This map tells you how powerful your passport is

An infographic from Good magazine illustrates how much freedom of travel a country's passport affords its citizens. The map of the world, titled 'How Powerful is Your Passport?', is colour-coded to show which countries' citizens have the most freedom of movement. 

The map is colour-coded such that the lighter the colour a country is, the lesser countries its citizens can travel to visa-free and vice versa for the countries in darker colours.

The passports that allows visa-free access or visa on arrival to over 170 countries are mostly western countries such as Germany, Denmark, Canada, France, and Spain. Japan, from the east, is the notable exception.

An Afghani passport allows the traveller the least amount of freedom, allowing visa on arrival travel to only 28 countries. Iraq is the second lowest at 31 countries.

Not surprisingly the United States passport allows visa-free travel to 172 countries but it still does not top the list. That honour goes to the United Kingdom (UK), Finland and Sweden, with 173 countries.

For us Indians, the magic number is 52 countries.

You can view a higher resolution of the infographic here.