List of diplomatic missions of the United Kingdom

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This is a list of diplomatic missions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, excluding honorary consulates. The UK has one of the largest global networks of diplomatic missions. UK diplomatic missions to capitals of other Commonwealth of Nations member countries are known as High Commissions (headed by 'High Commissioners'). For three Commonwealth countries (namely India, Nigeria, and Pakistan), the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) still uses the term "Deputy High Commission" for Consulates-General (headed by Deputy High Commissioners), although this terminology is being phased out.[1] British citizens may get help from the embassy of any other Commonwealth country present, when in a country where there is no British embassy, including New Zealand and Australia, to help British nationals in some countries.

Diplomatic missions of the United Kingdom

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office employs approximately 13,200 staff in the UK and in more than 260 Posts overseas. Approximately one-third of these employees are UK-based civil servants (including members of HM Diplomatic Service) and two-thirds are employed locally by Posts overseas.[2]

Contemporary history

In 2004, the FCDO carried out a review of the deployment of its diplomatic missions, and subsequently over a two-year period closed its missions in Nassau (in the Bahamas), Asunción (Paraguay), Dili (East Timor), Maseru (Lesotho), Mbabane (Swaziland), Antananarivo (Madagascar), Nuku'alofa (Tonga), Tarawa (Kiribati), and Port Vila (Vanuatu). Additionally several consulates and trade offices were also closed, including those in Fukuoka (Japan), Vientiane (Laos), Douala (Cameroon), Porto (Portugal), along with Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Stuttgart in Germany, and Phoenix, San Juan, and Dallas in the United States. Other consulates in Australia, Germany, France, Spain, New Zealand, and the US were downgraded and staffed by local personnel only.[3] In 2012, Foreign Secretary William Hague announced the opening of embassies in Liberia and Haiti, the re-opening of embassies in Laos, El Salvador, and Paraguay, and the opening of a Consulate-General in Recife (Brazil). He also said that by 2015, the UK would have opened up to eleven new embassies and eight new Consulates or Trade Offices.[4] In 2013, a UK government office was established in Seattle.[5] In 2014, all services at the former UK Consulate in Orlando were transferred to the nearby UK Consulate-General in Miami.[6] In 2015, the UK Consulate-General in Denver was reclassified as a UK Government Office.[7] In 2018 the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has announced that new High Commissions will open in Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Grenada, Lesotho, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Swaziland, Tonga and Vanuatu and a British office in Somaliland like the one in Taipei, Taiwan[8]

Current Missions

Africa

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Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
Algeria Algiers Embassy [9][10]
Angola Luanda Embassy
Country:
 [9][11]
Botswana Gaborone High Commission [9][12]
Burundi Bujumbura Embassy office [9][13]
Cameroon Yaoundé High Commission
Countries:
 [9][14]
Chad N'Djamena Embassy [9][15]
Congo-Kinshasa Kinshasa Embassy
Countries:
 [9][16]
Djibouti Djibouti City Embassy [9][17]
Egypt Cairo Embassy [9][18]
Alexandria Consulate-General [19]
Eritrea Asmara Embassy [9][20]
Eswatini Mbabane High Commission [9][21]
Ethiopia Addis Ababa Embassy
International Organization:
 [9][22]
Gambia Banjul High Commission [9][23]
Ghana Accra High Commission
Countries:
 [9][24]
Guinea Conakry Embassy [9][25]
Ivory Coast Abidjan Embassy [9][26]
Kenya Nairobi High Commission
International Organizations:
 [9][27]
Lesotho Maseru High Commission [9][28]
Liberia Monrovia Embassy [9][29]
Libya Tripoli Embassy [9][30]
Madagascar Antananarivo Embassy
Country:
 [9][31]
Malawi Lilongwe High Commission [9][32]
Mali Bamako Embassy [9][33]
Mauritania Nouakchott Embassy [9][34]
Mauritius Port Louis High Commission [9][35]
Morocco Rabat Embassy [9][36]
Casablanca Consulate-General [9][37]
Mozambique Maputo High Commission [9][38]
Namibia Windhoek High Commission [9][39]
Niger Niamey Embassy [9][40]
Nigeria Abuja High Commission [9][41]
Lagos Deputy High Commission [9][42]
Port Harcourt Liaison office [9]
Rwanda Kigali High Commission [9][43]
Senegal Dakar Embassy
Country:
 [9][44]
Seychelles Victoria High Commission [9][45]
Sierra Leone Freetown High Commission [9][46]
Somalia Mogadishu Embassy [9][47]
Hargeisa British office [9][48]
South Africa Pretoria High Commission [9][49]
Cape Town Consulate-General [9][50]
South Sudan Juba Embassy [9][51]
Tanzania Dar es Salaam High Commission [9][52]
Dodoma High Commission Office [9][53]
Tunisia Tunis Embassy [9][54]
Uganda Kampala High Commission [9][55]
Zambia Lusaka High Commission [9][56]
Zimbabwe Harare Embassy [9][57]
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Americas

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Antigua and Barbuda St. John's High Commission [9]
Argentina Buenos Aires Embassy [9][58]
Bahamas Nassau High Commission [9][59]
Barbados Bridgetown High Commission
Countries:
 [9][60]
Belize Belmopan High Commission [9][61]
Bolivia La Paz Embassy [9][62]
Brazil Brasília Embassy [9][63]
Belo Horizonte Consulate-General [9][64]
Recife Consulate-General [9][65]
Rio de Janeiro Consulate-General [9][66]
São Paulo Consulate-General [9][67]
Canada Ottawa High Commission [9][68]
Calgary Consulate-General [9][69]
Montreal Consulate-General [9][70]
Toronto Consulate-General [9][71]
Vancouver Consulate-General [9][72]
Chile Santiago de Chile Embassy [9][73]
Colombia Bogotá Embassy [9][74]
Costa Rica San José Embassy
Country:
 [9][75]
Cuba Havana Embassy [9][76]
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo Embassy [9][77]
Ecuador Quito Embassy [9][78]
El Salvador San Salvador Embassy [9][79]
Guatemala Guatemala City Embassy
Country:
 [9][80]
Grenada St. George's High Commission [9]
Guyana Georgetown High Commission
Country:
 [9][81]
Haiti Port-au-Prince Embassy [9][82]
Jamaica Kingston High Commission [9][83]
Mexico Mexico City Embassy [9][84]
Cancún Consulate-General [9][85]
Panama Panama City Embassy [9][86]
Paraguay Asunción Embassy [9][87]
Peru Lima Embassy [9][88]
Saint Lucia Castries High Commission [9][89]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown High Commission [9]
Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain High Commission [9][90]
United States Washington, D.C. Embassy
International Organization:
 [9][91]
Atlanta Consulate-General [9][92]
Boston Consulate-General [9][93]
Chicago Consulate-General [9][94]
Houston Consulate-General [9][95]
Los Angeles Consulate General [9][96]
Miami Consulate-General [9][97]
New York City Consulate-General [9][98]
San Francisco Consulate-General [9][99]
Uruguay Montevideo Embassy [9][100]
Venezuela Caracas Embassy [9][101]
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  • High Commission in Bridgetown
    High Commission in Bridgetown
  • Embassy in Buenos Aires
    Embassy in Buenos Aires
  • Building hosting the Embassy in Guatemala City
    Building hosting the Embassy in Guatemala City
  • Embassy in La Paz
    Embassy in La Paz
  • Building hosting the Embassy in Mexico City
    Building hosting the Embassy in Mexico City
  • High Commission in Port of Spain
    High Commission in Port of Spain
  • Building hosting the Consulate-General in Rio de Janeiro
    Building hosting the Consulate-General in Rio de Janeiro
  • Embassy in Santiago de Chile
    Embassy in Santiago de Chile
  • Consulate-General in São Paulo
    Consulate-General in São Paulo
  • Embassy in Washington, D.C.
    Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Asia

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Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
Armenia Yerevan Embassy [102]
Azerbaijan Baku Embassy [103]
Bahrain Manama Embassy [104]
Bangladesh Dhaka High Commission [105]
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan High Commission [106]
Cambodia Phnom Penh Embassy [107]
China Beijing Embassy [108]
Chongqing Consulate-General [109]
Guangzhou Consulate-General [110]
Hong Kong Consulate-General[note 1] [111]
Shanghai Consulate-General [112]
Wuhan Consulate-General [113]
Georgia Tbilisi Embassy [114]
India New Delhi High Commission
Country:
 [115]
Ahmedabad Deputy High Commission [116]
Bengaluru Deputy High Commission [117]
Chandigarh Deputy High Commission [118]
Chennai Deputy High Commission [119]
Hyderabad Deputy High Commission [120]
Kolkata Deputy High Commission [121]
Mumbai Deputy High Commission [122]
Panaji British Nationals Assistance Office [123]
Indonesia Jakarta Embassy
Country:
 [124][125]
Iran Tehran Embassy [126]
Iraq Baghdad Embassy [9][127]
Erbil Consulate-General [9][128]
Israel Tel Aviv Embassy [129]
Jerusalem Consulate-General[note 2] [130]
Japan Tokyo Embassy [131]
Osaka Consulate-General [132]
Jordan Amman Embassy [9][133]
Kazakhstan Astana Embassy [134]
Kuwait Kuwait City Embassy [135]
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Embassy [136]
Laos Vientiane Embassy [137]
Lebanon Beirut Embassy [9][138]
Maldives Malé High Commission [9][139]
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur High Commission [9][140]
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Embassy [9][141]
Myanmar Yangon Embassy [9][142]
  Nepal Kathmandu Embassy [9][143]
Oman Muscat Embassy [9][144]
Pakistan Islamabad High Commission [9][145]
Karachi Deputy High Commission [9][146]
Lahore High Commission Office [147]
Philippines Manila Embassy
Country:
 [9][148]
Qatar Doha Embassy [9][149]
Saudi Arabia Riyadh Embassy [9][150]
Jeddah Consulate-General [9][151]
Singapore Singapore High Commission [9][152]
South Korea Seoul Embassy [9][153]
Sri Lanka Colombo High Commission [154]
 Republic of China (Taiwan) Taipei Office [155]
Tajikistan Dushanbe Embassy [156]
Thailand Bangkok Embassy [157]
Turkey Ankara Embassy [9][158]
Istanbul Consulate-General [9][159]
İzmir Consulate [9][160]
Antalya Vice Consulate [9][161]
Turkmenistan Ashgabat Embassy [162]
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Embassy [9][163]
Dubai Embassy/Consulate-General [164]
Uzbekistan Tashkent Embassy [9][165]
Vietnam Hanoi Embassy [9][166]
Ho Chi Minh City Consulate-General [9][167]
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Europe

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Albania Tirana Embassy [9][168]
Austria Vienna Embassy [9][169]
Belarus Minsk Embassy [9][170]
Belgium Brussels Embassy [9][171]
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Embassy [9][172][173]
Banja Luka Embassy office [9][174][173]
Bulgaria Sofia Embassy [9][175]
Croatia Zagreb Embassy [9][176]
Split Consulate [9]
Cyprus Nicosia High Commission [9][177]
Czech Republic Prague Embassy [9][178]
Denmark Copenhagen Embassy [9][179]
Estonia Tallinn Embassy [9][180]
Finland Helsinki Embassy [9][181]
France Paris Embassy
Country:
International Organizations:
 [9][182]
Bordeaux Consulate [9][183]
Marseille Consulate [9][184]
Germany Berlin Embassy [9][185]
Düsseldorf Consulate-General [9][186]
Munich Consulate-General [9][187]
Greece Athens Embassy [9][188]
Corfu Vice-Consulate [9][189]
Heraklion Vice-Consulate [9][190]
Rhodes Vice-Consulate [9][191]
Zakynthos Vice-Consulate [9][192]
Holy See[a] Rome Embassy [9][193]
Hungary Budapest Embassy [9][194]
Iceland Reykjavík Embassy [9][195]
Ireland Dublin Embassy [9][196]
Italy Rome Embassy
Country:
International Organizations:
 [9][197]
Milan Consulate-General [9][198]
Kosovo Pristina Embassy [9][199]
Latvia Riga Embassy [9][200]
Lithuania Vilnius Embassy [9][201]
Luxembourg Luxembourg City Embassy [9][202]
Malta Valletta High Commission [9][203]
Moldova Chișinău Embassy [9][204]
Montenegro Podgorica Embassy [9][205]
Netherlands The Hague Embassy
International Organization:
 [9][206]
North Macedonia Skopje Embassy [9][207]
Norway Oslo Embassy [9][208]
Poland Warsaw Embassy [9][209]
Portugal Lisbon Embassy
Country:
 [9][210]
Portimão Vice-consulate [9]
Romania Bucharest Embassy [9][211]
Russia Moscow Embassy [9][212]
Yekaterinburg Consulate-General [9][213]
Serbia Belgrade Embassy [9][214]
Slovakia Bratislava Embassy [9][215]
Slovenia Ljubljana Embassy [9][216]
Spain Madrid Embassy
Country:
 [9][217]
Barcelona Consulate-General [9][218]
Alicante Consulate [9][219]
Ibiza Consulate [9][220]
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Consulate [9][221]
Málaga Consulate [9][222]
Palma de Mallorca Consulate [9][223]
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Consulate [9][224]
Sweden Stockholm Embassy [9][225]
 Switzerland Bern Embassy
Country:
 [9][226][227]
Ukraine Kyiv Embassy [9][228]
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  • Embassy in Athens
    Embassy in Athens
  • Embassy in Berlin
    Embassy in Berlin
  • Consulate-General in Munich
    Consulate-General in Munich
  • Embassy in Belgrade
    Embassy in Belgrade
  • Embassy in Bratislava
    Embassy in Bratislava
  • Embassy in Budapest
    Embassy in Budapest
  • Embassy in Chișinău
    Embassy in Chișinău
  • Embassy in Dublin
    Embassy in Dublin
  • Embassy in The Hague
    Embassy in The Hague
  • Embassy in Helsinki
    Embassy in Helsinki
  • Embassy in Kyiv
    Embassy in Kyiv
  • Embassy in Lisbon
    Embassy in Lisbon
  • Torre Emperador hosting the Embassy in Madrid
    Torre Emperador hosting the Embassy in Madrid
  • British Embassy in Minsk
    British Embassy in Minsk
  • Embassy in Moscow
    Embassy in Moscow
  • Embassy in Oslo
    Embassy in Oslo
  • Embassy in Paris
    Embassy in Paris
  • Embassy in Prague
    Embassy in Prague
  • Embassy in Reykjavík
    Embassy in Reykjavík
  • Embassy in Riga
    Embassy in Riga
  • Embassy in Rome
    Embassy in Rome
  • Embassy in Sarajevo
    Embassy in Sarajevo
  • Embassy in Sofia
    Embassy in Sofia
  • Embassy in Stockholm
    Embassy in Stockholm
  • Embassy in Vienna
    Embassy in Vienna
  • Embassy in Vilnius
    Embassy in Vilnius
  • Embassy in Warsaw
    Embassy in Warsaw

Oceania

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Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
Australia Canberra High Commission [9][229]
Brisbane Consulate-General [9][230]
Melbourne Consulate-General [9][231]
Perth Consulate-General [9][232]
Sydney Consulate-General [9][233]
Fiji Suva High Commission
Countries:
 [9][234]
New Zealand Wellington High Commission
Countries:
 [9][235]
Auckland Consulate-General [9][236]
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby High Commission [9][237]
Samoa Apia High Commission [9][238]
Solomon Islands Honiara High Commission
Country:
 [9][239]
Tonga Nukuʻalofa High Commission [9][240]
Vanuatu Port Vila High Commission [9][241]
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Multilateral organizations

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Organization Host city Host country Mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jakarta Indonesia Delegation [9][242]
Council of Europe Strasbourg France Delegation [9][243]
European Union Brussels Belgium Mission [9][244]
NATO Brussels Belgium Delegation [9][245]
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Paris France Delegation [9][246]
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Vienna Austria Delegation [9][247]
United Nations New York City United States Permanent Mission [9][248]
Geneva Switzerland Permanent Mission
International Organizations:
 [9][249]
Vienna Austria Permanent Mission [9][250]
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Closed missions

Africa

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Cameroon Douala Consulate 2005 [2][251]
Congo-Brazzaville Brazzaville Embassy 1991/2 [251]
Congo-Kinshasa Goma Embassy Office Unknown [9]
Gabon Libreville Embassy 1991/2 [251]
Libya Benghazi Consulate 2012 [252]
Nigeria Kaduna Liaison Office Unknown [9]
Sudan Khartoum Embassy 2023 [9][253]
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Americas

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Host country Host city Mission level Year closed Ref.
Colombia Barranquilla Consulate 1998 [2]
Cali Consulate 2014 [254]
Cartagena Consulate 2014 [254]
Honduras Tegucigalpa Embassy 2003 [2][255]
Nicaragua Managua Embassy 2003 [2]
United States Cleveland Consulate 1999 [2]
Dallas Consulate 2005 [2][256]
Orlando Consulate 2014 [257]
San Juan, Puerto Rico Consulate 2005 [2][256]
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Asia

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Host country Host city Mission Year closed Ref.
Afghanistan Kabul Embassy 2021
East Timor Dili Embassy 2007 [2]
Iraq Basra Consulate 2012 [254]
Japan Fukuoka Consulate 2006 [2]
Hakodate Consulate 1934 [258]
Nagoya Consulate 2007 [2]
Shimonoseki Consulate 1940 [259]
Yokohama Consulate 1972
Malaysia Kuching Consulate General 1999 [2]
North Korea Pyongyang Embassy 2020 [9]
Republic of China Kashgar Consulate-General 1949 [260]
South Vietnam[b] Saigon Embassy 1975 [261]
Syria Damascus Embassy 2012 [9][2][254]
Thailand Chiang Mai Consulate 1999 [2]
Pattaya Consulate 2012 [254][262]
Yemen Sana'a Embassy 2015 [9][263]
Aden Consulate-General 2005 [2]
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Europe

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Host country Host city Mission Year closed Ref.
France Calais Consulate 1980 [264]
Lille Consulate-General 2011 [2][254]
Lyon Consulate-General 2012 [254]
Germany Bonn Embassy branch office 2002 [265]
Frankfurt Consulate General 2005 [266]
Hamburg Consulate General 2006 [267]
Leipzig Consulate General 2005 [266]
Stuttgart Consulate General 2006 [266]
Italy Florence Consulate 2011 [254][268]
Naples Consulate 2012 [268]
Turin Consulate 2006 [251][269]
Venice Consulate-General 2011 [254]
Greece Thessaloniki Consular office 2013 [254]
Portugal Funchal Consulate 2012 [254]
Porto Consular office 2012 [254]
Russia Saint Petersburg Consulate General 2018 [270]
Spain Seville Consulate 2001 [2]
Sweden Gothenburg Consulate-General 2006 [2]
 Switzerland Geneva Consulate-General 2010 [254]
Zürich Consulate-General 1998 [2]
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Oceania

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Australia Adelaide Consulate 2006 [2][251]
Kiribati Tarawa High Commission 1994 [271]
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Flags

Flag used on British Embassies (pictured in Rome).

The United Kingdom is one of two countries, the other being Thailand, that use diplomatic flags abroad. These special flags are flown at the chanceries of their embassies and consulates. For High Commissions, the Union Flag is used. In addition, there is a flag in use for British consular vessels in international or foreign waters.

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FlagUseDescription
Flag used by EmbassiesA Union Flag defaced with the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom
Flag used by High CommissionsA Union Flag
Flag used by Consulates and Consulates-GeneralA Union Flag defaced with the St Edward’s Crown
Flag used by Consular officials onboard vesselsA Blue Ensign with the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom
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See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    The British Consulate-General, Hong Kong reports directly to the FCDO, instead of the British embassy in Beijing
  2. [2]
    The British Consulate-General, Jerusalem reports directly to the FCDO, instead of the British embassy in Tel Aviv
  1. [a]
    The British Embassy to the Holy See is located outside Vatican territory in Rome.
  2. [b]
    The embassy closed down on 24 April 1975, in the midst of the Fall of Saigon, which marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam.

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