List of international trips made by the President of the United States

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The presidential quarters aboard Air Force One, 1990.
Air Force One exterior, 2014.
Barack Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili during the 2010 NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 19, 2010.

International trips made by the President of the United States have become a valuable part of American diplomacy and international relations since such trips were first made in the early 20th century. They are complicated undertakings that require months of planning along with a great deal of coordination and communication. They also involve much ceremony and fuss.

Among the 19th century American social conventions governing political travel was a taboo against international travel. Domestic travel was regarded as a welcome opportunity for presidents to talk with the people who had elected them, but foreign travel was seen in an altogether different light. The general public did not want their president mingling with royalty, visiting grand palaces, or exchanging bows with kings and queens.[1]

This taboo began to erode and break down in the early 20th century, as policy makers at the federal level began to reevaluate the nation's role in international affairs. The first international presidential trip, Theodore Roosevelt's 1906 visit to Panama, signaled a new era in how presidents conducted diplomatic relations with other countries.[2] Woodrow Wilson's trips to Europe in the Aftermath of World War I and his promotion of his own principles for world peace sealed the old taboo's fate.

Changing transportation technologies also played a role in the changing patterns of presidential travel as well. When Wilson traveled to Europe in 1919 aboard the George Washington, the voyage took nine days. Forty years later, Dwight Eisenhower made the same trip by jet in nine hours. Jet aircraft enabled American presidents to travel the globe in ways that would have been impractical if not inconceivable before.[1]

While Eisenhower was the first president to travel by jet (and the first to travel via helicopter as well), the first airplane trips by a sitting president were those of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He made multiple long distance trips abroad by plane, each one an offshoot of Allied diplomatic interactions during World War II. President John F. Kennedy had one of the most memorable trips to Europe during the summer of 1963, only a few months before he was assassinated. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson preferred travel to Asia. Richard Nixon set a number of firsts, in particular China. Jimmy Carter spent a great deal of time in the Middle East and went on the first state visit to Africa. Ronald Reagan had a number of noteworthy state visits, particularly his summit meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

The frequency and travel distance of presidential international travel has increased dramatically since George H. W. Bush became president in 1989. In 1990 the military version of the Boeing 747, the VC-25, was introduced for the use of the president. The planes have over 4,000 square feet (372 m2) of floor space, a bedroom and a shower, and enough secure communications to allow the plane to be a reasonable place to run the country. The plane is accompanied by a heavy lift aircraft that carries the helicopters and the limousines.

Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have individually visited 74 different countries over their two terms apiece. Together they went to 94 different countries with a combined population of 85% of the world total. President Obama visited 35 countries during his first term in office. As of May 2016, President Obama visited 19 more countries during his second term in office. Presidential visits of over 10,000 miles (16,093 km) are common. Round the world trips were first done by Johnson and Nixon and have been done by presidents Bush and Clinton. Trips to Europe and Asia are becoming almost routine in the 21st century.

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt made one international trip during his presidency.[3] Although presidents before him had traveled outside the U.S. in other diplomatic capacities prior to or after serving as president, Roosevelt was the first to do so while in office.[2]

Dates Country Locations Details
November 14–17, 1906  Panama Colón,
Panama City
To inspect construction of Panama Canal. First visit abroad by any President or President-elect. Departed the U.S. November 9; returned to U.S. November 26.
stereo card showing Theodore Roosevelt running a steam-shovel at the Culebra Cut, along the Panama Canal route, November 15, 1906.

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft made one international trip while president-elect and one during his presidency.[4] His trip while in office was to the Mexico–United States border for an exchange of visits with the President of Mexico. On the day of the summit, a man holding a palm pistol was captured and disarmed within only a few feet of the two presidents.[5]

Dates Country Locations Details
January 29 – February 7, 1909  Panama Colón,
Panama City
Inspected construction of Panama Canal. Met with President José Domingo de Obaldía. (Visit made as President-elect.)
October 16, 1909  Mexico Ciudad Juarez Part of an exchange of visits with President Porfirio Díaz across the border from El Paso, Texas.
William Taft and Porfirio Díaz, historic first presidential summit, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, October 16, 1909.

Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson made one international trip while president-elect and two during his presidency.[6] Wilson was the first sitting president to travel to Europe. He spent nearly seven months in Europe after World War I (interrupted by a brief 9-day return stateside). He was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his peacemaking efforts.[7]

Dates Country Locations Details
1 November 18 –
December 13, 1912
 Bermuda Vacation. (Visit made as President-elect.)
2 December 14–25, 1918  France Paris,
Chaumont
Attended preliminary discussions prior to the Paris Peace Conference; promoted his Fourteen Points principles for world peace. Departed the U.S. December 4.
December 26–31, 1918  United Kingdom London,
Carlisle,
Manchester
Met with Prime Minister David Lloyd George and King George V.
December 31, 1918 – January 1, 1919  France Paris Stopover en route to Italy.
January 1–6, 1919  Italy Rome,
Genoa,
Milan,
Turin
Met with King Victor Emmanuel III and Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando.
January 4, 1919 Flag of the Papal States (1808-1870).svg Vatican Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope Benedict XV.
January 7–14, 1919  France Paris Attended Paris Peace Conference. Arrived In the U.S. February 24.
3 March 14 – June 18, 1919  France Paris Attended Paris Peace Conference. Departed the U.S. March 5.
June 18–19, 1919  Belgium Brussels,
Charleroi,
Malines,
Louvain
Met with King Albert I. Addressed Parliament.
June 20–28, 1919  France Paris Attended Paris Peace Conference. Returned to U.S. July 8.
The Big Four at the Paris Peace Conference, May 27, 1919, left to right: David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson.

Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding made one international trip while president-elect and one during his presidency.[8] In 1923, he became the first president to visit Canada while in office, stopping in Vancouver on his way back from the first-ever presidential trip to Alaska. Harding died a week later, in San Francisco.[9]

Dates Country Locations Details
1 November 24, 1920  Panama Colón,
Baihos
Informal visit to Panama Canal Zone. (Visit made as President-elect.)
November 30, 1920 Flag of Jamaica (1906-1957).svg Jamaica Kingston Stopped while returning to the U.S. (Visit made as President-elect.)
2 July 26, 1923  Canada Vancouver Official reception during return from Alaska, hosted by British Columbia Premier John Oliver and Vancouver mayor Charles Tisdall.[10]
Warren Harding and Florence Harding disembark from the USS Henderson at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 26, 1923.

Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge made one international trip during his presidency.[11]

Dates Country Locations Details
January 15–17, 1928  Cuba Havana Met with President Gerardo Machado.[12] Addressed the Sixth International Conference of American States. He extend an olive branch to Latin American leaders embittered over America's interventionist policies in Central America and the Caribbean.[13]

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover made one international “good will” trip, to Central and South America, during the time when he was president-elect.[14] He delivered twenty-five speeches, almost all of which stressed his plans to reduce American political and military interference in Latin American affairs. In sum, he pledged that the United States would act as a "good neighbor."[15][16] While crossing the Andes from Chile, a plot to bomb Hoover’s train as it crossed the vast Argentinian central plain was foiled.[17]

Dates Country Locations Details
November 26, 1928  Honduras Amapala Met with President-elect Vicente Mejía Colindres and Foreign Minister Augusto Coello.[18] Departed the U.S. November 19, 1928.[19]
November 26, 1928  El Salvador Cutuco Met with Minister of Foreign Affairs Francisco Martínez Suárez.[18]
November 27, 1928  Nicaragua Corinto Met with President Adolfo Díaz and President-elect José María Moncada.[19]
November 28, 1928  Costa Rica San José Met with President Cleto González Víquez.[18][20]
December 1, 1928  Ecuador Guayaquil Met with President Isidro Ayora.[18]
December 5, 1928  Peru Lima Met with President Augusto B. Leguía.[18]
December 8–11, 1928  Chile Antofagasta,
Santiago
Met with President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo. Met with Bolivian diplomats to discuss the on-going Tacna–Arica dispute.[18][21]
December 13–15, 1928  Argentina Buenos Aires Met with President Hipólito Yrigoyen.[22] Also reported to President Coolidge on the success of his tour via telegraph.[23]
December 16–18, 1928  Uruguay Montevideo Met with President Juan Campisteguy, and addressed the National Council of Administration.[18]
December 21–23, 1928 23x15px Brazil Rio de Janeiro Met with President Washington Luís; addressed the National Congress and the Supreme Federal Court.[19] Returned to U.S. January 6, 1929.[24]
Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover aboard the USS Utah in South America, December, 1928.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt made one international trip while president-elect and 20 during his presidency.[25] His early travels were by ship, frequently for fishing vacations to the Bahama Banks, Canadian Maritimes or Newfoundland Island. In 1943 he became the first incumbent president to fly by airplane across the Atlantic Ocean during his secret mission to Casablanca. As a result of this trip, he also became the first president to visit North Africa while in office.

Countries visited by Franklin Roosevelt during his presidency, 1933-45.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 February 6–14, 1933 The Bahamas The Bahamas Fishing trip. (Visit made as President-elect.)
2 June 29 – July 1, 1933  Canada Campobello Island Vacation.
3 March 29 – April 11, 1934 The Bahamas The Bahamas Elbow Cay,
Gun Cay.[26]
Fishing trip.
4 July 5–6, 1934  Haiti Cap Haitien Informal visit en route to vacation in Hawaii.
July 10, 1934  Colombia Cartagena
July 11–12, 1934  Panama Panama City
5 March 27 – April 6, 1935 The Bahamas The Bahamas Cat Cays,
Lobos Cay,
Great Inagua Island,
Crooked Island[26]
Fishing trip.
6 October 16, 1935  Panama Balboa Informal visit with President Harmodio Arias Madrid while returning to Washington, D.C. from the U.S. West Coast.
7 March 24 – April 7, 1936 The Bahamas The Bahamas Great Inagua Island,
Nassau
Fishing trip. Luncheon with Governor Bede Clifford and the President of the Legislative Council, George Johnson.[27]
8 July 28–30, 1936  Canada Campobello Island Vacation.
July 31, 1936 Quebec city Official visit. Met with Governor General John Buchan.
9 November 21, 1936 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Stopped on the way to South America.
November 27, 1936 23x15px Brazil Rio de Janeiro Addressed Brazilian Congress.
November 30 –
December 2, 1936
 Argentina Buenos Aires Attended session of Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace.
December 3, 1936  Uruguay Montevideo Official visit. Met with President Gabriel Terra.
December 11, 1936 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Stopped while returning to the United States.
10 August 4–5, 1938  Panama Balboa Informal visit with President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena during vacation in the Caribbean.
11 August 18, 1938  Canada Kingston Received honorary degree from Queen's University and together with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, and the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Albert Edward Matthews, dedicated the Thousand Islands Bridge.
12 August 14–16, 1939  Canada Campobello Island,
Sydney
Vacation.
August 17–20, 1939 Dominion of Newfoundland Red Ensign.svg Newfoundland Bay of Islands,
Bonne Bay
August 21–23, 1939  Canada Halifax
13 February 27, 1940  Panama Cristóbal,
Balboa
Met informally with President Augusto Samuel Boyd during vacation.
14 December 5, 1940  Jamaica Kingston Inspected British base sites for possible American use.
December 8, 1940  Saint Lucia Inspected British base sites for possible American use.
December 8, 1940 France Martinique Fort Saint Louis Conferred with U.S. officials.
December 9, 1940  British Leeward Islands Antigua Inspected British base sites for possible American use.
December 12–13, 1940 The Bahamas The Bahamas Eleuthera Island Inspected British base sites for possible American use. Met with the Governor, H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor. Returned to the U.S. on December 14.
15 August 9–12, 1941 Dominion of Newfoundland Red Ensign.svg Newfoundland Argentia Conferred with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard ship (HMS Prince of Wales and USS Augusta) in Placentia Bay. At the conclusion of the conference they issued the Atlantic Charter.[28]
16 January 11, 1943 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Overnight stop en route to Africa.
January 12, 1943 23x15px Brazil Belém
January 13, 1943 The Gambia The Gambia Bathurst
January 14–25, 1943  Morocco Casablanca Attended Casablanca Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
January 25, 1943 The Gambia The Gambia Bathurst Overnight stop en route from Casablanca.
January 26–27, 1943  Liberia Monrovia Informal visit. Met with President Edwin Barclay.
January 28, 1943 23x15px Brazil Natal Informal visit. Met with President Getúlio Vargas.
January 29, 1943 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Overnight stop en route from Casablanca.
17 April 20, 1943  Mexico Monterrey Part of an exchange of visits with President Manuel Ávila Camacho across the border.
18 August 17–25, 1943  Canada Quebec City
Ottawa
Attended First Quebec Conference with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
19 November 20–21, 1943 France Algeria Oran Disembarked.
November 21–22, 1943 France Tunisia Tunis Overnight stop.
November 22–26, 1943  Egypt Cairo Attended First Cairo Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek.
November 27 –
December 2, 1943
 Iran Tehran Attended Tehran Conference with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
December 2–7, 1943  Egypt Cairo Attended Second Cairo Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Turkish President İsmet İnönü.
December 7–9, 1943 France Tunisia Tunis Conferred with General Dwight Eisenhower.
December 8, 1943  Malta Valletta Visited Allied military installations
December 8, 1943  Italy Castelvetrano Visited Allied military installations
December 9, 1943 France Senegal Dakar Re-embarked for the U.S.
20 September 11–16, 1944  Canada Quebec City Attended Second Quebec Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff.
21 February 2, 1945  Malta Floriana Attended Malta Conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
February 3–12, 1945  Soviet Union Yalta Attended Yalta Conference with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
February 13–15, 1945  Egypt Great Bitter Lake,
Suez Canal,
Alexandria
Met with King Farouk, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Saudi Arabian King Ibn Saud, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
February 18, 1945 France Algeria Algiers Briefed U.S. Ambassadors to the United Kingdom, France, and Italy on the Yalta Conference.
The Big Three at the Yalta Conference, February, 1945: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.

Harry Truman

Harry Truman made five international trips during his presidency.[29] Three months after ascending to the presidency, Truman made his only trans-Atlantic trip as president to participate in talks concerning how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier (V-E Day). He also visited neighboring Bermuda, Canada and Mexico, plus Brazil in South America. Truman only left the continental United States on two other occasions (to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, February 20-March 5, 1948; and to Wake Island, October 11–18, 1950) during his nearly eight years in office.[30]

Countries visited by Truman during his presidency, 1945-53.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 July 15, 1945  Belgium Antwerp,
Brussels
Disembarked en route to Potsdam.
July 16 – August 2, 1945 Four Freedoms Flag or United Nations Honour Flag ca 1943-1948.svg Germany Potsdam Attended Potsdam Conference with British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
August 2, 1945  United Kingdom Plymouth Informal meeting with King George VI.
2 August 23–30, 1946  Bermuda Hamilton Informal visit. Met with Governor General Ralph Leatham and inspected U.S. military facilities.
3 March 3–6, 1947  Mexico Mexico, D.F. State visit. Met with President Miguel Alemán Valdés.
4 June 10–12, 1947  Canada Ottawa Official visit. Met with Governor General Harold Alexander and Prime Minister Mackenzie King and addressed Parliament.
5 September 1–7, 1947 23x15px Brazil Rio de Janeiro State visit. Addressed Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security and the Brazilian Congress.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower made one international trip while president-elect and 16 international trips during his presidency.[31] By the time he left office in 1961, Eisenhower had visited 26 countries.

In 1958, the Air Force added three Boeing 707 jets (designated SAM 970, 971, and 972), 707-153 models, into the presidential fleet. Starting in the summer of 1959 he made five major tours in one year to Europe, Southeast Asia, South America, Middle East, and Southern Asia. On his "Flight to Peace" Goodwill tour, from 3 December through 22 December 1959, the President visited 11 nations including five in Asia, flying 22,000 miles in 19 days.

An official air traffic control call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the President was established for security purposes during Eisenhower's presidency. This came about following a 1953 incident where an Eastern Airlines commercial flight (8610) had the same call sign as the flight the president was on (Air Force 8610). The airliner accidentally entered the same airspace, and after the incident, the unique presidential aircraft call sign Air Force One was introduced in 1959.

Countries visited by Eisenhower during his presidency, 1953-61.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 December 2–5, 1952  South Korea Seoul Visit to Korean combat zone. (Visit made as President-elect.)
2 October 19, 1953  Mexico Nueva Ciudad Guerrero Dedication of Falcon Dam, with President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines.[32]
3 November 13–15, 1953  Canada Ottawa State visit. Met with Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. Addressed Parliament.
4 December 4–8, 1953  Bermuda Hamilton Attended the Bermuda Conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Prime Minister Joseph Laniel.
5 July 16–23, 1955   Switzerland Geneva Attended the Geneva Summit with British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, French Premier Edgar Faure and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin.
6 July 21–23, 1956  Panama Panama City Attended the meeting of the presidents of the American republics.
7 March 20–24, 1957  Bermuda Hamilton Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
8 December 14–19, 1957  France Paris Attended the First NATO summit.
9 July 8–11, 1958  Canada Ottawa Informal visit. Met with Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Addressed Parliament.
10 February 19–20, 1959  Mexico Acapulco Informal meeting with President Adolfo López Mateos.
11 June 26, 1959  Canada Montreal Joined Queen Elizabeth II in ceremony opening the St. Lawrence Seaway.
12 August 26–27, 1959  West Germany Bonn Informal meeting with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and President Theodor Heuss.
August 27 –
September 2, 1959
 United Kingdom London,
Balmoral,
Chequers
Informal visit. Met Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Queen Elizabeth II.
September 2–4, 1959  France Paris Informal meeting with President Charles de Gaulle and Italian Prime Minister Antonio Segni. Addressed North Atlantic Council.
September 4–7, 1959  United Kingdom Culzean Castle Rested before returning to the United States.
13 December 4–6, 1959  Italy Rome Informal visit. Met with President Giovanni Gronchi.
December 6, 1959   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope John XXIII.
December 6–7, 1959  Turkey Ankara Informal visit. Met with President Celâl Bayar.
December 7–9, 1959  Pakistan Karachi Informal visit. Met with President Ayub Khan.
December 9, 1959  Afghanistan Kabul Informal visit. Met with King Mohammed Zahir Shah.
December 9–14, 1959  India New Delhi,
Agra
Met with President Rajendra Prasad and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Addressed Parliament.
December 14, 1959  Iran Tehran Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Addressed Parliament.
December 14–15, 1959  Greece Athens Official visit. Met with King Paul and Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis. Addressed Parliament.
December 17, 1959  Tunisia Tunis Met with President Habib Bourguiba.
December 18–21, 1959  France Toulon,
Paris
Conference with President Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
December 21–22, 1959 23x15px Spain Madrid Met with Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
December 22, 1959  Morocco Casablanca Met with King Mohammed V.
14 February 23–26, 1960 23x15px Brazil Brasília,
Rio de Janeiro,
São Paulo
Met with President Juscelino Kubitschek. Addressed Brazilian Congress.
February 26–29, 1960  Argentina Buenos Aires,
Mar del Plata,
San Carlos de Bariloche
Met with President Arturo Frondizi.
February 29 –
March 2, 1960
 Chile Santiago Met with President Jorge Alessandri.
March 2–3, 1960  Uruguay Montevideo Met with President Benito Nardone. Returned to the U.S. via Buenos Aires and Suriname.
15 May 15–19, 1960  France Paris Conference with President Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
May 19–20, 1960  Portugal Lisbon Official visit. Met with President Américo Tomás.
16 June 14–16, 1960  Philippines Manila State visit. Met with President Carlos P. Garcia.
June 18–19, 1960  Republic of China Taipei State visit. Met with President Chiang Kai-shek.
June 19–20, 1960  South Korea Seoul Met with Prime Minister Heo Jeong. Addressed the National Assembly.
17 October 24, 1960  Mexico Ciudad Acuña Informal visit. Met with President Adolfo López Mateos.
Dwight D. Eisenhower in Madrid in 1959 with Spanish leader Francisco Franco.

John F. Kennedy

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John F. Kennedy made eight international trips during his presidency.[33] Two of these were to Europe, and the other six were to various nations in the Western Hemisphere. His second trip to Europe included the famous speech Ich bin ein Berliner at the Berlin Wall, the visit of the first Catholic president to Vatican City, and the trip to Kennedy's ancestral home in Ireland. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy traveled with him on his 1961 visit to France and received such a popular reaction there that the President quipped "I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris – and I have enjoyed it!"[34][35]

Countries visited by Kennedy during his presidency, 1961-63.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 May 16–18, 1961  Canada Ottawa State visit. Met with Governor General Georges Vanier and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Addressed parliament.
2 May 31 – June 3, 1961  France Paris State visit. Addressed North Atlantic Council. Met with President Charles de Gaulle.
June 3–4, 1961  Austria Vienna Met with President Adolf Schärf. held talks with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
June 4–5, 1961  United Kingdom London Private visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
3 December 16–17, 1961  Venezuela Caracas Met with President Rómulo Betancourt.
December 17, 1961  Colombia Bogota Met with President Alberto Lleras Camargo.
4 December 21–22, 1961  Bermuda Hamilton Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
5 June 29 – July 1, 1962  Mexico Mexico, D.F. State visit. Met with President Adolfo López Mateos.
6 December 18–21, 1962 The Bahamas The Bahamas Nassau Conferred with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Concluded Nassau Agreement on nuclear defense systems.
7 March 18–20, 1963  Costa Rica San José Attended Conference of Presidents of the Central American Republics.
8 June 23–25, 1963  West Germany Bonn,
Cologne,
Frankfurt,
Wiesbaden
Met with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and other officials.
June 26, 1963  West Germany West Berlin Delivered several public addresses.
June 26–29, 1963  Ireland Dublin,
Wexford,
Cork,
Galway,
Limerick
Addressed Irish Parliament. Visited ancestral home.[36]
June 29–30, 1963  United Kingdom Birch Grove Informal visit with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at his home.
July 1–2, 1963  Italy Rome,
Naples
Met with President Antonio Segni, Italian and NATO officials.
July 2, 1963   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with the newly elected Pope Paul VI.
John F. Kennedy, the first Roman Catholic elected president, with Pope Paul VI in Vatican City, July 2, 1963.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson made eleven international trips during his presidency.[37] He flew 523,000 miles aboard Air Force One while in office. Eschewing Europe in favor of Southeast Asia and Latin America. One of the most unusual international trips in presidential history occurred before Christmas in 1967. The President began the trip by going to the memorial service for Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, who had disappeared in a swimming accident and was presumed drowned. The White House did not reveal in advance to the press that the President would make the first round-the-world presidential trip. The exhausting trip was 26,959 miles completed in only 112.5 hours (4.7 days). The trip crossed the equator twice, stopped in Travis Air Force Base, Calif., then Honolulu, Pago Pago, Canberra, Melbourne, Vietnam, Karachi and Rome.

Countries visited by Johnson during his presidency, 1963-69.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 September 16, 1964  Canada Vancouver Informal visit. Met with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in ceremonies related to the Columbia River Treaty.
2 April 14–15, 1966  Mexico Mexico, D.F. Informal visit. Met with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.
3 August 21–22, 1966  Canada Campobello Island,
Chamcook
Laid cornerstone at Roosevelt Campobello International Park. Conferred informally with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.
4 October 19–20, 1966  New Zealand Wellington State visit. Met with Prime Minister Keith Holyoake.
October 20–23, 1966  Australia Canberra,
Melbourne,
Sydney,
Brisbane,
Townsville
State visit. Met with Governor-General Richard Casey and Prime Minister Harold Holt.
October 24–26, 1966  Philippines Manila,
Los Baños,
Corregidor
Attended the summit conference with the heads of State and government of Australia, Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
October 26, 1966  South Vietnam Cam Ranh Bay Visited U.S. military personnel.
October 27–30, 1966  Thailand Bangkok State visit. Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
October 30–31, 1966  Malaysia Kuala Lumpur State visit. Met with Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman
October 31 –
November 2, 1966
 South Korea Seoul,
Suwon
State visit. Met with President Park Chung-hee and Prime Minister Chung Il-kwon. Addressed National Assembly.
5 December 3, 1966  Mexico Ciudad Acuña Informal meeting with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. Inspected construction of Amistad Dam.
6 April 11–14, 1967  Uruguay Punta del Este Summit meeting with Latin American heads of state.
April 14, 1967 Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands) Suriname Paramaribo Refueling stop en route from Uruguay.
7 April 23–26, 1967  West Germany Bonn Attended the funeral of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and conversed with various heads of state.
8 May 25, 1967  Canada Montreal,
Ottawa
Met with Governor General Roland Michener. Attended Expo 67. Conferred informally with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.
9 October 28, 1967  Mexico Ciudad Juarez Attended transfer of El Chamizal from the U.S. to Mexico. Conferred with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.
10 December 21–22, 1967  Australia Canberra Attended the funeral of Prime Minister Harold Holt. Conferred with other attending heads of state.
December 23, 1967  Thailand Khorat Visited U.S. military personnel.
December 23, 1967  South Vietnam Cam Ranh Bay Visited U.S. military personnel.
December 23, 1967  Pakistan Karachi Met with President Ayub Khan.
December 23, 1967  Italy Rome Met with President Giuseppe Saragat and Prime Minister Aldo Moro.
December 23, 1967   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope Paul VI.
11 July 6–8, 1968  El Salvador San Salvador Attended the Conference of Presidents of the Central American Republics.
July 8, 1968  Nicaragua Managua Informal visit. Met with President Anastasio Somoza Debayle.
July 8, 1968  Costa Rica San José Informal visit. Met with President José Joaquín Trejos Fernández.
July 8, 1968  Honduras San Pedro Sula Informal visit. Met with President Oswaldo López Arellano.
July 8, 1968  Guatemala Guatemala City Informal visit. Met with President Julio César Méndez Montenegro.
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Lyndon B. Johnson awarding a medal to a US soldier during a visit to South Vietnam, October 26, 1966.

Richard M. Nixon

Richard M. Nixon made fifteen international trips during his presidency.[38] He made the unusual move of going on a week-long trip to Europe only five weeks after his inauguration. His most famous voyage was to the People's Republic of China, the first by an incumbent President of the United States. He also made groundbreaking trips to other Communist-ruled nations as well, including: Romania (1969), Yugoslavia (1970), and the Soviet Union (1972 and 1974). In 1972 Nixon received delivery of the second custom outfitted jet to be used as Air Force One, VC-137C SAM 27000.

Countries visited by Nixon during his presidency, 1969-74.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 February 23–24, 1969  Belgium Brussels Attended the 23rd meeting of North Atlantic Council. Met with King Baudouin I.
February 24–26, 1969  United Kingdom London Informal visit. Delivered several public addresses.
February 26–27, 1969  West Germany West Berlin
Bonn
Delivered several public addresses. Addressed the Bundestag.
February 27–28, 1969  Italy Rome Met with President Giuseppe Saragat and Prime Minister Mariano Rumor and other officials.
February 28 –
March 2, 1969
 France Paris Met with President Charles de Gaulle.
March 2, 1969   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope Paul VI.
2 July 26–27, 1969  Philippines Manila State visit. Met with President Ferdinand Marcos.
July 27–28, 1969  Indonesia Jakarta State visit. Met with President Suharto.
July 28–30, 1969  Thailand Bangkok State visit. Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
July 30, 1969  South Vietnam Saigon,
Di An
Met with President Nguyen Van Thieu. Visited U.S. military personnel.
July 31 – August 1, 1969  India New Delhi State visit. Met with Acting President Mohammad Hidayatullah.
August 1–2, 1969  Pakistan Lahore State visit. Met with President Yahya Khan.
August 2–3, 1969  Romania Bucharest Official visit. Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu.
August 3, 1969  United Kingdom RAF Mildenhall Informal meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
3 September 8, 1969  Mexico Ciudad Acuña Dedication of Amistad Dam with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.
4 August 20–21, 1970  Mexico Puerto Vallarta Official visit. Met with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.
5 September 27–30, 1970  Italy Rome,
Naples
Official visit. Met with President Giuseppe Saragat. Visited NATO Southern Command.
September 28, 1970   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope Paul VI.
September 30 –
October 2, 1970
 Yugoslavia Belgrade,
Zagreb
State visit. Met with President Josip Broz Tito.
October 2–3, 1970  Spain Madrid State visit. Met with Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
October 3, 1970  United Kingdom Chequers Met informally with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Edward Heath.
October 3–5, 1970  Ireland Limerick,
Timahoe,
Dublin
State visit. Met with T Prime Minister Jack Lynch.
6 November 12, 1970  France Paris Attended the memorial services for former President Charles de Gaulle.
7 December 13–14, 1971  Portugal Terceira Island Discussed international monetary problems with French President Georges Pompidou and Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano.
8 December 20–21, 1971  Bermuda Hamilton Met with Prime Minister Edward Heath.
9 February 21–28, 1972  China Shanghai,
Peking,
Hangchow
State visit. Met with Party Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai.
10 April 13–15, 1972  Canada Ottawa State visit. Met with Governor General Roland Michener and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Addressed Parliament. Signed the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.[39]
11 May 20–22, 1972  Austria Salzburg Informal visit. Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky.
May 22–30, 1972  Soviet Union Moscow,
Leningrad,
Kiev
State visit. Met with Premier Alexei Kosygin and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Signed the SALT I and ABM Treaties.
May 30–31, 1972  Iran Tehran Official visit. Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
May 31 – June 1, 1972  Poland Warsaw Official visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek.
12 May 31 – June 1, 1973  Iceland Reykjavík Met with President Kristján Eldjárn and Prime Minister Ólafur Jóhannesson and French President Georges Pompidou.
13 April 5–7, 1974  France Paris Attended the memorial services for former President Georges Pompidou. Met afterward with interim President Alain Poher, Italian President Giovanni Leone, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Danish Prime Minister Poul Hartling, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
14 June 10–12, 1974  Austria Salzburg Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky.
June 12–14, 1974  Egypt Cairo,
Alexandria
Met with President Anwar Sadat.
June 14–15, 1974  Saudi Arabia Jedda Met with King Faisal.
June 15–16, 1974  Syria Damascus Met with President Hafez al-Assad.
June 16–17, 1974  Israel Tel Aviv,
Jerusalem
Met with President Ephraim Katzir and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
June 17–18, 1974  Jordan Amman State visit. Met with King Hussein.
June 18–19, 1974  Portugal Lajes Field Met with President António de Spínola.
15 June 25–26, 1974  Belgium Brussels Attended the North Atlantic Council Meeting. Met separately with King Baudouin I and Queen Fabiola, Prime Minister Leo Tindemans, and with German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Italian Prime Minister Mariano Rumor.
June 27 – July 3, 1974  Soviet Union Moscow,
Minsk,
Oreanda
Official visit. Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. Signing of the Threshold Test Ban Treaty.
Richard Nixon meets with Mao Zedong in Beijing, February 21, 1972.

Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford made seven international trips during his presidency.[40] Ford made the first visit of a sitting president to Japan, and followed it with a trip to the Republic of Korea and the Soviet Union (to attend the Vladivostok Summit).

Countries visited by Ford during his presidency, 1974-77.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 October 21, 1974  Mexico Nogales, Magdalena de Kino Met with President Luis Echeverría and laid a wreath at the tomb of Padre Eusebio Kino.
2 November 19–22, 1974  Japan Tokyo,
Kyoto
State visit. Met with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
November 22–23, 1974  South Korea Seoul Met with President Park Chung-hee.
November 23–24, 1974  Soviet Union Vladivostok Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and discussed limitations of strategic arms.
3 December 14–16, 1974 France Martinique Fort-de-France Met with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
4 May 28–31, 1975  Belgium Brussels Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Addressed the North Atlantic Council and met separately with NATO heads of state and government.
May 31 – June 1, 1975 23x15px Spain Madrid Met with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Received keys to city from Mayor of Madrid Miguel Angel García-Lomas Mata.
June 1–3, 1975  Austria Salzburg Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
June 3, 1975  Italy Rome Met with President Giovanni Leone and Prime Minister Aldo Moro.
June 3, 1975   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope Paul VI.
5 July 26–28, 1975  West Germany Bonn,
Linz
Met with President Walter Scheel and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
July 28–29, 1975  Poland Warsaw,
Kraków
Official visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek.
July 29 – August 2, 1975  Finland Helsinki Attended opening session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Met with the heads of state and government of Finland, Great Britain, Turkey, West Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Also met with Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev. Signed the final act of the conference.
August 2–3, 1975  Romania Bucharest,
Sinaia
Official visit. Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu.
August 3–4, 1975  Yugoslavia Belgrade Official visit. Met with President Josip Broz Tito and Prime Minister Džemal Bijedić.
6 November 15–17, 1975  France Rambouillet Attended the 1st G6 summit.
7 December 1–5, 1975  China Peking Official visit. Met with Party Chairman Mao Zedong and Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping.
December 5–6, 1975  Indonesia Jakarta Official visit. Met with President Suharto.
December 6–7, 1975  Philippines Manila Official visit. Met with President Ferdinand Marcos.
Gerald Ford with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Vladivostok, November 24, 1974.

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter made twelve international trips during his presidency.[41] Carter was the first president to make a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa when he went to Nigeria in 1978. His travel included five trips to Europe and one trip to Asia. He also made several trips to the Middle East to broker peace negotiations. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his peacemaking efforts.[42] In 1978 he travelled to Panama City to sign a protocol confirming exchange of documents ratifying the Panama Canal treaties.

Countries visited by Carter during his presidency, 1977-81.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 May 5–11, 1977  United Kingdom London,
Newcastle
Attended the 3rd G7 summit. Also met with the prime ministers of Greece, Belgium, Turkey, Norway, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and with the President of Portugal. Addressed NATO Ministers meeting.
May 9, 1977   Switzerland Geneva Official visit. Met with President Kurt Furgler. Also met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
2 December 29–31, 1977  Poland Warsaw Official visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek.
December 31, 1977 – January 1, 1978  Iran Tehran Official visit. Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and King Hussein of Jordan.
January 1–3, 1978  India New Delhi, Daulatpur Nasirabad[43] Met with President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy and Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Addressed Parliament of India.
January 3–4, 1978  Saudi Arabia Riyadh Met with King Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd.
January 4, 1978  Egypt Aswan Met with President Anwar Sadat and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
January 4–6, 1978  France Paris,
Normandy,
Bayeux,
Versailles
Met with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Prime Minister Raymond Barre.
January 6, 1978  Belgium Brussels Met with King Baudouin and Prime Minister Leo Tindemans. Attended meetings of the Commission of the European Communities and the North Atlantic Council.
3 March 28–29, 1978  Venezuela Caracas Met with President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Addressed Congress and signed maritime boundary agreement.
March 29–31, 1978 23x15px Brazil Brasília
Rio de Janeiro
Official visit. Met with President Ernesto Geisel and addressed National Congress.
March 31 – April 3, 1978  Nigeria Lagos State visit. Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo.
April 3, 1978  Liberia Monrovia Met with President William R. Tolbert, Jr..
4 June 16–17, 1978  Panama Panama City Invited by President Demetrio B. Lakas and General Omar Torrijos to sign protocol confirming exchange of documents ratifying Panama Canal treaties. Also met informally with Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, Colombian President Alfonso López Michelsen, Mexican President José López Portillo, Costa Rican Rodrigo Carazo Odio and Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica.
5 July 14–15, 1978  West Germany Bonn,
Wiesbaden-Erbenheim,
Frankfurt
State visit. Met with President Walter Scheel and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Addressed U.S. and German military personnel.
July 15, 1978  West Germany West Berlin Spoke at the Berlin Airlift Memorial.
July 16–17, 1978  West Germany Bonn Attended the 4th G7 summit.
6 January 4–9, 1979 France Guadeloupe Basse-Terre Met informally with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister James Callaghan.
7 February 14–16, 1979  Mexico Mexico City State visit. Met with President José López Portillo. Addressed the Mexican Congress.
8 March 7–9, 1979  Egypt Cairo,
Alexandria,
Giza
State visit. Met with President Anwar Sadat. Addressed People's Assembly of Egypt.
March 10–13, 1979  Israel Tel Aviv,
Jerusalem
State visit. Met with President Yitzhak Navon and Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Addressed the Knesset.
March 13, 1979  Egypt Cairo Met with President Anwar Sadat.
9 June 14–18, 1979  Austria Vienna State visit. Met with President Rudolf Kirchschläger and Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. Met with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev to sign SALT II Treaty.
10 June 25–29, 1979  Japan Tokyo,
Shimoda
Attended the 5th G7 summit. State visit. Met with Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira.
June 29 – July 1, 1979  South Korea Seoul State visit. Met with President Park Chung-hee and Prime Minister Choi Kyu-hah.
11 June 19–24, 1980  Italy Rome,
Venice
Attended the 6th G7 summit. State Visit. Met with President Sandro Pertini.
June 21, 1980   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope John Paul II.
June 24–25, 1980  Yugoslavia Belgrade Official visit. Met with President Cvijetin Mijatović.
June 25–26, 1980  Spain Madrid Official visit. Met with King Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez.
June 26–30, 1980  Portugal Lisbon Official visit. Met with President António Ramalho Eanes and Prime Minister Francisco de Sá Carneiro.
12 July 9–10, 1980  Japan Tokyo Official visit. Attended memorial services for former Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira. Met with Emperor Hirohito, Bangla President Ziaur Rahman, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng.
Jimmy Carter and Liberian President William R. Tolbert, Jr. wave from their motorcade during a visit to Monrovia, April 3, 1978.

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan made 25 international trips during his presidency.[44] He made seven trips to continental Europe, three to Asia and one to South America. He is perhaps best remembered for his speeches at the 40th anniversary of the Normandy landings, for his impassioned speech at the Berlin Wall, his summit meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev, and riding horses with the Queen at Windsor Park.

Reagan's presidency would be transitional in international travel. During his term in office, he ordered the two special mission Boeing 747s that would become the new presidential transport to replace the aging Boeing 707s. Heavy lift aircraft could bring security, limousines, and helicopters. After that time, the president had access to inflight bedrooms and showers, boardrooms, and communication equipment and with refueling virtually unlimited range. Summit meetings would proliferate, and international travel would become more of a constant expectation of the presidency.

Countries visited by Reagan during his presidency, 1981-89.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 January 5, 1981  Mexico Cuidad Juarez Met with President José López Portillo. (Visit made as President-elect.)
2 March 10–11, 1981  Canada Ottawa State visit. Met with Governor General Edward Schreyer and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Addressed parliament.
3 July 19–21, 1981  Canada Ottawa,
Montebello
Attended the 7th G7 summit.
4 October 21–24, 1981  Mexico Cancun Attended the North–South Summit on International Cooperation and Development. Met with the heads of state and government of Algeria, Bangladesh, Canada, China, France, Guyana, India, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, Venezuela and Yugoslavia.
5 April 7–8, 1982  Jamaica Kingston Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Edward Seaga.
April 8–11, 1982  Barbados Bridgetown Official visit. Met with the prime ministers of Barbados, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Christopher and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
6 June 2–7, 1982  France Paris State visit. Met with President François Mitterrand and Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy.
June 5–6, 1982  France Versailles Attended the 8th G7 summit.
June 7, 1982  Italy Rome State visit. Met with President Sandro Pertini and Premier Giovanni Spadolini.
June 7, 1982   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope John Paul II.
June 7–9, 1982  United Kingdom London,
Windsor Castle
State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Addressed Parliament.
June 9–11, 1982  West Germany Bonn State visit. Met with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and President Karl Carstens. Addressed the Bundestag and attended a meeting of the North Atlantic Council.
June 11, 1982  West Germany West Berlin Met with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
7 October 8, 1982  Mexico Tijuana Exchange of visits with President-elect Miguel de la Madrid.
8 November 30 – December 3, 1982 23x15px Brazil Brasília,
São Paulo
Official working visit. Met with President João Figueiredo.
December 3, 1982  Colombia Bogota Official working visit. Met with President Belisario Betancur.
December 3–4, 1982  Costa Rica San José Official working visit. Met with President Luis Alberto Monge and President Álvaro Magaña of El Salvador.
December 4, 1982  Honduras San Pedro Sula Official working visit. Met with President Roberto Suazo Córdova and with Guatemalan President Efraín Ríos Montt.
9 August 14, 1983  Mexico La Paz Informal meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid.
10 November 9–12, 1983  Japan Tokyo State visit. Met with Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and addressed the Diet.
November 12–14, 1983  South Korea Seoul,
Demilitarized Zone
State visit. Met with President Chun Doo-hwan. Addressed the National Assembly and visited U.S. troops.
11 April 26 – May 1, 1984  China Beijing,
Xian,
Shanghai
State visit. Met with President Li Xiannian and Premier Zhao Ziyang.
12 June 1–4, 1984  Ireland Shannon, Galway, Ballyporeen, Dublin Met with President Patrick Hillery and Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald. Visited ancestral home. Addressed Parliament.
June 4–10, 1984  United Kingdom London Attended the 10th G7 summit'.
June 6, 1984  France Normandy Attended commemorative ceremonies of the 40th anniversary of the Allied landing in Normandy. Also present were Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Olav V of Norway, King Baudouin I of Belgium, French President François Mitterrand, Queen Elizabeth II and Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
13 March 17–18, 1985  Canada Quebec City Met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
14 April 30 – May 4, 1985  West Germany Bonn Attended the 11th G7 summit.
May 5–6, 1985  West Germany Bonn,
Bergen-Belsen,
Bitburg,
Hambach Castle
State visit. Attended ceremonies commemorating 40th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
May 6–8, 1985  Spain Madrid State visit. Met with King Juan Carlos I and President Felipe González.
May 8, 1985  France Strasbourg Addressed the European Parliament.
May 8–10, 1985  Portugal Lisbon State visit. Met with President António Ramalho Eanes and Prime Minister Mário Soares. Addressed the National Assembly.
15 November 16–21, 1985   Switzerland Geneva Attended the Summit Meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Met also with Swiss President Kurt Furgler.
November 21, 1985  Belgium Brussels Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Present were the Heads of State and Government of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Portugal, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
16 January 3, 1986  Mexico Mexicali Informal meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid.
17 February 20, 1986  Grenada St. George's Met with Governor General Paul Scoon and Prime Minister Herbert Blaize, and with the Prime Ministers of Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, and Trinidad and Tobago. Dedicated a memorial to U.S. servicemen.
18 April 29 – May 2, 1986  Indonesia Bali Attended the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting. Met with Indonesian President Suharto and Philippine Vice President Salvador Laurel.
May 2–7, 1986  Japan Tokyo Attended the 12th G7 summit.
19 October 9–12, 1986  Iceland Reykjavík Pre-Summit Meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Met with President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir.
20 April 4–5, 1987  Canada Ottawa State visit. Met with Governor General Jeanne Sauvé and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Addressed parliament.
21 June 3–11, 1987  Italy Venice,
Rome
Attended the 13th G7 summit. Met with President Francesco Cossiga and Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani in Rome.
June 6, 1987   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope John Paul II.
June 11–12, 1987  West Germany West Berlin Attended celebration’s commemorating the 750th Anniversary of the founding of Berlin. Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
June 12, 1987  West Germany Bonn Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
22 February 13, 1988  Mexico Mazatlan Informal meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid. Signed textile agreement.
23 March 1–3, 1988  Belgium Brussels Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Present were the Heads of State and Government of Canada, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
24 May 25, 1988  Finland Helsinki Met with President Mauno Koivisto and Prime Minister Harri Holkeri.
May 29 – June 2, 1988  Soviet Union Moscow Summit meeting with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Exchanged ratifications of the INF Treaty.
June 2–3, 1988  United Kingdom London Met with Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.
25 June 19–21, 1988  Canada Toronto Attended the 14th G7 summit.
Ronald Reagan speaks at the Berlin Wall's Brandenburg Gate, challenging Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"

George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush made 26 international trips during his presidency.[45] He initiated the frequent international travel pace that is the hallmark of the post–Cold War presidency. He went to Europe 11 times, Asia twice, and South America once, along with a number of shorter trips during his four years in office.

Countries visited by George H. W. Bush during his presidency, 1989-93.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 February 10, 1989  Canada Ottawa Met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
2 February 23–25, 1989  Japan Tokyo Attended the funeral of Emperor Hirohito. Met with Emperor Akihito of Japan, the kings of Belgium, Jordan and Spain, the presidents of Brazil, Egypt, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, the Philippines, Portugal and Zaire, and the prime ministers of Japan, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand and Turkey.
February 25–27, 1989  China Beijing Met with President Yang Shangkun and Premier Li Peng. Also met with Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia.
February 27, 1989  South Korea Seoul Official visit. Addressed the National Assembly.
3 May 26–28, 1989  Italy Rome,
Nettuno
Met with President Francesco Cossiga and Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita.
May 27, 1989   Vatican City Apostolic Palice Audience with Pope John Paul II.
May 28–30, 1989  Belgium Brussels Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Present were the heads of state and government of Canada, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
May 30–31, 1989  West Germany Bonn,
Mainz
Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
May 31 – June 2, 1989  United Kingdom London Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
4 July 9–11, 1989  Poland Warsaw,
Gdańsk
Met with government and Solidarity leaders. Addressed the National Assembly.
July 11–13, 1989  Hungary Budapest Met with Hungarian officials. Delivered an address at Karl Marx University.
July 13–17, 1989  France Paris Attended the 15th G7 summit. Also attended ceremonies for the bicentennial of the French Revolution. Met with Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.
July 17–18, 1989  Netherlands The Hague,
Leiden
Met with Queen Beatrix and Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers. Delivered a public address.
5 October 27–28, 1989  Costa Rica San José Attended the Hemispheric Summit Meeting.
6 December 1–3, 1989  Malta Valletta,
Marsaxlokk
Attended the Summit Meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Also met with Maltese Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami.
December 3–4, 1989  Belgium Brussels Attended the NATO Summit Meeting, and briefed leaders on the Malta U.S.-Soviet Summit Meeting.
7 December 16, 1989 France Saint Martin Marigot Informal meeting with President François Mitterrand.
8 February 15, 1990  Colombia Cartagena Attended the Summit Meeting on the Control of Illicit Drug Trafficking with the President Virgilio Barco Vargas, Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora and Peruvian President Alan García Pérez.
9 April 10, 1990  Canada Toronto Informal meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
10 April 13–14, 1990  Bermuda Hamilton Informal meeting with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
11 July 5–6, 1990  United Kingdom London Attended the NATO Summit Meeting.
12 September 8–9, 1990  Finland Helsinki Attended Summit Meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Issued joint statement on the Persian Gulf crisis. Also met with President Mauno Koivisto.
13 November 17, 1990  Czechoslovakia Prague Attended ceremonies commemorating the first anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Addressed the Federal Assembly.
November 18, 1990  Germany Speyer,
Ludwigshafen
Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
November 18–21, 1990  France Paris Attended the CSCE Summit Meeting and the signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
November 21–22, 1990  Saudi Arabia Jeddah,
Dhahran
Met with King Fahd and the Amir of Kuwait. Addressed U.S. and British military personnel in eastern Saudi Arabia.
November 22–23, 1990  Egypt Cairo Discussed the Persian Gulf crisis with President Hosni Mubarak.
November 23, 1990   Switzerland Geneva Discussed the Persian Gulf crisis with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
14 November 26–27, 1990  Mexico Monterrey,
Agualeguas
State visit. met with President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
15 December 3–4, 1990 23x15px Brazil Brasília Met with President Fernando Collor de Mello. Addressed a Joint Session of the Brazilian Congress.
December 4–5, 1990  Uruguay Montevideo Met with President Luis Alberto Lacalle. Addressed a Joint Session of the Uruguayan Congress.
December 5–6, 1990  Argentina Buenos Aires Met with President Carlos Menem. Addressed a Joint Session of the Argentinean Congress.
December 6–7, 1990  Chile Santiago Met with President Patricio Aylwin. Addressed a Joint Session of the Chilean Congress.
December 7–8, 1990  Venezuela Caracas Met with President Carlos Andres Perez.
16 March 13–14, 1991  Canada Ottawa Met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Signed an Air Quality Agreement.
17 March 14, 1991 France Martinique Fort-de-France Discussed the Middle East peace process with President François Mitterrand.
March 14–16, 1991  Bermuda Hamilton Discussed the Middle East peace process with Prime Minister John Major.
18 July 9, 1991  Canada Toronto Informal Meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
19 July 14, 1991  France Rambouillet Discussed further sanctions against Iraq with President François Mitterrand.
July 14–18, 1991  United Kingdom London Attended the 17th G7 summit. Also met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
July 18–20, 1991  Greece Athens,
Souda Bay
Met with Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis. Addressed U.S. and Greek military personnel.
July 20–21, 1991  Turkey Ankara,
Istanbul
Met with President Turgut Ozal.
20 July 29 – August 1, 1991  Soviet Union Moscow
Kiev
Attended the U.S.-Soviet Summit Meeting. Signed 1st Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Addressed the Ukrainian Parliament.
21 October 29–30, 1991  Spain Madrid Met with Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Marquez and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Attended the opening session of the Middle East Peace Conference.
22 November 6–8, 1991  Italy Rome Attended the NATO Summit Meeting.
November 8, 1991   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope John Paul II.
November 8–9, 1991  Netherlands The Hague Attended the European Community Summit Meeting.
23 December 3, 1991 –
January 3, 1992
 Australia Sydney,
Canberra,
Melbourne
Met with Prime Minister Paul Keating and senior Australian officials. Addressed the Australian Parliament.
January 3–5, 1992  Singapore Singapore Met with President Wee Kim Wee and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Attended a meeting of the ASEAN Business Council.
January 5–7, 1992  South Korea Seoul Met with President Roh Tae-woo and senior South Korean officials. Signed a science and technology agreement. Addressed the South Korean National Assembly. Visited U.S. military personnel.
January 7–10, 1992  Japan Kyoto,
Kashihara,
Tokyo
Met with Emperor Akihito, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and senior Japanese officials.
24 June 11, 1992  Panama Panama City Met with President Guillermo Endara. Delivered public addresses.
June 12–13, 1992  Brazil Rio de Janeiro Attended the Earth Summit Meeting.
25 July 5, 1992  Poland Warsaw Met with President Lech Walesa. Attended a memorial service for former Prime Minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
July 5–8, 1992  Germany Munich Attended the 18th G7 summit. Also met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
July 8–10, 1992  Finland Helsinki Attended the CSCE Summit Meeting.
26 December 31, 1992  Saudi Arabia Riyadh Met with King Fahd.
December 31, 1992 –
January 2, 1993
 Somalia Mogadishu,
Baidoa,
Baledogle
Visited international relief workers and U.S. military personnel.
January 2–3, 1993  Russia Moscow Signed the START II Treaty.
January 3–5, 1993  France Paris Discussed the Bosnian crisis with President François Mitterrand.
President Bush visited American troops in Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving Day, 1990.

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton made 54 international trips to 70 different countries (in addition to visiting the West Bank) during his presidency.[46] He made 24 trips to continental Europe, 17 to Asia, and two to Africa. His others were to nations in the Americas.

Countries visited by Clinton during his presidency, 1993-2001.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 April 3–4, 1993  Canada Vancouver Attended Summit Meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Also met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
2 July 6–10, 1993  Japan Tokyo Attended the 19th G7 summit. Met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
July 10–11, 1993  South Korea Seoul Met with President Kim Young-sam. Addressed the South Korean National Assembly. Visited U.S. military personnel.
3 January 9–11, 1994  Belgium Brussels Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Met with King Albert II and Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene.
January 11–12, 1994  Czech Republic Prague Met with the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
January 12, 1994  Ukraine Kiev Met with President Leonid Kravchuk.
January 12–15, 1994  Russia Moscow Met with President Boris Yeltsin and senior Russian officials. Signed nuclear disarmament agreement with Ukraine.
January 15, 1994  Belarus Minsk Met with Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich.
January 15–16, 1994   Switzerland Geneva Met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
4 June 2–4, 1994  Italy Rome,
Nettuno
Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Visited U.S. Military Cemetery.
June 2, 1994   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope John Paul II.
June 4–5, 1994  United Kingdom Cambridge,
London,
Portsmouth
Visited U.S. Military Cemetery. Met with Prime Minister John Major. Attended state dinner with Queen Elizabeth II and heads of state and government of Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Belgium. Attended D-Day commemorative ceremonies.
June 6–8, 1994  France Colleville,
Paris
Attended the 50th anniversary of D-Day memorial ceremonies. Met with President François Mitterrand and senior French officials. Addressed the French National Assembly.
June 8, 1994  United Kingdom Oxford Received honorary degree from Oxford University.
5 July 6, 1994  Latvia Riga Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states.
July 6–7, 1994  Poland Warsaw Addressed the Polish Parliament. Attended ceremonies commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
July 7–10, 1994  Italy Naples Attended the 20th G7 summit. Met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
July 10–12, 1994  Germany Bonn,
Ludwigshafen,
Berlin
Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and German political leaders. Delivered a public address at the Brandenburg Gate. Attended deactivation ceremony for the Berlin Brigade.
6 October 25–26, 1994  Egypt Cairo Met with President Hosni Mubarak and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.
October 26–27, 1994  Jordan Aqaba,
Wadi Arava,
Amman
Attended the signing of the Israel-Jordan peace agreement. Addressed the Jordanian Parliament.
October 27, 1994  Syria Damascus Met with President Hafez al-Assad.
October 27–28, 1994  Israel Jerusalem Met with senior Israeli officials. Addressed the Knesset.
October 28, 1994  Kuwait Kuwait City Met with Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
October 28, 1994  Saudi Arabia King Khalid Military City Met with King Fahd.
7 November 12–13, 1994  Philippines Manila,
Corregidor Island
State visit. Met with President Fidel V. Ramos. Visited World War II battlegrounds of Corregidor Island.
November 13–16, 1994  Indonesia Jakarta,
Bogor
State visit. Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
8 December 5, 1994  Hungary Budapest Attended CSCE Summit Meeting.
9 February 23–24, 1995  Canada Ottawa State visit. Met with Governor General Roméo LeBlanc and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Addressed Parliament.
10 March 31, 1995  Haiti Port-au-Prince Attended transition ceremony for United Nations Mission in Haiti.
11 May 9–11, 1995  Russia Moscow Summit meeting. Attended the 50th anniversary of VE Day ceremonies.
May 11–12, 1995  Ukraine Kiev State visit. Met with President Leonid Kuchma.
12 June 15–16, 1995  Canada Halifax Attended the 21st G7 summit. Met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
13 November 5–6, 1995  Israel Jerusalem Attended the funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
14 November 28 –
December 1, 1995
 United Kingdom London,
Belfast,
Derry
State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister John Major. Addressed Parliament. Delivered several public addresses in Northern Ireland.
December 1–2, 1995  Ireland Dublin Met with President Mary Robinson and Prime Minister John Bruton.
December 2, 1995  Germany Baumholder Addressed U.S. military personnel. Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
December 2–3, 1995  Spain Madrid Attended the European Union Summit Meeting.
15 December 14, 1995  France Paris Attended the signing of the Bosnian peace treaty.
16 January 13, 1996  Italy Aviano Air Base Met with U.S. military personnel.
January 13, 1996  Hungary Taszár Met with U.S. military personnel.
January 13, 1996  Bosnia and Herzegovina Tuzla Met with President Alija Izetbegovic. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
January 13, 1996  Croatia Zagreb Met with President Franjo Tudjman.
17 March 13, 1996  Egypt Sharm el-Sheikh Attended the Summit of the Peacemakers.
March 13–14, 1996  Israel Jerusalem,
Tel Aviv
Discussed cooperation against terrorism with senior Israeli officials.
18 April 15–16, 1996  South Korea Cheju Island Met with President Kim Young-sam. Proposed four-nation peace talks.
April 16–18, 1996  Japan Tokyo State visit. Issued joint statement on U.S.-Japanese security relations. Addressed the Diet and U.S. Navy personnel.
April 18–21, 1996  Russia Saint Petersburg,
Moscow
Attended the G-7 summit on nuclear safety. Summit Meeting with President Boris Yeltsin.
19 June 27–29, 1996  France Lyon,
Pérouges,
Paris
Attended the 22nd G7 summit. Met with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
20 November 19–23, 1996  Australia Sydney,
Canberra,
Port Douglas
State visit. Addressed joint meeting of Parliament. Visited the Great Barrier Reef.
November 24–25, 1996  Philippines Manila,
Subic Bay
Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
November 25–26, 1996  Thailand Bangkok State visit.
21 March 20–21, 1997  Finland Helsinki Summit meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Also met with President Martti Ahtisaari.
22 May 5–7, 1997  Mexico Mexico City,
Tlaxcala
State visit. Met with President Ernesto Zedillo.
May 7–9, 1997  Costa Rica San José Attended the Summit Meeting of Presidents of the Central American Republics. Met President José María Figueres and travelled to Braulio Carrillo National Park.
May 9–11, 1997  Barbados Bridgetown Attended the U.S.-Caribbean Community summit meeting. Signed the Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean pact.
23 May 26–27, 1997  France Paris Attended the NATO Summit Meeting and the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act.
May 27–28, 1997  Netherlands The Hague,
Rotterdam
Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Attended the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan.
May 28–29, 1997  United Kingdom London Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair. Attended a Cabinet meeting.
24 July 4–10, 1997  Spain Palma de Majorca,
Madrid,
Granada
Vacationed with King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia. Attended the NATO Summit Meeting in Madrid.
July 10–11, 1997  Poland Warsaw Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and former President Lech Wałęsa.
July 11, 1997  Romania Bucharest Met with President Emil Constantinescu and Romanian political leaders.
July 11–12, 1997  Denmark Copenhagen Met with Queen Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
25 October 12–13, 1997  Venezuela Caracas Met with President Rafael Caldera.
October 13–15, 1997  Brazil Brasília,
São Paulo,
Rio de Janeiro
Met with President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Delivered several public addresses.
October 15–18, 1997  Argentina Buenos Aires,
San Carlos de Bariloche
Met with President Carlos Menem. Delivered several public addresses.
26 November 23–25, 1997  Canada Vancouver Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
27 December 22, 1997  Italy Aviano Air Base Stopped en route to and from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
December 22, 1997  Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo,
Tuzla
Met with the Bosnian Collective Presidency and Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavšić. Visited U.S. military personnel.
28 March 23, 1998  Ghana Accra Met with President Jerry Rawlings. Visited a Peace Corps project.
March 23–25, 1998  Uganda Kampala,
Kisowera,
Mukono Town,
Wanyange,
Entebbe
Met with President Yoweri Museveni and the Presidents of Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and the Congo.
March 25, 1998  Rwanda Kigali Met with President Pasteur Bizimungu. Delivered a public address.
March 25–29, 1998  South Africa Cape Town,
Johannesburg
Met with President Nelson Mandela. Addressed joint session of Parliament.
March 29–31, 1998  Botswana Gaborone, Kasame Met with President Quett Masire. Visited Chobe National Park.
March 31 – April 2, 1998  Senegal Dakar,
Thiès,
Gorée Island
Met with President Abdou Diouf. Visited Senegalese peacekeeping troops. Delivered several public addresses.
29 April 16–19, 1998  Chile Santiago State visit. Attended the 2nd Summit of the Americas.
30 May 12–14, 1998  Germany Berlin,
Potsdam,
Frankfurt,
Eisenach
Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Attended 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift.
May 14–18, 1998  United Kingdom Birmingham,
Weston-under-Lizard,
London
Attended the 24th G8 summit and the US-EU summit meetings.
May 18, 1998   Switzerland Geneva Attended the WTO meeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of GATT.
31 June 24 – July 3, 1998  China Xi'an,
Beijing,
Shanghai,
Guilin,
Hong Kong
State visit. Met with President Jiang Zemin. Visited the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China. Delivered a speech at Peking University.
32 September 1–3, 1998  Russia Moscow Summit meeting with President Boris Yeltsin.
September 3, 1998  United Kingdom Belfast,
Armagh,
Omagh
Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders. Addressed the Northern Ireland Assembly.
September 3–5, 1998  Ireland Dublin,
Adare,
Limerick,
Ballybunion
Met with Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Delivered several public addresses and played golf.
33 November 19–20, 1998  Japan Tokyo Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi. Addressed American Chamber of Commerce.
November 20–22, 1998  South Korea Seoul,
Osan
Met with President Kim Dae-jung. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
34 December 12–15, 1998  Israel Jerusalem,
Masada
Met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Israeli officials.
December 14–15, 1998  Palestinian National Authority Gaza,
Bethlehem,
Erez
Addressed Palestine National Council. Attended a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chairman Yasser Arafat.
35 February 8, 1999  Jordan Amman Attended the funeral of King Hussein.
36 February 14–15, 1999  Mexico Mérida State visit. Met with President Ernesto Zedillo.
37 March 8, 1999  Nicaragua Managua,
Posoltega,
El Porvenir
Discussed reconstruction aid with President Arnoldo Aleman.
March 8–9, 1999  Honduras Soto Cano Air Base, Tegucigalpa Discussed reconstruction aid with President Carlos Roberto Flores. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
March 10, 1999  El Salvador San Salvador Addressed Legislative Assembly.
March 10–11, 1999  Guatemala Guatemala City,
Antigua
Attended the Central American Summit.
38 May 4, 1999  Belgium Brussels Discussed the Kosovo War with NATO officials.
May 4–6, 1999  Germany Frankfurt,
Ramstein Air Base,
Spangdahlem Air Base,
Bonn,
Ingelheim
Addressed U.S. military personnel; met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder; met with Kosovo War refugees.
39 June 16, 1999   Switzerland Geneva Addressed ILO Conference. Met with President Ruth Dreifuss.
June 16–17, 1999  France Paris Discussed peacekeeping in Kosovo with President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.
June 17–21, 1999  Germany Cologne,
Bonn
Attended the 25th G8 summit.
June 21–22, 1999  Slovenia Ljubljana Met with President Milan Kučan, Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek and Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović.
June 22, 1999  Macedonia Skopje Met with President Kiro Gligorov. Addressed Kosovar refugees and NATO military personnel.
June 22, 1999  Italy Aviano Air Base Addressed U.S. military personnel.
40 July 25, 1999  Morocco Rabat Attended the funeral of King Hassan II. Met with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
41 July 29–30, 1999  Italy Aviano Air Base Stopped en route to Sarajevo.
July 30, 1999  Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Attended Stability Pact Leaders Conference.
42 September 11–15, 1999  New Zealand Auckland,
Queenstown,
Christchurch
Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. State Visit.
43 October 7–8, 1999  Canada Ottawa,
Mont-Tremblant
Met with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard. Attended Federalism Conference at Mont Tremblant. Dedicated new U.S. Embassy building.
44 November 1–2, 1999  Norway Oslo State visit. Held discussions with Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik[47] Attended commemorative ceremony for former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin;[46] also met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel.[48]
45 November 15–19, 1999  Turkey Ankara,
İzmit,
Ephesus,
Istanbul
State visit. Attended Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Summit meeting.
November 19–20, 1999  Greece Athens State visit. Met with Prime Minister Konstantinos Simitis.
November 20–21, 1999  Italy Florence Attended conference on Progressive Governance for the 21st Century.
November 21–23, 1999  Bulgaria Sofia Met with President Petar Stoyanov and Prime Minister Ivan Kostov.
November 23, 1999 United Nations Kosovo Pristina,
Uroševac,
Camp Bondsteel
Met with Kosovar Transitional Council. Addressed the Albanian community and U.S. military personnel.
46 January 29, 2000   Switzerland Davos Addressed the World Economic Forum.
47 March 18, 2000  Italy Aviano Air Base Stopped en route to India.
March 19–20, 2000  India New Delhi,
Agra,
Jaipur,
Hyderabad, Mumbai
Met with President Kocheril Raman Narayanan. Signed Joint Statement on Energy and the Environment. Addressed the Indian Parliament.
March 20, 2000  Bangladesh Dhaka Met with President Shahabuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
March 25, 2000  Pakistan Islamabad Met with President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar and General Pervez Musharraf. Delivered radio address.
March 25, 2000  Oman Muscat Met with Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
March 25, 2000   Switzerland Geneva Met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
48 May 30 – June 1, 2000  Portugal Lisbon Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
June 1–3, 2000  Germany Berlin,
Aachen
Met with President Johannes Rau and Chancellor Schröder; received Charlemagne Prize, and attended a Third Way Conference.
June 3–5, 2000  Russia Moscow Summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Addressed the Duma.
June 5, 2000  Ukraine Kiev Met with President Leonid Kuchma.
49 June 8, 2000  Japan Tokyo Attended the funeral of former Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi.
50 July 21–23, 2000  Japan Nago Attended the 26th G8 summit.
51 August 26–28, 2000  Nigeria Abuja, Ushafa Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo. Addressed the National Assembly.
August 28–29, 2000  Tanzania Arusha Met with former South African President Nelson Mandela to promote a peace agreement for Burundi. Met with President Benjamin Mkapa.
August 29, 2000  Egypt Cairo Briefed President Hosni Mubarak on the Middle East Peace Process.
August 30, 2000  Colombia Cartagena Met with President Andrés Pastrana Arango.
52 October 16–17, 2000  Egypt Sharm el-Sheikh Attended the Israeli-Palestinian Summit Meeting.
53 November 14–16, 2000  Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
November 16–19, 2000  Vietnam Hanoi,
Tien Chau,
Ho Chi Minh City
Met with President Tran Duc Luong. Delivered several public addresses.
54 December 12, 2000  Ireland Dublin,
Dundalk
Met with Prime minister Bertie Ahern. Delivered several public addresses.
December 12–14, 2000  United Kingdom Belfast,
London,
Coventry
Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders in Belfast. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and delivered a speech at the University of Warwick.
Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin talk informally during the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe summit in Istanbul, November 19, 1999.

George W. Bush

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George W. Bush made 48 international trips to 72 different countries (in addition to visiting the West Bank) during his presidency.[49] He visited six continents: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. On one of his two trips to Sub-Saharan Africa, he visited three of the poorest countries in the world: Liberia, Rwanda, and Benin. He also made a secret trip to Iraq on Thanksgiving Day 2003 to dine with the troops. His father had made a similar visit to the U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia in 1990. On November 15–20, 2006, Bush made the third round the world presidential flight (after Johnson and Nixon) when he went to Russia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Countries visited by George W. Bush during his presidency, 2001-2009.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 February 16, 2001  Mexico San Cristóbal Met with President Vincente Fox; discussed trade, energy, migration, educational opportunities, and the battle against the illegal drug trade.[50]
2 April 20–22, 2001  Canada Quebec City Attended the 3rd Summit of the Americas.
3 June 12–13, 2001  Spain Madrid Met with King Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister José María Aznar.
June 13–14, 2001  Belgium Brussels Attended the NATO summit meeting. Met with King Albert II and Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.
June 14–15, 2001  Sweden Gothenburg Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Göran Persson.
June 15–16, 2001  Poland Warsaw State visit. Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
June 16, 2001  Slovenia Kranj Met with Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
4 July 18–20, 2001  United Kingdom London,
Chequers,
Halton,
Brize Norton
Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II.
July 20–24, 2001  Italy Genoa,
Castel Gandolfo,
Rome
Attended the 27th G8 summit. Met with Pope John Paul II. Also met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
July 24, 2001 United Nations Kosovo Camp Bondsteel Addressed U.S. military personnel.
5 October 18–21, 2001  China Shanghai Attended APEC Summit Meeting.
6 February 16–19, 2002  Japan Tokyo Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Emperor Akihito. Addressed the Diet.
February 19–21, 2002  South Korea Seoul,
Dorasan,
Osan
Met with President Kim Dae-jung. Visited the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
February 21–22, 2002  China Beijing Met with President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji.
7 March 21–22, 2002  Mexico Monterrey Attended the International Conference on Financing for Development. Met with President Vicente Fox.
March 23–24, 2002  Peru Lima Met with the presidents of Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia, and with the Vice President of Ecuador.
March 24, 2002  El Salvador San Salvador Attended the Summit Meeting of Presidents of the Central American Republics.
8 May 22–23, 2002  Germany Berlin Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Addressed the Bundestag.
May 23–26, 2002  Russia Moscow,
St. Petersburg
Summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Signed Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty.
May 26–27, 2002  France Paris,
Sainte-Mère-Église,
Colleville
Met with President Jacques Chirac. Delivered a Memorial Day address in Normandy.
May 27–28, 2002  Italy Rome Met with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Attended the NATO summit meeting and inaugurated the NATO-Russia Council.
May 28, 2002   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope John Paul II.
9 June 25–27, 2002  Canada Kananaskis Attended the 28th G8 summit.
10 October 26–27, 2002  Mexico Los Cabos Attended the APEC summit meeting.
11 November 19–22, 2002  Czech Republic Prague Attended the NATO and EAPC summit meetings.
November 22, 2002  Russia St. Petersburg Met with President Vladimir Putin.
November 22–23, 2002  Lithuania Vilnius Met with the presidents of the Baltic states.
November 23, 2002  Romania Bucharest Met with President Ion Iliescu.
12 March 16, 2003  Portugal Terceira Island Discussed the Iraq crisis with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar and Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso.
13 April 7–8, 2003  United Kingdom Belfast,
Hillsborough
Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss the reconstruction of Iraq. Also met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Northern Irish political leaders.
14 May 31, 2003  Poland Kraków,
Oświęcim
Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Visited Nazi-German Auschwitz concentration camp.
May 31 – June 1, 2003  Russia St. Petersburg Met with President Vladimir Putin. Attended ceremonies commemorating the city's 300th anniversary.
June 1–2, 2003  France Evian-les-Bains Attended the 29th G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao.
June 2–3, 2003  Egypt Sharm el-Sheikh Attended the "Red Sea Summit" with the leaders of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
June 4, 2003  Jordan Aqaba Attended meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. Met with King Abdullah II.
June 4–5, 2003  Qatar Doha Met with Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. Visited U.S. Central Command headquarters and addressed U.S. military personnel.
15 July 8, 2003  Senegal Dakar,
Goree Island
Met with President Abdoulaye Wade.
July 8–11, 2003  South Africa Pretoria Met with President Thabo Mbeki.
July 10, 2003  Botswana Gaborone Met with President Festus Mogae. Toured Mokolodi Nature Reserve.
July 11, 2003  Uganda Kampala Met with President Yoweri Museveni.
July 11–12, 2003  Nigeria Abuja Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo.
16 October 17–18, 2003  Japan Tokyo Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
October 18–19, 2003  Philippines Manila Addressed a joint session of the Philippine Congress and met with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
October 18–21, 2003  Thailand Bangkok Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
October 21–22, 2003  Singapore Singapore Met with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.
October 22, 2003  Indonesia Denpasar Met with President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Muslim religious leaders.
October 22, 2003  Australia Canberra Met with Prime Minister John Howard. Addressed joint meeting of Parliament.
17 November 18–21, 2003  United Kingdom London,
Sedgefield
State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
November 27, 2003  Iraq Baghdad Met with members of the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Governing Council. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
18 January 12–13, 2004  Mexico Monterrey Attended the Special Summit of the Americas.
19 June 4–5, 2004  Italy Rome Met with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
June 4, 2004   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Met with Pope John Paul II.
June 5–6, 2004  France Paris,
Colleville,
Caen,
Arromanches
Met with President Jacques Chirac. Attended the 60th anniversary of D-Day ceremonies.
20 June 25–26, 2004  Ireland Shannon,
Dromoland Castle
Attended the U.S.-EU summit meeting. Met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
June 26–29, 2004  Turkey Ankara,
Istanbul
Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Attended the NATO Summit meeting.
21 November 19–22, 2004  Chile Santiago Attended the APEC summit meeting.
November 22, 2004  Colombia Cartagena Met with President Álvaro Uribe.
22 November 30 – December 1, 2004  Canada Ottawa,
Gatineau,
Halifax
Met with Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Myra Freeman and Prime Minister Paul Martin.
23 February 20–23, 2005  Belgium Brussels Attended the NATO and EU summit meetings.
February 23, 2005  Germany Mainz,
Wiesbaden
Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Visited U.S. military personnel.
February 23–24, 2005  Slovakia Bratislava Met with Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
24 April 6–8, 2005   Vatican City St. Peter's Basilica Attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
April 6–8, 2005  Italy Rome Met with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
25 May 6–7, 2005  Latvia Riga Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states.
May 7–8, 2005  Netherlands Maastricht,
Valkenburg,
Margraten
Met with Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. Delivered address at a U.S. military cemetery.
May 8–9, 2005  Russia Moscow Met with President Vladimir Putin. Attended the 60th anniversary of VE Day ceremonies.
May 9–10, 2005  Georgia Tbilisi Met with President Mikheil Saakashvili.
26 July 5–6, 2005  Denmark Kastrup,
Fredensborg,
Copenhagen
Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
July 6–8, 2005  United Kingdom Gleneagles Attended the 31st G8 summit.
27 November 3–5, 2005  Argentina Mar del Plata Attended the 4th Summit of the Americas.
November 5–6, 2005  Brazil Brasília Met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
November 6–7, 2005  Panama Panama City Met with President Martín Torrijos.
28 November 15–16, 2005  Japan Kyoto Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
November 16–20, 2005  South Korea Pusan,
Gyeongju,
Osan
Attended the APEC Summit. Met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
November 20–21, 2005  China Beijing Met with President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.
November 21, 2005  Mongolia Ulan Bator Met with President Nambaryn Enkhbayar and Prime Minister Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj.
29 February 28, 2006  Ireland Shannon Met with U.S. Marines who were en route to Iraq.
March 1, 2006  Afghanistan Bagram,
Kabul
Met with President Hamid Karzai. Dedicated new U.S. Embassy. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
March 1–3, 2006  India New Delhi,
Hyderabad
Met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Signed U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement.
March 3–4, 2006  Pakistan Islamabad Met with President Pervez Musharraf.
30 March 30–31, 2006  Mexico Cancun,
Chichen-Itza
Attended the 2nd North American Leaders' Summit with President Vincente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper; visited the Chichen-Itza archaeological site.
31 June 13, 2006  Iraq Baghdad Met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
32 June 20–21, 2006  Austria Vienna Attended the U.S.-EU summit meeting.
June 21–22, 2006  Hungary Budapest Met with President László Sólyom and Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. Attended the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising.
33 July 12–14, 2006  Germany Stralsund,
Trinwillershagen
Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
July 14–17, 2006  Russia St. Petersburg Attended the 32nd G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
34 November 15, 2006  Russia Moscow Met with President Vladimir Putin.
November 16–17, 2006  Singapore Singapore Met with Acting President Pillay and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Addressed National University of Singapore.
November 17–20, 2006  Vietnam Hanoi,
Ho Chi Minh City
Attended the APEC Summit meeting.
November 20, 2006  Indonesia Jakarta,
Bogor
Met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
35 November 27–28, 2006  Estonia Tallinn Met with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves.
November 28–29, 2006  Latvia Riga Attended the NATO Summit meeting.
November 29–30, 2006  Jordan Amman Met with King Abdullah II and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
36 March 8–9, 2007  Brazil São Paulo Met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
March 9–11, 2007  Uruguay Montevideo Met with President Tabaré Vázquez.
March 11, 2007  Colombia Bogota Met with President Álvaro Uribe.
March 11–12, 2007  Guatemala Guatemala City,
Santa Cruz Balanyá,
Iximche
Informal visit; met with President Óscar Berger. Visited Iximche archaeological site.
March 12–14, 2007  Mexico Mérida,
Uxmal
Met with President Felipe Calderón; visited the Maya ruin complex of Uxmal.
37 June 4–5, 2007  Czech Republic Prague Met with President Václav Klaus and Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek. Addressed Conference on Democracy and Security.
June 5–8. 2007  Germany Heiligendamm Attended the 33rd G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao.
June 8, 2007  Poland Gdańsk,
Jurata
Met with President Lech Kaczyński.
June 8–10, 2007  Italy Rome Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
June 9, 2007   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope Benedict XVI.
June 10, 2007  Albania Tirana Met with President Alfred Moisiu and Prime Minister Sali Berisha.
June 10–11, 2007  Bulgaria Sofia Met with President Georgi Parvanov and Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev.
38 August 20–21, 2007  Canada Montebello Attended North American Leaders' Summit with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
39 September 3, 2007  Iraq Al Asad Airbase Met with Gen. David Petraeus, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, senior U.S. officials, Iraqi political leaders. Addressed U.S military personnel.
September 3–8, 2007  Australia Sydney Attended the APEC summit meeting.
40 January 9–11, 2008  Israel Tel Aviv,
Jerusalem
Met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres. Visited Yad Vashem.
January 10, 2008  Palestinian National Authority Ramallah,
Bethlehem
Met with President Mahmoud Abbas. Visited the Church of the Nativity.
January 11–12, 2008  Kuwait Kuwait City,
Camp Arifjan
Attended Roundtable on Democracy and Development. Met with Gen. David Petraeus and United States Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
January 12–13, 2008  Bahrain Manama Met with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
January 13–14, 2008  United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi, Dubai Met with President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
January 14–16, 2008  Saudi Arabia Riyadh,
Al-Janadriyah
Met with King Abdullah.
January 16, 2008  Egypt Sharm el-Sheikh Met with President Hosni Mubarak.
41 February 16, 2008  Benin Porto Novo Met with President Yayi Boni.
February 16–19, 2008  Tanzania Dar es Salaam,
Arusha
Met with President Jakaya Kikwete. Signed Millenimum Challenge agreement.
February 19, 2008  Rwanda Kigali Met with President Paul Kagame. Dedicated new U.S. Embassy.
February 19–21, 2008  Ghana Accra Met with President John Kufuor.
February 21, 2008  Liberia Monrovia Met with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
42 April 1, 2008  Ukraine Kiev Met with President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
April 2–4, 2008  Romania Bucharest Attended the NATO Summit Meeting.
April 4–5, 2008  Croatia Zagreb Met with President Stjepan Mesić.
April 5–6, 2008  Russia Sochi Met with President Vladimir Putin and President-elect Dmitry Medvedev.
43 May 14–16, 2008  Israel Tel Aviv,
Jerusalem,
Masada
Met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Addressed the Knesset. Attended Israel's 60th anniversary. Visited the Masada fortification site.
May 16–17, 2008  Saudi Arabia Riyadh,
al-Janadriyah
Met with King Abdullah.
May 17–18, 2008  Egypt Sharm el-Sheikh Met with President Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. Addressed the World Economic Forum.
44 June 9–10, 2008  Slovenia Ljubljana Met with President Danilo Türk and Prime Minister Janez Janša. Attended the EU-US Summit Meeting.
June 10–11, 2008  Germany Meseberg Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
June 11–13, 2008  Italy Rome Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
June 13, 2008   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Met with Pope Benedict XVI.
June 13–15, 2008  France Paris Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy. Addressed the OECD. Attended wreath-laying ceremonies at the Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial and Mémorial de la France combattante.
June 15–16, 2008  United Kingdom London,
Belfast
Met with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Quartet Representative Tony Blair. In Belfast, met with First Minister Peter Robertson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
45 July 6–9, 2008  Japan Tōyako Attended the 34th G8 summit. Met with Tanzanian President Kikwete, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese President Hu Jintao and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
46 August 5–6, 2008  South Korea Seoul Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
August 6–7, 2008  Thailand Bangkok Met with Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
August 7–11, 2008  China Beijing Attended the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics. Met with President Hu Jintao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
47 November 21–23, 2008  Peru Lima Attended the APEC summit.
48 December 14, 2008  Iraq Baghdad Met with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Signed Strategic Framework and Security Agreements. Visited U.S. military personnel.
December 14–15, 2008  Afghanistan Kabul Met with President Hamid Karzai. Visited U.S. military personnel.
George W. Bush pays a surprise visit to U.S. troops at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq in 2003.

Barack Obama

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As of March 2024, Barack Obama has made 47 international trips to 54 nations, plus the Palestinian West Bank, during his presidency. He set the record as the most-traveled president for any first year in office: he took the most trips, visited the most countries, and spent the most days abroad. Obama made ten trips to 21 countries (four countries were visited twice) and was out of the U.S. a total of 37 days. The previous record holder, George H. W. Bush, took seven trips to 17 countries (one country was visited twice) over 28 days during the course of his first year in office. Obama was the first sitting president to visit Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Myanmar. In December 2010, he made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan, where he visited with U.S. troops. The surprise trip came as the U.S. and NATO withdraw most of their forces from that country ahead of a year-end deadline. In March 2016, he made a historic trip to Cuba to underscore the thaw in Cuba–United States relations following a 54-year rift.

Countries visited by Barack Obama during his presidency, as of April 2016.
Dates Country Locations Details
1 February 19, 2009  Canada Ottawa Met with Governor General Michaëlle Jean and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.[51]
2 March 31 – April 3, 2009  United Kingdom London Attended the G-20 summit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
April 3–4, 2009  France
 Germany
Strasbourg,
Baden-Baden, Kehl
Attended the NATO Summit Meeting.
April 4–5, 2009  Czech Republic Prague Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with President Václav Klaus. Delivered public speech on nuclear disarmament in Hradčany Square .[52]
April 5–7. 2009  Turkey Ankara,
Istanbul
Met with President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Delivered a speech to the Turkish Parliament.
April 7–8, 2009  Iraq Baghdad Met with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Visited with U.S. troops.
3 April 16–17, 2009  Mexico Mexico City Met with President Felipe Calderón.
April 17–18. 2009  Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Attended the 5th Summit of the Americas.
4 June 3–4. 2009  Saudi Arabia Riyadh Met with King Abdullah.
June 4, 2009  Egypt Cairo Met with President Hosni Mubarak. Toured the Giza Pyramids. Delivered a speech at Cairo University.
June 4–5, 2009  Germany Dresden,
Weimar,
Landstuhl
Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Visited the Buchenwald concentration camp and visited wounded U.S. military personnel.
June 5–7, 2009  France Paris,
Caen,
Normandy
Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy and dedicated the new visitor center at the U.S. Military Cemetery in Normandy.
5 July 6–8, 2009  Russia Moscow Met with President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Also spoke to business leaders and met with dissidents and opposition leaders.[53]
July 8–10, 2009  Italy L'Aquila,
Rome
Attended the 35th G8 summit. Also met with the leaders of Angola, Algeria, Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and various international organizations.
July 10, 2009   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope Benedict XVI.
July 10–11, 2009  Ghana Accra,
Cape Coast
Met with President John Atta Mills. Delivered a speech to the Ghanaian Parliament. Toured a former departing point of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the Cape Coast Castle.
6 August 9–10, 2009  Mexico Guadalajara Attended annual North American Leaders' Summit with President Felipe Calderón and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
7 October 2, 2009  Denmark Copenhagen Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Addressed a session of the International Olympic Committee in support of the Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
8 November 13–14, 2009  Japan Tokyo Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
November 14–15, 2009  Singapore Singapore Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
November 15–18, 2009  China Shanghai,
Beijing
Held a town hall meeting with Shanghai students. Met with President Hu Jintao, NPC Chairman Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao. Visited the Great Wall of China.
November 18–19, 2009  South Korea Seoul, Osan Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Visited with U.S. troops at Osan Air Base.
9 December 9–11, 2009  Norway Oslo Met with King Harald V and Queen Sonja. Received the Nobel Peace Prize.
10 December 17–19, 2009  Denmark Copenhagen Attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
11 March 27–28, 2010  Afghanistan Bagram,
Kabul
Met with President Hamid Karzai. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
12 April 8, 2010  Czech Republic Prague Signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia. Also met with the Presidents of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, and Romania; and with the Prime Ministers of Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
13 June 25–27, 2010  Canada Toronto, Huntsville Attended the 36th G8 summit and the G-20 summit meetings.
14 November 6–9, 2010  India Mumbai,
New Delhi
Participated in the US-India Business Council and Entrepreneurship Summit in Mumbai. Held a town hall meeting with Mumbai students. Met with President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Addressed the Indian Parliament. Visited the Humayun's Tomb and the Raj Ghat.
November 9–10, 2010  Indonesia Jakarta Met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Delivered a speech at the University of Indonesia. Visited the Istiqlal Mosque.
November 10–12, 2010  South Korea Seoul Attended the G-20 summit. Met with President Lee Myung-bak.
November 12–14, 2010  Japan Yokohama, Kamakura Attended the APEC summit.
15 November 19–20, 2010  Portugal Lisbon Attended the NATO summit and the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with President Aníbal Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister José Sócrates.
16 December 3, 2010  Afghanistan Bagram Met with the leaders of the U.S. military and diplomatic missions and visited U.S. military personnel.
17 March 19–21, 2011  Brazil Brasília,
Rio de Janeiro
Met with President Dilma Rousseff. Visited the Cidade de Deus favela and the Christ the Redeemer statue.
March 21–22, 2011  Chile Santiago Met with President Sebastián Piñera.
March 22–23, 2011  El Salvador San Salvador Met with President Mauricio Funes.
18 May 23, 2011  Ireland Dublin,
Moneygall
Met with President Mary McAleese and Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Visited ancestral home.
May 23–26, 2011  United Kingdom London Met with Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister David Cameron, and Labour Party leader Ed Miliband.
May 26–27, 2011  France Deauville,
Paris
Attended the 37th G8 summit.
May 27–28, 2011  Poland Warsaw Met with President Bronisław Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Laid wreath at the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial. Visited the memorial to the victims of the Smolensk plane crash.
19 November 3–4, 2011  France Cannes Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting.
20 November 16–17, 2011  Australia Canberra,
Darwin
Met with Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Announced a new military cooperation agreement.
November 17–19, 2011  Indonesia Bali Attended the 19th ASEAN summit and 6th East Asia Summit meetings.
21 March 25–27, 2012  South Korea Seoul Attended the Nuclear Security Summit. Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Visited the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
22 April 13–15, 2012  Colombia Cartagena Attended the 6th Summit of the Americas.[51] Announced, along with President Juan Manuel Santos, that the United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement will take effect May 15, 2012.[54]
23 May 1–2, 2012  Afghanistan Kabul Met with President Karzai and addressed U.S. military personnel. Signed a long-term strategic partnership agreement between Afghanistan and United States. Addressed the nation from there regarding the responsible end of the Afghanistan war.
24 June 17–19, 2012  Mexico Cabo San Lucas Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting.
25 November 18–19, 2012  Thailand Bangkok Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Visited the Wat Pho Monastery.
November 19, 2012 Myanmar (Burma) Yangon Met with President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi , and representatives of Burmese civil society.
November 19–20, 2012  Cambodia Phnom Penh Attended 21st ASEAN summit, 7th East Asia Summit, and Trans-Pacific Partnership meetings. Met with Prime Minister Hun Sen.
26 March 20–22, 2013  Israel Tel Aviv,
Jerusalem
Met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Visited the Shrine of the Book and Yad Vashem, and spoke to students at the International Convention Center.
March 21–22, 2013 Palestinian National Authority
(West Bank)
Ramallah,
Al-Bireh,
Bethlehem
Met with President Mahmoud Abbas. Visited the Church of the Nativity.
March 22–23, 2013  Jordan Amman,
Petra
Met with King Abdullah II.
27 May 2–3, 2013  Mexico Mexico City Met with President Enrique Peña Nieto.
May 3–4, 2013  Costa Rica San José Met with President Laura Chinchilla and leaders of the Central American Integration System.
28 June 17–18, 2013  United Kingdom Enniskillen,
Belfast
Attended the 39th G8 summit.
June 18–19, 2013  Germany Berlin Met with President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel. Delivered a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate.[55]
29 June 26–28, 2013  Senegal Dakar Met with President Macky Sall.[51]
June 28 – July 1, 2013  South Africa Johannesburg,
Pretoria,
Soweto,
Cape Town
Met with President Jacob Zuma and with members of the Mandela family. Delivered a speech on trade and investment, development, democracy and security partnerships. Visited Robben Island.[51][56]
July 1–2, 2013  Tanzania Dar es Salaam Met with President Jakaya Kikwete. Laid a wreath at the memorial to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing.[51] Participated in trade and investment discussions; accompanied by business leaders.[56]
July 2, 2013  Senegal Dakar Stopped during return to Washington D.C..[51]
30 September 4–5, 2013  Sweden Stockholm Met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Also met with leaders of the Nordic countries. Attended an event honoring Raoul Wallenberg at the Great Synagogue of Stockholm.
September 5–6, 2013  Russia St. Petersburg Attended the G-20 summit.
31 December 7–10, 2013  South Africa Johannesburg Attended the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.
32 February 14, 2014  Mexico Toluca Attended the 9th North American Leaders' Summit with President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.[57]
33 March 24–25, 2014  Netherlands Amsterdam,
Hague
Attended the Nuclear Security Summit. Also attended the G-7 summit on the crisis in Ukraine and the annexation of the Crimea. Met with Prime Minister Mark Rutte. Also met with King Willem-Alexander at the Royal Palace of Amsterdam.
March 26–27, 2014  Belgium Waregem,
Brussels
Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Laid wreath and toured the Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial with King Philippe and Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. Delivered a speech at the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR).
March 27, 2014   Vatican City Apostolic Palace Audience with Pope Francis.[58]
March 27, 2014  Italy Rome Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Visited the Roman Colosseum.
March 28, 2014  Saudi Arabia Riyadh Met with King Abdullah.
34 April 23–25, 2014  Japan Tokyo Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe.
April 25–26, 2014  South Korea Seoul Met with President Park Geun-hye. Visited with U.S. troops at Yongsan Garrison.
April 26–28, 2014  Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Met with Prime Minister Najib Razak. Delivered a speech at the University of Malaya.
April 28–29, 2014  Philippines Manila,
Taguig
Met with President Benigno Aquino III. Visited with U.S. and Philippine troops at Fort Bonifacio. Laid wreath at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial.
35 May 25–26, 2014  Afghanistan Bagram Visited with U.S. troops.
36 June 3–4, 2014  Poland Warsaw Met with President Bronisław Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Attended ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of democracy in Poland.
June 4–5, 2014  Belgium Brussels Attended the 40th G7 summit.
June 5–6, 2014  France Paris,
Colleville,
Ouistreham
Met with President François Hollande. Attended the 70th anniversary of D-Day memorial ceremonies.
37 September 3–4, 2014  Estonia Tallinn Met with the presidents of the Baltic states. Visited with U.S. and Estonian members of the military. Delivered a speech at Tallinn Airport with Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas.
September 4–5, 2014  United Kingdom Newport Attended the NATO summit.
38 November 10–12, 2014  China Beijing Attended the APEC summit. Met with President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and NPC Chairman Zhang Dejiang.[59]
November 12–15, 2014 Myanmar (Burma) Naypyidaw,
Yangon
Attended the 25th ASEAN Summit and the 9th East Asia Summit. Met with President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Delivered a speech at the University of Yangon.
November 15–16, 2014  Australia Brisbane Attended the G-20 summit.[60]
39 January 25–27, 2015  India New Delhi Met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Participated in the Indian Republic Day celebration. Addressed an event organized by the US-India Business Council.
January 27, 2015  Saudi Arabia Riyadh Met with the newly appointed King Salman. Also paid respects to the late King Abdullah.
40 April 9–10, 2015  Jamaica Kingston Met with Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller. Visited the Bob Marley Museum. Attended a town hall meeting at the University of the West Indies. Laid wreath at the National Heroes Park.[61][62]
April 10–11, 2015  Panama Panama City Attended the 7th Summit of the Americas.[63]
41 June 7–8, 2015  Germany Schloss Elmau Attended the 41st G7 summit meeting.[64] Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel for a traditional Frühschoppen breakfast with the village locals in Krün.[65]
42 July 24–26, 2015  Kenya Nairobi Attended the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Also met with President Uhuru Kenyatta.[66]
July 26–28, 2015  Ethiopia Addis Ababa Met with the government of Ethiopia. Addressed the African Union.[67][68]
43 November 14–17, 2015  Turkey Antalya Attended the G-20 summit.
November 17–20, 2015  Philippines Manila Attended the APEC summit.
November 20–22, 2015  Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Attended the 26th ASEAN Summit and the 10th East Asia Summit.
44 November 29 –
December 1, 2015
 France Paris Attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
45 March 20–22, 2016  Cuba Havana Met with President Raúl Castro. Laid a wreath at the José Martí Memorial. Addressed Cuban civil society organizations at the Gran Teatro de La Habana. Toured Old Havana and visited the Havana Cathedral.[69] Attended an exhibition baseball game between the Cuba national baseball team and Tampa Bay Rays.[70]
March 23–24, 2016  Argentina Buenos Aires,
Bariloche
Met with President Mauricio Macri. Laid a wreath at the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral.[71]
46 April 20–21, 2016  Saudi Arabia Riyadh Met with King Salman. Attended a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council.[72]
April 21–24, 2016  United Kingdom London,
Windsor,
Watford
Met with Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
April 24–25, 2016  Germany Hanover Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Toured Hannover Messe.
47 May 22–25, 2016  Vietnam Hanoi,
Ho Chi Minh City
Met with President Trần Đại Quang and National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân. Held talks with Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and Communist Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng. Visited the Jade Emperor Pagoda.
May 25–27, 2016  Japan Shima,
Hiroshima
Attended the 42nd G7 summit. Visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
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Barack Obama meets with the President of Myanmar, Thein Sein in Yangon, November 19, 2012

See also

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