Did You Know The Indian Passport Allows You To Travel To 59 Countries Without A Visa?!

Yes, that’s true. If you hold an Indian passport, you can travel to 59 countries without a visa (or with a visa on arrival). Recently, Arton Capital, a financial advisory firm, came up with a ranking of passports based on how powerful the passport of a nation is. The more the countries a passport allows you to visit without a visa the more powerful it is said to be.

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While the US and UK top the list with the most powerful passports enabling access to 147 countries without visa, India stands somewhere midway at 59 countries. The power index of a passport is highly dependent on the nation’s ranking on the international scene, in terms of trade, power, GDP, etc.

Here are the countries your Indian passport enables you to visit without a visa (or with a visa on arrival): 

1. Bhutan
2. Hong Kong
3. Thailand
4. South Korea (Jeju)
5. Macau
6. Nepal
7. Antarctica
8. Seychelles
9. FYRO Macedonia
10. Svalbard
11. Dominica
12. Grenada
13. Haiti
14. Jamaica
15. Montserrat
16. St. Kitts & Nevis
17. St. Vincent & Grenadines
18. Trinidad & Tobago
19. Turks & Caicos Islands
20. British Virgin Islands
21. El Salvador
22. Ecuador
23. Cook Islands
24. Fiji
25. Micronesia
26. Niue
27. Samoa
28. Vanuatu
29. Cambodia
30. Indonesia
31. Laos
32. Zimbabwe
33. Timor Leste
34. Iraq (Basra)
35. Jordan
36. Comoros Is.
37. Maldives
38. Mauritius
39. Cape Verde
40. Djibouti
41. Ethiopia
42. Gambia
43. Guinea-Bissau
44. Kenya
45. Madagascar
46. Mozambique
47. Sao Tome & Principe
48. Tanzania
49. Togo
50. Uganda
51. Georgia
52. Tajikistan
53. St. Lucia
54. Nicaragua
55. Bolivia
56. Guyana
57. Nauru
58. Palau
59. Tuvalu

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