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