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North Korea passport: where can you travel visa-free?

21 destinations with no prior paperwork out of 197 listed countries.

World map of visa regimes

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A valid residence permit or visa can open extra countries, regardless of your nationality. Tick what you hold:

  • Visa-free
  • Visa on arrival
  • Electronic authorisation (eTA)
  • E-visa
  • Visa required
  • Admission refused

Hover or tap a country to see its regime.

Visa-free (10)

  • Dominica · 21 days
  • Guyana · 90 days
  • Haiti · 90 days
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Micronesia · 30 days
  • Palestinian Territories
  • Samoa · 90 days
  • Seychelles
  • St. Vincent & Grenadines · 90 days
  • Suriname · 90 days

Visa on arrival (10)

  • Bangladesh · 30 days
  • Cape Verde · 45 days
  • Comoros · 45 days
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia
  • Guinea-Bissau · 90 days
  • Macao SAR China
  • Nicaragua · 90 days
  • Timor-Leste · 30 days
  • Tuvalu · 30 days

Electronic authorisation (eTA) (1)

  • Kenya · 90 days

E-visa (67)

  • Afghanistan · 30 days
  • Albania · 90 days
  • Antigua & Barbuda
  • Armenia · 120 days
  • Australia
  • Bahamas
  • Benin · 30 days
  • Bhutan
  • Botswana · 90 days
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi · 30 days
  • Cambodia · 30 days
  • Cameroon
  • Chad
  • Colombia
  • Congo - Kinshasa · 7 days
  • Cuba · 90 days
  • Côte d’Ivoire · 90 days
  • Djibouti · 90 days
  • Ecuador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Fiji
  • Gabon · 90 days
  • Georgia · 30 days
  • Guinea · 90 days
  • Hong Kong SAR China
  • Iran · 30 days
  • Iraq · 30 days
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Laos · 30 days
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Madagascar · 60 days
  • Malawi · 90 days
  • Maldives · 30 days
  • Mauritania · 30 days
  • Mozambique · 30 days
  • Myanmar (Burma) · 28 days
  • Nepal · 90 days
  • Nigeria · 90 days
  • Oman
  • Pakistan · 90 days
  • Palau · 30 days
  • Papua New Guinea · 60 days
  • Qatar
  • Russia · 30 days
  • Rwanda · 30 days
  • Sierra Leone · 90 days
  • Somalia · 30 days
  • South Korea
  • South Sudan
  • St. Kitts & Nevis
  • Syria
  • São Tomé & Príncipe
  • Tanzania · 90 days
  • Thailand · 60 days
  • Togo · 15 days
  • Uganda · 90 days
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Uzbekistan · 30 days
  • Vanuatu
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Visa required (107)

  • Algeria
  • Andorra
  • Angola
  • Argentina
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Brazil
  • Brunei
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Central African Republic
  • Chile
  • China
  • Congo - Brazzaville
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • Czechia
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • El Salvador
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Eswatini
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gambia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Kiribati
  • Kosovo · 15 days
  • Kuwait
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malaysia
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Marshall Islands
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Niger
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • San Marino
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Singapore
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Solomon Islands
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • St. Lucia
  • Sudan
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Tajikistan
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkmenistan
  • Türkiye
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Vatican City
  • Yemen

Admission refused (2)

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Data last updated on 27/09/2026 Data may be outdated

Sources: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), visualpharm (MIT), xpressmike (CC BY-SA 4.0), VisaMundial (CC BY 4.0). Each rule is decided by majority vote across these sources; disagreements are arbitrated against official government sources.