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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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Destroyed buildings in Syria's Homs on October 30, 2015
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.
Nomads on the highway Kabul-Jalalabad, Afghanistan on October 24, 2011.
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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.
