List of International Trips Made By The President of The United States - President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama

See also: List of presidential trips made by Barack Obama

• President Obama was joined by First Lady Michelle Obama in April 2009 when they met with Queen Elizabeth. Every president from Dwight Eisenhower (except Lyndon Johnson) has met and dined with The Queen.
• President Obama was joined by his wife and their two daughters in June 2009, for some non-business time in Paris.
• The previous four POTUS visits since 1998 to sub-Saharan Africa were always dedicated trips conducted at huge expense involving the mobilization of massive military resources. President Obama has suggested that he won't go for the traditional model of devoting a trip to Africa alone. Instead, African nations might be wrapped into his multinational travels more often.
• President Obama in the beginning of his presidency traveled much more often than President G.W. Bush and President Clinton. President Obama's international travel considerably diminished in his second year in office and as of July 2011 has been to 40 countries, while President Bush had been to 41 in the same time period.
• When President Obama traveled to Indonesia in November 2010, he was forced to leave Indonesia a few hours earlier than originally scheduled due to the ash plumes from the volcanic eruption of Mount Merapi.
• President Obama cut short a 24-hour visit to Ireland in May 2011 when an ash cloud from the erupting Grímsvötn volcano in Iceland approached Irish airspace during his visit. He had originally planned to spend the night in Dublin and to leave for London the following day, but flew from Dublin late on the night of his arrival to avoid the risk of being grounded in the morning.
• President Obama is the first sitting president to visit Cambodia and Myanmar.

Table of Trips

T	#	Start	End	Country	Cities	Reason
1	1	19-Feb-2009	19-Feb-2009	Canada	Ottawa	Met with Governor General Michaëlle Jean and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
2	2	31-Mar-2009	3-Apr-2009	United Kingdom	London	Attended the G20 Economic Summit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
	3	3-Apr-2009	4-Apr-2009	France Germany	Strasbourg, Baden-Baden and Kehl	Attended the 21st NATO Summit.
	4	4-Apr-2009	5-Apr-2009	Czech Republic	Prague	Attended a European Union-United States summit. Delivered public speech on nuclear disarmament. Met with Czech President Václav Klaus.
	5	5-Apr-2009	7-Apr-2009	Turkey	Ankara and Istanbul	Met with President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Delivered a speech to the Turkish Parliament.
	6	7-Apr-2009	8-Apr-2009	Iraq	Baghdad	Met with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Visited with U.S. troops.
3	7	16-Apr-2009	17-Apr-2009	Mexico	Mexico City	Met with President Felipe Calderón.
	8	17-Apr-2009	18-Apr-2009	Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	Attended the 5th Summit of the Americas.
4	9	3-Jun-2009	4-Jun-2009	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Met with King Abdullah.
	10	4-Jun-2009	4-Jun-2009	Egypt	Cairo and Giza	Met with President Hosni Mubarak. Toured the Giza Pyramids. Delivered a speech directed towards the wider Muslim world at Cairo University.
	11	4-Jun-2009	5-Jun-2009	Germany	Dresden, Buchenwald, and Landstuhl	Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Visited Buchenwald concentration camp and an U.S. military hospital.
	12	5-Jun-2009	7-Jun-2009	France	Paris and Caen	Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy. Attended 65th anniversary of D-Day celebrations.
5	13	6-Jul-2009	8-Jul-2009	Russia	Moscow	Met with President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Delivered a commencement speech to the New Economic School.
	14	8-Jul-2009	10-Jul-2009	Italy	L'Aquila and Rome	Attended the 35th G8 summit. Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
	15	10-Jul-2009	10-Jul-2009	Vatican City	Vatican City	Met with Pope Benedict XVI.
	16	10-Jul-2009	11-Jul-2009	Ghana	Accra	Met 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.
6	17	9-Aug-2009	10-Aug-2009	Mexico	Guadalajara	Attended annual North American Leaders' Summit with President Felipe Calderón and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
7	18	02-Oct-2009	02-Oct-2009	Denmark	Copenhagen	Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Attended the 13th Olympic Congress meeting to lobby for Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympics.
8	19	13-Nov-2009	14-Nov-2009	Japan	Tokyo	Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
	20	14-Nov-2009	15-Nov-2009	Singapore	Singapore	Attended the APEC 2009 meeting. Met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Met with leaders of ASEAN.
	21	15-Nov-2009	18-Nov-2009	China	Shanghai and Beijing	Met with Shanghai Party Secretary Yu Zhengsheng. Held a town hall meeting with Shanghai students. Met with President Hu Jintao, NPC Chairman Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao. Visited the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China.
	22	18-Nov-2009	19-Nov-2009	South Korea	Seoul and Pyeongtaek	Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Visited with U.S. troops at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek.
9	23	9-Dec-2009	11-Dec-2009	Norway	Oslo	Accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.
10	24	17-Dec-2009	19-Dec-2009	Denmark	Copenhagen	Attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009.
11	25	27-Mar-2010	28-Mar-2010	Afghanistan	Bagram and Kabul	Met with President Hamid Karzai and U.S. troops at Bagram Air Base.
12	26	8-Apr-2010	8-Apr-2010	Czech Republic	Prague	Signed the New START treaty with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
13	27	25-Jun-2010	27-Jun-2010	Canada	Toronto and Huntsville	Attended the 36th G8 summit and the G-20 Toronto summit
14	28	6-Nov-2010	9-Nov-2010	India	Mumbai and New Delhi	Participated in the US-India Business Council and Entrepreneurship Summit in Mumbai. Held a town hall meeting with Mumbai students. Met with President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Delivered a speech to the Indian Parliament. Visited Humayun's Tomb and Raj Ghat.
	29	9-Nov-2010	10-Nov-2010	Indonesia	Jakarta	Met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Delivered a speech at the University of Indonesia. Visited Istiqlal Mosque.
	30	10-Nov-2010	12-Nov-2010	South Korea	Seoul	Attended the G-20 Seoul summit. Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Visited with U.S. troops at Yongsan Garrison.
	31	12-Nov-2010	14-Nov-2010	Japan	Tokyo, Yokohama, Kamakura	Attended the APEC 2010 meeting. Met with Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Visited the Kamakura Great Buddha statue.
15	32	19-Nov-2010	20-Nov-2010	Portugal	Lisbon	Attended the 22nd NATO summit and the U.S.-EU summit. Met with President Aníbal Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister José Sócrates.
16	33	3-Dec-2010	3-Dec-2010	Afghanistan	Bagram	Visited with U.S. troops at Bagram Air Base. Originally planned meeting with President Hamid Karzai in Kabul was canceled due to bad weather.
17	34	19-Mar-2011	21-Mar-2011	Brazil	Brasília and Rio de Janeiro	Met with President Dilma Rousseff. Visited the Cidade de Deus favela and the Christ the Redeemer statue.
	35	21 Mar-2011	22 Mar-2011	Chile	Santiago	Met with President Sebastián Piñera.
	36	22 Mar-2011	23 Mar-2011	El Salvador	San Salvador	Met with President Mauricio Funes. Visited the San Salvador Cathedral.
18	37	23-May-2011	23-May-2011	Ireland	Dublin, Moneygall	Had meetings with President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Visited ancestral home in Moneygall, and addressed a large crowd in Dublin. Accompanied by the First Lady.
	38	23-May-2011	26-May-2011	United Kingdom	London	State visit, accompanied by the First Lady. She returned to the US from the UK when the President traveled on to France.
	39	26-May-2011	27-May-2011	France	Deauville	37th G8 summit
	40	27-May-2011	28-May-2011	Poland	Warsaw	Had meetings with President Bronisław Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Laid wreath at the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial and visited the memorial to the victims of the Smolensk plane crash.
19	41	3-Nov-2011	4-Nov-2011	France	Cannes	G-20 Cannes summit
20	42	16-Nov-2011	17-Nov-2011	Australia	Canberra, Darwin	Met with Prime Minister Julia Gillard
	43	17-Nov-2011	19-Nov-2011	Indonesia	Nusa Dua on Bali	ASEAN Summit and the sixth East Asia Summit on Bali.
21	44	25-Mar-2012	27-Mar-2012	South Korea	Osan Air Base, Korean Demilitarized Zone, Seoul	2012 Nuclear Security Summit follow up to 2010 Nuclear Security Summit held in April 2010, Washington DC. Met with Hu Jintao and Nursultan Nazarbayev and addressed US military personnel.
22	45	13-Apr-2012	15-Apr-2012	Colombia	Cartagena	6th Summit of the Americas
23	46	01-May-2012	02-May-2012	Afghanistan	Bagram Air Base, Kabul	Signing of strategic partnership agreement between Afghanistan and United States, spending time with U.S. troops at Bagram airfield and addressing the nation from there regarding the responsible end of the Afghanistan war.
24	47	17-June-2012	19-June-2012	Mexico	San José del Cabo and Los Cabos Corridor	2012 G-20 Mexico summit.
25	48	18-Nov-2012	19-Nov-2012	Thailand	Bangkok	The President visited the Wat Pho monastery, took part in a formal welcome ceremony at Thai Koo Fah, and met with King of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej and Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra to discuss Thai–U.S. cooperation and mark 180 years of official relations.
	49	19-Nov-2012	19-Nov-2012	Myanmar (Burma)	Yangon	President Obama became the first U.S. President to visit the country, where he toured Shwedagon Pagoda, delivered a speech on democracy at the University of Yangon and met with President Thein Sein and MP Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss Myanmar–U.S. relations in light of the country's democratic reforms.
	50	19-Nov-2012	20-Nov-2012	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	The President attended the 21st ASEAN Summit and the 7th East Asia Summit, where he met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese PM Yoshihiko Noda, among others. Obama also hold a bilateral meeting with Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen and Obama became the first person holding the office to visit Cambodia.
26	51	20-Mar-2013	22-Mar-2013	Israel	Tel Aviv, Jerusalem	Held bilateral meetings with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, visited Shrine of the Book and Yad Vashem, and spoke to students at the International Convention Center.
	52	21-Mar-2013	22-Mar-2013	West Bank	Ramallah, Bethlehem	Held a bilateral meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas and visited the Church of the Nativity.
	53	22-Mar-2013	23-Mar-2013	Jordan	Amman, Petra	Held a bilateral meeting with King Abdullah and visited Petra.
27	54	2-May-2013	3-May-2013	Mexico	Mexico City	Met Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
	55	3-May-2013	4-May-2013	Costa Rica	San José	Met Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla and other Central American leaders.
28	56	17-Jun-2013	18-Jun-2013	United Kingdom	Lough Erne	39th G8 summit
	57	18-Jun-2013	19-Jun-2013	Germany	Berlin
29	58	26-Jun-2013	28-Jun-2013	Senegal	Dakar
	59	28-Jun-2013	1-Jul-2013	South Africa	Johannesburg, Pretoria, Soweto, Cape Town
	60	1-Jul-2013	2-Jul-2013	Tanzania	Dar es Salaam

Future Trips

T	#	Start	End	Country	Cities	Reason
30	61	5-Sep-2013	6-Sep-2013	Russia	St. Petersburg	2013 G-20 Russia summit
31	62	5-Oct-2013	7-Oct-2013	Indonesia	Bali	2013 APEC summit
	63	9-Oct-2013	10-Oct-2013	Brunei		2013 ASEAN summit