Germany the world's strongest passport

German passport owner can travel to 177 countries without a visa

The land that is free to go anywhere in the world, might be a haven for the traveler, and Germany once it deserves the nickname as the owner of the strongest passport of countries in the world.

Who does not want that to happen in our country, when the desire for travel into one of the incentives to look at various other countries throughout the world. Countries with the flexibility to be able to show a passport to travel is strong, the owner of the passport can freely visit hundreds of countries around the world.

A survey conducted by the Office of Immigration UK and population firm survey Henley & Partners, the United States and the UK is not the owner of the strongest passport, of the results of checks on passports of 199 countries with regard to access visits to 218 countries in the world, using data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the most comprehensive travel information center.


From the results of the investigation made the rankings, as the quote from a website, the appropriate amount of access visits to other countries, without visas, as of January 1, 2016.

The article on the Independent site, writes that Germany is a country with a passport strongest in the world for three consecutive years. German passport owner can freely travel to 177 countries without having to apply for a visa.

Of course we are curious, because it considers the different facts, or let's say that a United States citizen is considered as the owner of the passport of the strongest in the world, so with the owner of the passport of other European countries, including Britain.

The results of the investigation of 10 grouped ranking countries can be seen in the following.

1. Germany, 177 State
2. Sweden, 176 State
3. Finland, France, Italy, Spain, England, 175 State
4. Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, United States, 174 State
5. Austria, Japan, Singapore, 173 State

6. Canada, Ireland, Korea, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, 172 State
7. Greece, New Zealand, 171 State
8. Australia, 169 State
9. Malta, 168 State
10. Hungary, the Czech Republic, Iceland, 167 State

What about countries with insufficient strength passport or passport considered weak? Several countries recorded, such as Indonesia with the freedom of visiting a country without a visa as many as 55 countries in the world (visa on arrival), including 21 countries in Asia, nine countries in Africa, nine countries in Europe, six countries in Oceania, the five countries in Central America and five countries in South America.

Weakest passport owner countries are Afghanistan that are known to have visa-free access to 25 countries, while Pakistan has only visa-free to 29 countries and Iraq could only access 30 countries. Despite this, travelers always have the best way to realize their travels throughout the world, for sure.

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(Source T Wahyuni ​​& A Khoiri - CNN Indonesia, Independent /Images Ni Kdk R Riyanti)