International SOS, the world’s leading medical and travel security risk services group, has revealed the 2018 Travel Risk Map, a report on the safest and most dangerous places to visit for tourists. While mostly places with active combat activities and Islamist insurgency — Syria, Mali, Libya, South Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan and Somali — have been marked red, i.e. dangerous, it turned out northern European countries, Finland, Norway and Island, are the safest for tourists and marked green.
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© AP Photo / Farah Abdi WarsamehA Somali gestures as he walks past a dead body, left, and destroyed buildings at the scene of a blast in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Saturday, October 14, 2017.
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A Somali gestures as he walks past a dead body, left, and destroyed buildings at the scene of a blast in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Saturday, October 14, 2017.
© REUTERS / Ahmed JadallahA teddy bear lies on the derbris of a house that was destroyed during clashes between Libyan forces and Islamic State militants in Sirte, Libya, November 1, 2017.
A teddy bear lies on the derbris of a house that was destroyed during clashes between Libyan forces and Islamic State militants in Sirte, Libya, November 1, 2017.
© AP Photo / Ben CurtisTourists walk past Tuareg nomads in Timbuktu, who have come into the town to sell items of jewelry to the tourists, in Mali, March 16, 2004.
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Tourists walk past Tuareg nomads in Timbuktu, who have come into the town to sell items of jewelry to the tourists, in Mali, March 16, 2004.
© AP Photo / Felipe DanaAirstrikes target Islamic State positions on the edge of the Old City a day after Iraq's prime minister declared "total victory" in Mosul, Iraq, July 11, 2017.
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Airstrikes target Islamic State positions on the edge of the Old City a day after Iraq's prime minister declared "total victory" in Mosul, Iraq, July 11, 2017.
© AFP 2023 / Abdo HyderA displaced Yemeni family are pictured next to their makeshift shelter on a street in the Yemeni coastal city of Hodeidah on November 16, 2017.
A displaced Yemeni family are pictured next to their makeshift shelter on a street in the Yemeni coastal city of Hodeidah on November 16, 2017.
© AP Photo / Sam MednickIn this photo taken April 6, 2017, nine-year-old, Thor Athiam, sits outside of a classroom waiting under a tree in the schoolyard in Rumathoi town in the state of Northern Bahr El Ghazal, South Sudan.
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In this photo taken April 6, 2017, nine-year-old, Thor Athiam, sits outside of a classroom waiting under a tree in the schoolyard in Rumathoi town in the state of Northern Bahr El Ghazal, South Sudan.
© Sputnik / Mikhail Voskresenskiy / Go to the mediabankDestroyed buildings in Syria's Homs on October 30, 2015
Destroyed buildings in Syria's Homs on October 30, 2015
© AFP 2023 / Ahmed OuobaBurkinabe police officials argue with protestors during a rally in Ouagadougou on October 21, 2017, which was called by a civil society organization to denounce "bad governance", "arbitrary detentions" and "exceptional tribunals", in the west African nation.
Burkinabe police officials argue with protestors during a rally in Ouagadougou on October 21, 2017, which was called by a civil society organization to denounce "bad governance", "arbitrary detentions" and "exceptional tribunals", in the west African nation.
© Sputnik / V. Kiselyov / Go to the mediabankNomads on the highway Kabul-Jalalabad, Afghanistan on October 24, 2011.
Nomads on the highway Kabul-Jalalabad, Afghanistan on October 24, 2011.
© AP Photo / Jerome DelaySupporters of Presidential candidate Faustin Archange Touadera rally during a sand storm in the streets of Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday Feb. 12, 2016. Two former prime ministers, Touadera and Anicet Georges Dologuele, are running neck-and-neck in the second round of presidential elections Sunday Feb. 14 to end years of violence pitting Muslims against Christians in the Central African Republic.
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Supporters of Presidential candidate Faustin Archange Touadera rally during a sand storm in the streets of Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday Feb. 12, 2016. Two former prime ministers, Touadera and Anicet Georges Dologuele, are running neck-and-neck in the second round of presidential elections Sunday Feb. 14 to end years of violence pitting Muslims against Christians in the Central African Republic.