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Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
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. Of note Sweden was the first Western country to have an embassy in Pyongyang. 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 A protecting power is a country that represents another sovereign state in a country where it lacks its own diplomatic mission, diplomatic representation. It is common for protecting powers to be appointed when two countries break off diplomat ...
of the United States, Canada, and
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
since 1995. In January 2010, the
Swedish Foreign Ministry The Ministry for Foreign Affairs ( sv, Utrikesdepartementet, UD) is responsible for Swedish foreign policy. History The ministry for Foreign Affairs was created in 1791 when King Gustav III set up ''Konungens kabinett för den utrikes brevv ...
announced that its embassies in
Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...
( Slovakia), Dakar ( Senegal), Dublin ( Ireland), Ljubljana ( Slovenia), Luxembourg ( Luxembourg), and Sofia ( Bulgaria) would be closed down, while existing section offices in Pristina, Tbilisi, Chisinau, Tirana, Bamako, Ouagadougou, Monrovia,
Kigali Kigali () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali has been Rwa ...
,
La Paz La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities ...
and
Phnom Penh Phnom Penh (; km, ភ្នំពេញ, ) is the capital and most populous city of Cambodia. It has been the national capital since the French protectorate of Cambodia and has grown to become the nation's primate city and its economic, indus ...
would be upgraded to embassies. 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. In August 2011, an agreement between the Social Democrats and the governing Reinfeldt Cabinet was announced, with the purpose of keeping the Swedish embassies in Argentina, Vietnam, Malaysia and Angola open. On August 30, 2012, Sweden closed its embassy in Minsk, with the Estonian Embassy charged with representing Swedish interests in Belarus. On November 2, 2016 the Swedish Embassy was re-opened in Lima, Peru. Six days later, on November 8, the Swedish 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 a consulate-general in San Francisco. In November 2022, the
Embassy of Sweden, Luanda The Embassy of Sweden in Luanda was Sweden's diplomatic mission in Angola. The first Swedish ambassador was accredited to Luanda in 1976. The ambassador was also accredited to São Tomé. The embassy mainly focused on Sweden and trade promotion ac ...
closed.


Africa

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Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...
( Embassy) * ** Ouagadougou (Embassy) * **
Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...
(Embassy) * ** Cairo (Embassy) * ** Addis Ababa (Embassy) * ** Nairobi (Embassy) * ** Monrovia (Embassy) * ** Bamako (Embassy) * **
Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...
(Embassy) * ** Maputo (Embassy) * **
Abuja Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...
(Embassy) * **
Kigali Kigali () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali has been Rwa ...
(Embassy) * ** Pretoria ( Embassy) * ** Khartoum (Embassy) * **
Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam (; from ar, دَار السَّلَام, Dâr es-Selâm, lit=Abode of Peace) or commonly known as Dar, is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania. It is also the capital of Dar es Salaam Region. With a population of over s ...
(Embassy) * ** Tunis (Embassy) * ** Kampala (Embassy) * **
Lusaka Lusaka (; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zambia. It is one of the fastest-developing cities in southern Africa. Lusaka is in the southern part of the central plateau at an elevation of about . , the city's population was ab ...
(Embassy) * ** Harare (Embassy)


Americas

* ** Buenos Aires ( Embassy) * **
La Paz La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities ...
(Embassy) * ** Brasília (Embassy) * **
Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...
( Embassy) * ** Santiago (Embassy) * **
Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...
(Embassy) * ** Havana (Embassy) * ** Guatemala City (Embassy) * ** Mexico City ( Embassy) * ** Washington, D.C. ( Embassy) ** New York City ( Consulate-General)


Asia

* ** Yerevan (Embassy) * **
Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
(Embassy) * ** Dhaka (Embassy) * ** Beijing (Embassy) ** Hong Kong (Consulate-General) ** Shanghai (Consulate-General) * **
Nicosia Nicosia ( ; el, Λευκωσία, Lefkosía ; tr, Lefkoşa ; hy, Նիկոսիա, romanized: ''Nikosia''; Cypriot Arabic: Nikusiya) is the largest city, capital, and seat of government of Cyprus. It is located near the centre of the Mesaor ...
(Embassy) * ** Tbilisi (Embassy) * ** New Delhi (Embassy) ** Mumbai (Consulate-General) * **
Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...
(Embassy) * ** Tehran ( Embassy) * ** Baghdad ( Embassy) * ** Tel Aviv (Embassy) ** Jerusalem (Consulate-General) * ** Tokyo ( Embassy) * **
Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...
(Embassy) * ** Astana (Embassy) * ** Beirut (Embassy) * ** Kuala Lumpur (Embassy) * ** Pyongyang ( Embassy) * ** Islamabad (Embassy) * ** Jerusalem (Consulate-General) * ** Manila (Embassy) * ** Doha (Embassy) * ** Riyadh (Embassy) * ** Singapore (Embassy) * ** Seoul (Embassy) * **
Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...
(Embassy) * ** Taipei (
Swedish Trade and Invest Council The Swedish Trade and Invest Council () represents interests of Sweden in Taiwan in the absence of formal diplomatic relations, functioning as a de facto embassy, ''de facto'' embassy. Its counterpart in Sweden is the Taipei Mission in Sweden in ...
) * ** Bangkok ( Embassy) * ** Ankara (Embassy) ** Istanbul (Consulate-General) * **
Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (, ; ar, أَبُو ظَبْيٍ ' ) is the capital and second-most populous city (after Dubai) of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the centre of the Abu Dhabi Metropolitan Area. ...
(Embassy) * ** Hanoi (Embassy)


Europe

* ** Tirana (Embassy) * ** Vienna (Embassy) * ** Minsk (Embassy) * ** Sarajevo (Embassy) * ** Zagreb (Embassy) * ** Prague ( Embassy) * ** Copenhagen ( Embassy) * ** Tallinn (Embassy) * ** Helsinki ( Embassy) **
Mariehamn Mariehamn ( , ; fi, Maarianhamina ; la, Portus Mariae) is the capital city, capital of Åland, an autonomous territory under Finland, Finnish sovereignty. Mariehamn is the seat of the Government of Åland, Government and Parliament of Åland, ...
(Consulate-General) * ** Paris ( Embassy) * ** Berlin ( Embassy) * ** Athens ( Embassy) * **
Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
(Embassy) **Rome (Chancery)The Swedish Embassy to the Holy See is located in Stockholm, Sweden. There is a Swedish chancery of the Holy See in Rome, outside Vatican territory. * ** Budapest (Embassy) * ** Reykjavík (Embassy) * ** Rome ( Embassy) * ** Pristina (Embassy) * **
Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...
(Embassy) * ** Vilnius (Embassy) * ** Chişinău (Embassy) * ** The Hague (Embassy) * ** Skopje (Embassy) * ** Oslo ( Embassy) * ** Warsaw (Embassy) * **
Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...
(Embassy) * ** Bucharest (Embassy) * ** Moscow ( Embassy) ** Saint Petersburg (Consulate-General) * **
Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...
(Embassy) * ** Madrid (Embassy) * **
Bern german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese , neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen , website ...
(Embassy) * ** Kyiv (Embassy) * ** London ( Embassy)


Oceania

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Canberra Canberra ( ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...
( Embassy)


Multilateral organizations

* Brussels (Permanent Missions to the European Union and NATO) * Geneva (Permanent Mission to the Office of the United Nations and other international organizations) * New York City (Permanent Mission to the United Nations) *
Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...
(Mission to the
Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; french: Conseil de l'Europe, ) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold European Convention on Human Rights, human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. ...
) * Paris (Permanent Missions to the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries ...
and UNESCO) * Vienna (Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)


Gallery

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See also

* Foreign relations of Sweden *
Sweden and the United Nations Sweden became a member of the United Nations on November 19, 1946. Sweden has historically contributed with political leadership; politicians and diplomats such as Dag Hammarskjöld, Folke Bernadotte, Alva Myrdal and Margot Wallström and others ...
* List of diplomatic missions of the Nordic countries


Notes


References


External links


Official website of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
{{Authority control Diplomatic missions
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...