List of state visits made by Queen Elizabeth II

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Overseas trips made by Elizabeth II

Since acceding to the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II has undertaken a number of state and official visits[1] as well as trips throughout the Commonwealth, making her one of the most widely travelled monarchs in history. As the sovereign of more than one independent state, Elizabeth has represented both Canada and the United Kingdom on state visits, though the former on just two occasions. For the countries where Elizabeth is sovereign, other than the United Kingdom, the relevant governor-general will usually carry out state visits on Elizabeth's behalf.

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[edit] As Queen of Canada

Date Country Cities Host
27 June and 6 July 1959 United States of America Massena[2], Chicago Vice President Nixon, Governor Stratton
9 April 2007 France[3] Vimy Prime Minister de Villepin[citation needed]

[edit] As Queen of the United Kingdom

Date Country Cities visited Host
29–30 November 1953 Panama Panama City President José Antonio Remón Cantera[4]
1 May 1954 Libya Tobruk King Idris[5]
24–26 June 1955 Norway Oslo King Haakon VII
8–10 June 1956 Sweden Stockholm King Gustaf VI Adolf
18–21 February 1957 Portugal Lisbon President Lopes
8–11 April 1957 France Paris, Lille[6] President Coty
21–23 May 1957 Denmark Copenhagen King Frederick IX
25–27 March 1958 Netherlands Amsterdam, Delft, Rotterdam, The Hague[7][8][9] Queen Juliana
26 February – 1 March 1961 Nepal Kathmandu King Mahendra
2–6 March 1961 Iran Tehran, Isfahan[10] Shah Pahlavi
2–5 May 1961 Italy Rome, Naples, Venice, Florence, Turin[11][12] President Gronchi
5 May 1961 Vatican City Pope John XXIII
23 November 1961 Liberia Monrovia President Tubman
1–8 February 1965 Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Asmara, Gondar[13] Emperor Haile Selassie
8–12 February 1965 Sudan Khartoum, Al-Ubayyid[14] President al-Mahi
18–28 May 1965 West Germany Bonn, West Berlin, Munich, Hamburg[15][16][17] President Lübke
9–13 May 1966 Belgium Brussels, Antwerp[18] King Baudouin
5–11 November 1968 Brazil Brasília, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro[19] President Costa e Silva
11–18 November 1968 Chile Santiago, Valparaíso[20] President Frei
5–10 May 1969 Austria Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck President Jonas
18–25 October 1971 Turkey Ankara, Izmir, Istanbul, Kusadasi, Ephesus, Gallipoli[21] President Sunay
10–15 February 1972 Thailand Bangkok King Bhumibol Adulyadej
13–14 March 1972 Maldives Malé, Gan President Nasir
15–19 May 1972 France Paris President Pompidou
17–21 October 1972 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Belgrade, Dubrovnik, Zagreb [22][23][24] President Tito
15–22 March 1974 Indonesia President Suharto
24 February – 1 March 1975 Mexico Mexico City, Cozumel, Oaxaca, Mérida, Tizimín, Veracruz[25] President Echeverría
7–12 May 1975 Japan Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Ise [26][27][28] Emperor Hirohito
25–28 May 1976 Finland Helsinki President Kekkonen
6–11 July 1976 United States of America Philadelphia, Washington, New York, New Haven, Charlottesville, Providence, Boston[29] President Ford
8–12 November 1976 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Grand Duke Jean
10 February 1977 Western Samoa Apia Malietoa Tanumafili II
22–26 May 1978 West Germany Bonn, West Berlin, Mainz, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Kiel[30] President Scheel
12–14 February 1979 Kuwait Kuwait City Emir Jaber III
14–17 February 1979 Bahrain Emir Isa
17–20 February 1979 Saudi Arabia Riyadh, Dhahran[31] King Khalid
21–24 February 1979 Qatar Emir Khalifa
24–27 February 1979 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi, Dubai[31] Emir Zayed
28 February – 2 March 1979 Oman Muscat[32], Nizwa[33] Sultan Qaboos
16 May 1979 Denmark Copenhagen, Aalborg[34] Queen Margrethe II
19–22 July 1979 Tanzania Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Zanzibar City[35] President Nyerere
22–25 July 1979 Malawi Lilongwe, Blantyre[36] President Banda
25–27 July 1979 Botswana Gaborone[37] President Khama
27 July – 4 August 1979 Zambia Lusaka, Luangwa[38] President Kaunda
29 April – 2 May 1980 Switzerland Zurich, Basel[39] President Chevallaz
14–17 October 1980 Italy Rome, Genoa, Naples, Pompeii, Palermo[40] President Pertini
17 October 1980 Vatican City Pope John Paul II
21–23 October 1980 Tunisia Tunis, Borj El Amri[41] President Bourguiba
25–27 October 1980 Algeria Algiers President Chadli
27–30 October 1980 Morocco Rabat, Marrakech, Casablanca[42] King Hassan II
5–8 May 1981 Norway Oslo King Olav V
21–25 October 1981 Sri Lanka Colombo President Jayewardene
17–22 February 1983 Mexico[43] Acapulco, Lázaro Cárdenas, Puerto Vallarta, La Paz[44] President de la Madrid
26 February – 6 March 1983 United States of America San Diego, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Sierra Madre, Duarte, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Sacramento, Stanford, Palo Alto, Yosemite, Seattle[45] President Reagan
25–28 May 1983 Sweden Stockholm King Carl XVI Gustaf
10–14 November 1983 Kenya Nairobi, Thika, Nyeri[46] President Moi
14–17 November 1983 Bangladesh Dhaka, Bairagir Chala[47] President Chowdhury
17–26 November 1983 India New Delhi, Hyderabad, Secunderabad, Poona, Devar Yamjal[48] President Singh
26–30 March 1984 Jordan Amman, Petra, Aqaba[49] King Hussein
25–29 March 1985 Portugal Lisbon, Evora, Oporto[50] President Eanes
17–21 February 1986 Nepal Kathmandu King Birendra
12–18 October 1986 People's Republic of China Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Kunming, Canton[51] President Li
26–27 May 1987 West Germany President von Weizsäcker[52]
4–5 July 1988 Netherlands The Hague, Amsterdam Queen Beatrix[53]
17–21 October 1988 Spain Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, Majorca[54] King Juan Carlos
9–11 October 1989 Singapore President Wee
14–17 October 1989 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Yang di-Pertuan Agong Azlan Shah
25–27 June 1990 Iceland Reykjavik President Finnbogadóttir
23 November 1990 Germany Bonn, Weeze President von Weizsäcker[55]
14–26 May 1991 United States of America Washington, Arlington, Baltimore, Miami, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston[56] President Bush
8–10 October 1991 Namibia Windhoek, Oshakati[57] President Nujoma
10–15 October 1991 Zimbabwe Harare President Mugabe
8–10 May 1992 Malta President Tabone
12 May 1992 France Strasbourg (European Parliament)[58] President Klepsch
9–12 June 1992 France Paris, Blois, Bordeaux[59] President Mitterrand
19–23 October 1992 Germany Bonn, Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden[60] President von Weizsäcker
4–7 May 1993 Hungary Budapest, Kecskemét, Bugac[61] President Göncz
7 August 1993 Belgium Brussels Albert, the Prince of Liège[62]
6 May 1994 France Calais President Mitterrand[63]
17–20 October 1994 Russian Federation Moscow, St. Petersburg[64] President Yeltsin
19–25 March 1995 South Africa Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Port Elizabeth[65] President Mandela
25–27 March 1996 Poland Warsaw President Kwaśniewski
27–29 March 1996 Czech Republic Prague, Brno[66] President Havel
28 October – 1 November 1996 Thailand Bangkok, Ayutthaya[67] King Bhumibol Adulyadej
6–12 October 1997 Pakistan Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Murree[68] President Leghari
12–18 October 1997 India New Delhi, Amritsar, Chennai, Kochi[68] President Narayanan
17–20 September 1998 Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
20–23 September 1998 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Yang di-Pertuan Agong Jaafar
10–11 November 1998 France Paris[69] President Chirac[70]
11 November 1998 Belgium Ypres[69] King Albert II[70]
19–22 April 1999 South Korea Seoul, Andong[71] President Kim Dae-jung
16–19 October 2000 Italy Rome, Milan[72] President Ciampi
17 October 2000 Vatican City Pope John Paul II
30 May – 1 June 2001 Norway Oslo King Harald V
5–7 April 2004 France Paris, Toulouse[73] President Chirac
2 November 2004 Germany Berlin, Potsdam[74], Düsseldorf[75] President Köhler
16–17 October 2006 Lithuania Vilnius[76] President Adamkus
18–19 October 2006 Latvia Riga[76] President Vike-Freiberga
19–20 October 2006 Estonia Tallinn[76] President Ilves
5 February 2007 Netherlands The Hague, Amsterdam[77] Queen Beatrix
3–8 May 2007 United States of America Washington, Richmond, Jamestown, Williamsburg, Lexington, Louisville, Greenbelt[78] President Bush
11–12 July 2007 Belgium Brussels, Ypres, Laeken[79], Wavre[80] King Albert II
13–16 May 2008 Turkey Ankara, Istanbul, Bursa[21] President Gül
21–22 October 2008 Slovenia Ljubljana, Kranj[81] President Tuerk
23–24 October 2008 Slovakia Bratislava, Starý Smokovec, Hrebienok, Poprad[82] President Gašparovič
24–25 November 2010 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Emir Khalifa
25–28 November 2010 Oman Muscat Sultan Qaboos
17–20 May 2011 Ireland Dublin, Kildare, Cashel, Cork[83] President McAleese

[edit] As queen of multiple realms

Date Country Host Realms
16-22 October 1957 United States of America/The United Nations President Dwight David Eisenhower United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, Dominion of Ceylon, Ghana
6 June 2004 France[84] President Jacques Chirac United Kingdom, Canada
6 July 2010 United States of America/United Nations Secretary General Ban United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis[85]

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