Official

More information Country, Region ...

List of official diplomatic missions as of 2023^[update]^[18]^[19]^[20]
Country	Region	City	Mission	Opened	Notes	Ref(s)
Belize	Americas	Belize City	Embassy [zh]	1989		^[21]
Eswatini	Africa	Mbabane	Embassy	1968	Also serves Mozambique	^[22]
Guatemala	Americas	Guatemala City	Embassy [ja]	1935	Initially consulate, promoted to legation in 1954 and embassy in 1960 Also serves: Dominican Republic^{[lower-alpha 2]} El Salvador	^[23]
Haiti	Americas	Port-au-Prince	Embassy [ja]	1960	Initially legation, promoted to embassy in 1965	^[24]
Holy See	Europe	Rome^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Embassy	1943	Started as legation, promoted to embassy in 1959 Also serves Sovereign Military Order of Malta	^[25]
Marshall Islands	Oceania	Majuro	Embassy [zh]	1998	Also serves Federated States of Micronesia	^[26]
Palau	Oceania	Koror	Embassy [ja]	1999		^[27]
Paraguay	Americas	Asunción	Embassy [ja]	1959		^[28]
Paraguay	Americas	Ciudad del Este	Consulate-general [ja]	1988		^[28]
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Americas	Basseterre	Embassy	1984	Also serves: Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Cayman Islands^{[lower-alpha 4]} Jamaica Montserrat Saba Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten British Virgin Islands^{[lower-alpha 5]}	^[29]
Saint Lucia	Americas	Gros Islet	Embassy	2007	Also serves: Barbados Dominica Guadeloupe Martinique	^[30]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Americas	Kingstown	Embassy	1983	Also serves: Grenada Guyana Suriname Trinidad and Tobago	^[31]
Tuvalu	Oceania	Funafuti	Embassy [ja]	1998		^[32]

Close

De facto

More information Country, Region ...

List of *de facto* diplomatic missions as of 2023^[update]^[18]^[19]^[33]
Country	Region	City	Mission	Opened	Notes	Ref(s)
Argentina	Americas	Buenos Aires	Embassy (de facto)	1972	Also serves Uruguay	^[34]
Australia	Oceania	Canberra	Embassy (de facto)	1988		^[35]
		Brisbane	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	2005		^[36]
		Melbourne	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	1979		^[35]
		Sydney	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	1979		^[35]
Austria	Europe	Vienna	Embassy (de facto)	1972	Also serves: Croatia Slovenia	^[37]^[38]
Bahrain	Asia	Manama	Embassy (de facto) [zh]	1977		^[39]
Belgium	Europe	Brussels	Embassy (de facto)	1976	Also direct representative to the European Union^{[lower-alpha 6]} Also serves: Burundi^{[lower-alpha 7]} Cameroon^{[lower-alpha 8]} Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo^{[lower-alpha 9]} Gabon^{[lower-alpha 10]} Luxembourg Rwanda^{[lower-alpha 11]}	^[37]
Brazil	Americas	Brasília	Embassy (de facto)	1992		^[40]
Brazil	Americas	São Paulo	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	1975		^[40]
Brunei	Asia	Bandar Seri Begawan	Embassy (de facto) [zh]	1978	Closed between 2006 and 2007	^[41]
Canada	Americas	Ottawa	Embassy (de facto)	1993	Split from Toronto office Also serves Saint Pierre and Miquelon	^[42]
		Toronto	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	1991		^[42]
		Vancouver	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	1991		^[43]
		Montreal	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	2023		^[44]
Chile	Americas	Santiago	Embassy (de facto) [zh]	1975	Also serves Falkland Islands^{[lower-alpha 12]}	^[45]
China	Asia	Hong Kong	Consulate (de facto)	1966	Also serves Pakistan^{[lower-alpha 13]}	^[46]^[14]
China	Asia	Macau	Consulate (de facto)
Colombia	Americas	Bogotá	Embassy (de facto)	1980?	Succeeded embassy Also serves: Cuba Panama Venezuela	^[47]
Czech Republic	Europe	Prague	Embassy (de facto)	1991	Initially served Czechoslovakia	^[48]
Denmark	Europe	Copenhagen	Embassy (de facto)	1973	Also serves: Faroe Islands Greenland Iceland	^[49]
Ecuador	Americas	Quito	Embassy (de facto) [zh]	1977		^[50]
Fiji	Oceania	Suva	Embassy (de facto) [zh]	1971	Also serves: French Polynesia Kiribati New Caledonia Samoa Tonga Vanuatu Wallis and Futuna	^[51]
Finland	Europe	Helsinki	Embassy (de facto)	1990		^[48]
France	Europe	Paris	Embassy (de facto)	1972	Also serves: Algeria^{[lower-alpha 14]} Andorra^{[lower-alpha 15]} Benin^{[lower-alpha 16]} Burkina Faso^{[lower-alpha 17]} Burundi^{[lower-alpha 7]} Cameroon^{[lower-alpha 8]} Central African Republic Chad^{[lower-alpha 18]} Comoros^{[lower-alpha 19]} Republic of the Congo^{[lower-alpha 9]} French Guiana Gabon^{[lower-alpha 10]} Guinea Libya^{[lower-alpha 20]} Mali Mauritania^{[lower-alpha 21]} Mayotte Monaco^{[lower-alpha 22]} Morocco^{[lower-alpha 23]} Niger Réunion Rwanda^{[lower-alpha 11]} Senegal^{[lower-alpha 24]} Togo^{[lower-alpha 25]} Tunisia^{[lower-alpha 26]} Western Sahara	^[37]
France	Europe	Aix-en-Provence	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	2020	Also serves: Algeria^{[lower-alpha 14]} Andorra^{[lower-alpha 15]} Benin^{[lower-alpha 16]} Chad^{[lower-alpha 18]} Republic of the Congo^{[lower-alpha 9]} Gabon^{[lower-alpha 10]} Mauritania^{[lower-alpha 21]} Monaco^{[lower-alpha 22]} Morocco^{[lower-alpha 23]} Senegal^{[lower-alpha 24]} Togo^{[lower-alpha 25]} Tunisia^{[lower-alpha 26]}	^[52]
Germany	Europe	Berlin	Embassy (de facto)	1981		^[48]
		Frankfurt	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	1980		^[37]
		Hamburg	Consulate (de facto) [zh]
		Munich	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	1988		^[48]
Greece	Europe	Athens	Embassy (de facto)	1973	Also serves: Bulgaria Cyprus	^[53]^[54]
Hungary	Europe	Budapest	Embassy (de facto)	1990	Also serves: Bosnia and Herzegovina Kosovo Montenegro Romania^{[lower-alpha 27]} Serbia	^[48]
India	Asia	New Delhi	Embassy (de facto)	1995	Also serves: Bangladesh^{[lower-alpha 28]} Bhutan Nepal	^[55]
India	Asia	Chennai	Consulate (de facto)	2012	Also serves: Maldives Sri Lanka	^[56]
Indonesia	Asia	Jakarta	Embassy (de facto)	1971	Also serves Timor-Leste	^[57]
Indonesia	Asia	Surabaya	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	2015		^[58]
Ireland	Europe	Dublin	Embassy (de facto)	1988		^[48]
Israel	Asia	Tel Aviv	Embassy (de facto)	1993	Also serves Palestine	^[59]
Italy	Europe	Rome	Embassy (de facto) [zh]	1990	Also serves: Albania Malta North Macedonia San Marino	^[60]
Italy	Europe	Milan	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	2023		^[61]
Ivory Coast	Africa	Abidjan	Embassy (de facto) [zh]	2022	Previously closed in 2017	^[62]
Japan	Asia	Tokyo	Embassy (de facto)	1972		^[63]
		Fukuoka	Consulate (de facto) [ja]	1972		^[63]
		Naha	Consulate (de facto) [ja]	1958	Operated by a separate organization until 2006 due to the Senkaku Islands dispute	^[64]^[65]
		Osaka	Consulate (de facto) [ja]	1972		^[63]
		Sapporo	Consulate (de facto) [ja]	2009		^[66]
		Yokohama	Consulate (de facto) [ja]	1972		^[63]
Jordan	Asia	Amman	Embassy (de facto)	1977	Also serves: Egypt Iraq Lebanon Libya^{[lower-alpha 20]} Syria	^[67]
South Korea	Asia	Seoul	Embassy (de facto)	1993		^[68]
South Korea	Asia	Busan	Consulate (de facto) [ko]	2004		^[68]
Kuwait	Asia	Kuwait City	Embassy (de facto)	1986	Also serves Qatar^{[lower-alpha 29]}	^[69]
Latvia	Europe	Riga	Embassy (de facto)	1997	Also serves Estonia	^[70]^[71]
Lithuania	Europe	Vilnius	Embassy (de facto)	2021		^[11]
Malaysia	Asia	Kuala Lumpur	Embassy (de facto)	1974		^[57]
Mexico	Americas	Mexico City	Embassy (de facto)	1989		^[72]
Mongolia	Asia	Ulaanbaatar	Embassy (de facto)	2002		^[73]
Myanmar	Asia	Yangon	Embassy (de facto)	2016		^[74]
Netherlands	Europe	The Hague	Embassy (de facto)	1979	Also serves: Curaçao Bonaire Aruba	^[37]
New Zealand	Oceania	Wellington	Embassy (de facto)	1991	Also serves: Cook Islands Niue	^[75]
New Zealand	Oceania	Auckland	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	1973	Also serves French Polynesia^{[lower-alpha 30]}	^[76]
Nigeria	Africa	Lagos^{[lower-alpha 31]}	Embassy (de facto)	1991	Also serves: Benin^{[lower-alpha 16]} Burkina Faso^{[lower-alpha 17]} Cameroon^{[lower-alpha 8]} Gambia Ghana^{[lower-alpha 32]} Liberia Sierra Leone^{[lower-alpha 33]}	^[77]
Oman	Asia	Muscat	Embassy (de facto) [zh]	1977		^[78]
Papua New Guinea	Oceania	Port Moresby	Embassy (de facto) [zh]	1990	Also serves Solomon Islands	^[79]
Peru	Americas	Lima	Embassy (de facto)	1978	Also serves Bolivia	^[80]
Philippines	Asia	Manila	Embassy (de facto)	1975		^[57]
Poland	Europe	Warsaw	Embassy (de facto)	1992	Also serves Ukraine^{[lower-alpha 34]} as of February 25, 2022	^[48]
Portugal	Europe	Lisbon	Embassy (de facto)	1992	Also serves: Cape Verde Guinea-Bissau São Tomé and Príncipe	^[48]
Russia	Europe	Moscow	Embassy (de facto)	1993	Also serves: Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia^{[lower-alpha 35]} Kazakhstan^{[lower-alpha 36]} Kyrgyzstan^{[lower-alpha 37]} Moldova Tajikistan^{[lower-alpha 38]} Turkmenistan^{[lower-alpha 39]} Ukraine^{[lower-alpha 34]} Uzbekistan^{[lower-alpha 40]}	^[81]
Saudi Arabia	Asia	Riyadh	Embassy (de facto)	1990	Also serves: Afghanistan Djibouti^{[lower-alpha 41]} Ethiopia^{[lower-alpha 42]} Pakistan^{[lower-alpha 13]} Qatar^{[lower-alpha 29]} South Sudan Sudan Yemen	^[82]
Singapore	Asia	Singapore	Embassy (de facto)	1969	Also serves North Korea	^[57]
Slovakia	Europe	Bratislava	Embassy (de facto)	2003	Also serves Romania^{[lower-alpha 27]}	^[83]
Somaliland	Africa	Hargeisa	Embassy (de facto)	2020	Also serves: Djibouti^{[lower-alpha 41]} Ethiopia^{[lower-alpha 42]} Kenya^{[lower-alpha 43]} Uganda^{[lower-alpha 44]}	^[84]
South Africa	Africa	Pretoria	Embassy (de facto)	1998	Also serves: Angola Botswana Burundi^{[lower-alpha 7]} Comoros^{[lower-alpha 19]} Eritrea^{[lower-alpha 45]} Kenya^{[lower-alpha 43]} Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Rwanda^{[lower-alpha 11]} Seychelles^{[lower-alpha 46]} Somalia^{[lower-alpha 47]} Tanzania Uganda^{[lower-alpha 44]} Zambia Zimbabwe	^[85]
South Africa	Africa	Cape Town	Consulate (de facto)	1998	Also serves Namibia	^[85]
Spain	Europe	Madrid	Embassy (de facto)	1973	Also serves Equatorial Guinea	^[37]
Sweden	Europe	Stockholm	Embassy (de facto)	1981	Also serves Norway	^[37]
Switzerland	Europe	Bern	Embassy (de facto) [zh]	1994	Moved from Lausanne office Also serves Liechtenstein	^[86]
Switzerland	Europe	Geneva	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	1997		^[86]
Thailand	Asia	Bangkok	Embassy (de facto)	1980	Also serves Bangladesh^{[lower-alpha 28]}	^[57]
Turkey	Europe	Ankara	Embassy (de facto)	1989	Also serves: Georgia^{[lower-alpha 35]} Kazakhstan^{[lower-alpha 36]} Kyrgyzstan^{[lower-alpha 37]} Northern Cyprus Tajikistan^{[lower-alpha 38]} Turkmenistan^{[lower-alpha 39]} Uzbekistan^{[lower-alpha 40]}	^[87]
United Arab Emirates	Asia	Dubai	Consulate (de facto)	1979	Also serves: Eritrea^{[lower-alpha 45]} Iran Somalia^{[lower-alpha 47]}	^[88]
United Kingdom	Europe	London	Embassy (de facto)	1974	Also serves: British Virgin Islands^{[lower-alpha 5]} Cayman Islands^{[lower-alpha 4]} Falkland Islands^{[lower-alpha 12]} Ghana^{[lower-alpha 32]} Guernsey Jersey Seychelles^{[lower-alpha 46]} Sierra Leone^{[lower-alpha 33]} Turks and Caicos Islands^{[lower-alpha 48]}	^[37]
United Kingdom	Europe	Edinburgh	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	1998	Also serves Isle of Man	^[89]
United States	Americas	Washington, D.C.	Embassy (de facto)	1979		^[90]
		Atlanta	Consulate (de facto)
		Boston	Consulate (de facto)	1982		^[91]
		Chicago	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	1979		^[92]
		Denver	Consulate (de facto) [zh]	2015	Moved from Kansas City office that was originally opened in 1985	^[93]
		Hagåtña, Guam	Consulate (de facto)	1991	Closed in 2017, reopened 2020 Also serves: Northern Mariana Islands	^[94]
		Honolulu	Consulate (de facto)	1979	Also serves American Samoa and United States Minor Outlying Islands	^[95]
		Houston	Consulate (de facto)
		Los Angeles	Consulate (de facto)
		Miami	Consulate (de facto)	1988	Also serves: Bahamas Bermuda Dominican Republic^{[lower-alpha 2]} Puerto Rico Turks and Caicos Islands^{[lower-alpha 48]} United States Virgin Islands	^[96]^[97]
		New York City	Consulate (de facto) [zh]
		San Francisco	Consulate (de facto)
		Seattle	Consulate (de facto)
Vietnam	Asia	Hanoi	Embassy (de facto)	1992	Also serves Laos	^[98]
Vietnam	Asia	Ho Chi Minh City	Consulate (de facto)	1992	Also serves Cambodia	^[98]

Close

Multilateral organizations

More information Organization, City ...

List of operating diplomatic missions to multilateral organizations as of 2021^[update]
Organization	City	Mission	Opened	Notes	Ref(s)
European Union	Brussels	Representative office	2001	Also direct representative to Belgium^{[lower-alpha 6]} Also serves: Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Luxembourg	^[99]
World Trade Organization	Geneva	Permanent mission	2002		^[100]

Close

Former

Key
*	Mission closed due to withdrawal of official diplomatic recognition
**	Same as above, but an unofficial office was set up to succeed it that is still in operation

More information Country, Region ...

List of defunct diplomatic missions as of 2021^[update]
Country	Region	City	Mission	Opened	Closed	Notes	Ref(s)
Bangladesh	Asia	Dhaka	Embassy (de facto)	2004	2009	Reassigned to representative office in India	^[55]^[101]
Belarus	Europe	Minsk	Embassy (de facto)	1996	2006	Reassigned to representative office in Russia	^[102]^[103]
Benin	Africa	Cotonou	Embassy*		1965		^[104]
Bolivia	Americas	La Paz	Embassy (de facto)	1990	2009		^[105] ^[106]
Botswana	Africa	Gaborone	Embassy*		1974		^[107]
Burkina Faso	Africa	Ouagadougou	Embassy*		2018		^[108]
Cambodia	Asia	Phnom Penh	"Military mission"	1972	1975		^[109]
Cambodia	Asia	Phnom Penh	Embassy (de facto)	1994	1997		^[110]^[111]
Central African Republic	Africa	Bangui	Embassy*		1964		^[112]
Colombia	Americas	Bogotá	Embassy**	1947	1980	Initially legation, promoted to embassy in 1961	^[47]
		Barranquilla	Consulate-general*	1972	1980	Initially consulate, promoted to consulate-general in 1979	^[47]
		Barranquilla	Consulate (de facto)	1980	1991		^[47]
Costa Rica	Americas	San José	Embassy*		2007		^[113]
Dominica	Americas	Roseau	Embassy*		2004		^[114]
Dominican Republic	Americas	Santo Domingo	Embassy*		2018		^[115]
Ecuador	Americas	Guayaquil	Consulate (de facto)	1974	1998		^[50]
El Salvador	Americas	San Salvador	Embassy*		2018		^[116]
Gabon	Africa	Libreville	Embassy*		1974		^[117]
Gambia	Africa	Banjul	Embassy*		1974		^[118]
Gambia	Africa	Banjul	Embassy*	1996	2013		^[119]^[120]
Greece	Europe	Athens	Embassy**	1929	1972	Started as legation, promoted to embassy in 1947	^[53]
Honduras	Americas	Tegucigalpa	Embassy*	1957	2023	Started as legation, promoted to consulate in 1962, then embassy in 1965	^[121]
Honduras	Americas	San Pedro Sula	Consulate-general [ja]*	1997	2023		^[122]
Japan	Asia	Taihoku	Consulate-General^{[lower-alpha 49]}	1930	1945		^[123]
Japan	Asia	Nagasaki	Consulate	1912	1970	Japan broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1972, when two years after the closure of the consulate in Nagasaki.	^[124]
Kiribati	Oceania	Bairiki	Embassy*	2004	2019		^[125]^[126]
Latvia	Europe	Riga	Consulate-general^{[lower-alpha 50]}	1992	1994		^[127]
Liberia	Africa	Monrovia	Embassy*	1957	2003	Started as legation, promoted to embassy in 1960	^[128]^[129]^[130]
Libya	Africa	Tripoli	Embassy (de facto)	1980	1997		^[131]
Libya	Africa	Tripoli	Embassy (de facto)	2008	2011	Closed due to the First Libyan Civil War	^[132]^[133]
Luxembourg	Europe	Luxembourg	Embassy (de facto)	1975	2002	Reassigned to representative mission in Belgium/EU	^[37]^[134]
North Macedonia	Europe	Skopje	Embassy*^{[lower-alpha 51]}	1999	2001		^[135]^[136]
Macau	Asia	Macau	Embassy (de facto)	1945	1966	Special commissariat	^[137]^[138]
Madagascar	Africa	Antananarivo	Embassy*	1960	1972	Formerly a consulate-general before Madagascar's independence	^[139]
Malawi	Africa	Lilongwe	Embassy*		2008		^[140]
Nauru	Oceania	Aiwo	Embassy *	1980	2024	Originally consulate-general, promoted to embassy in 1990, closed due to breaking off of relations between 2002-2005 and since 2024.	^[32]^[1]
Nicaragua	Americas	Managua	Embassy *	1930	2021	Originally consulate-general, promoted to legation in 1955 and then embassy in 1965, closed due to breaking off of relations in 1985-1990 and since 2021.	^[141]^[142]
Niger	Africa	Niamey	Embassy*		1974		^[143]
Nigeria	Africa	Abuja	Embassy (de facto)	2001	2018	Ultimately temporary relocation of Lagos office	^[144]^[145]
Norway	Europe	Oslo	Embassy (de facto)	1980	2017	Reassigned to representative mission in Sweden	^[37]^[146]
Panama	Americas	Panama City	Embassy*		2017		^[147]
Panama	Americas	Colón	Consulate-general		2009		^[148]
Rwanda	Africa	Kigali	Embassy*		1972		^[149]
Peru	Americas	Lima	Embassy**	1911	1971	Continuation of Qing embassy opened in 1875	^[150]
Saudi Arabia	Asia	Jeddah	Consulate (de facto)		2017	Reassigned to main office in Riyadh	^[146]
São Tomé and Príncipe	Africa	São Tomé	Embassy*		2016		^[151]
Solomon Islands	Oceania	Honiara	Embassy*		2019		^[152]
South Africa	Africa	Pretoria	Embassy*	1976	1998	Succeeded by unofficial representative office	^[153]^[85]
		Johannesburg	Consulate*	1912	1998	Continuation of a Qing-era consulate, succeeded by unofficial representative office	^[153]^[85]
		Johannesburg	Consulate (de facto)	1998	2009		^[85]^[148]
		Cape Town	Consulate**	1973	1998		^[154]^[85]
Senegal	Africa	Dakar	Embassy*		1964		^[155]
Switzerland	Europe	Zürich	Embassy (de facto)	1973	2007	Merged with Bern office	^[86]
Switzerland	Europe	Lausanne	Consulate (de facto)	1979	1994	Moved to Bern	^[86]
Togo	Africa	Lomé	Embassy*		1972		^[156]
Tonga	Oceania	Nukuʻalofa	Embassy*		1998		^[157]
Uruguay	Americas	Montevideo	Embassy	1957	1988		^[158]
Uruguay	Americas	Montevideo	Embassy (de facto)	1992	2002	Closure in 2002 intended to be temporary, no record since Reassigned to representative mission in Argentina	^[158]^[159]
United States	Americas	Washington, D.C.	Embassy**	1912	1978	Continuation of Qing legation, promoted to embassy in 1935	^[160]^[161]^[162]
		Chicago	Consulate**	1930	1979		^[92]
		Kansas City	Consulate	1974	1978		^[163]^[164]
		Kansas City	Consulate (de facto)	1985	2015	Moved to Denver	^[93]
Venezuela	Americas	Caracas	Embassy (de facto)	1974	2009		^[165]

Close