This is from Will in Iowa:
Danes have greatest freedom of movement, able to cross the border of 157 countries and territories without a visa.
Germany is number two, the U.S. number three, and Afghanis have a tough time getting to Iowa or indeed most other places.
“Afghanis have a tough time getting to Iowa.”
What? Members of the Taliban are not allowed to visit Iowa? Alert Will Wilkinson immediately!
C’mon Will, even you know that all Afghanis have a “Taliban” gene…
They’re all dangerous, I tell you!
Do the Danes have really strict visa requirements for the rest of the world? I just wonder where the 1 or 2 countries difference from the rest of the world comes from.
What would also be interesting is the inverse: which countries are the most difficult to get to? 157 odd countries allow Danish citizens to enter their borders without a visa, a progressively (well, regaressively really) smaller number allow citizens of countries in but how many allow no one without a visa?
North Korea? Any others?
I’m not sure that Russia exempts any non-national from applying for a visa in advance.
Citizens of many of the former Soviet Republics can travel to Russia w/o a visa, and Russians may travel to many of the former Soviet Republics w/o one. That’s another thing to consider. Visa-free travel to Kygyzstan is okay, I guess, but not as useful, in general, as visa-free travel to the EU countries.
Eli- you should at least put in some dots there to make clear that you’ve taken out the “in general”! It’s a pretty important difference.
Fair enough Matt, my bad, apologies…
Here’s another Denmark fact of the day. The Danish word for English “cloud” is “sky”. As many a visitor has joked, there’s not a sky in the cloud.
“To be fair, who’d want to go to Iowa, particularly now?”
Once the democrats have banned smoking everywhere in the U.S. except for one house in Iowa, you will have smokers in California driving to Iowa on their lunch break to light up a cig!
They should have the most freedom to move around. I recently posted on item on my blog arguing they are the most egalitarian, most market-oriented, most idealistic, and happiest people on earth. Who wouldn’t want them to visit?
By the way Steve McLeod, using your data the US and others are in fifth place, not third. Finland, Ireland and Portugal are in a tie for second through fourth.
If you, I, Tyler and Alex were in a race and I won that race, and Tyler and Alex finished next with the exact same time, and then you finished, you would be the fourth runner to cross the finish line, hence your place in the standings would be “4″, not “3″.
Why are there differences between EU members significant enough that the U.S. places within the same range?
What country accepts Americans (Unitedstatesians) but not Canadians? Why? Is that country already too polite?
These days, at least, it’s Afghanis who should be afraid of invading Iowans rather than the other way around.
Hi,
Germans can travel to 155 countries visa-free; Danes, to 157 countries. I know Danes need no visa for Niger, while Germans need one. What is the other country Danes can enter visa-free? Where can I learn (besides Wikipedia)to what countries Danes can travel visa-free?
Thank you and many greetings,
Me
Hi,
The other country for which Danes need no visa is Vietnam (Germans need a visa for Niger and Vietnam).
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