The Kingdom of Sweden has a moderately sized diplomatic network of 87 embassies and 9 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 Through the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century, most Swedish diplomatic missions were legations. The ambassador question was dealt with in the council on 25 August 1947. It was decided that some Swedish legations would be elevated to embassies. The first Swedish legations to be elevated to embassies were those in Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Moscow, Nanjing, Copenhagen and Oslo.
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, Chișinău, 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 30 August 2012, Sweden closed its embassy in Minsk, with the Estonian Embassy charged with representing Swedish interests in Belarus.
On 2 November 2016, the embassy in Lima, Peru, was re-opened. Six days later, on 8 November 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.
On 20 June 2024, the Swedish government decided that the embassies in Bamako and Ouagadougou would be closed. For continued effective engagement in the Sahel and West Africa, the government also decided to initiate a process to reopen the embassy in Dakar. The closing is expected to be completed by the end of 2024, while the embassy in Dakar is expected to open in 2025.
The Swedish government announced in February 2025 that it intends to reopen the consulate-general in Houston, United States, and elevate the consulate-general in Brussels to an embassy. In December 2025, the Swedish government decided to reopen a Swedish embassy in Lima in the fall of 2026.
In December 2025, the government decided to close the embassies in Bolivia, Liberia and Zimbabwe in 2026, partly as a result of an increased focus on support for Ukraine. In August 2026, the government decided to open a consulate general in Munich, Germany in 2027.
Present missions
Africa Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Algiers Embassy Kinshasa Embassy Cairo Embassy Addis Ababa Embassy Nairobi Embassy Rabat Embassy Maputo Embassy Abuja Embassy Kigali Embassy Dakar Embassy Pretoria Embassy Dar Es Salaam Embassy Tunis Embassy Kampala Embassy Lusaka Embassy
Americas Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Buenos Aires Embassy La Paz Embassy BrasíliaEmbassy Ottawa Embassy Santiago de Chile Embassy Bogotá Embassy Havana Embassy Guatemala City Embassy Mexico City Embassy Lima Embassy Washington, D.C. Embassy Houston Consulate-General New York City Consulate-General San Francisco Consulate-General Swedish Consulate-General opens in San Francisco
Asia Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Yerevan Embassy Baku Embassy Dhaka Embassy Beijing Embassy Hong Kong Consulate-General Shanghai Consulate-General Tbilisi Embassy New Delhi Embassy Mumbai Consulate-General Jakarta Embassy Tehran Embassy Erbil Embassy section office Tel Aviv Embassy Tokyo Embassy Amman Embassy Astana Embassy Beirut Embassy Kuala Lumpur Embassy Pyongyang Embassy Islamabad Embassy Jerusalem Consulate-General Manila Embassy Doha Embassy Taipei Trade & Invest Council Riyadh Embassy Singapore Embassy Seoul Embassy Damascus Embassy Bangkok Embassy Ankara Embassy Istanbul Consulate-General Abu Dhabi Embassy Hanoi Embassy
Europe Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Tirana Embassy Vienna Embassy Minsk Embassy Brussels Embassy Sarajevo Embassy Zagreb Embassy Nicosia Embassy Prague Embassy Copenhagen Embassy Tallinn Embassy Helsinki Embassy Mariehamn Consulate-General Paris Embassy Berlin Embassy Athens Embassy Rome Chancery Budapest Embassy Reykjavík Embassy Dublin Embassy Rome Embassy Pristina Embassy Riga Embassy Vilnius Embassy Chișinău Embassy The Hague Embassy Skopje Embassy Oslo Embassy Warsaw Embassy Lisbon Embassy Bucharest Embassy Moscow Embassy Belgrade Embassy Madrid Embassy Bern Embassy Kyiv Embassy London Embassy
Oceania Host country Host city Mission Concurrent accreditation Canberra Embassy
Multilateral organizations Organization Host city Host country Mission Concurrent accreditation Strasbourg France Permanent Representation Brussels Belgium Permanent Representation Brussels Belgium Permanent Representation OECD Paris France Delegation OSCE Vienna Austria Delegation New York City United States Permanent Mission Geneva Switzerland Permanent Mission
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Embassies
Residences
Missions to open Host country Host city Mission Munich Consulate General
Closed missions
Africa Host country Host city Mission Year closed Luanda Embassy 2022 Gaborone Embassy 2008 Ouagadougou Embassy 2024 Bissau Embassy 1999 Abidjan Embassy 2007 Maseru Embassy 1993 MonroviaEmbassy2026 Tripoli Embassy 1993 Bamako Embassy 2024 Windhoek Embassy 2007 Cape Town Consulate-General 1936 Juba Embassy section office 2024 Khartoum Embassy 2023 HarareEmbassy2026
Americas Host country Host city Mission Year closed Rio de Janeiro Consulate-General 1991 São Paulo Consulate-General 1983 Montreal Consulate-General 1993 Toronto Consulate-General 1993 Vancouver Consulate 1991 Quito Embassy 1992 Managua Embassy 2008 Chicago Consulate-General 1993 Los Angeles Consulate-General 2009 Minneapolis Consulate-General 1989 Montevideo Embassy 1993 Caracas Embassy 2000
Asia Host country Host city Mission Year closed Phnom Penh Embassy Section Office 2024 Guangzhou Consulate-General 2009 Batavia Consulate-General 1933 Baghdad Embassy 2023 Kuwait City Embassy 2001 Vientiane Embassy 2008 Yangon Embassy section office 2026 Muscat Embassy office 1993 Karachi Consulate 1973 Jeddah Consulate 1995 Colombo Embassy 2010 Phuket Consulate-General 2008
Europe Host country Host city Mission Year closed Antwerp Consulate-General 1983 Sofia Embassy 2010 Marseille Consulate-General 1993 East Berlin Embassy 1991 Tallinn Consulate 1938 West Berlin Consulate-General 1994 Hamburg Consulate-General 2009 Frankfurt Consulate-General 1993 Munich Consulate-General 1993 Rome Embassy 2001 Milan Consulate-General 1995 Genoa Consulate-General 1981 Luxembourg City Embassy 2010 Amsterdam Consulate-General 1985 Rotterdam Consulate 1983 Narvik Consulate 1969 Gdańsk Consulate-General 2008 Szczecin Consulate 1993 Kaliningrad Consulate-General 2009 Saint Petersburg Consulate-General 2023 Bratislava Embassy 2010 Ljubljana Embassy 2010 Barcelona Consulate-General 1993 Málaga Consulate-General 1993 Las Palmas Consulate 1993 Palma de Mallorca Consulate 1990 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Consulate 1980 London Consulate-General 1973
Oceania Host country Host city Mission Year closed Sydney Consulate-General 1995 Wellington Embassy 1995
See also Foreign relations of Sweden Sweden and the United Nations List of diplomatic missions of the Nordic countries
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References
External links Official website of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden