President Jimmy Carter
- President Carter repeated FDR's 1943 Visit to Brazil. He was also the first president to make a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa when he went to Nigeria in 1978 directly from Brazil.
- President Carter's travel included 5 trips to Europe and 1 trip to Asia.
- President Carter's best known travel is his trips to the Middle East to broker his peace negotiations.
- The G-6 (later 7 and 8) summit meetings started in the presidency of President Ford continued under President Carter. Four of his oversease visits were for those summit meetings.
- President Carter was invited to Panama City to sign protocol confirming exchange of documents ratifying the Panama Canal treaties.
- President Carter's meeting with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran on New Year's Day 1978, was only 13 months before the Shah was overthrown on February 11, 1979.
| # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5-May-1977 | 11-May-1977 | United Kingdom | London, Newcastle | 3rd G7 summit. Also met with the Prime Ministers of Greece, Belgium, Turkey, Norway, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and with the President of Portugal. Addressed NATO Ministers meeting on May 10. |
| 2 | 9-May-1977 | 9-May-1977 | Switzerland | Geneva | Official visit; met with President Kurt Furgler. Also met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. |
| 3 | 29-Dec-1977 | 31-Dec-1977 | Poland | Warsaw | Official visit; met with First Secretary Edward Gierek. |
| 4 | 31-Dec-1977 | 1-Jan-1978 | Iran | Tehran | Official visit; met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and King Hussein of Jordan. |
| 5 | 1-Jan-1978 | 3-Jan-1978 | India | New Delhi, Daulatpur-Nasirabad | Met with President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy and Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Addressed Parliament of India. |
| 6 | 3-Jan-1978 | 4-Jan-1978 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd. |
| 7 | 4-Jan-1978 | 4-Jan-1978 | Egypt | Aswan | Met with President Anwar Sadat and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. |
| 8 | 4-Jan-1978 | 6-Jan-1978 | France | Paris, Normandy, Bayeux, Versailles | Met with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Prime Minister Raymond Barre. |
| 9 | 6-Jan-1978 | 6-Jan-1978 | Belgium | Brussels | Met with King Baudouin and Prime Minister Leo Tindemans; attended meetings of the Commission of the European Communities and the North Atlantic Council. |
| 10 | 28-Mar-1978 | 29-Mar-1978 | Venezuela | Caracas | Met with President Carlos Andrés Pérez, addressed Congress, and signed maritime boundary agreement. |
| 11 | 29-Mar-1978 | 31-Mar-1978 | Brazil | Brasília, Rio de Janeiro | Official visit; met with President Ernesto Geisel and addressed National Congress of Brazil. |
| 12 | 31-Mar-1978 | 3-Apr-1978 | Nigeria | Lagos | Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo; first State visit of a U.S. President to sub-Saharan Africa. |
| 13 | 3-Apr-1978 | 3-Apr-1978 | Liberia | Monrovia | Met with President William R. Tolbert, Jr.. |
| 14 | 16-Jun-1978 | 17-Jun-1978 | Panama | Panama City | Invited by President Demetrio B. Lakas and General Omar Torrijos to sign protocol confirming exchange of documents ratifying Panama Canal treaties. Also met informally with Presidents Carlos Andrés Pérez of Venezuela, Alfonso López Michelsen of Colombia, José López Portillo of Mexico, Rodrigo Carazo Odio of Costa Rica, and Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica. |
| 15 | 14-Jul-1978 | 15-Jul-1978 | Federal Republic of Germany | Bonn, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim Air Base, Frankfurt | State visit; met with President Walter Scheel and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Addressed U.S. and German military personnel. |
| 16 | 15-Jul-1978 | 15-Jul-1978 | Germany | West Berlin | Spoke at the Berlin Airlift Memorial. |
| 17 | 16-Jul-1978 | 17-Jul-1978 | Federal Republic of Germany | Bonn | 4th G7 summit |
| 18 | 4-Jan-1979 | 9-Jan-1979 | France | Guadeloupe | Met informally with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and British Prime Minister James Callaghan. |
| 19 | 14-Feb-1979 | 16-Feb-1979 | Mexico | Mexico, D.F. | State visit; met with President José López Portillo and addressed the Congress of Mexico. |
| 20 | 7-Mar-1979 | 10-Mar-1979 | Egypt | Cairo, Alexandria, Giza | State visit; met with President Anwar Sadat and addressed People's Assembly of Egypt. |
| 21 | 10-Mar-1979 | 13-Mar-1979 | Israel | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem | State visit; met with President Yitzhak Navon and Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Addressed the Knesset. |
| 22 | 13-Mar-1979 | 13-Mar-1979 | Egypt | Cairo | Met with President Anwar Sadat. |
| 23 | 14-Jun-1979 | 18-Jun-1979 | Austria | Vienna | State visit; met with President Rudolf Kirchschläger and Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. Met with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev to sign SALT II Treaty June 16–18. |
| 24 | 25-Jun-1979 | 29-Jun-1979 | Japan | Tokyo, Shimoda | 5th G7 Summit; also State visit; met with Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira. |
| 25 | 29-Jun-1979 | 1-Jul-1979 | Korea | Seoul | State visit; met with President Park Chung-hee and Prime Minister Choi Kyu-hah. |
| 26 | 19-Jun-1980 | 24-Jun-1980 | Italy | Rome, Venice | 6th G7 Summit; State visit; met with President Sandro Pertini. |
| 27 | 21-Jun-1980 | 21-Jun-1980 | Vatican City | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
| 28 | 24-Jun-1980 | 25-Jun-1980 | Yugoslavia | Belgrade | Official visit; met with President Cvijetin Mijatović. |
| 29 | 25-Jun-1980 | 26-Jun-1980 | Spain | Madrid | Official visit; met with King Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez. |
| 30 | 26-Jun-1980 | 26-Jun-1980 | Portugal | Lisbon | Official visit; met with President António Ramalho Eanes and Prime Minister Francisco de Sá Carneiro. |
| 31 | 9-Jul-1980 | 10-Jul-1980 | Japan | Tokyo | Official visit; attended memorial services for former Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira; met with Emperor Hirohito, President Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser of Australia, Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda of Thailand, and Premier Hua Guofeng of China. |
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