List of diplomatic missions of Sri Lanka

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Sri Lanka, excluding honorary consulates. Sri Lanka has missions across almost all continents with bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 50 countries and states, and 2 permanent missions with the United Nations in New York City and Geneva.

Diplomatic missions of Sri Lanka

Current missions

Africa

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Egypt	Cairo	Embassy	1958	Countries: Eritrea Libya	[1][2]
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Embassy	2017	Countries: Djibouti Somalia International Organizations: African Union United Nations Economic Commission for Africa	[3][2][4]
Kenya	Nairobi	High Commission	1970	Countries: Benin Burkina Faso Congo-Brazzaville Congo-Kinshasa Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Liberia Mali Mauritania Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda International Organizations: United Nations United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Human Settlements Programme	[1][2]
Seychelles	Victoria	High Commission	2013	Countries: Madagascar Mauritius	[3][2]
South Africa	Pretoria	High Commission	1997	Countries: Angola Botswana Eswatini Lesotho Malawi Mozambique Namibia Zambia Zimbabwe	[3][2]

Americas

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Brazil	Brasília	Embassy		Countries: Argentina Chile Colombia Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay	[5]
Canada	Ottawa	High Commission	1958		[1][5][6]
	Toronto	Consulate-General	2001		[5][6]
Cuba	Havana	Embassy	1987	Countries: Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Haiti Honduras Jamaica Panama Venezuela	[1][5]
United States	Washington, D.C.	Embassy	1948	Countries: Trinidad and Tobago International Organizations: Organization of American States[a]	[1][5][7][8][9]
	Los Angeles	Consulate-General	1999		[5][10]

Asia

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Bahrain	Manama	Embassy	2013		[3][11]
Bangladesh	Dhaka	High Commission	1979		[3][12][13]
China	Beijing	Embassy	1957	Countries: Mongolia North Korea	[1][14][15]
	Guangzhou	Consulate-General	2012		[3][14][15]
	Shanghai	Consulate-General			[14][15]
India	New Delhi	High Commission	1948		[1][12][16]
	Chennai	Deputy High Commission	1957		[1][12][17]
	Mumbai	Consulate-General	1983		[1][12]
Indonesia	Jakarta	Embassy	1952	International Organizations: Association of Southeast Asian Nations	[1][14][18]
Iran	Tehran	Embassy	1990	Countries: Azerbaijan Turkmenistan	[1][11]
Israel	Tel Aviv	Embassy	2000		[3][11]
Japan	Tokyo	Embassy	1953		[1][14][19]
Jordan	Amman	Embassy	1996		[3][11]
Kuwait	Kuwait City	Embassy	1982		[1][11]
Lebanon	Beirut	Embassy	1997	Countries: Syria	[3][11]
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	High Commission	1957		[1][14][20]
Maldives	Malé	High Commission	1980		[3][12]
Myanmar	Yangon	Embassy	1949		[1][14]
Nepal	Kathmandu	High Commission	1993		[3][12]
Oman	Muscat	Embassy	1987	Countries: Yemen	[1][11]
Pakistan	Islamabad	High Commission	1950	Countries: Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan	[1][12]
	Karachi	Consulate-General			[12][21][22]
Palestine	Ramallah	Representative office	2007		[3][11][23][24]
Philippines	Manila	Embassy	1961		[1][14]
Qatar	Doha	Embassy	1997		[3][11][25]
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Embassy	1981		[1][11]
	Jeddah	Consulate-General	1997		[3][11]
Singapore	Singapore	Embassy	1971	Countries: Brunei	[1][14][26][27]
South Korea	Seoul	Embassy	1987		[1][14][28]
Thailand	Bangkok	Embassy	1966	Countries: Cambodia Laos International Organizations: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific	[1][14][29]
Turkey	Ankara	Embassy	2012	Countries: Georgia Ukraine	[3][30]
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	Embassy	1979[b]		[1][11][31]
	Dubai	Consulate-General	1993		[1][11]
Vietnam	Hanoi	Embassy	2003		[3][14]

Europe

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Austria	Vienna	Embassy	1995	Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina Czechia Hungary Serbia Slovakia Slovenia International Organizations: United Nations CTBTO Preparatory Commission International Atomic Energy Agency United Nations Industrial Development Organization United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime	[1][30][32][33]
Belgium	Brussels	Embassy	1973	Countries: Luxembourg International Organizations: European Union	[1][30][34]
Cyprus	Nicosia	Consulate-General[c]	2019[d]		[1][11][35]
France	Paris	Embassy	1956	Countries: Andorra Monaco Portugal Spain International Organizations: UNESCO UN Tourism	[1][30][36]
Germany	Berlin	Embassy	1958[e]	Countries: Croatia Montenegro North Macedonia  Switzerland	[1][3][30][37]
Italy	Rome	Embassy	1952	Countries: Albania Cyprus Greece Malta San Marino International Organizations: Food and Agriculture Organization International Fund for Agricultural Development World Food Programme	[1][30][38]
	Milan	Consulate-General	2016		[3][30]
Netherlands	The Hague	Embassy	1993	International Organizations: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons	[1][30]
Poland	Warsaw	Embassy		Countries: Bulgaria	[30][39]
Romania	Bucharest	Embassy	2024		[30][40][41]
Russia	Moscow	Embassy	1957	Countries: Armenia Belarus Moldova Uzbekistan	[1][30]
Sweden	Stockholm	Embassy	1970	Countries: Denmark Estonia Finland Iceland Latvia Lithuania Norway	[1][30][42][43][44][45]
Switzerland	Geneva	Consulate-General			[37][46][47]
United Kingdom	London	High Commission	1948	Countries: Ireland	[1][30][48][49]

Oceania

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Australia	Canberra	High Commission	1949	Countries: Fiji Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Vanuatu	[1][14]
	Melbourne	Consulate-General	2013		[3][14]
New Zealand	Wellington	High Commission	2025		[14][50]

Multilateral organizations

Organization	Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
United Nations	New York City	United States	Permanent Mission		Countries: Bahamas	[1][5][23]
	Geneva	Switzerland	Permanent Mission	1965	Countries: Holy See International Organizations: World Trade Organization	[1][30][23][46][51]

Gallery

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  Embassy in Berlin
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  High Commission in Canberra
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  High Commission in Kuala Lumpur
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  High Commission in London
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  Embassy in Moscow
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  Residence of the High Commissioner in Ottawa
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  Embassy in Paris
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  Embassy in Tokyo
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  Embassy in Vienna
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  Embassy in Warsaw
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  Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Closed missions

Africa

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Year closed	Ref.
Libya	Tripoli	Embassy	2009	2011	[52][53]
Nigeria	Abuja	High Commission	2013	2021	[54]

Asia

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Year closed	Ref.
Afghanistan	Kabul	Embassy	2014	2022	[1][55]
Iraq	Baghdad	Embassy[f]		2022	[54]

Europe

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Year closed	Ref.f
Germany	Frankfurt	Consulate-General[f]	2007	2021	[54][56]
Norway	Oslo	Embassy		2022	[54]

Oceania

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Year closed	Ref.
Australia	Sydney	Consulate-General	1999	2022	[54]

See also

• Foreign relations of Sri Lanka
• List of diplomatic missions in Sri Lanka
• List of heads of missions from Sri Lanka

Notes

1. Accredited as an observer mission.
2. Originally opened as a resident mission; was upgraded into an embassy in 1983.
3. Subordinate to the embassy in Rome.
4. Was closed in 2021; reopened in 2025.
5. Originally opened in Bonn; was moved to Berlin in 1999.
6. To be reopened.