries. I wondered if each time it concerned the same ~25 countries. And which ones are they.

gonna take yours, it is fun too, but still hoping for the opposite one :)

That is very odd since there are only a handfull they cant go to, and most likely others countries cant go there either. Thailand the only one??

Most likely not a citizen but merely a resident.

Actually I just checked the source and it looks like the UK should be on here, tied with Singapore.

It turns out the vatican doesnt not have extra special superpowers :D

Surprising UK isnt there along with the rest of western europe.

Im extremely curious what the countries are that these countries cant visit. So basicly "Which country has the most powerfull forcefield, that can withstand even the most powerfull of passports!"

Who do Turkmenistan and Iraq welcome?

I was wondering if the UK fell off the list because of brexit

In my own travels I had to apply for visas to these countries:

Russia (expensive and time consuming, especially because I had a US passport), Belarus (not that bad since I had a sponsor in the country), Saudi Arabia (work visa, and the company paid for everything, but still an enormous hassle), India (pain in the butt though not as bad as Russia, and especially expensive because I'm American), Vietnam (took a day with expedited service in 2008; in 2014 I could just do it online and it was easy)

Everywhere else I went was visa-free or visa-on-arrival and fairly routine and painless. The small number of places where I had to get visas, though, I noticed that there was often a significantly higher fee for Americans than for nationals from other countries. But this minor inconvenience was outweighed by the large number of places I could go to without even thinking about it.

South of China

Why? (legitimate question)

Palau can be explained. It was part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands after World War II, which was administered by the US. When the nation became independent, it was given a Compact of Free Association with the US. The other two independent countries that were in the TTPI, Marshall Islands and FS Micronesia, also have a compact with the US and do not require a visa.

It's due to reciprocal arrangements most likely.

Spaghetti Road has a cool video on this! Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0QBCXG7osw

@rabble, Bangladesh and Pakistan being so low surprises me also. I'm guessing that many governments are afraid that, given the large amount of immigration from these countries, people from there will immigrate en masse if there isn't some sort of restriction. While I don't necessarily agree with these policies, it does have an element of truth to it: it's very common for South Asians to "immigrate" by overstaying their visits, even when they're on a visa. If you go just a bit further, you'll find Nepal and Sri Lanka are also pretty weak, both with 54 visa-free countries. I think India is slightly better because it's powerful enough to negotiate with more countries, but even then it only has visa-free access to 72 countries--not great.

UAE can see fossil fuel disappearing as a source of money so are positioning themselves as a tourist destination. Makes sense to prioritise reciprocal arrangements with other countries, especially major sources of passengers who willo fly through there.

Again: why?

This list ranks countries you can visit without a visa. Henley's ranks those you can visit with a visa. That's a rather large distinction, enough to make a different quiz entirely on

They were on here before. Currently they are tied for 5th place with 4 other countries. And like I said above... all of these countries after the UAE are so close together that ranking them almost seems silly and they are basically all tied... until you get down to Malaysia which is 40th on the list if you look at the source (but only in the 9th ranked position given the numerous ties).

There's an 11-way tie for 2nd, an 8-way tie for 3rd, and a 6-way tie for 4th, so those tied for 5th place don't make the top-26-country cutoff, even though the difference between 2nd place and 5th place is only having visa-free access to 3 more countries.

and... just to speculate as to why Singapore may be ranked (ever so slightly) lower than the rest of these countries ... those that do show up above are either in Europe (and thus much more integrated with the large number of other countries in Europe) or they are significantly larger than Singapore with bigger economies and more international trade. (...... or they are New Zealand, go figure...)

since this has more to do with international diplomacy and commerce and the positive relations your country has with all other countries than it has to do with anything else... these factors make a difference. Though.... again.... it's a negligible difference. Singapore misses the cut-off by one country.

No, it's not. Emirati citizens have access to 179 countries visa free