German passport is the world's strongest passport

In the case of backpackers traveling around the world and businessmen flying around in various countries and regions by airplane, "being a German" seems to be very advantageous.

It's good to be German: The world's most powerful passports - Quartz
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The number of "a country that can travel without a visa" or "a country where you can get an arrival visa" was measured and it was measured whether it was "a freely traveling country." Germany's passport was the most powerful, even without a visa, 218 It is possible to visit 177 countries and regions (including 177 in the country), companies that support the acquisition of citizenship and immigration right based on London "Henley & PartnersWent byVisa Restrictions Index 2016It was clarified from the results of the investigation.

ByJ Aaron Farr

It is from 2014 that Germany became "the country that can travel the most freely in the world". Next to Germany is freedom to travel in Sweden, the number of countries visited without a visa is 176 countries. Furthermore, the number of countries that can visit without Visa third is the third largest in the world, that is, the number of countries that can visit in the six countries of France, Finland, Italy, Spain and the UK is 175 countries. The United States, Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands are the fourth largest countries in the world that can travel without visas, with a total of 174 countries.

There are four countries, "Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan" which is the opposite of "Germany's most freely traveling country" opposite to Germany. Looking at the names of these countries, you can see that visa waiver is well on diplomatic relations with other countriesQuartz. According to Henley & Partners, it is said that visa requirements are established from the viewpoints of "mutual visa measures, risks in terms of safety, risk of infringement of immigration control regulations" and so on.


In addition, Tonga, Palau, Colombia, East Timor, it seems that the four countries have greatly increased the number of visa free countries from the previous survey. In addition, the Golden Residence · Permit Program (also known as Golden Visa), which makes Portuguese launched in 2012 from the EU area investor easier to acquire residence rights within the EU area, as of 2016 It is the sixth most powerful world in the world, meaning that it is a passport that can travel without visa to many countries, and people who got a Golden visa can travel to 172 countries without a visa.

Besides Australia and Singapore, Japan has the fifth largest number of countries without visa in the world, the number of which is 173 countries.