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7 May 2025




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Travel Rating Extreme Afghanistan;
Travel Rating Low Albania;
Travel Rating Medium Algeria;
Travel Rating High Areas of El Taref, Souk Ahras and Tebessa provinces within 12 miles (20km) of the Tunisian border; areas within 12 miles of the Libyan border; areas within 30 miles (50km) of the southern borders with Mauritania, Mali and Niger;
Travel Rating Insignificant American Samoa (US);
Travel Rating Insignificant Andorra;
Travel Rating Medium Angola;
Travel Rating High North-east of Cabinda exclave;
Travel Rating Low Anguilla (UK);
Travel Rating Low Antigua and Barbuda;
Travel Rating Low Argentina;
Travel Rating Medium Rosario and Santa Fe (both Santa Fe province);
Travel Rating Low Armenia;
Travel Rating High Border with Azerbaijan, and Syunik and Vayots Dzor provinces;
Travel Rating Low Aruba (Netherlands);
Travel Rating Low Australia;
Travel Rating Low Austria;
Travel Rating Low Azerbaijan;
Travel Rating High Armenian border areas and Nagorno-Karabakh;
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Travel Rating Low Bahamas;
Travel Rating Low Bahrain;
Travel Rating Medium Bangladesh;
Travel Rating High Chittagong Hill Tracts; Dhaka;
Travel Rating Low Barbados;
Travel Rating Low Belarus;
Travel Rating Low Belgium;
Travel Rating Medium Belize;
Travel Rating Low Benin;
Travel Rating Medium Alibori and Atakora departments, and the border with Nigeria;
Travel Rating High Border with Burkina Faso and Niger, including the Pendjari (Atakora department) and W (Alibori department) national parks;
Travel Rating Low Bermuda (UK);
Travel Rating Low Bhutan;
Travel Rating Medium Bolivia;
Travel Rating Low Bonaire (Netherlands);
Travel Rating Low Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Travel Rating Low Botswana;
Travel Rating Medium Brazil;
Travel Rating High Urban trouble spots;
Travel Rating Low British Virgin Islands (UK);
Travel Rating Low Brunei;
Travel Rating Low Bulgaria;
Travel Rating High Burkina Faso;
Travel Rating Extreme Est, Sahel, Centre-Nord regions; Loroum, Yatenga provinces (both Nord region); Koulpelogo, Boulgou provinces (both Centre-Est region); Kossi, Banwa, Sourou, Mouhoun, Nayala provinces (all Boucle du Mouhoun region);
Travel Rating Medium Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso cities;
Travel Rating Medium Burundi;
Travel Rating High Bubanza and Cibitoke provinces; Areas of Bujumbura Rural province west of the Rusizi river and north of Isale;
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Travel Rating Medium Cambodia;
Travel Rating Medium Cameroon;
Travel Rating Extreme Areas of Extreme North region bordering Nigeria;
Travel Rating High Extreme North region; Bakassi peninsula; Border with Central African Republic; Northwest and Southwest regions;
Travel Rating Low Canada;
Travel Rating Insignificant Cape Verde;
Travel Rating Low Cayman Islands (UK);
Travel Rating Extreme Central African Republic;
Travel Rating High Bangui;
Travel Rating Medium Chad;
Travel Rating High Borkou, Ennedi East, Ennedi West and Tibesti regions; areas within 18 miles (30km) of borders with Sudan, CAR; Areas west of Bol in Lac region;
Travel Rating Low Chile;
Travel Rating Low China;
Travel Rating Medium Colombia;
Travel Rating High Areas affected by activity from illicit armed groups, including those bordering Venezuela and along the Pacific coast as well as parts of the northern and mid-eastern regions; Cali;
Travel Rating Low Comoros;
Travel Rating Medium Anjouan and Moroni;
Travel Rating Medium Congo;
Travel Rating High Areas in Likouala and Sangha departments within 20 miles (32km) of border with Central African Republic;
Travel Rating High Congo (DRC);
Travel Rating Medium Kinshasa; Lualaba province; south of Haut-Katanga province (including Lubumbashi); Kongo-Central province;
Travel Rating Extreme North Kivu province (except Goma and Beni); South Kivu province (except Bukavu); Ituri province (except Bunia); Tanganyika province;
Travel Rating Insignificant Cook Islands;
Travel Rating Low Costa Rica;
Travel Rating Medium Limón province, Central Valley;
Travel Rating Medium Côte d'Ivoire;
Travel Rating High Northern border regions with Mali and Burkina Faso, and Comoe National Park;
Travel Rating Low Croatia;
Travel Rating Low Cuba;
Travel Rating Low Curacao (Netherlands);
Travel Rating Low Cyprus;
Travel Rating Low Czech Republic;
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Travel Rating Insignificant Denmark;
Travel Rating Low Copenhagen;
Travel Rating Medium Djibouti;
Travel Rating Low Djibouti city;
Travel Rating Low Dominica;
Travel Rating Medium Dominican Republic;
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Travel Rating Medium East Timor;
Travel Rating Medium Ecuador;
Travel Rating High Western provinces (El Oro, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Los Rios, Manabi, Santa Elena, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas); Amazon, Colombian border areas;
Travel Rating Medium Egypt;
Travel Rating Extreme North Sinai;
Travel Rating High Western Desert;
Travel Rating Medium El Salvador;
Travel Rating Low Equatorial Guinea;
Travel Rating Medium Eritrea;
Travel Rating Low Asmara;
Travel Rating High Ethiopian, Sudanese, Djiboutian borders;
Travel Rating Low Estonia;
Travel Rating Medium Eswatini;
Travel Rating High Ethiopia;
Travel Rating Medium Addis Ababa, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) and Somali region;
Travel Rating Extreme Tigray state; East Gojam, North Shewa, North Wollo, West Gojam (all Amhara state); East Shewa, East Wellega, Horo Guduru, North Shewa, West Shewa and West Wellega (all Oromia state);
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Travel Rating Low Fiji;
Travel Rating Insignificant Finland;
Travel Rating Low Helsinki, towns on Russian border;
Travel Rating Low France;
Travel Rating Low French Guiana (France);
Travel Rating Low French Polynesia (France);
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Travel Rating Low Gabon;
Travel Rating Low Gambia;
Travel Rating Low Georgia;
Travel Rating High Abkhazia and South Ossetia;
Travel Rating Low Germany;
Travel Rating Low Ghana;
Travel Rating Medium Border areas with Burkina Faso, Cote d`Ivoire and Togo; area around Gushiegu (Northern region);
Travel Rating Low Gibraltar (UK);
Travel Rating Low Greece;
Travel Rating Insignificant Greenland (Denmark);
Travel Rating Low Grenada;
Travel Rating Low Guadeloupe (France);
Travel Rating Low Guam (US);
Travel Rating Medium Guatemala;
Travel Rating High Guatemala City; Chiquimula, Peten, Zacapa and Izabal departments;
Travel Rating Medium Guinea;
Travel Rating Medium Guinea-Bissau;
Travel Rating Medium Guyana;
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Travel Rating High Haiti;
Travel Rating Extreme Port-au-Prince;
Travel Rating High Honduras;
Travel Rating Medium Islas de la Bahia department;
Travel Rating Low Hong Kong (China SAR);
Travel Rating Low Hungary;
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Travel Rating Insignificant Iceland;
Travel Rating Medium India;
Travel Rating Low Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Leh district (Ladakh union territory);
Travel Rating High Manipur and Nagaland states; some districts of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Asom (Assam), Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Odisha and Telangana states; Kashmir division and parts of Jammu division (both Jammu and Kashmir union territory);
Travel Rating Medium Indonesia;
Travel Rating High Central Papua, Highland Papua provinces;
Travel Rating Medium Iran;
Travel Rating High Sistan-e Balochistan;
Travel Rating Extreme Iraq;
Travel Rating High Baghdad; southern governorates; Kurdistan Region border areas;
Travel Rating Medium Kurdistan Region;
Travel Rating Low Ireland;
Travel Rating Medium Israel;
Travel Rating High Border region with Lebanon;
Travel Rating Low Italy;
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Travel Rating Medium Jamaica;
Travel Rating High Spanish Town, parts of Kingston;
Travel Rating Low Japan;
Travel Rating Low Jordan;
Travel Rating Medium Border area with Syria;
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Travel Rating Medium Kazakhstan;
Travel Rating Medium Kenya;
Travel Rating High The Somali-border counties of Wajir, Mandera, Garissa and Lamu; Nairobi; the northern counties of Baringo, Turkana, West Pokot, Samburu, Marsabit and Isiolo;
Travel Rating Insignificant Kiribati;
Travel Rating Low Kosovo;
Travel Rating Medium Leposavic, North Mitrovica, Zubin Potok and Zvecan;
Travel Rating Low Kuwait;
Travel Rating Medium Kyrgyzstan;
Travel Rating High Batken province, the international border regions of Osh and Jalal-Abad provinces;
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Travel Rating Low Laos;
Travel Rating Medium Xaysomboun province;
Travel Rating Low Latvia;
Travel Rating High Lebanon;
Travel Rating Extreme Baalbek-Hermel, Bekaa, Nabatieh and South governorates;
Travel Rating Medium Lesotho;
Travel Rating Medium Liberia;
Travel Rating Extreme Libya;
Travel Rating High Tripoli, Misrata city;
Travel Rating Insignificant Liechtenstein;
Travel Rating Low Lithuania;
Travel Rating Insignificant Luxembourg;
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Travel Rating Low Macao (China SAR);
Travel Rating Medium Madagascar;
Travel Rating High Anosy (except its capital Fort Dauphin (Tôlanaro)) and Atsimo-Atsinanana regions (south-east);
Travel Rating Low Malawi;
Travel Rating Medium Major urban centres;
Travel Rating Low Malaysia;
Travel Rating Medium Coastal areas and island groups of eastern Sabah state (East Malaysia); Selangor; Kuala Lumpur;
Travel Rating Low Maldives;
Travel Rating Medium Male and Addu City (Addu atoll);
Travel Rating High Mali;
Travel Rating Medium Bamako;
Travel Rating Extreme Gao, Kidal, Menaka, Mopti, Taoudeni and Timbuktu regions;
Travel Rating Low Malta;
Travel Rating Insignificant Marshall Islands;
Travel Rating Low Martinique (France);
Travel Rating Medium Mauritania;
Travel Rating High Eastern desert areas;
Travel Rating Low Mauritius;
Travel Rating Medium Mayotte (France);
Travel Rating Medium Mexico;
Travel Rating High States and other areas affected by heightened levels of violence between organised criminal groups;
Travel Rating Low Yucatan state; La Paz, Los Cabos (Baja California Sur state);
Travel Rating Low Micronesia;
Travel Rating Low Moldova;
Travel Rating Medium Transnistria;
Travel Rating Insignificant Monaco;
Travel Rating Medium Mongolia;
Travel Rating Low Montenegro;
Travel Rating Low Montserrat (UK);
Travel Rating Low Morocco;
Travel Rating Medium Western Sahara;
Travel Rating Medium Mozambique;
Travel Rating Extreme Macomia, Meluco, Mocimboa da Praia, Muidumbe, Nangade, Palma and Quissanga districts (all Cabo Delgado province);
Travel Rating High Myanmar;
Travel Rating Extreme Conflict zones (all of Chin, Kayah, Kachin, Rakhine states and Sagaing region; some districts and townships in Bago, Magway, Mandalay, Tanintharyi regions and Kayin, Mon and Shan states);
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Travel Rating Low Namibia;
Travel Rating Insignificant Nauru;
Travel Rating Medium Nepal;
Travel Rating Low Netherlands;
Travel Rating Low Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands);
Travel Rating Medium New Caledonia (France);
Travel Rating Low New Zealand;
Travel Rating Medium Nicaragua;
Travel Rating Medium Niger;
Travel Rating Extreme Areas of Tillaberi and Tahoua region bordering Mali; areas of Diffa region bordering Borno state (Nigeria) and Lac region (Chad); areas bordering Burkina Faso;
Travel Rating High Filingue, Ouallam, Say, Tera and Tillaberi departments (all Tillaberi); northern half of Tahoua region; Agadez region; most of Diffa region; areas of Tahoua and Maradi regions bordering Nigeria;
Travel Rating High Nigeria;
Travel Rating Medium Abuja;
Travel Rating Extreme Borno state;
Travel Rating Medium North Korea;
Travel Rating Low North Macedonia;
Travel Rating Low Northern Mariana Islands (US);
Travel Rating Insignificant Norway;
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Travel Rating Low Oman;
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Travel Rating High Pakistan;
Travel Rating Extreme The former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and areas bordering the former FATA in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province; Balochistan province, with the exception of Gwadar district;
Travel Rating Low Palau;
Travel Rating Medium Palestinian Territories;
Travel Rating Extreme Gaza;
Travel Rating High Jenin, Nablus, Tubas and Tulkarm governorates (all West Bank);
Travel Rating Low Panama;
Travel Rating Medium Colón;
Travel Rating High Darién;
Travel Rating High Papua New Guinea;
Travel Rating Medium Autonomous Region of Bougainville;
Travel Rating Low Paraguay;
Travel Rating Medium Eastern border, tri-border area;
Travel Rating Medium Peru;
Travel Rating High Ene, Apurimac and Mantaro River Valley (VRAEM);
Travel Rating Medium Philippines;
Travel Rating High South-west Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago (Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi);
Travel Rating Low Poland;
Travel Rating Low Portugal;
Travel Rating Low Puerto Rico (US);
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Travel Rating Low Qatar;
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Travel Rating Low Réunion (France);
Travel Rating Low Romania;
Travel Rating Medium Russia;
Travel Rating High The North Caucasus republics of Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia and North Ossetia; Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Rostov and Voronezh provinces;
Travel Rating Low Rwanda;
Travel Rating Medium Border with Congo (DRC);
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Travel Rating Low Saba (Netherlands);
Travel Rating Low Samoa;
Travel Rating Insignificant San Marino;
Travel Rating Low São Tomé and Príncipe;
Travel Rating Medium Saudi Arabia;
Travel Rating High Yemen border areas;
Travel Rating Low Senegal;
Travel Rating Low Serbia;
Travel Rating Medium Sandžak, Preševo Valley;
Travel Rating Insignificant Seychelles;
Travel Rating Medium Sierra Leone;
Travel Rating Low Singapore;
Travel Rating Low Slovakia;
Travel Rating Insignificant Slovenia;
Travel Rating Medium Solomon Islands;
Travel Rating Extreme Somalia;
Travel Rating Medium Hargeisa;
Travel Rating High Western Somaliland, Bosaso (Puntland);
Travel Rating Medium South Africa;
Travel Rating High City of Johannesburg (Gauteng province), eThekwini (KwaZulu-Natal province) metropolitan municipalities; High-density, low-income urban areas;
Travel Rating Low South Korea;
Travel Rating Extreme South Sudan;
Travel Rating High Juba;
Travel Rating Low Spain;
Travel Rating Medium Sri Lanka;
Travel Rating Low St Eustatius (Netherlands);
Travel Rating Low St Kitts and Nevis;
Travel Rating Low St Lucia;
Travel Rating Low St Maarten (Netherlands);
Travel Rating Low St Martin (France);
Travel Rating Low St Vincent and the Grenadines;
Travel Rating Extreme Sudan;
Travel Rating High Gedaref, Kassala, Northern, Red Sea and River Nile states;
Travel Rating Low Suriname;
Travel Rating Low Sweden;
Travel Rating Insignificant Switzerland;
Travel Rating Low Berne, Geneva, Zurich;
Travel Rating Extreme Syria;
Travel Rating High Damascus;
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Travel Rating Low Taiwan (China);
Travel Rating Medium Tajikistan;
Travel Rating High Afghan border; Areas of Sughd province bordering Kyrgyzstan; Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast;
Travel Rating Medium Tanzania;
Travel Rating High Southern border areas within 12 miles (20km) of the Mozambican border and inland up to 93 miles (150km) from the coast;
Travel Rating Low Thailand;
Travel Rating Medium Myanmar and Cambodian border areas; northern districts of Songkhla province; Bangkok;
Travel Rating High Southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat, Pattani; southern districts of Songkhla province;
Travel Rating Medium Togo;
Travel Rating High Northern areas within 18 miles (30km) of the Burkina Faso border;
Travel Rating Low Tonga;
Travel Rating Medium Trinidad and Tobago;
Travel Rating High Laventille, Beetham;
Travel Rating Low Tobago;
Travel Rating Medium Tunisia;
Travel Rating High Libyan border areas; areas of Jendouba, Kasserine and Kef governorates within 25 miles (40km) of the Algerian border; Mount Chaambi, Mount Mgilla, Mount Salloum and Mount Sammama;
Travel Rating Medium Turkey;
Travel Rating High Hakkari, Sirnak, Diyarbakir provinces; Areas within ten miles (16km) of the Syrian border;
Travel Rating Medium Turkmenistan;
Travel Rating High Afghan border;
Travel Rating Low Ashgabat;
Travel Rating Low Turks and Caicos Islands;
Travel Rating Insignificant Tuvalu;
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Travel Rating Medium Uganda;
Travel Rating High Areas within 18.6 miles (30km) of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan borders;
Travel Rating Extreme Ukraine;
Travel Rating High Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Ternopil, and Zakarpattia provinces;
Travel Rating Low United Arab Emirates (UAE);
Travel Rating Low United Kingdom;
Travel Rating Low United States;
Travel Rating Medium Trouble spots in urban areas;
Travel Rating Low Uruguay;
Travel Rating Low US Virgin Islands (US);
Travel Rating Low Uzbekistan;
Travel Rating High Afghan, Kyrgyz borders, Fergana Valley;
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Travel Rating Low Vanuatu;
Travel Rating Low Vatican City;
Travel Rating High Venezuela;
Travel Rating Low Vietnam;
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Travel Rating Insignificant Wallis and Futuna (France);
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Travel Rating Extreme Yemen;
Travel Rating Medium Socotra islands;
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Travel Rating Low Zambia;
Travel Rating Medium Zimbabwe;