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A presidential palace is the official residence of the president in some countries. Some presidential palaces were once the official residences to monarchs in former monarchies that were preserved during those states' transition into republics. Some other presidential palaces were once the official residencies to governors in former colonies or subnational divisions that were preserved during their transition to independent states. [1]

List

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Africa

Country Building Notes Image
 Algeria El Mouradia, Algiers
 Angola Presidential Palace, Luanda [2]
 Benin Palais de la Marina, Cotonou [3]
 Botswana State House, Gaborone [4]
 Cape Verde Palácio Presidencial, Praia
 Cameroon The Unity Palace, Yaoundé
 Republic of the Congo Palais du Peuple, Brazzaville [5]
 Democratic Republic of the Congo Palais de la Nation, Kinshasa [6]
 Côte d'Ivoire Presidential Palace, Abidjan
Presidential Palace, Yamoussoukro
 Djibouti Presidential Palace, Djibouti City [7]
 Egypt Abdeen Palace, Cairo
Heliopolis Palace, Cairo
Koubbeh Palace, Cairo
Montaza Palace, Alexandria
Ras el-Tin Palace, Alexandria
 Equatorial Guinea Malabo Government Building, Malabo
 Eritrea Asmara President's Office, Asmara
 Ethiopia National Palace, Addis Ababa
 Gabon Presidential Palace, Libreville [8]
 Gambia State House of the Gambia, Banjul
 Ghana Jubilee House, Accra
 Guinea Presidential Palace, Conakry
 Guinea-Bissau Presidential Palace, Bissau [9]
 Kenya State House, Nairobi
 Liberia Executive Mansion, Monrovia [10]
 Madagascar Iavoloha Palace, Antananarivo
Ambohitsorohitra Palace, Antananarivo Ceremonial residence
 Malawi Kamuzu Palace, Lilongwe
 Mali Presidential Palace, Bamako [11]
 Mauritania Presidential Palace, Nouakchott
 Mauritius State House (Mauritius), Reduit
 Mozambique Palácio da Ponta Vermelha, Maputo
 Namibia State House of Namibia, Windhoek
 Nigeria Nigerian Presidential Complex, Abuja
 Rwanda Urugwiro, Kigali
 São Tomé and Príncipe Presidential Palace, São Tomé [12]
 Senegal Presidential Palace, Dakar [13]
 Seychelles State House, Victoria
 Sierra Leone State House, Freetown
 Somalia Villa Somalia, Mogadishu
Somaliland Presidential Palace, Hargeisa
 South Africa Mahlamba Ndlopfu, Pretoria
 South Sudan Presidential Palace, Juba [14]
 Sudan Presidential Palace, Khartoum
 Tanzania Ikulu, Dar es Salaam
 Togo Palace of the Governors, Lomé
 Tunisia Carthage Palace, Tunis
 Uganda State House, Kampala
State House, Entebbe [15]
 Zambia State House, Lusaka [16]
 Zimbabwe (former) Presidential Palace, Harare

Americas

Country Building Notes Image
 Argentina Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires Government Office
Quinta de Olivos, Buenos Aires Province Official Residence File:Quinta de Olivos.jpg
 Barbados State House, Bridgetown Official Residence
 Bolivia Casa Grande del Pueblo, La Paz
 Brazil Palácio da Alvorada, Brasilia Official residence
Palácio do Planalto, Brasilia Official workplace
 Chile La Moneda Palace, Santiago de Chile Official office
Palacio Presidencial de Cerro Castillo, Viña del Mar Summer residence
 Colombia Casa(Palacio) de Nariño, Bogotá
 Costa Rica Casa Presidencial, San José [17]
 Cuba Presidential Palace (former), Havana Has been a museum since 1959
Palacio de la Revolucion, Havana
 Dominica Government House, Roseau
 Dominican Republic National Palace in Santo Domingo
 Ecuador Carondelet Palace, Quito
 El Salvador Casa Presidencial, San Salvador
 Guatemala National Palace, Guatemala City
 Guyana State House, Georgetown
 Haiti National Palace, Port-au-Prince
 Honduras Presidential Palace, Tegucigalpa [18]
 Mexico National Palace Official office and official residence of the president
 Nicaragua Presidential Palace, Managua [19]
 Panama Palacio de las Garzas, Panama City
 Paraguay Palacio de los López, Asunción
 Peru Government Palace, Lima
 Suriname Gouvernementsgebouw, Paramaribo
 Trinidad and Tobago President's House, Port of Spain
 United States White House, Washington, D.C. Official Residence
 Uruguay Executive Tower, Montevideo Government Office
Residencia de Suárez, Montevideo Official Residence
 Venezuela Miraflores Palace, Caracas Government Office
La Casona Official Residence

Asia

Country Building Notes Image
 Afghanistan Arg, Kabul Meeting place of the Cabinet of Afghanistan[20]
 Armenia President's House, Yerevan
 Azerbaijan Presidential Palace, Baku Built in 1970s
 Bangladesh Bangabhaban, Dhaka Built in 1905
 People's Republic of China Zhongnanhai, Beijing Headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party
Government office
 Cyprus Presidential Palace, Nicosia
 East Timor Nicolau Lobato Presidential Palace, Dili
 India Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi Official Residence
Rashtrapati Nilayam, Hyderabad Winter Retreat
Rashtrapati Niwas, Shimla Summer Retreat
The Retreat Building, Shimla Summer Retreat
 Indonesia Istana Merdeka, Jakarta
Istana Negara, Jakarta
Istana Cipanas, Cipanas
Istana Bogor, Bogor
Gedung Agung, Yogyakarta
Istana Tampaksiring, Bali
 Iran Sa'dabad Palace, Tehran; Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran
 Iraq Radwaniyah Palace, Baghdad
 Israel Beit HaNassi, Jerusalem
 Kazakhstan Ak Orda Presidential Palace, Nur-Sultan
 Republic of Korea Blue House, Seoul Former residence
 Democratic People's Republic of Korea Ryongsong Residence, Pyongyang Current residence
Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, Pyongyang Former residence
 Kyrgyzstan White House, Bishkek Former Residence
Ala Archa State Residence, Bishkek Current residence
 Laos Presidential Palace, Vientiane
 Lebanon Baabda Palace, Beirut
 Maldives Muliaage, Malé Former residence
 Mongolia Government Palace, Ulan Bator Also seat of government
 Myanmar Presidential Palace, Naypyidaw Presidential Residence and Office
 Nepal Rastrapati Bhawan, Kathmandu
 Pakistan Aiwan-e-Sadr, Islamabad
 Palestine Mukataa Presidential Palace and Compound
 Philippines Malacañang Palace, Manila Presidential Residence and Office
 Singapore Istana, Singapore
 Sri Lanka President's House, Colombo
President's Pavilion, Kandy
 Syria Presidential Palace, Damascus
Tishreen Palace, Damascus
 Taiwan (Republic of China) Presidential Office Building, Taipei
Presidential Palace, Guangzhou 1921–1922; destroyed by mortar fire on 16 June 1922, now Guangzhou's Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall
Presidential Palace, Nanjing 1927–1949; now Nanjing's China Modern History Museum
 Tajikistan Palace of Nations, Dushanbe [21]
 Turkey Presidential Compound (Turkey)
 Turkmenistan Oguzkhan Palace, Ashgabat
 Uzbekistan Ok Saroy Presidential Palace, Tashkent[22] Former Residence
Durmen Former residence
Kuksaroy Presidential Palace, Tashkent Current residence
 United Arab Emirates Qasr Al Watan, Abu Dhabi Seat of government[23]
 Vietnam Presidential Palace, Hanoi
 Yemen Presidential Palace, Sanaa

Europe

Country Building Notes Image
 Albania Presidential Palace of Tirana
 Austria Hofburg Palace, Vienna
 Belarus Presidential Palace, Minsk File:PresidentialResidenceBelarus.jpg
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Building, Sarajevo
 Bulgaria Presidential Palace, Sofia
 Croatia Presidential Palace, Zagreb
 Czech Republic Prague Castle, Prague Main residence
The Lány Chateau, Lány Secondary residence
 Estonia Presidential Palace, Tallinn
 Finland Presidential Palace, Helsinki
 France Élysée Palace, Paris
 Germany Bellevue Palace, Berlin Primary residence
Villa Hammerschmidt, Bonn Secondary residence
 Georgia Orbeliani Presidental Palace, Tbilisi
 Greece Presidential Mansion, Athens
 Hungary Sándor Palace, Buda
 Iceland Bessastaðir, Álftanes
 Ireland Áras an Uachtaráin, Dublin
 Italy Quirinal Palace, Rome
 Latvia Riga Castle, Riga
 Lithuania Presidential Palace, Vilnius
 North Macedonia Villa Vodno, Skopje
 Malta San Anton Palace, Attard Official residence
Verdala Palace, Siġġiewi Summer residence
 Moldova Presidential Palace, Chișinau [24]
 Montenegro Blue Palace, Cetinje
 Poland Presidential Palace, Warsaw Official workplace
Belweder Palace, Warsaw Official residence
 Portugal Belém Palace, Lisbon
 Romania Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest
 Russia Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow Kremlin Ceremonial residence
Kremlin Senate,
Moscow Kremlin 		Working residence
 Serbia Novi Dvor, Belgrade [25]
 Slovakia Grassalkovich Palace, Bratislava
 Slovenia Presidential Palace, Ljubljana Also seat of government
 Switzerland No official presidential residence. Seat of the government in the Federal Palace of Switzerland.
 Turkey Presidential Complex
 Ukraine Mariinskyi Palace, Kyiv

Oceania

Country Building Notes Image
 Fiji Government House, Suva [26]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Palace (in Angola)". Roctest Group. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  3. ^ "Palace (in Benin)". Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  4. ^ "Entrance to the Presidential Palace, Gaborone, Botswana". www.agefotostock.com. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Clin d'œil historique" (in French). Presidency of the Republic of Congo. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  6. ^ "Photo of Palais de la Nation, Kinshasa, DRC". Panoramio. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
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  8. ^ "Landmarks in Gabon, Africa". USA Today. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
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  13. ^ "Presidential Palace Senegal". Wordpress. 2 September 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  14. ^ "New Office of the President Opens in Juba". gurtong.net. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  15. ^ "State House of Uganda - History". statehouse.go.ug. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  16. ^ "State House of the Republic of Zambia". statehouse.gov.zm. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  17. ^ "Official website of the Casa Presidencial, Costa Rica" (in Spanish). www.presidencia.go.cr. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
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  19. ^ "Presidential Palace, Managua, Nicaragua - Tripomatic". tripomatic.com. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  20. ^ "3-Day Cabinet Meeting Held in Kandahar". TOLOnews. 24 March 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  21. ^ "The Tajik Presidential Palace in Dushanbe, Tajikistan". photobucket.com. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  22. ^ "Upmarket houses along road- Karimov to feel safer". www.uznews.net. 6 December 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  23. ^ "Qasr Al Watan". Qasr Al Watan. Retrieved 2019-04-21.
  24. ^ "Presidential Palace, Chisinau". www.virtualtourist.com. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  25. ^ "Turistička Organisacija Beograda - Novi Dvor" (in Serbo-Croatian). www.tob.rs. Archived from the original on 27 October 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
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