List of international presidential trips made by Barack Obama

This is a list of international presidential trips made by Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Barack Obama made 52 international trips to 58 countries (in addition to visiting the West Bank) during his presidency, which began on January 20, 2009 and ended on January 20, 2017.

Obama set the record as the most-traveled president for any first year in office: he took the most trips, visited the most countries, and spent the most days abroad. Obama made ten trips to 21 countries (four countries were visited twice) and was out of the U.S. a total of 37 days.

Summary The number of visits per country where President Obama traveled are: One visit to Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Greece, Iraq, Ireland, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, the Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Peru, Senegal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam, and the West Bank Two visits to Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and the Vatican City Three visits to Canada, China, and Poland Four visits to Afghanistan, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea Five visits to Mexico and the United Kingdom Six visits to France and Germany

First term (2009–2013)

2009

CountryAreas visitedDatesDetails Image1OttawaMet with Governor General Michaëlle Jean, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Leader of the Opposition Michael Ignatieff. As Obama's first foreign trip, it was regarded in media as a "practice visit" for future diplomatic travel.2LondonAttended the G20 summit. Met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Leader of the Opposition David Cameron, and with Queen Elizabeth II.StrasbourgAttended the NATO Summit Meeting.NATO – Pressrelease: Complementary Information for the media – NATO North Atlantic Council Summit meetings of Heads of State and Government – Strasbourg, France and Baden-Bade...Baden-Baden, KehlPragueAttended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with President Václav Klaus. Delivered public speech on nuclear disarmament in Hradčany Square.Ankara,IstanbulMet with President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, delivered a speech to the Grand National Assembly, and participated in a wreath laying ceremony at Anitkabir Mausoleum. He also met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Istanbul,A Meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew | The White House attended the Alliance of Civilizations forum, visited the Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque, and held a town hall with students at the Tophane Cultural Center.BaghdadMet with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Visited with U.S. troops.3Mexico CityMet with President Felipe Calderón.Port of SpainAttended the 5th Summit of the Americas.4RiyadhMet with King Abdullah and discussed various regional issues.CairoMet with President Hosni Mubarak. Toured the Giza Pyramids and the Sultan Hassan Mosque. Delivered a speech at Cairo University.Dresden,Weimar,LandstuhlMet with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Visited the Buchenwald concentration camp and visited wounded U.S. military personnel at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Paris,Caen,NormandyMet with President Nicolas Sarkozy and dedicated the new visitor center at the U.S. Military Cemetery in Normandy. Dignitaries joining with them to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day included British prime minister Gordon Brown, Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, and Charles, Prince of Wales. 5MoscowMet with President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Also delivered a speech to the New Economic School, and met with dissidents and opposition leaders.L'Aquila,RomeAttended the 35th G8 summit. Met Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Also met with President Giorgio Napolitano.Apostolic PalaceAudience with Pope Benedict XVI, discussed issues such as poverty, stem-cell research, peace in the Middle East, and the need for Christian-Muslim dialogue.Accra,Cape CoastMet with President John Atta Mills. Delivered a speech to the Ghanaian Parliament. Toured a former departing point of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the Cape Coast Castle.6GuadalajaraAttended the 5th North American Leaders' Summit with President Felipe Calderón and Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper.7CopenhagenMet with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Addressed a session of the International Olympic Committee in support of the Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.8TokyoMet with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, and made a speech at the Suntory Hall. in Tokyo.SingaporeAttended the APEC summit. Also met with Singaporean prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.Shanghai,BeijingMet with Shanghai Party Secretary Yu Zhengsheng and Mayor Han Zheng. Took part in a town-hall style meeting with Chinese students, addressing a range of issues such as internet censorship and U.S. arms deals with Taiwan. Held a bilateral meeting with President & CCP general secretary Hu Jintao, and met with Premier Wen Jiabao. Also visited the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China.Seoul, OsanMet with President Lee Myung-bak. Visited with U.S. troops at Osan Air Base.9OsloMet with King Harald V and Queen Sonja. Received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.Nobel Lecture by Barack H. Obama, Oslo, 10 December 2009, Nobel Media AB.Jeff Zeleny, Accepting Peace Prize, Obama Offers 'Hard Truth', New York Times (December 10, 2009 ).10CopenhagenAttended the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Also met with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, and with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to discuss completing a nuclear disarmament treaty to replace the 1994 START I Treaty.

2010

CountryAreas visitedDatesDetails Image11 AfghanistanBagram,KabulMet with President Hamid Karzai. Addressed U.S. military personnel.RAF MildenhallStopped en route to Washington D.C.12PragueSigned the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. Also met with the presidents of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, and Romania; and with the prime ministers of Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia at a formal dinner.13Huntsville,TorontoAttended the 36th G8 summit and the G20 summit.14Ramstein Air BaseMet with military generals. Stopped en route to India.Mumbai,New DelhiParticipated in the U.S.-India Business Council and Entrepreneurship Summit, commemorated the 2008 Mumbai attacks, visited the Mani Bhavan Museum, and held a town hall meeting at St Xavier's College in Mumbai. Met with President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Addressed the Indian Parliament. Visited the Humayun's Tomb and the Raj Ghat.Depok,JakartaMet with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Visited the Istiqlal Mosque and delivered a speech at the University of Indonesia.SeoulAttended a Veterans Day ceremony at the Yongsan Garrison and met with President Lee Myung-bak. Attended the G20 summit.Yokohama, KamakuraAttended the APEC summit. Met with Prime Minister Naoto Kan.15LisbonAttend the NATO summit and U.S.-EU Summit meetings. Met with President Aníbal Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister José Sócrates. Attended a meeting of the North Atlantic Council, and met with Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili on the sidelines.16 AfghanistanBagramMet with U.S. military and diplomatic personnel, thanking them for their contributions to the war effort.Ramstein Air BaseStopped upon returning to Washington D.C.

2011

CountryAreas visitedDatesDetails Image17Brasília,Rio de JaneiroMet with President Dilma Rousseff. Spoke in Rio de Janeiro at the Theatro Municipal, and also visited the favela Cidade de Deus, one of that city's most impoverished neighborhoods.SantiagoMet with President Sebastián Piñera. Spoke in Santiago at the Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda.San SalvadorMet with President Mauricio Funes. Visited the San Salvador Cathedral and the tomb of archbishop Óscar Romero.18Dublin,MoneygallMet President Mary McAleese and with Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Visited ancestral home of Moneygall, and spoke at College Green in Dublin.Ash cloud forces a change of plan and early exit Irish Independent, May 24, 2011.LondonState Visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister David Cameron, and also opposition leader Ed Miliband. Laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey and addressed the UK Parliament.Deauville,ParisAttended the 37th G8 summit, where he also held bilateral talks with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan, and French president Nicolas Sarkozy.WarsawMet with President Bronisław Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and with Central and Eastern European leaders during a dinner hosted by President Komorowski. Laid a wreath at both the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial, and met with Jewish community leaders and Holocaust survivors at the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial. Visited the memorial to the victims of the Smolensk plane crash.19CannesAttended the G20 summit; also held bilateral talks with French president Nicolas Sarkozy, German chancellor Angela Merkel and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina.20Canberra,Darwin Met with Australian prime minister Julia Gillard, and addressed the Australian Parliament. At Darwin, commemorated the 60th anniversary of the ANZUS alliance, and participated in a wreath laying ceremony with Prime Minister Gillard at USS Peary Memorial.Nusa DuaAttended the 19th ASEAN summit and 6th East Asia Summit meetings.

2012