Geographical Areas Which Honor International Driving Permits (Convention on Road Traffic, United Nations, Geneva 1949) as of June, 1996
Afghanistan* | Ecuador*** | Latvia | St. Lucia |
Albania | Egypt | Lebanon | St. Vincent & The Grenadines |
Algeria | El Salvador*/*** | Lesotho | San Marino |
Andorra | Equatorial Guinea* | Liberia* | Sao Tome & Principe* |
Angola* | Estonia* | Libya* | Saudi Arabia* |
Antigua*/** | Fiji | Liechtenstein* | Senegal |
Armenia* | Finland | Lithuania* | Seychelles |
Argentina*** | France (including French overseas Territories) | Luxembourg | Sierra Leone |
Australia | French Polynesia | Macao* | Singapore |
Austria | Gabon* | Madagascar | Slovakia |
Azerbaijan* | Gambia | Malawi | Slovenia* |
Bahamas | Georgia | Malaysia | South Africa |
Bahrain* | Germany* | Mali | Spain |
Bangladesh | Ghana | Malta | Sri Lanka |
Barbados** | Gibraltar | Mauritania* | Sudan* |
Belarus* | Greece | Mauritius | Suriname |
Belgium | Grenada | Mexico*/*** | Swaziland |
Belize | Guatemala*** | Moldova* | Sweden |
Benin | Guernsey | Monaco | Switzerland* |
Bhutan* | Guinea | Montserrat*/** | Syria |
Bolivia*/*** | Guinea-Bissau* | Morocco | Taiwan |
Botswana | Guyana | Mozambique* | Tajikstan* |
Brunei* | Haiti | Myanmar* | Tanzania |
Bulgaria | Honduras*/*** | Namibia | Thailand |
Burkina Faso* (was Upper Volta) | Hong Kong | Nepal* | Togo |
Cameroon* | Hungary | Netherlands | Trinidad & Tobago*** |
Canada | Iceland | New Caledonia | Tunisia |
Cape Verde Islands* | India | New Zealand | Turkey |
Cayman Islands* | Indonesia* | Nicaragua*/*** | Turkmenistan* |
Central African Rep. | Iran* | Niger | Uganda |
Chad* | Ireland | Norway | Ukraine* |
Chile*** | Israel | Oman* | United Arab Emirates* |
Colombia*/*** | Italy | Pakistan* | United Kingdom |
Comoros* | Ivory Coast | Panama* | Uzbekistan* |
Congo | Jamaica | Papua New Guinea | Vatican City |
Costa Rica*/*** | Japan | Paraguay | Venezuela*** |
Croatia* | Jersey* | Peru | Vietnam* |
Cuba | Jordan | Philippines | Western Samoa |
Curacao | Kampuchea (was Cambodia) | Poland | Yemen* |
Cyprus | Kazakhstan* | Portugal | Yugoslavia |
Czech Rep. | Kenya* | Qatar* | Zaire |
Denmark | Korea (rep.) | Romania | Zambia |
Djibouti* | Kuwait* | Russia* | Zimbabwe |
Dominica*/** | Kyrgystan | Rwanda | |
Dominican Rep.*** | Laos | St. Christopher, Nevis & Anguilla*/* |
*Not party of 1949 Convention: International Driving Permit honored.
**U.S. driver's license and International Driving Permit recognized on presentation to local police and payment of Special Registration Fee upon arrival.
***Geographical areas which honor Inter-American driving permits (Convention on Regulation of Inter-American Motor Vehicle Traffic, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. 1943) as of June, 1996. If you intend to drive in the following countries, be sure to check INTER-AMERICAN DRIVING PERMIT box page 1: Brazil and Uruguay.