{"id":307047,"date":"2026-10-22T10:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=307047"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:29:58","slug":"63-destinations-visa-free-how-does-armenias-passport-compare-with-those-of-its-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/307047\/","title":{"rendered":"63 destinations visa-free: How does Armenia\u2019s passport compare with those of its neighbors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The consulting firm Henley &amp; Partners has published its Passport <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henleyglobal.com\/passport-index\/ranking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Index<\/a>, ranking countries based on the number of destinations accessible to their citizens without a visa. The index covers 199 passports and 227 destinations, providing users with comprehensive and reliable information on global travel freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia is ranked 78th. Citizens holding an Armenian passport can travel visa-free to 63 destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Among neighboring states, Turkey is in 51st place (112 destinations). Azerbaijan is ranked 73rd (68 destinations), Georgia 47th (121 destinations), and Iran 98th (37 destinations).<\/p>\n<p>Singapore holds the top spot with 193 visa-free destinations. Second place is shared by Japan, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates with 188 destinations, while Sweden ranks third (187).<\/p>\n<p>More than ten European countries share fourth place with 186 visa-free destinations each. The United Kingdom is ranked sixth (184), and the United States tenth (180).<\/p>\n<p>The world&rsquo;s weakest passports belong to Iraq (28), Syria (25), and Afghanistan (22).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consulting firm Henley &amp; Partners has published its Passport Index, ranking countries based on the number of destinations accessible to their citizens without a visa. The index covers 199 passports and 227 destinations, providing users with comprehensive and reliable information on global travel freedom. Armenia is ranked 78th. Citizens holding an Armenian passport can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":307040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,97,95,82,47,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-georgia-en","category-azerbeijan","category-turkey","category-society","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307048,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307047\/revisions\/307048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}