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Guess which country has the least powerful passport in the world?

Did you guess an Arab speaking country? You’d be wrong. Did you guess a Middle Eastern country? Wrong again. Did you guess a country the US BEGAN invading in the last decade? Sorry, still wrong.

Did you guess an Arab speaking country? You’d be wrong. Did you guess a Middle Eastern country? Wrong again. Did you guess a country the US BEGAN invading in the last decade? Sorry, still wrong.

You wouldn’t be completely to blame for believing those three things to be true for Afghanistan (if that was the country you guessed) because let’s be honest, most people associate Afghanistan with terrorism and we’re led to believe terrorists come from the Middle East and speak Arabic.

The Central Asian country, where citizens speak Persian-based languages (SURPRISE although they both stem from Aramaic, Persian is totally different from Arabic), continues to suffer from the US invasion, which started in 2001 (well over 10 years ago) but this time it’s by having the least powerful passport around the world.

According to the 2017 Passport Index, a powerful passport is determined by its visa-free score.

Afghanistan currently has a visa-free score of 23, that’s considerably low compared to Germany, which has the most powerful passport in the world with a visa-free score of 157.

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Just behind Germany with the second most powerful passports worldwide are Sweden and Singapore, followed by Denmark, Finland, France, Spain, Norway, the UK and the USA in third place.

The Australian passport shares the sixth most powerful passport spot with New Zealand and Greece with a score of 153.

So we’re doing pretty well!

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Which country did you guess?