List of diplomatic missions of Australia

The Commonwealth of Australia possesses an extensive network of diplomatic and consular missions. They are mostly maintained by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, with some smaller consular posts being run by Austrade. There are currently over 100 Australian missions overseas.^[1]

Diplomatic missions of Australia

As Australia is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, its diplomatic missions in the capitals of other Commonwealth countries are referred to as High Commissions (as opposed to embassies). Australia's diplomatic missions have a key focus on Commonwealth, Asian, and Pacific Islander countries.

Under the terms of the Canada–Australia Consular Services Sharing Agreement, the two countries provide consular services to each other's citizens at a number of locations around the world. At this time, there are 12 cities where Canadians can obtain consular services from Australian offices, and 19 locations where Canadian offices provide consular services to Australians. In an emergency, Australians can also seek assistance from British diplomatic missions around the world in the absence of an Australian consulate or embassy.

Honorary consulates are excluded from this listing.

History

After federation in 1901, Australia's presence abroad was largely limited to state and Commonwealth agents and trade offices. The United Kingdom played a defining role in Australia's foreign policy, limiting its need for missions abroad. In 1939 there were only two External Affairs officers posted overseas: one in London (known as Australia House), and one in Washington attached to the British Embassy.

The Second World War necessitated increased co-operation with foreign countries independent of the UK's Foreign Office. By 1940, a base of four missions had been established in Washington, Ottawa, London, and Tokyo, and as World War II progressed missions to Australia's wartime allies were established in Nouméa, Chongqing, and Moscow.

Australian diplomatic missions today number at over 100, although the number of Australian diplomats overseas has dramatically been reduced. Missions have been closed in Almaty, Damascus, Kupang, Lusaka, Algiers, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam, and Bridgetown.

Current missions

Africa

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Egypt	Cairo	Embassy	1950	Countries: Eritrea Sudan	[2]
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Embassy	2014	Countries: Central African Republic Djibouti South Sudan International Organizations: African Union[a] Intergovernmental Authority on Development United Nations Economic Commission for Africa	[3]
Ghana	Accra	High Commission	1957	Countries: Burkina Faso Guinea Ivory Coast Liberia Mali Senegal Sierra Leone Togo	[4]
Kenya	Nairobi	High Commission	1976	Countries: Burundi Rwanda Somalia Tanzania Uganda International Organizations: United Nations United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Human Settlements Programme	[5]
Mauritius	Port Louis	High Commission	1984	Countries: Comoros Madagascar Seychelles	[6]
Morocco	Rabat	Embassy	2017		[7]
Nigeria	Abuja	High Commission	1960	Countries: Benin Cameroon Gabon Gambia Niger International Organizations: Economic Community of West African States[a]	[8]
South Africa	Pretoria	High Commission	1946	Countries: Angola Botswana Eswatini Lesotho Mozambique Namibia International Organizations: Southern African Development Community[a]	[9]
Zimbabwe	Harare	Embassy	1980	Countries: Congo-Brazzaville Congo-Kinshasa Malawi Zambia	[10]

Americas

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Argentina	Buenos Aires	Embassy	1959	Countries: Paraguay Uruguay	[11]
Brazil	Brasília	Embassy	1946		[12]
	São Paulo	Consulate-General			[12]
Canada	Ottawa	High Commission	1939		[13]
	Toronto	Consulate-General	1975		[13]
	Vancouver	Consulate	1975		[13]
Chile	Santiago de Chile	Embassy	1946	Countries: Ecuador	[14][15]
Colombia	Bogotá	Embassy	2017	Countries: Venezuela	[16]
Mexico	Mexico City	Embassy	1967	Countries: Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama	[17]
Peru	Lima	Embassy	1968	Countries: Bolivia	[18]
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	High Commission	2004	Countries: Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Dominica Grenada Guyana Haiti Jamaica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname International Organizations: Caribbean Community	[19]
United States	Washington, D.C.	Embassy	1918	International Organizations: Organization of American States[a]	[20][21]
	Chicago	Consulate-General	1971		[20]
	Honolulu	Consulate-General	1973		[20]
	Houston	Consulate-General	1982		[20]
	Los Angeles	Consulate-General	1971		[20]
	New York City	Consulate-General	1945		[20]
	San Francisco	Consulate-General	1946		[22]

Asia

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Bangladesh	Dhaka	High Commission	1972		[23]
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	High Commission	1979		[24]
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Embassy	1957		[25]
China	Beijing	Embassy	1973		[26]
	Chengdu	Consulate-General	2013		[26]
	Guangzhou	Consulate-General	1992		[26]
	Hong Kong	Consulate-General	1972		[26]
	Shanghai	Consulate-General	1984		[26]
India	New Delhi	High Commission	1943	Countries: Bhutan	[27]
	Bengaluru	Consulate-General	2023		[28]
	Chennai	Consulate-General	2007		[29]
	Kolkata	Consulate-General	1970		[30]
	Mumbai	Consulate-General	1967		[31]
Indonesia	Jakarta	Embassy	1950		[32]
	Denpasar	Consulate-General	1981		[33]
	Makassar	Consulate-General	2016		[34]
	Surabaya	Consulate-General	2017		[35]
Iraq	Baghdad	Embassy	1974		[36]
Israel	Tel Aviv	Embassy	1949		[37]
Japan	Tokyo	Embassy	1940[b]		[38]
	Osaka	Consulate-General	1947		[38]
Jordan	Amman	Embassy	1975		[39]
Kuwait	Kuwait City	Embassy	2004		[40]
Lebanon	Beirut	Embassy	1967		[41]
Laos	Vientiane	Embassy	1963		[42]
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	High Commission	1955		[43]
Maldives	Malé	High Commission	2023		[44]
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	Embassy	2015		[45]
Myanmar	Yangon	Embassy	1956		[46]
Nepal	Kathmandu	Embassy	1960		[47]
Pakistan	Islamabad	High Commission	1949		[48]
Palestine	Ramallah	Representative Office	2000		[49]
Philippines	Manila	Embassy	1946		[50]
Qatar	Doha	Embassy	2016		[51]
Republic of China (Taiwan)[c]	Taipei	Office	1981		[52]
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Embassy	1974	Countries: Bahrain Oman Yemen	[53]
Singapore	Singapore	High Commission	1965		[54]
South Korea	Seoul	Embassy	1962	Countries: North Korea	[55]
Sri Lanka	Colombo	High Commission	1946		[56]
Thailand	Bangkok	Embassy	1952		[57]
	Phuket	Consulate-General	2016		[58]
Timor-Leste	Dili	Embassy	2002		[59]
Turkey	Ankara	Embassy	1968	Countries: Azerbaijan Georgia	[60]
	Istanbul	Consulate-General	2006		[60]
	Çanakkale	Consulate	2006		[60]
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	Embassy	1999		[61]
	Dubai	Consulate-General	2000		[61]
Vietnam	Hanoi	Embassy	1952		[62]
	Ho Chi Minh City	Consulate-General	1994		[63]

Europe

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Austria	Vienna	Embassy	1966	Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina Hungary Slovakia Slovenia International Organizations: United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency OSCE UNCITRAL UNODC	[64]
Belgium	Brussels	Embassy	1959	Countries: Luxembourg International Organizations: European Union NATO	[65]
Croatia	Zagreb	Embassy	1992	Countries: Kosovo	[66]
Cyprus	Nicosia	High Commission	1975		[67]
Denmark	Copenhagen	Embassy	1970	Countries: Iceland Norway	[68]
Estonia	Tallinn	"Pop-up" Embassy	2018		[69]
France	Paris	Embassy	1945	Countries: Algeria Chad Mauritania Monaco	[70]
	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Consulate-General	1940		[71]
	Papeete, French Polynesia	Consulate-General	2021		[72]
Germany	Berlin	Embassy	1952		[73]
	Frankfurt	Consulate-General	2019		[73]
Greece	Athens	Embassy	1964	Countries: Bulgaria Romania	[74]
Holy See	Rome[d]	Embassy	2008		[75]
Ireland	Dublin	Embassy	1946		[76]
Italy	Rome	Embassy	1949	Countries: Albania Libya San Marino International Organizations: Food and Agriculture Organization International Fund for Agricultural Development World Food Programme	[77]
	Milan	Consulate-General	1968		[77]
Malta	Valletta	High Commission	1967	Countries: Tunisia	[78]
Netherlands	The Hague	Embassy	1942		[79]
North Cyprus	Nicosia	High Commission annex office[e]			[67]
Poland	Warsaw	Embassy	1973	Countries: Czech Republic Lithuania	[80]
Portugal	Lisbon	Embassy	1970	Countries: Cape Verde Guinea-Bissau São Tomé and Príncipe	[81]
Russia	Moscow	Embassy	1943	Countries: Armenia Belarus Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan	[82]
Serbia	Belgrade	Embassy	1967	Countries: Montenegro North Macedonia	[83]
Spain	Madrid	Embassy	1969	Countries: Andorra Equatorial Guinea	[84][85]
Sweden	Stockholm	Embassy	1961	Countries: Finland Latvia	[86]
Switzerland	Bern	Embassy	1961 [f]	Countries: Liechtenstein	[87]
	Geneva	Consulate-General	1961		[88]
United Kingdom	London	High Commission	1910	International Organizations: Commonwealth of Nations International Maritime Organization	[89]

Oceania

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Ref.
Cook Islands	Avarua	High Commission	1994	[90]
Fiji	Suva	High Commission	1964	[91]
Kiribati	Tarawa	High Commission	1982	[92]
Marshall Islands	Majuro	Embassy	2021	[93]
Micronesia	Kolonia	Embassy	1987	[94]
Nauru	Yaren	High Commission	1968	[95]
New Zealand	Wellington	High Commission	1943	[96]
	Auckland	Consulate-General	2008	[96]
Niue	Alofi	High Commission	2020	[97]
Palau	Koror	Embassy	2019	[98]
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	High Commission	1973	[99]
	Lae	Consulate-General	1974	[99]
Samoa	Apia	High Commission	1977	[100]
Solomon Islands	Honiara	High Commission	1982	[101]
Tonga	Nukuʻalofa	High Commission	1980	[102]
Tuvalu	Funafuti	High Commission	2018	[103]
Vanuatu	Port Vila	High Commission	1980	[104]

Multilateral organisations

Organization	Host city	Host country	Mission	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations	Jakarta	Indonesia	Mission		[105]
United Nations	New York City	United States	Permanent Mission		[106]
	Geneva	Switzerland	Permanent Mission	International Organizations: Conference on Disarmament World Health Organization	[88]
OECD	Paris	France	Permanent Delegation		[70]
UNESCO	Paris	France	Permanent Delegation		[70]
World Trade Organization	Geneva	Switzerland	Permanent Mission		[88]

Gallery

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  High Commission in Avarua
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  High Commission in Bandar Seri Begawan
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  Embassy in Berlin
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  Embassy in Buenos Aires
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  Embassy in Copenhagen
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  Embassy in Dublin
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  Embassy in The Hague
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  Embassy in Hanoi
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  High Commission in Honiara
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  Embassy in Jakarta
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  Building hosting the embassy in Lisbon
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  High Commission in London
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  Building hosting the embassy in Madrid
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  Embassy in Mexico City
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  Embassy in Moscow
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  High Commission in New Delhi
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  High Commission in Nuku'alofa
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  Embassy in Paris
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  High Commission in Port Vila
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  High Commission in Pretoria
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  Building hosting the Embassy to the Holy See in Rome
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  High Commission in Port of Spain
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  Building hosting the Embassy in Santiago
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  Embassy in Tokyo
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  High Commission in Valletta
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  Embassy in Vienna
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  Embassy in Warsaw
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  Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C.
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  High Commission in Wellington
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  Embassy in Yangon

Closed missions

Africa

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year closed	Ref.
Algeria	Algiers	Embassy	1991	[107]
Libya	Tripoli	Consulate-General	2011
Tanzania	Dar Es Salaam	High Commission	1987	[107]
South Africa	Cape Town	Consulate	1984	[107]
Zambia	Lusaka	High Commission	1991	[107]

Americas

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year closed	Ref.
Barbados	Bridgetown	High Commission	2004
United States	Atlanta	Consulate-General	2012	[108]
Venezuela	Caracas	Embassy	2002	[109]

Asia

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year closed	Ref.
Afghanistan	Kabul	Embassy	2021	[110]
China	Shenyang	Consulate-General	2024	[111]
Indonesia	Kupang	Consulate	1999	[112]
	Medan	Consulate	Unknown	[113]
Iran	Tehran	Embassy	2025
Japan	Fukuoka	Consulate-General	2019	[114]
	Sapporo	Consulate	2019	[115]
Kazakhstan	Almaty	Embassy	1999	[116]
Republic of China	Nanjing[g]	Embassy	1949	[117]
Republic of China (Taiwan)	Taipei	Embassy	1973	[118]
South Vietnam	Saigon	Embassy	1975	[119]
Syria	Damascus	Embassy	1999	[120]

Europe

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year closed	Ref.
Hungary	Budapest	Embassy	2013	[121]
Ukraine	Kyiv	Embassy	2022	[122]
United Kingdom	Manchester	Consulate	2001	[123]

Embassies to open

• Ukraine^[124]

See also

• Australia portal

• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• Foreign relations of Australia
• Visa policy of Australia

Notes

1. Accredited as an observer mission.
2. closed in 1941, reopened in 1947
3. Australia does not have formal relations with Taiwan, since the establishment of relations with the People's Republic of China in 1973. Nonetheless, its office in Taipei functions as a de facto embassy.
4. The Australian Embassy to the Holy See is located outside Vatican territory in Rome.
5. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the High Commission in Nicosia has an annex in North Nicosia.
6. Closed in 2014; reopened in 2022.
7. Opened in 1941 as a legation in Chongqing, moved to Nanjing in 1946, and elevated into an embassy in 1948.