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.
We decided to find out what this choice depends on and to share the information with you. If long lines at the airport makes you feel bored, just remember this post.

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 EU, 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.

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.

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).

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.


www.passportindex.org

What colour is your passport Seun?

I don't have.

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Like play like play, i don reach 20yrs i no even get passport or enter plane before
See me were been dey talk say i go travel the world when I grow up oh
I never even reach Lagos before
The only travel were i do,
Na burial were i go for Akwa ibom

Mine is green

So Nigeria is a Muslim country (

Passport? Shebi is the wan we use to use wen we wan to write common entrance

hungryboy:
Like play like play, i don reach 20yrs i no even get passport or enter plane before
See me were been dey talk say i go travel the world when I grow up oh
I never even reach Lagos before
The only travel were i do,
Na burial were i go for Akwa ibom

If you nor geh money travul, you nor geh leg? Nor be ur mate trekk from borno reach abuja?

Polish ur shoe leave that place before them use otimukpo finish you there.

HiddenShadow:
So Nigeria is a Muslim country (

I know that this will happen...Muslim issue will derail this thread...what a pity.

HiddenShadow:
So Nigeria is a Muslim country (

ur case is offline...

U didn't see where it was stated that in cases of Nigeria and the rest, it is because they belonged to the ecowas

KINGwax007:
ur case is offline...

U didn't see where it was stated that in cases of Nigeria and the rest, it is because they belonged to the ecowas

ozoebuka1:
I know that this will happen...Muslim issue will derail this thread...what a pity.

They said most Muslim countries

Is it not in this country, Arabic inscriptions were written on our currencies and military logos



I don't trust this ECOWAS trash because a good number of ECOWAS countries are Islamic populated.

I like these type of threads pretty insightfull. It reminds me of why the UN flag is pale blue color with White. These color symbol do mean something.

My own is purple.

Interesting

Interesting though.

I was once told passport colours are forms of racial discrimination.

Passports with green colours are often looked down on.

Another proof Nigeria is an Islamic country but many of the citizens still don't know

SalamRushdie:
Another proof Nigeria is an Islamic country but many of the citizens still don't know

clap for urself

wahles:
clap for urself

don't tell me u believe that ECOWAS crap

Hmm ..Never knew. Nice one op


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Silly notes that do not even match with reality by mere looking at the map- if you are good in geography, you will notice that several muslim countries don't even have a green passport, while several non muslim countries have passports that are green .like South Korea, Mexico etc

Iranu

ozoebuka1:
I know that this will happen...Muslim issue will derail this thread...what a pity.

I concur

who color of passport epp

person wey dem go deny dem go deny

I love New Zealand Passport!

hungryboy:
Like play like play, i don reach 20yrs i no even get passport or enter plane before
See me were been dey talk say i go travel the world when I grow up oh
I never even reach Lagos before
The only travel were i do,
Na burial were i go for Akwa ibom

Una just start life.

Islam printing her symbols all over Nigeria.
Of what benefit is Islam/Religion to Nigeria?
From Arabic inscription on our Naira notes to Islamic inscription on our military badges to Nigeria use of Islamic passport to being Official member of OIC to formation of Islamic bank to Boko Haram and Sharia law.
What is the usefulness of Islam?

Am sorry for my ignorance. I tot as Nigerian passport is green representing our green white green color, each country's flag will be the color of their passport.

ok

SalamRushdie:
Another proof Nigeria is an Islamic country but many of the citizens still don't know

is south africa also an islamic country ?

EmeeNaka:
Islam printing her symbols all over Nigeria.
Of what benefit is Islam/Religion to Nigeria?
From Arabic inscription on our Naira notes to Islamic inscription on our military badges to Nigeria use of Islamic passport to being Official member of OIC to formation of Islamic bank to Boko Haram and Sharia law.
What is the usefulness of Islam?

Some people will committ suicide

HiddenShadow:
So Nigeria is a Muslim country (

No, but because green is the favourite of prophet Muhammad

oya

Good info.