Uncle Sam wants you to stay away from these countries
Consider yourself warned
The world can be a dangerous place. Depending on where you live, you're reminded of that every time you turn on the TV or read the news.
If you are citizen of the United States there's also another consistent reminder: State Department travel warnings.
According to the U.S. Passport and International Travel Office:
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We catalogued all the travel warnings now in effect and created the graphic below to show all the places where the US government doesn't want its citizens going (click the image to enlarge):
Let's also not forget that the United States can be a very dangerous place itself, and that U.S. foreign policy has helped turn some of these countries into the dangerous places they are now.
Click on any of the countries below to see the detailed warning issued by the U.S. State Department:
Security warning for some regions: Colombia and Mexico.
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Security warning for entire country: Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Honduras, Djibouti,Venezuela, Iran, El Salvador, Burundi, Niger, Mozambique and Haiti.
Defer non-essential travel to some regions: Philippines, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Israel, West Bank, and Gaza.
Defer non-essential travel: Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Pakistan.
Avoid all travel to some regions: Ukraine, Nigeria, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Chad.
Avoid all travel to this country: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, South Sudan, Somalia, Lesotho, and North Korea.
Citizens remaining here depart immediately: Central African Republic, Libya, Syria, Eritrea, and Yemen.
This article, by Simran Khosla, originally appeared at GlobalPost.
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