List of countries by number of diplomatic missions

The following list sorts 61 countries according to their number of diplomatic missions in 2019. Also indicated are the number of different missions abroad such as embassies, consulates, permanent missions and of other diplomatic representations. All data is from the Global Diplomacy Index 2019 of the Lowy Institute.[1]

Rank Country Number of total posts Embassies/
High Commissions
Consulates/
Consulates-General
Permanent missions Other
representations
1  China 276 169 96 8 3
2  United States 273 168 88 9 8
3  France 267 161 89 15 2
4  Japan 247 151 65 10 21
5  Russia 242 144 85 11 2
6  Turkey 235 140 81 12 2
7  Germany 227[2] 153 61 12 1
8  United Kingdom 222 138 70 12 2
9  Spain 215 115 89 10 1
10  Italy 209 122 75 5 3
11  Brazil 205 149 44 9 3
12  India 186 123 54 5 4
13  South Korea 183 114 51 5 13
14  Argentina 157 86 62 7 2
15  Mexico 157 80 67 7 3
16  Netherlands 152 107 29 12 4
17   Switzerland 146 103 30 10 3
-  European Union 145 0 0 145 0
18  Canada 144 96 36 10 2
19  Australia 136 88 36 9 3
20  Greece 135 82 43 9 1
21  Indonesia 132 94 34 3 1
22  Hungary 131 86 35 7 3
23  Portugal 128 71 48 8 1
24  Chile 128 70 51 6 1
25  South Africa 124 106 14 2 2
26  Sweden 118 82 22 9 5
27  Poland 118 81 31 4 2
28  Pakistan 117 85 30 2 0
29  Czech Republic 116 90 19 5 2
30  Saudi Arabia 114 96 15 2 1
31  Malaysia 107 80 23 3 1
32  Taiwan 107 15 2 1 89
33  Belgium 104 88 8 7 1
34  Israel 104 77 20 6 1
35  Norway 99 79 9 10 1
36  Austria 98 80 9 7 2
37  Thailand 98 65 29 3 1
38  Vietnam 96 69 22 4 1
39  Denmark 89 67 14 6 2
40  Ireland 87 66 14 6 1
41  Philippines 87 60 23 4 0
42  Finland 85 70 6 6 3
43  Slovakia 81 63 8 8 2
44  Bangladesh 75 57 16 2 0
45  New Zealand 72 50 17 4 1
46  Sri Lanka 67 51 13 2 1
47  Lithuania 61 40 12 8 1
48  Slovenia 54 41 5 7 1
49  North Korea 52 47 3 2 0
50  Singapore 50 28 17 4 1
51  Latvia 47 37 3 7 0
52  Estonia 44 36 2 6 0
53  Myanmar 44 36 6 2 0
54  Mongolia 43 30 11 1 1
55  Brunei 42 35 4 3 0
56    Nepal 39 32 6 1 0
57  Laos 39 26 10 3 0
58  Cambodia 38 25 10 3 0
59  Luxembourg 37 26 7 3 1
60  Iceland 25 16 4 5 0
61  Bhutan 9 5 2 2 0

Notes

    • ^1 The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 27 Member States. As the EU is not a country, the EU is not ranked country on the list.

    References

    1. "Global Diplomacy Index – Country Rank". Retrieved 2019-03-29.
    2. Amt, Auswärtiges. "The German Missions Abroad". German Federal Foreign Office. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
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