List of diplomatic missions of the United States

List of diplomatic missions of the United States
American diplomatic missions, including embassies (red), consulates, consular offices and embassy annexes (blue) and other representative offices (yellow)
U.S. Embassy in Berlin
U.S. Embassy in Bern
U.S. Embassy in Bratislava
U.S. Embassy in Budapest
U.S. Embassy in Dublin
U.S. Embassy in The Hague
U.S. Consulate-General in Hamburg
U.S. Embassy in London
U.S. Embassy in Moscow
U.S. Consulate-General in Munich
U.S. Embassy in Oslo
U.S. Embassy in Paris
U.S. Embassy in Prague
U.S. Embassy in Rome
U.S. Embassy in Stockholm
U.S. Embassy in Vienna
U.S. Embassy in Warsaw
U.S. Embassy in Skopje
U.S. Embassy in Zagreb
U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown
U.S. Interest Section in Havana
U.S. Embassy in Mexico City
U.S. Embassy in Ottawa
U.S. Embassy in San José, Costa Rica
U.S. Embassy in San Salvador
U.S. Embassy in Brasília
U.S. Embassy in La Paz
U.S. Embassy in Quito
U.S. Embassy in Amman
U.S. Embassy in Tel-Aviv
U.S. Consulate-General in Istanbul
U.S. Consulate-General in Jerusalem
U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam
U.S. Embassy in Yaoundé
U.S. Embassy in Libreville
U.S. Embassy in Beijing
The U.S. Embassy in Seoul.
U.S. Embassy in Tokyo
U.S. Embassy in Hanoi
U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur
U.S. Embassy in Manila
U.S. Consulate-General in Hong Kong
U.S. Embassy in Canberra
U.S. Embassy in Wellington
U.S. Embassy in Kolonia
U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, the first U.S. diplomatic post with a building-integrated solar power system

This is a list of diplomatic missions of the United States.

Contents

History

Morocco, in December 1777, became the first nation to recognize the United States[1] and together they maintain the United States' longest unbroken treaty[2].

Benjamin Franklin established the first overseas mission of the United States in Paris in 1779. On April 19, 1782, John Adams was received by the States-General, and the Dutch Republic became the third country, after Morocco and France, to recognize the United States as an independent government. Adams then became the first U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands[3][4][5][6] and the house that he had purchased at Fluwelen Burgwal 18 in The Hague, became the first American embassy anywhere in the world.[7]

In the period following the American Revolution, George Washington sent a number of close advisers to the courts of European potentates in order to garner recognition of U.S. independence with mixed results, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Francis Dana and John Jay.[8] Much of the first fifty years of the Department of State concerned negotiating with imperial European powers over the territorial integrity of the borders of the United States as known today.

The first overseas consulate of the fledgling United States was founded in 1790 at Liverpool, England, by James Maury Jr., who was appointed by Washington. Maury held the post from 1790 to 1829. Liverpool was at the time Britain's leading port for transatlantic commerce and therefore of great economic importance to the former Thirteen Colonies.

The first overseas property owned, and the longest continuously owned, by the United States is the American Legation in Tangier, which was a gift of the Sultan of Morocco in 1821. In general during the nineteenth century, the United States' diplomatic activities were done on a minimal budget. The US owned no property abroad and provided no official residences for its foreign envoys, paid them a minimal salary and gave them the rank of ministers rather than ambassadors who represented the Great powers - position which the US only achieved towards the end of the century..[9]

In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the State Department was concerned with expanding commercial ties in Asia, establishing Liberia, foiling diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy and securing its presence in North America. The Confederacy had diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Papal States, Russia, Mexico and Spain, and consular missions in Ireland, Canada, Cuba, Italy, Bermuda and Nassau and New Providence.[10]

The United States' global preeminence became evident in the twentieth century, and the State Department was required to invest in a large network of diplomatic missions to manage its bilateral and multilateral relations.[11] The wave of oveseas construction began with the creation of the State Department’s Foreign Service Buildings Commission in 1926.[9]

List

Listed below are American embassies and other diplomatic missions around the world. The U.S. has dubbed some of its consulates as "American Presence Posts", to provide chiefly consular services.

Europe

North America

South America

Middle East

Africa

Asia

Oceania

International organizations

See also

Flag of the United States.svg United States portal

References

  1. ^ U.S. POLICY CHALLENGES IN NORTH AFRICA, pages 24 and 29.
  2. ^ Ogot, General History of Africa, pp. 231-232.
  3. ^ Speeches and editorials 2007 - U.S. Embassy The Hague, Netherlands
  4. ^ Memory of the Netherlands - Background - The involvement of the Dutch in the American War of Independence
  5. ^ The Massachusetts Historical Society | The Adams Family Papers
  6. ^ The John Adams Institute, American culture and literature, Lectures
  7. ^ US embassy report on Dutch-American Friendship Day.
  8. ^ United States Department of State, Timeline of U.S. Diplomatic History, 1775-1783 Diplomacy and the American Revolution. Accessed 29 August 2008.
  9. ^ a b Loeffler, Jane C. (1998). Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 13. 
  10. ^ Confederate States of America records, 1854-1889 (Library of Congress)
  11. ^ United States Department of State, Websites of U.S. Embassies, Consulates, and Diplomatic Missions. Accessed 29 August 2008.

External links

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