Visa requirements for Estonian citizens
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Visa requirements for Estonian citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Estonia. As of November 2024, Estonian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 185 countries and territories, ranking the Estonian passport 9th in the world, tied with Lithuanian passport and Emirati passport, according to the Henley Passport Index.[1]


Visa requirements map

Estonia
Freedom of movement
Visa free
Visa issued upon arrival
eVisa
Visa available both on arrival or online
Visa required prior to arrival
Visa requirements
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Visa required[2] | ||
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Visa not required[3] | 90 days |
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Visa required[4] | ||
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Visa not required[5] |
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Visa not required[6] | 30 days | |
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Visa not required[7] | 3 months | |
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Visa not required[8] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[9] | 180 days | |
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eVisitor[10] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[11] |
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eVisa[12][13] | 30 days | |
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Visa not required[14] | 3 months | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[15] | 14 days |
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Visa on arrival[17] | 30 days | |
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Visa not required[18] | 3 months | |
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Visa not required[19] | 30 days[19] |
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Visa not required[20] |
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Visa not required[21] | ||
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[22][23] | 30 days / 8 days |
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eVisa[24][25] | ||
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Visa not required[26] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[27] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[28] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[29] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[30] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[31] |
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Visa on arrival[32] | 1 month | |
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Visa on arrival[33] | ||
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[34] | 30 days |
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eVisa[36][37] |
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Visa not required[38] | 6 months | |
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Visa not required[41] | 30 days |
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Visa required[43] | ||
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Visa required[44] | ||
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Visa not required[45] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[46] | Visa-free from 30 November, 2024 to 31 December, 2025.
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Visa not required[49] | 90 days |
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Visa on arrival[50] | ||
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Visa required[51] | ||
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eVisa[52][53] | 7 days | |
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Visa not required[54] | 90 days | |
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eVisa[55] | ||
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Visa not required[56] |
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Tourist Card required[57] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[58] |
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Visa not required[59] |
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Visa not required[60] |
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eVisa[61] | 31 days | |
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Visa not required[62] | 6 months | |
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Visa not required[63] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[64] | 90 days | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[65][66] | 30 days | |
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Visa not required[67] | 6 months | |
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eVisa[68][69] |
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Visa required[70] | ||
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Visa not required[71] | 30 days | |
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eVisa[72] | up to 90 days |
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Visa not required[73] | 4 months | |
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Visa not required[74] |
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Visa not required[75] |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[76] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[78] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[79] | 1 year |
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Visa not required[80] |
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Visa required[81] | ||
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Visa not required[82] |
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Visa not required[83] | 3 months | |
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Visa not required[84] | 90 days | |
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eVisa[85] | 90 days | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[86] | 90 days | |
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Visa required[87] | ||
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Visa not required[88] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[89] | 3 months | |
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Visa not required[90] |
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Visa not required[91] |
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e-Visa[92] | 60 days |
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Visa on arrival[96] | 30 days | |
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eVisa[97] | 30 days[98] | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[99][100] | 60 days |
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Visa not required[101] |
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Visa not required[102] | 3 months | |
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Visa not required[103] |
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Visa on arrival[104] | 30 days |
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Visa not required[105] | 90 days | |
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Visa on arrival[106] | 30 days |
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Visa not required[108] | 30 days | |
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eVisa[109] | 3 months | |
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Visa not required[110] | 90 days |
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Visa required[111] | ||
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Korean Electronic Travel Authorization[112][113] | 90 days | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[114] | 3 months | |
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Visa not required[115] | 60 days | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[116][117] | 30 days |
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Visa not required[121] |
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Visa on arrival[122] | 1 month |
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eVisa[123][124] |
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Visa required[125] | ||
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eVisa[52][126] | ||
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Visa not required[127] |
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Visa not required[128] |
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Visa not required[129] |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[130] | 90 days | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[131][132] | ||
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Visa not required[133] | 90 days | |
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Visa on arrival[134] | 30 days | |
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Visa required[135] | ||
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Visa not required[136] |
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Visa not required[137] | 90 days |
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Visa on arrival[138] |
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Visa not required[139] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[140] | 180 days | |
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Visa not required[141] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[142] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[143] |
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Visa not required[144] | 30 days | |
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Visa not required[145] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[146] | 90 days | |
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Visa on arrival[147] | 30 days | |
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eVisa[148] | 28 days |
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Visa on arrival[149] | 90 days | |
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Visa required[150] | ||
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Visa on arrival[151] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[152] |
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Electronic Travel Authority[153] | 3 months |
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Visa not required[158] | 90 days | |
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Visa required[159] | ||
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eVisa[52][160] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[162] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[163] |
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visa not required[164][165] | 14 days |
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Online Visa[167] | ||
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Visa not required[170] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[171] | 180 days | |
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eVisa[172] | 60 days | |
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Visa not required[173] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[174] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[176] | 30 days | |
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Visa not required[177] |
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Visa not required[178] |
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Visa not required[179] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[180] |
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eVisa[181] | 16 days | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[184] | 30 days | |
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Visa not required[185] | 3 months | |
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Visa not required[186] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[187] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[188] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[189] |
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Visa not required[190] | 15 days | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[191][192] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[193] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[194] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[195] | 3 months | |
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Visa on arrival[196] | ||
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Visa not required[197] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[198] |
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Visa not required[199] |
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Visa not required[200] | 90 days |
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Visa on arrival[201] |
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Visa required[202] | ||
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Electronic Visa[203] | ||
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Visa not required[205] |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[206] | 30 days | |
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Visa required[207] | ||
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E-tourist card[208] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[210] |
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Visa not required[211] |
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eVisa[212] | ||
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Visa not required[213] | 30 days | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[214][215] | 3 months | |
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Visa not required[216] | 60 days | |
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Visa not required[217] | 90 days |
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Visa on arrival[218] | 7 days | |
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Visa not required[219] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[220] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[221] | 3 months | |
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Visa not required[223] | 3 months | |
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Visa required[224] |
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Visa not required[225] | 90 days | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[226] |
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Visa not required[228] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[229] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[232] | 6 months | |
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Visa Waiver Program[234] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[236] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[237] | 30 days | |
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Visa not required[238] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[239] |
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Visa not required[240] | 90 days | |
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eVisa[241] | 90 days | |
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Visa required[243] | ||
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[244] | 90 days | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[245] | 3 months |
Territories and disputed areas
Summarize
Perspective
Visa requirements for Estonian citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas, partially recognized countries and restricted zones:
- Europe
Abkhazia — Visa required.[246]
Mount Athos — Special permit required (4 days: 25 euro for Orthodox visitors, 35 euro for non-Orthodox visitors, 18 euro for students). There is a visitors' quota: maximum 100 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox per day and women are not allowed.[247][248]
Brest and Grodno — Visa not required for 10 days.[249]
Crimea — Visa issued by Russia is required.[250]
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus — Visa free access for 3 months. A valid EU passport or national identity card is required.[251]
UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus — Access Permit is required for travelling inside the zone, except Civil Use Areas.[252]
Faroe Islands — Visa not required.[253]
Gibraltar — Visa not required.[254]
Guernsey – Visa not required.[255]
Alderney – Visa not required.[256]
Sark – Visa not required.[257]
Isle of Man — Visa not required.[258][259]
Jan Mayen — permit issued by the local police required for staying for less than 24 hours[260] and permit issued by the Norwegian police for staying for more than 24 hours.[261]
Jersey – Visa not required.[262]
Kaliningrad Oblast — From 1 July 2019, Estonian citizens are eligible for E-visa access for 8 days.[263]
Kosovo — visa free for 90 days.[264]
Closed cities and regions in Russia — special authorization required.[265]
South Ossetia — Visa free. Multiple entry visa to Russia and three-day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.[266][267]
Transnistria — Visa free. Registration required after 24h.[268][269]
- Africa
Eritrea (outside Asmara) — visa covers Asmara only; to travel in the rest of the country, a Travel Permit for Foreigners is required (20 Eritrean nakfa).[270]
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara controlled territory) — Visa not required up to 3 months.[271]
Somaliland — Visa issued on arrival (30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival).[272][273]
Sudan — All foreigners traveling more than 25 kilometers outside of Khartoum must obtain a travel permit.
Darfur — Separate travel permit is required.[274]
Réunion — Visa not required.[275] ID card valid.
Mayotte — Visa not required.[276] ID card valid.
Canary Islands — Visa not required.[277] ID card valid.
Ceuta — Visa not required.[277] ID card valid.
Melilla — Visa not required.[277] ID card valid.
- Asia
Hong Kong — Visa not required for 90 days.[278]
India — Protected Area Permit (PAP) required for whole states of Nagaland and Sikkim and parts of states Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh. Restricted Area Permit (RAP) required for all of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and parts of Sikkim. Some of these requirements are occasionally lifted for a year.[279][280][281][282][283][284]
Iraqi Kurdistan — Visa on arrival for 15 days is available at Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports.[100]
Kazakhstan — Special permission required for the town of Baikonur and surrounding areas in Kyzylorda Oblast, and the town of Gvardeyskiy near Almaty.[285]
Kish Island — Visitors to Kish Island do not require a visa.[286]
Macao — Visa not required for 90 days.[287]
Sabah and Sarawak — These states have their own immigration authorities and passport is required to travel to them, however the same visa applies.[288]
Maldives — With the exception of the capital Malé, tourists are generally prohibited from visiting non-resort islands without the express permission of the Government of Maldives.[289]
North Korea outside Pyongyang – People are not allowed to leave the capital city, tourists can only leave the capital with a governmental tourist guide (no independent moving)
Palestine — Visa not required. Arrival by sea to Gaza Strip not allowed.[290][291]
Taiwan — Visa not required for 90 days.[292]
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province — OIVR permit required (15+5 Tajikistani Somoni) and another special permit (free of charge) is required for Lake Sarez.[293][294][295]
Turkmenistan — A special permit, issued prior to arrival by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is required if visiting the following places: Atamurat, Cheleken, Dashoguz, Serakhs and Serhetabat.[296]
Tibet Autonomous Region — Tibet Travel Permit required (10 US Dollars).[297][298][299]
Korean Demilitarized Zone — restricted zone.
UNDOF Zone and Ghajar — restricted zones.
Phú Quốc — can visit without a visa for up to 30 days.[242]
Yemen — Special permission needed for travel outside Sana’a or Aden.[300]
- Caribbean and North Atlantic and South America
Anguilla — Visa not required for 3 months.[301]
Aruba — Visa not required for 30 days.[302]
Azores — Visa not required.[303] ID card valid.
Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba — Visa not required for 3 months.[304]
Bermuda — Visa not required for 21 days (extendable).[305][306]
British Virgin Islands — Visa not required for 1 month (extendable).[307][308]
Cayman Islands — Visa not required for 6 months.[309][310]
Colombia — Visitors arriving at San Andrés and Leticia must buy tourist cards on arrival.[311]
Curacao — Visa not required for 3 months.[312]
Guadeloupe — Visa not required.[313] ID card valid.
Greenland — Visa not required.[253]
French Guiana— Visa not required [314] ID card valid.
Madeira — Visa not required.[303] ID card valid.
Montserrat — Visa not required for 6 months.[315]
Margarita Island — All visitors are fingerprinted.[316]
Martinique — Visa not required.[317] ID card valid.
Puerto Rico — Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.[318]
Saint Barthélemy — Visa not required.[319] ID card valid.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon — Visa not required.[320] ID card valid.
Collectivity of Saint Martin — Visa not required.[321] ID card valid.
Sint Maarten — Visa not required for 3 months.[322]
Turks and Caicos Islands — Visa not required for 90 days.[323][324]
U.S. Virgin Islands — Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.[325]
- Oceania
American Samoa — Electronic authorization for 30 days.[326]
Ashmore and Cartier Islands — special authorisation required.[327]
Clipperton Island — special permit required.[328]
Cook Islands — Visa free access for 31 days.[329]
Lau Province — Special permission required.[330]
French Polynesia — Visa not required.[331] ID card valid.
Guam — Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.[332]
New Caledonia — Visa not required.[333] ID card valid.
Niue — Visa on arrival valid for 30 days is issued free of charge.[334]
Northern Mariana Islands — Visa not required.[335]
Pitcairn Islands — 14 days visa free and landing fee US$35 or tax of US$5 if not going ashore.[336][337][338][339]
Tokelau — Entry permit required.[340]
United States Minor Outlying Islands — special permits required for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island.[341][342][343][344][345][346][347]
Wallis and Futuna — Visa not required.[348] ID card valid.
- South Atlantic and Antarctica
Falkland Islands — Visitor Permit valid for 4 weeks is issued on arriva.[349][350]
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Ascension Island — eVisa for 3 months within any year period.[351][352]
Saint Helena — Entry Permit (£25) for 183 days is issued on arrival.[353]
Tristan da Cunha — Permission to land required for 15/30 pounds sterling (yacht/ship passenger) for Tristan da Cunha Island or 20 pounds sterling for Gough Island, Inaccessible Island or Nightingale Islands.[354]
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands — Pre-arrival permit from the Commissioner required (72 hours/1 month for 110/160 pounds sterling).[355][356][357]
- Antarctica and adjacent islands — special permits required for
French Southern and Antarctic Lands,
Argentine Antarctica,
Australian Antarctic Territory,
Chilean Antarctic Territory,
Heard Island and McDonald Islands,
Peter I Island,
Queen Maud Land,
Ross Dependency.[358][359][360][361][362][363][364][365][366][367][368]
Arab League — Certain countries will deny access to holders of Israeli visas or passport stamps of Israel because of the Arab League boycott of Israel.
Non-ordinary passports
Holders of various categories of official Estonian passports have additional visa-free access to the following countries - Azerbaijan (diplomatic passports), Bangladesh (diplomatic or official passports), Kazakhstan (diplomatic passports) and Russia (diplomatic passports). Holders of diplomatic or service passports of any country have visa-free access to Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Mali and Zimbabwe.
Right to consular protection in non-EU countries
When in a non-EU country where there is no Estonian embassy, Estonian citizens as EU citizens have the right to get consular protection from the embassy of any other EU country present in that country.
See also List of diplomatic missions of Estonia.

See also
Notes
- Panghok - Taichang (Vietnam)
- Lantui - Baka (China)
- Meuang mom - Wan Pong (Myanmar)
- Tanalaeng Dry Port - Nongkai (Thailand)
- Nonghaed - Nam kanh (Vietnam)
- Pakxan - Bungkan (Thailand)
- Nam phao - Cau treo (Vietnam)
- Na pao - Cha lo (Vietnam)
- Nam ngeun - Huay konl (Thailand)
- Namheuang - Nakaseng (Thailand)
- Phoudou (Thailand)
- Nam soy - Na meo (Vietnam)
- Phoukeua - Kontoum (Vietnam)
- Lalai (Vietnam)
- Pangmone - Phayao (Thailand)
- Daktaock - Nam Giang (Vietnam)
- Savannakhet Airport
- Vientiane
- Savannakhet
- Bokeo
- Vientiane
- Savannakhet
- Khammouane
- Bokeo
- Samliemkham (Thailand and Myanmar)
- Khamsavath - Nongkai (Thailand)
- Daensavan - Lao bao (Vietnam)
- Veunkham - Nong nok khian (Cambodia)
- Vang tao - Chongmek (Thailand)
- Boten - Bo han (China)
References
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