*The Schengen Area is the area comprising 26 European countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland and Sweden, all of them countries of the European Union and also, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
Within the European Union, countries not belonging to the Schengen Area are: United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Rumania.