List of diplomatic missions of Sweden

The Kingdom of Sweden has a moderately sized diplomatic network of 78 embassies and 7 consulates general, supplemented by honorary consulates, cultural centres and trade missions. In countries without Swedish representation, Swedish citizens can seek assistance from public officials in the foreign services of any of the other Nordic countries, in accordance with the Helsinki Treaty.^[1][2]

Map of Swedish diplomatic missions

Of note Sweden was the first Western country to have an embassy in Pyongyang.^[3] The embassy in Pyongyang continues to provide limited consular services to citizens of several Western countries without a presence in North Korea and acts as the consular protecting power of the United States, Canada, and Australia since 1995.^[4][5]

History

Through the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century, most Swedish diplomatic missions were legations. The ambassador question was dealt with in the council on 25 August 1947. It was decided that some Swedish legations would be elevated to embassies. The first Swedish legations to be elevated to embassies were those in Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Moscow, Nanjing, Copenhagen and Oslo.^[6]

In January 2010, the Swedish Foreign Ministry announced that its embassies in Bratislava (Slovakia), Dakar (Senegal), Dublin (Ireland), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Luxembourg (Luxembourg), and Sofia (Bulgaria) would be closed down, while existing section offices in Pristina, Tbilisi, Chișinău, Tirana, Bamako, Ouagadougou, Monrovia, Kigali, La Paz, and Phnom Penh would be upgraded to embassies.^[7]

In December 2010, it was announced by the Swedish Foreign Ministry that an additional five embassies would close down; the embassies affected were the ones in Brussels, Belgium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hanoi, Vietnam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Luanda, Angola.^[8]

In August 2011, an agreement between the Social Democrats and the governing Reinfeldt Cabinet was announced, with the purpose of keeping the embassies in Argentina, Vietnam, Malaysia and Angola open.^[9]

On 30 August 2012, Sweden closed its embassy in Minsk, with the Estonian Embassy charged with representing Swedish interests in Belarus.^[10]

On 2 November 2016, the embassy in Lima, Peru, was re-opened.^[11] Six days later, on 8 November the embassy in Manila, Philippines, was re-opened, eight years after it was closed down.

In November 2021 the Swedish government announced that it would re-open embassies in Dublin and Brussels, and open a consulate-general in San Francisco.^[12] In November 2022, the embassy in Luanda closed and in the same year the embassy in Lima, which had reopened in 2016, also closed.^[13][14]

On 20 June 2024, the Swedish government decided that Sweden's embassies in Bamako and Ouagadougou would be closed. For continued effective engagement in the Sahel and West Africa, the government also decided to initiate a process to reopen the embassy in Dakar. The closing is expected to be completed by the end of 2024, while the embassy in Dakar is expected to open in 2025.^[15]

The Swedish government announced in February 2025 that it intends to open a consulate general in Houston, United States, and elevate the consulate general in Brussels to an embassy.^[16]

Present missions

Africa

Host country	Host city	Mission	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Algeria	Algiers	Embassy		[17]
Congo-Kinshasa	Kinshasa	Embassy	Countries:  Congo-Brazzaville  Equatorial Guinea  Gabon	[18][19]
Egypt	Cairo	Embassy		[20]
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Embassy	Countries:  Djibouti International Organizations:  African Union Intergovernmental Authority on Development	[21]
Kenya	Nairobi	Embassy	Countries:  Comoros  Seychelles  Somalia International Organizations:  United Nations United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Human Settlements Programme	[22]
Liberia	Monrovia	Embassy	Countries:  Sierra Leone	[23]
Mozambique	Maputo	Embassy	Countries:  Eswatini  Madagascar	[24]
Morocco	Rabat	Embassy		[25]
Nigeria	Abuja	Embassy	Countries:  Cameroon  Ghana International Organizations: Economic Community of West African States	[26]
Rwanda	Kigali	Embassy		[27]
South Africa	Pretoria	Embassy	Countries:  Botswana  Lesotho  Namibia International Organizations: Southern African Development Community[a]	[28]
South Sudan	Juba	Embassy office[b]		[29]
Sudan	Khartoum	Embassy	Countries:  South Sudan	[29]
Tanzania	Dar Es Salaam	Embassy		[30]
Tunisia	Tunis	Embassy	Countries:  Libya	[31]
Uganda	Kampala	Embassy	Countries:  Central African Republic  Chad	[32]
Zambia	Lusaka	Embassy		[33]
Zimbabwe	Harare	Embassy	Countries:  Malawi  Mauritius	[34]

Americas

Host country	Host city	Mission	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Brazil	Brasília	Embassy		[35]
Argentina	Buenos Aires	Embassy	Countries:  Paraguay  Uruguay	[36]
Bolivia	La Paz	Embassy		[37]
Canada	Ottawa	Embassy		[38]
Chile	Santiago de Chile	Embassy	Countries:  Peru	[39]
Colombia	Bogotá	Embassy	Countries:  Ecuador  Venezuela	[40]
Cuba	Havana	Embassy		[41]
Guatemala	Guatemala City	Embassy	Countries:  Costa Rica  El Salvador  Honduras  Nicaragua  Panama	[42]
Mexico	Mexico City	Embassy		[43]
United States	Washington, D.C.	Embassy	International Organizations:  Organization of American States[a]	[44][45]
	New York City	Consulate-General		[46]
	San Francisco	Consulate-General		[47]

Asia

Host country	Host city	Mission	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Armenia	Yerevan	Embassy		[48]
Azerbaijan	Baku	Embassy		[49]
Bangladesh	Dhaka	Embassy		[50]
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Embassy section office[c]		[51]
China	Beijing	Embassy	Countries:  Mongolia	[52]
	Hong Kong	Consulate-General		[53]
	Shanghai	Consulate-General		[54]
Georgia	Tbilisi	Embassy		[55]
India	New Delhi	Embassy	Countries:  Bhutan  Maldives	[56]
	Mumbai	Consulate-General[d]		[57][58]
Indonesia	Jakarta	Embassy	Countries:  East Timor  Papua New Guinea International Organizations:  Association of Southeast Asian Nations[a]	[59][60]
Iran	Tehran	Embassy		[61]
Israel	Tel Aviv	Embassy		[62]
Lebanon	Beirut	Embassy		[63]
Japan	Tokyo	Embassy	Countries:  Marshall Islands  Micronesia  Palau	[64]
Jordan	Amman	Embassy		[65]
Kazakhstan	Astana	Embassy		[66]
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Embassy		[67]
Myanmar	Yangon	Embassy section office[c]		[51]
North Korea	Pyongyang	Embassy		[68]
Pakistan	Islamabad	Embassy		[69]
Palestine	Jerusalem	Consulate-General[e]		[70]
Philippines	Manila	Embassy		[71]
Qatar	Doha	Embassy		[72]
Republic of China (Taiwan)	Taipei	Trade & Invest Council
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Embassy	Countries:  Oman  Yemen	[73]
Singapore	Singapore	Embassy	Countries:  Brunei	[74]
South Korea	Seoul	Embassy		[75]
Syria	Damascus	Embassy		[76]
Thailand	Bangkok	Embassy	Countries:  Cambodia  Laos  Myanmar	[51]
Turkey	Ankara	Embassy		[77]
	Istanbul	Consulate-General		[78]
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	Embassy	Countries:  Bahrain  Kuwait	[79]
Vietnam	Hanoi	Embassy		[80]

Europe

Host country	Host city	Mission	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Albania	Tirana	Embassy		[81]
Austria	Vienna	Embassy	Countries:  Slovakia International Organizations: International Atomic Energy Agency  United Nations United Nations Industrial Development Organization United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime	[82]
Belarus	Minsk	Embassy		[83]
Belgium	Brussels	Consulate-General[f]		[16][84]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Embassy		[85]
Croatia	Zagreb	Embassy		[86]
Czechia	Prague	Embassy		[87]
Cyprus	Nicosia	Embassy		[88]
Denmark	Copenhagen	Embassy		[89]
Estonia	Tallinn	Embassy		[90]
Finland	Helsinki	Embassy		[91]
	Mariehamn	Consulate-General		[92]
France	Paris	Embassy	Countries:  Monaco	[93]
Germany	Berlin	Embassy		[94]
Greece	Athens	Embassy		[95]
Holy See	Rome	Chancery[g]		[96]
Hungary	Budapest	Embassy	Countries:  Slovenia	[97][98]
Iceland	Reykjavík	Embassy		[99]
Ireland	Dublin	Embassy[h]		[100]
Italy	Rome	Embassy	Countries:  San Marino International Organizations: Food and Agriculture Organization International Fund for Agricultural Development World Food Programme	[101]
Kosovo	Pristina	Embassy		[102]
Latvia	Riga	Embassy		[103]
Lithuania	Vilnius	Embassy		[104]
Moldova	Chișinău	Embassy		[105]
Netherlands	The Hague	Embassy	International Organizations: International Court of Justice International Criminal Court OPCW	[106]
North Macedonia	Skopje	Embassy		[107]
Norway	Oslo	Embassy		[108]
Poland	Warsaw	Embassy		[109]
Portugal	Lisbon	Embassy	Countries:  Cape Verde  Guinea-Bissau	[110]
Romania	Bucharest	Embassy		[111]
Russia	Moscow	Embassy		[112]
Serbia	Belgrade	Embassy	Countries:  Montenegro	[113]
Spain	Madrid	Embassy	Countries:  Andorra	[114][115]
Switzerland	Bern	Embassy	Countries:  Liechtenstein	[116]
Ukraine	Kyiv	Embassy		[117]
United Kingdom	London	Embassy		[118]

Oceania

Host country	Host city	Mission	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Australia	Canberra	Embassy	Countries:  Fiji  Kiribati  Nauru  New Zealand  Samoa  Solomon Islands  Tonga  Tuvalu  Vanuatu	[119]

Multilateral organizations

Organization	Host city	Host country	Mission	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Council of Europe	Strasbourg	France	Permanent Representation		[120]
European Union	Brussels	Belgium	Permanent Representation		[121]
NATO	Brussels	Belgium	Delegation		[122]
OECD	Paris	France	Delegation	International Organizations:  UNESCO	[123]
United Nations	New York City	United States	Permanent Mission		[124]
	Geneva	Switzerland	Permanent Mission	International Organizations: Conference on Disarmament International Labour Organization World Health Organization  World Trade Organization	[125]
OSCE	Vienna	Austria	Delegation		[126]

Gallery

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  Building housing the embassy in Athens
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  Embassy in Berlin
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  Embassy in Bern
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  Permanent Mission to the European Union in Brussels
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  Embassy in Budapest
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  Embassy in Buenos Aires
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  Embassy in Canberra
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  Embassy in Copenhagen
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  Embassy in Dublin
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  Building hosting the Embassy in Guatemala City
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  Embassy in The Hague
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  Embassy in Helsinki
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  Consulate-General in Istanbul
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  Embassy in Kyiv
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  Embassy in La Paz
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  Embassy in Lisbon
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  Embassy in London
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  Embassy in Madrid
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  Embassy in Mexico City
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  Embassy in Moscow
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  Embassy in Oslo
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  Embassy in Ottawa
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  Embassy in Paris
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  Embassy in Prague
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  Embassy in Pyongyang
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  Embassy in Riga
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  Embassy in Rome
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  Embassy in Sarajevo
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  Embassy in Skopje
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  Embassy in Tallinn
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  Embassy in Tbilisi
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  Embassy in Tirana
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  Embassy in Tokyo
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  Embassy in Vienna
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  Embassy in Vilnius
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  Embassy in Warsaw
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  Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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  Embassy in Yerevan

Closed missions

Africa

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year closed	Ref.
Angola	Luanda	Embassy	2022	[127]
Botswana	Gaborone	Embassy	2008	[128]
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	Embassy	2024	[129]
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	Embassy	1999	[130]
Ivory Coast	Abidjan	Embassy	2007	[131]
Kenya	Nairobi	Consulate-General	1964	[132]
Lesotho	Maseru	Embassy	1993	[131]
Libya	Tripoli	Embassy	1993	[131]
Mali	Bamako	Embassy	2024	[15]
Namibia	Windhoek	Embassy	2007	[131]
Senegal	Dakar	Embassy[i]	2010	[131]
Union of South Africa	Cape Town	Consulate-General	1936	[133]
	Pretoria	Consulate-General	1944	[134]

Americas

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year closed	Ref.
Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	Consulate-General	1991	[135]
	São Paulo	Consulate-General	1983	[136]
Canada	Montreal	Consulate-General	1993	[137]
	Toronto	Consulate-General	1993	[137]
	Vancouver	Consulate	1991	[138]
Ecuador	Quito	Embassy	1992	[131]
Nicaragua	Managua	Embassy	2008	[139]
Peru	Lima	Embassy	2022
United States	Chicago	Consulate-General	1993	[137]
	Houston	Consulate-General[i]	1981	[140]
	Los Angeles	Consulate-General	2009	[141]
	Minneapolis	Consulate-General	1989	[142]
Uruguay	Montevideo	Embassy	1993	[137]
Venezuela	Caracas	Embassy	2000	[143]

Asia

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year closed	Ref.
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Embassy	2021	[144]
China	Guangzhou	Consulate-General	2009	[141]
Iraq	Baghdad	Embassy	2023	[145]
Kuwait	Kuwait City	Embassy	2001	[146]
Laos	Vientiane	Embassy	2008	[131]
Oman	Muscat	Embassy office	1993	[137]
Pakistan	Karachi	Consulate	1973	[147]
Saudi Arabia	Jeddah	Consulate	1995
Sri Lanka	Colombo	Embassy	2010	[148]
Thailand	Phuket	Consulate-General	2008	[149]

Europe

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year closed	Ref.
Belgium	Brussels	Embassy[i]	2011	[150]
	Antwerp	Consulate-General	1983	[140]
Bulgaria	Sofia	Embassy	2010	[131]
Finland	Helsinki	Consulate-General	1918	[151]
France	Marseille	Consulate-General	1993	[137]
East Germany	East Berlin	Embassy	1991	[152]
Estonia	Tallinn	Consulate	1938	[153]
Germany	West Berlin	Consulate-General	1994
	Bonn	Embassy	1999	[131]
	Hamburg	Consulate-General	2009	[154]
	Frankfurt	Consulate-General	1993	[137]
	Munich	Consulate-General	1993	[137]
Holy See	Rome	Embassy	2001	[131]
Italy	Milan	Consulate-General	1995	[155]
	Genoa	Consulate-General	1981	[156]
Luxembourg	Luxembourg City	Embassy	2010	[131]
Netherlands	Amsterdam	Consulate-General	1985
	Rotterdam	Consulate[j]	1983	[140]
Norway	Narvik	Consulate	1969	[157]
Poland	Gdańsk	Consulate-General	2008	[158]
	Szczecin	Consulate	1993	[137]
Russia	Kaliningrad	Consulate-General	2009	[141]
	Saint Petersburg	Consulate-General	2023	[159]
Slovakia	Bratislava	Embassy	2010	[131]
Slovenia	Ljubljana	Embassy	2010	[131]
Spain	Barcelona	Consulate-General	1993	[137]
	Málaga	Consulate-General	1993	[137]
	Las Palmas	Consulate	1993	[137]
	Palma de Mallorca	Consulate	1990	[135]
	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	Consulate	1980	[160]
United Kingdom	London	Consulate-General	1973	[161]

Oceania

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year closed	Ref.
Australia	Sydney	Consulate-General	1995
New Zealand	Wellington	Embassy	1995	[162]

See also

• Foreign relations of Sweden
• Sweden and the United Nations
• List of diplomatic missions of the Nordic countries

Notes

1. Accredited as an observer mission.
2. Subordinate to the Swedish embassy in Khartoum, Sudan.
3. Subordinate to the Swedish embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.
4. Originally established in Calcutta during the time of the British Raj. Was moved to Bombay in 1942, and was closed down in 1948. Reopened in 2012.
5. Although officially titled as a consular mission in Jerusalem, it is physically located in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, and is accredited to the territories that comprise the State of Palestine: the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
6. To be upgraded into an embassy.
7. The Swedish Ambassador to the Holy See is based in Stockholm. However, Sweden maintains a chancery of the Holy See in Rome, outside Vatican territory.
8. Reopened in 2023.
9. To be reopened.
10. Was a consulate general until 1980 when it was downgraded to a consulate.