List of Goethe-Institut locations

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This list gives a geographical overview of all the worldwide locations of the Goethe-Institut. [1] The list also includes Goethe Centres which are overseas German cultural institutions that have official cooperation agreements with the Goethe-Institut and offer some of the services of the Goethe-Institut, e.g. language classes and certification. [2]

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Africa

CountryCity
Algeria Algiers
Angola Luanda
Cameroon Yaoundé
Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
Egypt Alexandria, Cairo
Ethiopia Addis Ababa
Ghana Accra
Kenya Nairobi
Madagascar Antananarivo [2]
Morocco Casablanca, Rabat
Mozambique Maputo [2]
Namibia Windhoek
Nigeria Lagos
Ruanda Kigali
Senegal Dakar
South Africa Johannesburg, Cape Town [2]
Sudan Khartoum
Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Togo Lomé
Tunisia Tunis
Uganda Kampala [2]
Zimbabwe Harare [2]

North America

CountryCity
Canada Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
Mexico Guadalajara, [2] Mexico City
United States Atlanta, [2] Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York (Goethe House), San Francisco, Washington, D.C.

South America

CountryCity
Argentina Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza, [2] San Juan [2]
Bolivia La Paz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra [2]
Brazil Brasília, [2] Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, São Paulo
Chile Concepción, [2] Santiago de Chile
Colombia Bogotá
Costa Rica San José [2]
Cuba Havana
Ecuador Quito
Paraguay Asunción [2]
Peru Arequipa, [2] Cusco, [2] Lima
Uruguay Montevideo
Venezuela Caracas

Asia

CountryCity
Afghanistan Kabul
Aserbaijan Baku [2]
Bangladesh Dhaka (Goethe-Institut Dhaka)
Cambodia Phnom Penh [2]
China Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong (described as "representatives of Goethe-Institut") [3] (Language learning centers: Shenyang, Tianjin, Qingdao, Xi'an, Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chongqing, Guangzhou) [4]
India Ahmedabad, [2] Bangalore, Chandigarh, [2] Chennai (Madras), Coimbatore, [2] Hyderabad, [2] Kolkata (Calcutta), Mumbai (Bombay), New Delhi, Pune (Poona), Thiruvananthapuram [2]
Indonesia Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya [2]
Iran Teheran (Deutsches Sprachinstitut Teheran) [5]
Iraq Erbil
Israel Jerusalem, Tel Aviv
Japan Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo
Jordan Amman
Kazakhstan Almaty
Lebanon Beirut
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar
Myanmar Yangon
Oman Muscat (branch office of Goethe-Institut Abu Dhabi)
Nepal Kathmandu [2]
Pakistan Karachi, Lahore [2]
Palestinian National Authority Ramallah
Philippines Manila
Singapore Singapore
South Korea Seoul, branch offices in Busan, Daejeon, Daegu, Gwangju [6]
Sri Lanka Colombo
Syria Damascus
Taiwan Taipei
Thailand Bangkok
Turkey Ankara, Istanbul, İzmir
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi, Dubai (branch office of Goethe-Institut Abu Dhabi)
Uzbekistan Tashkent
Vietnam Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City

Europe

CountryCity
Albania Tirana [2]
Austria Vienna [7]
Belarus Minsk
Belgium Brussels
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo
Bulgaria Sofia
Croatia Zagreb
Cyprus Nicosia
Czech Republic Pardubice, [2] Prague
Denmark Copenhagen
Estonia Tallinn, Tartu [2]
Finland Helsinki
France Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Nancy, Paris, Strasbourg, Toulouse
Georgia Tbilissi
Germany Berlin, Berlin (capital office [8] ), Bonn, Bremen, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Göttingen, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Munich, Munich (head office [9] ), Schwäbisch Hall, Weimar
Greece Athens, Chania, [2] Patras, [2] Thessaloniki
Hungary Budapest
Ireland Dublin
Italy Bologna, [2] Genoa, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Trieste, Turin, Verona [2]
Kosovo Pristina [2]
Latvia Riga
Lithuania Vilnius
Luxembourg Luxembourg (Institut Pierre Werner) [10]
Netherlands Amsterdam, Rotterdam
North Macedonia Skopje
Norway Oslo
Poland Kraków, Warsaw
Portugal Lisbon, Porto
Romania Bucharest
Russia Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk
Serbia Belgrade
Slovakia Bratislava
Slovenia Ljubljana
Spain Barcelona, Madrid
Sweden Stockholm
Ukraine Kyiv
United Kingdom Glasgow, London, Manchester [2]

Oceania

CountryCity
Australia Melbourne, Sydney
New Zealand Wellington

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