A passport is a booklet issued by countries to their citizens, permitting the person to travel to other countries. In some cases countries issue travel documents similar to passports to their residents. International organizations also issue travel documents, usually called laissez-passer, to their staff. This article shows images of the various passports currently issued.
Contemporary ordinary passports
Special cases
Passports where the captioned country is shown in italics are issued either by territories with extremely limited recognition of their passports or by states that are neither member states of the United Nations nor United Nations non-member observer states.
However, even though Taiwan maintains official diplomatic relations with only 14 countries, its "Republic of China (Taiwan) Passport" is still accepted as a valid travel document in most countries of the world. Although its passport enjoys (for nationals with rights of abode in Taiwan) visa-free (or visa on arrival access) status in 137 countries, ranking the ordinary Taiwanese passport 29th in the world (tied with Uruguay) according to the Visa Restrictions Index, some countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, the People's Republic of China (PRC), Jamaica and Mauritius, pursuant to their positions on Taiwan's political status, refuse to visé or stamp Taiwan passports, and instead issue visas on a separate travel document or a separate piece of paper to Taiwanese travellers to avoid conveying any kind of recognition to Taiwan as a polity distinct from the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Africa
North and Central America
South America
Asia
Europe
Oceania
International organizations and sovereign subjects of international law
Contemporary diplomatic passports
Types
Biometric passport
Internal passport
International passport
Machine-readable passport
Special passports
Camouflage passport
Fake passport
Green Book (Tibetan document) Hajj passport Pet passport
Not granting a right of abode
Certain passports do not, without additional endorsement, confer the right of abode anywhere and have varying international acceptance for travel: British National (Overseas) passport - GBN is widely accepted for international travel British Subject passport - GBS is widely accepted for international travel Sovereign Military Order of Malta passport has very limited travel acceptance Tongan Protected Person passport has very limited travel acceptance
Travel documents issued to non-nationals
1951 Convention Travel Document
1954 Convention Travel Document
Certificate of identity
Interpol passport
Laissez-passer (issued by the European Union and the United Nations) Nansen passport Travel document