‘The World’s Rarest Passport’: CNN Shines A Spotlight On The Knights Of Malta’s Extremely Unique History
Imagine owning a passport that’s so rare, there are only 500 others like yours in circulation all over the planet.
That’s the case for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the elusive nation also known as the Knights of Malta, which was just given a whole new global spotlight thanks to CNN Travel.
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“It’s a sovereign nation, with United Nations observer status and its own constitution, but, unusually, without any land,” CNN explained of the unique religious Catholic order with nearly a millennium’s worth of history under its belt. “It issues car license plates – without having any roads to drive them on – and its own stamps, currency and passports.”.
Have you ever seen one of these passports in real life?
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