2022
There are Only Four Passport Colors in the World and Here is the Reason Why:
It turns out that there are only four primary passport colors in the world, and each country has its own reasons for choosing one of these colors for the cover.
1. RED:
This is the most common color. Passports with a red cover are often chosen by countries with a historical or current communist system. Citizens of Slovenia, China, Serbia, Russia, Latvia, Romania, Poland, and Georgia have red passports. Member countries of the European Union, except Croatia, also use passports of burgundy and other shades of red. Countries interested in joining the European Union, such as Turkey, Macedonia, and Albania, changed the color of their passports to red a few years ago. The Andean Community of Nations — Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru — also has burgundy passports.
2. BLUE:
This is the next most common color. The blue cover symbolizes the "New World". 15 Caribbean countries have blue passports. Within the block of South American countries the blue passport cover symbolizes the connection with Mercosur — a trade union. This includes Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Venezuela is the exception here: it also belongs to the union, but its citizens have red passports. The passports of US citizens were changed to blue only in 1976.
3. GREEN:
Most Muslim countries have green passports. Examples include Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. Green is considered to be the favorite color of the Prophet Muhammad, and is a symbol of nature and life. The citizens of several West African countries — for example, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Niger, the Ivory Coast, and Senegal — also have travel documents that are various shades of green. In their case, the color indicates that they belong to ECOWAS (The Economic Community of West African States).
4. BLACK:
The rarest passports are those with black covers. These can be found among the citizens of some African countries — Botswana, Zambia, Burundi, Gabon, Angola, Chad, Congo, Malawi and others. Citizens of New Zealand also have black passport covers, because black is the country’s national color.
The map below is painted according to the color of each country’s passport:
Based on materials from www.passportindex.org
Source: https://brightside.me
Dear @AvirajAgarwal I am from Bangladesh.🇧🇩
We have 3 color passport.
1. Red for VIP person.
2. Blue for Government official.
3. Green for Normal people.
Hello @bdmafuz
I am very much sure that you are correct but here the article is about the common citizens of the country like you and me..
I believe that every country has different color passport(or different from regular) for their Diplomats and Government Officials who travel for Official purpose outside their country, but these are exceptions here.
In India, we also have 3 types of passport:
- Regular Passport has a Navy Blue cover and is issued for ordinary travel, such as vacations and business trips.
- Diplomatic Passport has a Maroon cover and is issued to Indian diplomats, top ranking government officials and diplomatic couriers.
- Official Passport has a White cover and it is issued to individuals representing the Indian government on official business trips.
In the same way I believe Bangladesh also have 3 types of passport.
But I heard for the first time from you that there is separate passport for VIP person in your country.
Did you mean VIP person for Diplomats?