List of diplomatic missions in Australia
Consulates and legations were operating in Australian cities long before the Commonwealth of Australia was founded in 1901. The United States opened a consulate in Sydney in 1836, with other countries later following including Switzerland (1855), Germany (1879) and Japan (1896, in Townsville).
The diplomatic corps was first established in Canberra in 1936 when the United Kingdom appointed its first High Commissioner to Australia. Canada appointed a representative in 1937 and the United States of America opened a mission in 1940. In 1946, Australia and the United States upgraded their diplomatic relations to the ambassadorial level and exchanged ambassadors in September of that year.[1] Other countries, including France, Canada and Sweden, followed soon afterwards.
Initially residences and chanceries were in the Canberra suburbs of Red Hill and Forrest. The majority of missions are today in the lakeside suburb of Yarralumla or the suburb of O'Malley in the Woden Valley.
Some countries have chosen not to establish an embassy in Canberra but instead operate a consulate in a major city, such as Melbourne (Oman) and Brisbane (Nauru).
Canberra currently hosts 105 embassies/high commissions.
Embassies and high commissions
Canberra:
Representative Offices
European Union (Delegation) Palestine (Delegation of Palestine) Taiwan (Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Australia) United Nations (Information Centre)[2]
Non-resident embassies and high commissions
Resident in Tokyo unless otherwise listed
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Consulates and Consulates-General
China Italy Japan Nauru Papua New Guinea Taiwan (Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Brisbane, Australia) United Kingdom
Chile China Croatia Egypt El Salvador Eritrea Germany Greece India Indonesia Italy Japan Macedonia Malaysia[33][34] Malta New Zealand Oman South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Taiwan (Taipei Economic and Cultural Office Melbourne) Turkey United Kingdom United States
See also
References
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- ↑ "United Nations Information Centre Canberra". United Nations. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
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- ↑ "Embassy Profile". Embassy of Tanzania in Japan. 2014. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
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- ↑ "High Commission of Malaysia". malaysia.org.au.
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