List of diplomatic missions of the United States#Americas
{{Short description|All diplomatic missions for the United States}}
[[File:US_embassies_2007.png|right|thumb|400x400px|Diplomatic missions of the United States of America
{{legend|#2f3699|Countries that host a United States embassy}}
{{legend|#709ad1|Interests section and other representations}}
{{legend|#b4b4b4|Countries that do not host United States missions}}
{{legend|#22b14c|The United States of America}}]]
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The United States has the second largest number of active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China,{{Cite web |title=China beats United States to top 2024 Global Diplomacy Index {{!}} Lowy Institute |url=https://www.lowyinstitute.org/china-beats-united-states-top-2024-global-diplomacy-index |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=www.lowyinstitute.org |language=en}} including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries, as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023{{Cite web |title=Lowy Institute Global Diplomacy Index 2024 |url=https://globaldiplomacyindex.lowyinstitute.org/ |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=Lowy Institute |language=en}}). It maintains "interest sections" (in other states' embassies) in Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, 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.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8GjrAeMS1dIC&pg=PA94 |title=Morocco Country Study Guide |date=April 1, 2006 |publisher=International Business Publications, USA |isbn=9780739715147 |location=Washington, DC |page=94 |access-date=17 August 2014}} 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[http://thehague.usembassy.gov/speeches_editorials.html Speeches and editorials 2007 – U.S. Embassy The Hague, Netherlands] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612181705/http://thehague.usembassy.gov/speeches_editorials.html|date=June 12, 2007}}{{cite web |date=5 July 2015 |title=Atlantic World – Collections – Memory of the Netherlands – Online ima… |url=http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?%2Fen%2Fcollecties%2Fatlantic_world= |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127065503/http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?%2Fen%2Fcollecties%2Fatlantic_world= |archive-date=27 January 2018}}{{cite web |title=The Adams Timeline |url=http://www.masshist.org/adams/timeline.cfm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806125722/http://www.masshist.org/adams/timeline.cfm |archive-date=2011-08-06 |access-date=2012-10-25 |publisher=The Massachusetts Historical Society}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206053301/http://www.john-adams.nl/theinstitute/history.html history] John Adams Institute (Netherlands)(archive) and the house that he had purchased there, at Fluwelen Burgwal 18 in The Hague, became the first U.S. embassy in the world.[https://web.archive.org/web/20061230154418/http://www.usembassy.nl/friendship_days2.html US embassy report on Dutch-American Friendship Day.] (archive)
In the period following the American Revolution, George Washington sent a number of close advisers, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Francis Dana, and John Jay, to the courts of European potentates in order to garner recognition of U.S. independence, with mixed results.United States Department of State, Timeline of U.S. Diplomatic History, [https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/ar/ 1775–1783 Diplomacy and the American Revolution]. Accessed 29 August 2008.
The first overseas consulate of the fledgling United States was founded in 1790 in 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.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}} 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."{{Cite news |title=U.S. Consulate General Kolkata |language=en-US |publisher=U.S. Embassy & Consulates in India |url=https://in.usembassy.gov/embassy-consulates/kolkata/ |access-date=2017-01-02}} The United States' first owned overseas property is the American Legation in Tangier, which was a gift of the Sultan of Morocco in 1821.{{Cite web |title=American History on Foreign Soil: The Tangier American Legation in Morocco {{!}} National Trust for Historic Preservation |url=https://savingplaces.org/stories/american-history-foreign-soil-tangier-american-legation-morocco |access-date=2023-08-29 |website=savingplaces.org |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Aitken |first=Lauren |date=2023-08-21 |title=Tangier Old Legation: America's First Diplomatic Property |url=https://diplomacy.state.gov/tangier-old-legation-americas-first-diplomatic-property/ |access-date=2023-08-29 |website=The National Museum of American Diplomacy |language=en-US}} In general during the nineteenth century, the United States' diplomatic activities were done on a minimal budget.{{Additional citation needed|date=August 2023}} 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.{{cite book |last=Loeffler |first=Jane C. |url=https://archive.org/details/architectureofdi0000loef |title=Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America |publisher=Princeton Architectural Press |year=1998 |page=[https://archive.org/details/architectureofdi0000loef/page/13 13] |url-access=registration}}
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.{{cite web |title=Confederate States of America records, 1854–1889 |url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003052 |access-date=2012-10-25 |publisher=Library of Congress}}
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.United States Department of State, [http://usembassy.state.gov Websites of U.S. Embassies, Consulates, and Diplomatic Missions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205090859/http://usembassy.state.gov/.|date=2008-12-05}}. Accessed 29 August 2008. The wave of overseas construction began with the creation of the State Department's Foreign Service Buildings Commission in 1926.
Following the 1984 US embassy bombing in Beirut, and a 1985 report by Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, new guidelines for American diplomatic buildings focusing on security were issued. It advised that facilities should be located within a single, well-defended site, away from heavily populated areas.{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/05/18/americas-new-embassy-in-beirut-is-vast |title=America's new embassy in Beirut is vast |magazine=The Economist |url-access=limited |date=18 May 2023 |access-date=18 January 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240607012201/https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/05/18/americas-new-embassy-in-beirut-is-vast |archive-date=7 June 2024}}
As of 2024, America had the two largest embassy complexes in the world, in Baghdad and Beirut.
Current missions
=Africa=
The U.S. has embassies in all the African states it recognizes with the exceptions of Guinea-Bissau (where it maintains a Liaison office), the Comoros, Libya, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Sudan.
File:American embassy in Antananarivo, Madagascar.jpg|Embassy in Antananarivo
File:American Embassy in Dar Es Salaam.jpg|Embassy in Dar es Salaam
File:Embassy of the United States in Swaziland.jpg|Embassy in Mbabane
File:Chancery.jpg|Embassy in Libreville
File:U.S. Embassy in Lomé.png|Embassy in Lomé
File:US Embassy Nairobi.jpg|Embassy in Nairobi
File:The_U.S._Embassy_in_Pretoria_Glows_at_Night.jpg|Embassy in Pretoria
File:Yaoundé ambaixada EUA.jpg|Embassy in Yaoundé
=Americas=
The U.S. has embassies in all states in the American continent with the exceptions of Antigua & Barbuda (where it has a consular agency), Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela.
File:US Embassy in Bogota, Colombia.jpg|Embassy in Bogotá
File:Embaixada USA Brasil 01.jpg|Embassy in Brasília
File:Consulado-Geral dos Estados Unidos no Recife.jpg|Consulate-General in Recife
File:Consulado-Geral EUA Rio de Janeiro.jpg|Consulate-General in Rio de Janeiro
File:American Embassy in Bridgetown-2.jpg|Embassy in Bridgetown
File:Oficinas de la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Buenos Aires.jpg|Embassy in Buenos Aires
File:U.S. Flag Flaps Outside U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba (25998479275).jpg|Embassy in Havana
File:US Embassy in La Paz.jpg|Embassy in La Paz
File:US Embassy light in blue and yellow to express solidarity with Ukraine.jpg|Embassy in Lima
File:USEmbassyDF.JPG|Embassy in Mexico City
File:Chancery (3820495681).jpg|Embassy in Montevideo
File:American Embassy in Ottawa.jpg|Embassy in Ottawa
File:US Consulate-General in Quebec City-3.jpg|Consulate-General in Quebec City
File:Consulate of the United States in Toronto.JPG|Consulate-General in Toronto
File:US Embassy in Panama City with blue & yellow light stand firm in the support of Ukraine.jpg|Embassy in Panama City
File:paramaribo district 14.jpg|Embassy in Paramaribo
File:USEmbassy PortofSpain.jpg|Embassy in Port of Spain
File:U.S. Embassy in Ecuador.jpg|Embassy in Quito
File:American Embassy in San Jose.jpg|Embassy in San José
File:Embassy of the United States of America in San Salvador, El Salvador.jpg|Embassy in San Salvador
File:US Embassy in Santiago.jpg|Embassy in Santiago de Chile
File:US Embassy in Tegucigapa 2.jpg|Embassy in Tegucigalpa
=Asia=
The U.S. has embassies in all Asian countries it recognizes apart from Afghanistan, Bhutan, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Yemen. It has 'interests sections' in other nations' embassies in Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, and Syria. It also has a de facto embassy in Taiwan.
File:Us-embassy.close.jpg|Embassy in Abu Dhabi
File:American Embassy in Amman.jpg|Embassy in Amman
File:Türkiye'deki ABD Büyükelçiliği.jpg|Embassy in Ankara
File:American Embassy in Istanbul.jpg|Consulate-General in Istanbul
File:U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.png|Embassy in Baghdad
File:U.S. Embassy in Bangkok.png|Embassy in Bangkok
File:Wider Photograph of Chancery Office Building Showing Glass Curtain Wall large.jpg|Embassy in Beijing
File:New US embassy complex in Beirut, under construction 2023.jpg|New Embassy in Beirut under construction
File:USCG-Chengdu.jpg|former Consulate-General in Chengdu (1985-2020)
File:HK US Consulate General.jpg|Consulate-General in Hong Kong
File:US embassy dhaka.jpg|Embassy in Dhaka
File:American Embassy in Hanoi.JPG|Embassy in Hanoi
File:Bangunan Warisan di Kedutaan Besar AS Jakarta (49421948778).jpg|Embassy in Jakarta
File:United States Dedicates New Consulate General Compound in Surabaya, Indonesia.jpg|Consulate General in Surabaya
File:Relocation of US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem DSC0557 (28239099728).jpg|Embassy in Jerusalem
File:US embassy Tel Aviv 6924.JPG|Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv
File:American Embassy Kuala Lumpur Dec. 2006 002.jpg|Embassy in Kuala Lumpur
File:USManilaChancery.jpg|Embassy in Manila
File:US Embassy New Delhi.jpg|Embassy in New Delhi
File:Посольство США в Астане.jpg|Embassy in Astana
File:US Embassy Phnom Penh.jpg|Embassy in Phnom Penh
File:USA Embassy Building in Seoul.jpg|Embassy in Seoul
File:AIT NOC dedication ceremony - Flickr id 29162044008.jpg|American Institute in Taiwan - Main Office in Taipei
File:US Embassy Tbilisi.jpg|Embassy in Tbilisi
File:Embassy of the US in Japan.jpg|Embassy in Tokyo
File:US Embassy in Mongolia.jpg|Embassy in Ulaanbaatar
File:US Embassy, Yerevan.jpg|Embassy in Yerevan
=Europe=
The U.S. has embassies in (or, in the case of Vatican City, near) all European countries it recognizes apart from Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, and San Marino.
File:American embassy at vasilissis sophias in athens.JPG|Embassy in Athens
File:Демократски саобраћајни знаци.jpg|Former embassy building in Belgrade
File:Berlin, Mitte, Ebertstrasse, US-Botschaft.jpg|Embassy in Berlin
File:911 Memorial at U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt, Presenting colors.jpg|Consulate-General in Frankfurt
File:Consulate General USA Hamburg 2.jpg|Consulate-General in Hamburg
File:München Amerikanisches Generalkonsulat.jpg|Consulate-General in Munich
File:3 US Embassy in Berne, Switzerland, December 4th, 2018.jpg|Embassy in Bern
File:US embassy in Bratislava.jpg|Embassy in Bratislava
File:American embassy buildings, Brussels.jpg|Embassy in Brussels
File:Budapest U.S. embassy.JPG|Embassy in Budapest
File:American Embassy, Chişinău.jpg|Embassy in Chişinău
File:U.S. Embassy Chancery Building in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.jpg|Embassy in Dublin
File:Embassy of the United States The Hague.jpg|Embassy in The Hague
File:US Consulate General Amsterdam Museumplein Dec 2013.JPG|Consulate-General in Amsterdam
File:Yhdysvaltain Helsingin-suurlähetystö.jpg|Embassy in Helsinki
File:Embassy of USA in Kyiv.jpg|Embassy in Kyiv
File:Veleposlanistvo ZDA v Ljubljani Embassy of USA in Ljubljana Slovenia.jpg|Embassy in Ljubljana
File:United States Embassy, London (cropped).png|Embassy in London
File:Madrid - Embajada de Estados Unidos.jpg|Embassy in Madrid
File:210 Torre Godó Eguia, consolat dels EUA, pg. Reina Elisenda de Montcada 23 (Barcelona).jpg|Consulate-General in Barcelona
File:US embassy new building in Moscow.jpg|Embassy in Moscow
File:US Embassy in Oslo, Morgedalsveien.jpg|Embassy in Oslo
File:US embassy Paris 6375.JPG|Embassy in Paris
File:Schönbornský palác v Praze 01.JPG|Embassy in Prague
File:Roma ambaixada EUA.jpg|Embassy in Rome
File:Palazzo calcagnini dal lungarno.JPG|Consulate-General in Florence
File:US Embassy in Skopje.jpg|Embassy in Skopje
File:Amerikanska Ambassaden, Stockholm, Sweden..jpg|Embassy in Stockholm
File:US Embassy, Tirana.jpg|Embassy in Tirana
File:American Embassy in Vienna.jpg|Embassy in Vienna
File:Ambasada Stanów Zjednoczonych w Warszawie 2022.jpg|Embassy in Warsaw
File:Tenement-Consulate General of the United States, 9 Stolarska street, Old Town, Krakow, Poland.jpg|Consulate-General in Krakow
File:US embassy Zagreb Croatia.jpg|Embassy in Zagreb
=Oceania=
The U.S. has embassies in all countries in Oceania it recognizes apart from the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, and Tuvalu.
File:Embassy of the United States.jpg|Embassy in Canberra
File:American Embassy in Kolonia.jpg|Embassy in Kolonia
File:WellingtonEmbassy-USA.jpg|Embassy in Wellington
=International organizations=
File:12 avenue Raphaël, Paris 16e 2.jpg|Permanent Mission to the OECD in Paris
File:U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva.jpg|Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva
File:US Mission to the UN (51923305394).jpg|Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City
Closed missions
= Africa =
= Americas =
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! scope="col" | Host country ! scope="col" | Host city ! scope="col" | Mission ! scope="col" | Year closed ! scope="col" | {{Abbreviation|Ref.|References}} |
scope="row" |{{ATG}}
| Embassy | 1994 | |
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scope="row" | {{Flag|Colombia}}
| Consulate | 1948 |
scope="row" | {{flagcountry|Republic of Texas}}
| Austin | Legation | 1849 | |
scope="row" | {{flag|Hawaiian Kingdom}}
|Legation |1893 | |
scope="row" | {{flag|Republic of Hawaii}}
|Legation |1898 | |
rowspan="2" scope="row" | {{Flag|Venezuela}}
| Caracas | Embassy | 2019 | rowspan="2" Temporary |{{Cite web |title=Visas |url=https://ve.usembassy.gov/visas/ |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=U.S. Embassy in Venezuela |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2019-03-11 |title=U.S. Citizen Services - Notice |url=https://ve.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services-notice/ |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=U.S. Embassy in Venezuela |language=en-US}} |
Maracaibo
| Consular Agency | 2019 |
= Asia =
= Europe =
Missions to open
See also
Notes
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References
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External links
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