List of diplomatic missions of the United States

The United States of America (green) and its diplomatic missions, including embassies (blue), interests sections, and other representations (light blue)

The United States has the second most diplomatic missions of any country in the world, after China^[1] including 166 of the 193 member countries of the United Nations, as well as observer state Vatican City and non-member countries of Kosovo and Taiwan. It maintains "interest sections" (in other states' embassies) in member states Iran and Syria.

History[]

In December 1777, Morocco became the first nation to seek diplomatic relations with the United States and together they maintain the United States' longest unbroken treaty.^[2] Benjamin Franklin established the first overseas mission of the United States in Paris in 1779. On April 19, 1782, John Adams was received by the States-General and the Dutch Republic as they were the first country, together with Morocco and France, to recognize the United States as an independent government. John Adams then became the first U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands^[3][4][5][6] and the house that he had purchased at Fluwelen Burgwal 18 in The Hague, became the first U.S. embassy anywhere in the world.^[7]

In the period following the American Revolution, George Washington sent a number of close advisers to the courts of European potentates in order to garner recognition of U.S. independence with mixed results, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Francis Dana, and John Jay.^[8] Much of the first fifty years of the Department of State concerned negotiating with imperial European powers over the territorial integrity of the borders of the United States as known today.

The first overseas consulate of the fledgling United States was founded in 1790 at Liverpool, Great Britain, by James Maury Jr., who was appointed by Washington. Maury held the post from 1790 to 1829. Liverpool was at the time Britain's leading port for transatlantic commerce and therefore of great economic importance to the United States. President George Washington, on November 19, 1792, nominated Benjamin Joy of Newbury Port as the first U.S. Consul to Kolkata (then Calcutta), India. Joy was not recognized as consul by the British East India Company but was permitted to “reside here as a Commercial Agent subject to the Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction of this Country…”.^[9] The first overseas property owned, and the longest continuously owned, by the United States is the American Legation in Tangier, which was a gift of the Sultan of Morocco in 1821. In general during the nineteenth century, the United States' diplomatic activities were done on a minimal budget. The U.S. owned no property abroad and provided no official residences for its foreign envoys, paid them a minimal salary, and gave them the rank of ministers rather than ambassadors who represented the great powers—a position which the U.S. only achieved towards the end of the nineteenth century.^[10]

In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the State Department was concerned with expanding commercial ties in Asia, establishing Liberia, foiling diplomatic recognition of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, and securing its presence in North America. The Confederacy had diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Papal States, Russia, Mexico, and Spain, and consular missions in Ireland, Canada, Cuba, Italy, Bermuda, and Nassau and New Providence.^[11]

The United States' global prominence became evident in the twentieth century, and the State Department was required to invest in a large network of diplomatic missions to manage its bilateral and multilateral relations.^[12] The wave of overseas construction began with the creation of the State Department's Foreign Service Buildings Commission in 1926.^[10]

Africa[]

The U.S. has embassies (or, in the case of Seychelles, a Consular Agency) in all states it recognizes with the exceptions of the Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

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  U.S. Embassy in Antananarivo

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  U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam

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  U.S. Embassy in Ezulwini, Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland)

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  U.S. Embassy in Libreville

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  U.S. Embassy in Nairobi

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  U.S. Embassy in Yaoundé

Americas[]

The U.S. has embassies (or, in the case of Antigua & Barbuda, a Consular Agency) in all states it recognizes with the exceptions of Dominica, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

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  U.S. Embassy in Bogota

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  U.S. Embassy in Brasília

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  U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown

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  U.S. Embassy in Havana

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  U.S. Embassy in La Paz

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  U.S. Embassy in Mexico City

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  U.S. Embassy in Ottawa

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  U.S. Embassy in Paramaribo

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  U.S. Embassy in Port of Spain

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  U.S. Consulate-General in Quebec City

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  U.S. Embassy in Quito

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  U.S. Embassy in San José

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  U.S. Embassy in San Salvador

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  U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa

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  U.S. Consulate-General in Toronto

Asia[]

The U.S. has embassies in all countries it recognizes apart from Bhutan, Iran, Maldives, North Korea, Syria and Yemen. It has 'interest sections' in other nation's embassies in Iran and Syria. It also has a de facto embassy in Taiwan.

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  U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi

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  U.S. Embassy in Amman

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  U.S. Embassy in Ankara

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  U.S. Consulate-General in Istanbul

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  U.S. Embassy in Baghdad

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  U.S. Embassy in Bangkok

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  U.S. Embassy in Beijing

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  U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu

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  U.S. Consulate-General in Hong Kong

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  U.S. Embassy in Dhaka

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  U.S. Embassy in Hanoi

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  U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem

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  U.S. Consulate-General in Tel-Aviv

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  U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur

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  U.S. Embassy in Manila

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  U.S. Embassy in New Delhi

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  U.S. Embassy in Nur-Sultakn

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  U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh

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  U.S. Embassy in Seoul

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  American Institute in Taiwan - Main Office in Taipei

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  U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi

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  U.S. Embassy in Tokyo

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  U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar

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  U.S. Embassy in Yerevan

Europe[]

The U.S. has embassies in (or, in the case of Vatican City, near) all countries it recognizes apart from Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino.

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  U.S. Embassy in Athens

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  U.S. Embassy in Belgrade

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  U.S. Embassy in Berlin

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  U.S. Consulate-General in Frankfurt

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  U.S. Consulate-General in Hamburg

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  U.S. Consulate-General in Munich

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  U.S. Embassy in Bern

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  U.S. Embassy in Bratislava

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  U.S. Embassy in Budapest

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  U.S. Embassy in Chişinău

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  U.S. Embassy in Dublin

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  U.S. Embassy in The Hague

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  U.S. Consulate-General in Amsterdam

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  U.S. Embassy in Helsinki

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  U.S. Embassy in Kyiv

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  U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana

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  U.S. Embassy in London

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  U.S. Embassy in Madrid

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  U.S. Consulate-General in Barcelona

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  U.S. Embassy in Moscow

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  U.S. Embassy in Oslo

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  U.S. Embassy in Paris

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  U.S. Embassy in Prague

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  U.S. Embassy in Rome

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  U.S. Consulate-General in Florence

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  U.S. Embassy in Skopje

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  U.S. Embassy in Stockholm

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  U.S. Embassy in Tirana

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  U.S. Embassy in Vienna

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  U.S. Embassy in Warsaw

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  U.S. Consulate-General in Krakow

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  U.S. Embassy in Zagreb

Oceania[]

The U.S. has embassies (or, in the case of the Solomons, a consul) in all countries it recognizes apart from Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

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  U.S. Embassy in Canberra

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  U.S. Embassy in Kolonia

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  U.S. Embassy in Wellington

International organizations[]

U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva

•  African Union
  • Addis Ababa (Delegation, established 2006)^[16]
•  ASEAN
  • Jakarta (Delegation)
• Asian Development Bank
  • Manila (Delegation)
•  European Union
  • Brussels (Delegation)
•  NATO
  • Brussels (Delegation)
• OECD
  • Paris (Delegation)
•  Organization of American States
  • Washington, D.C. (Delegation)
• OSCE
  • Vienna (Delegation)
•  United Nations and specialized agencies
  • New York City (Delegation)
  • Geneva (Delegations)
  • Montréal (Delegation to ICAO)
  • Paris (Delegation to  UNESCO)
  • Rome (Delegations)
  • Vienna (Delegations)

See also[]

• History of United States diplomatic relations by country
• Ambassadors of the United States
• United States Foreign Service
• Terrorist attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities
• List of diplomatic missions in the United States
• List of countries by number of diplomatic missions

Notes[]

References[]

Source: "Official list of embassies". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved April 19, 2019.

External links[]

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