List of diplomatic missions of Sweden

The Kingdom of Sweden 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 of the United States, Canada, and Australia since 1995.

History

In January 2010, the Swedish Foreign Ministry announced that its embassies in Bratislava (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, La Paz, and Phnom Penh 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 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 embassy in Lima, Peru, was re-opened. Six days later, on November 8, the 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 open a consulate-general in San Francisco. In November 2022, the embassy in Luanda closed and in the same year the embassy in Lima, which had reopened in 2016, also closed.

Present missions

Africa

Americas

Asia

Europe

Oceania

Multilateral organizations

Closed missions

Africa

Americas

Asia

•  Cambodia
  • Phnom Penh (Embassy) – closed in 2021
•  China
  • Guangzhou (Consulate-General) – closed in 2009
•  Iraq
  • Baghdad (Embassy) – closed in 2023
•  Kuwait
  • Kuwait City (Embassy) – closed in 2001
•  Laos
  • Vientiane (Embassy) – closed in 2008
•  Oman
  • Muscat (Embassy office) – closed in 1993
•  Saudi Arabia
  • Jeddah (Consulate) – closed in 1995
•  Sri Lanka
  • Colombo (Embassy) – closed in 2009
•  Thailand
  • Phuket (Consulate-General) – closed in 2008

Europe

•  Belgium
  • Brussels (Embassy) – closed in 2011
  • Antwerp (Consulate-General) – closed in 1983
•  Bulgaria
  • Sofia (Embassy) – closed in 2010
•  France
  • Marseille (Consulate-General) - closed in 1993
•  East Germany
  • East Berlin (Embassy) – closed in 1991
•  Germany
  • West Berlin (Consulate-General) – closed in 1994
  • Bonn (Embassy) – closed in 1999
  • Hamburg (Consulate-General) – closed in 2009
  • Frankfurt (Consulate-General) – closed in 1993
  • Munich (Consulate-General) – closed in 1993
•  Holy See
  • Rome (Embassy) – closed in 2001
•  Italy
  • Milan (Consulate-General) – closed in 1995
  • Genoa (Consulate-General) – closed in 1981
•  Luxembourg
  • Luxembourg City (Embassy) – closed in 2010
•  Netherlands
  • Amsterdam (Consulate-General) – closed in 1985
  • Rotterdam (Consulate) – closed in 1983
•  Poland
  • Gdańsk (Consulate-General) – closed in 2008
  • Szczecin (Consulate) – closed in 1993
•  Russia
  • Kaliningrad (Consulate-General) – closed in 2009
  • Saint Petersburg (Consulate-General) – closed in 2023
•  Slovakia
  • Bratislava (Embassy) – closed in 2010
•  Slovenia
  • Ljubljana (Embassy) – closed in 2010
•  Spain
  • Barcelona (Consulate-General) – closed in 1993
  • Málaga (Consulate-General) – closed in 1993
  • Las Palmas (Consulate) – closed in 1993
  • Palma de Mallorca (Consulate) – closed in 1990
  • Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Consulate) – closed in 1980
•  United Kingdom
  • London (Consulate-General) – closed in 1973

Oceania

Gallery

See also

• Foreign relations of Sweden
• Sweden and the United Nations
• List of diplomatic missions of the Nordic countries

Notes

References

External links

• Official website of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden