Traditional Tamberma houses in the Koutammakou landscape, Togo

Who needs a visa for Togo?

Sub-Saharan Africa · Lomé

Photo: Erik Kristensen / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

Of 198 nationalities, 15 enter Togo with no paperwork at all. The rest: 183 must be approved before they travel.

We have not found a Togo government portal we can link to with confidence, so we link to none — a lookalike is worse than nothing. Apply through Togo's own immigration service or its embassy.

What do you need?

Who needs what

Visa free 15

Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.

eVisa (electronic visa) 183

A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.

About Togo

Region
Western Africa
Capital
Lomé
Population
8,591,626 2025 · 101st of 197
Size
56,785 km² 123rd largest of 199
Density
151 per km²
Language
French
Currency
West African CFA franc XOF
Borders
Benin Burkina Faso Ghana

Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.