List of diplomatic missions of the Philippines

Although attempts at initial diplomatic relations were made during the Philippine Revolution and the time of the First Philippine Republic, most nations established diplomatic relations with the Philippines only in the years after the country achieved independence from the United States in 1946.

The first documented instance of a Philippine diplomatic mission being established abroad was that of the embassy in Tokyo, which was opened by the Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of the Empire of Japan, on March 24, 1944, with Jorge B. Vargas as its first ambassador.^[1] However, the mission was summarily closed with Japan's defeat in World War II, and as it was never recognized by the pre-war Commonwealth of the Philippines,^[2] the oldest continually-operating Philippine diplomatic mission is that of the embassy in Washington, D.C., replacing the office of the Resident Commissioner of the Philippines after the country achieved independence from the United States on July 4, 1946,^[2] and led by Joaquín Miguel Elizalde as its first ambassador.^[3] This was followed shortly thereafter with the establishment of the permanent mission to the United Nations.^[3]

A number of missions were opened in the first years after independence. In his 1947 State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Manuel Roxas announced that missions in a number of other cities were also opened aside from the embassy in Washington, D.C.;^[4] these included the first consulates general in New York City, San Francisco, and Honolulu, as well as consulates in Xiamen and Hong Kong.^[5] Additional missions were opened the following year, including the first missions in Europe (in London, Madrid and Rome) and Latin America (in Buenos Aires).^[6] By 1952, the Philippine foreign service had grown to encompass missions in 11 countries,^[7] and by 1965 grew further to missions in 36 countries worldwide.^[8]

The Philippines' diplomatic presence grew significantly during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, spurred in part by the normalization of relations with the Eastern Bloc in the early 1970s.^[9] Philippine diplomatic missions were present in 43 countries by 1978,^[10] with additional ones opening the following year, particularly in the Middle East.^[11] By 1981, there were 63 countries worldwide hosting Philippine diplomatic missions.^[12] Several missions, however, would be closed at the tail end of the Marcos presidency and in the years thereafter as part of a series of cost reduction programs.

Another expansion of the country's diplomatic presence took place during the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, with 67 countries hosting Philippine diplomatic missions by the end of her presidency. This, however, was not without controversy: in 2010 Senator Franklin Drilon questioned the need for embassies in countries with small Filipino communities, calling for a review of the Philippines' diplomatic presence worldwide.^[13] Arroyo's successor, Benigno Aquino III, then announced two years later the closure of ten posts (seven embassies and three consulates general): Caracas, Venezuela; Koror, Palau; Dublin, Ireland; Stockholm, Sweden; Bucharest, Romania; Havana, Cuba; Helsinki, Finland; Barcelona, Spain; Frankfurt, Germany and Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.^[14] These closures have since been largely reversed under Aquino's successors, Rodrigo Duterte and Bongbong Marcos, with the 2019 reopening of the consulate general in Frankfurt,^[15] the 2020 reopening of the consulate general in Barcelona,^[16] and shortly thereafter the reopening of the embassy in Sweden.^[17] In 2024, the embassies in Finland, Ireland and Romania reopened after funding was approved by Congress, alongside the future reopening of the embassy in Cuba.^[18] Even missions closed years earlier were reopened, such as the 2018 reopening of the consulate general in Houston 25 years after it was last closed.^[19]

Aquino's successors have generally returned to an expansion of the Philippines' diplomatic presence abroad, including the opening of new missions where they did not exist previously. Under Duterte, the Philippines opened its embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark on January 14, 2019, the first new embassy to open since 2012,^[20] while the first new consulate to open since 2012 opened in Istanbul, Turkey on January 2, 2020.^[21] Under Bongbong Marcos, the first new mission to open during his presidency was the embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, which opened on October 7, 2024,^[22] while the first new consulate was opened in Busan, South Korea on January 26, 2026.^[23]

Other missions likely to be opened include new embassies in Ethiopia,^[24] Ghana,^[25] Kazakhstan,^[25][24] Panama,^[26] and Ukraine,^[27] the reopening of embassies in Palau and Peru,^[24][28] and new consulates in Ho Chi Minh City and Miami.^[29]

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  Embassy in Ankara
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  Embassy in Athens
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  Embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan
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  Embassy in Bangkok
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  Embassy in Berlin
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  Embassy in Buenos Aires
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  Embassy in Canberra
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  Embassy in The Hague
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  Embassy in London
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  Embassy in Madrid
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  Embassy in Mexico City
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  Embassy in Moscow
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  Embassy in Nairobi
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  Embassy in Ottawa
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  Embassy in Paris
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  Building hosting the Embassy in Prague
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  Building hosting the Embassy in Pretoria
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  Embassy in Santiago de Chile
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  Embassy in Stockholm
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  Embassy in Tel Aviv
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  Embassy in Tokyo
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  Consulate-General in Nagoya
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  Embassy in Warsaw
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  Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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  Embassy in Washington, D.C. (Consular Section)
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  Consulate-General in Honolulu
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  Consulate-General in San Francisco
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  Embassy in Wellington

• Foreign relations of the Philippines
• Lists of ambassadors of the Philippines
• List of diplomatic missions in the Philippines
• Sentro Rizal
• Visa policy of the Philippines