List of diplomatic missions of Sri Lanka

Diplomatic missions of Sri Lanka

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Sri Lanka , excluding honorary consulates. Sri Lanka has missions across almost all continents with bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 50 countries and states, and 2 permanent missions with the United Nations in New York City and Geneva.

Current missions

Africa

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Egypt	Cairo	Embassy	1958	Countries: Eritrea Libya	[1] [2]
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Embassy	2017	Countries: Djibouti Somalia International Organizations: African Union United Nations Economic Commission for Africa	[3] [2] [4]
Kenya	Nairobi	High Commission	1970	Countries: Benin Burkina Faso Congo-Brazzaville Congo-Kinshasa Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Liberia Mali Mauritania Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda International Organizations: United Nations United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Human Settlements Programme	[1] [2]
Seychelles	Victoria	High Commission	2013	Countries: Madagascar Mauritius	[3] [2]
South Africa	Pretoria	High Commission	1997	Countries: Angola Botswana Eswatini Lesotho Malawi Mozambique Namibia Zambia Zimbabwe	[3] [2]

Americas

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Brazil	Brasília	Embassy		Countries: Argentina Chile Colombia Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay	[5]
Canada	Ottawa	High Commission	1958		[1] [5] [6]
	Toronto	Consulate-General	2001		[5] [6]
Cuba	Havana	Embassy	1987	Countries: Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Haiti Honduras Jamaica Panama Venezuela	[1] [5]
United States	Washington, D.C.	Embassy	1948	Countries: Trinidad and Tobago International Organizations: Organization of American States [a]	[1] [5] [7] [8] [9]
	Los Angeles	Consulate-General	1999		[5] [10]

Asia

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Bahrain	Manama	Embassy	2013		[3] [11]
Bangladesh	Dhaka	High Commission	1979		[3] [12] [13]
China	Beijing	Embassy	1957	Countries: Mongolia North Korea	[1] [14] [15]
	Guangzhou	Consulate-General	2012		[3] [14] [15]
	Shanghai	Consulate-General			[14] [15]
India	New Delhi	High Commission	1948		[1] [12] [16]
	Chennai	Deputy High Commission	1957		[1] [12] [17]
	Mumbai	Consulate-General	1983		[1] [12]
Indonesia	Jakarta	Embassy	1952	International Organizations: Association of Southeast Asian Nations	[1] [14] [18]
Iran	Tehran	Embassy	1990	Countries: Azerbaijan Turkmenistan	[1] [11]
Israel	Tel Aviv	Embassy	2000		[3] [11]
Japan	Tokyo	Embassy	1953		[1] [14] [19]
Jordan	Amman	Embassy	1996		[3] [11]
Kuwait	Kuwait City	Embassy	1982		[1] [11]
Lebanon	Beirut	Embassy	1997	Countries: Syria	[3] [11]
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	High Commission	1957		[1] [14] [20]
Maldives	Malé	High Commission	1980		[3] [12]
Myanmar	Yangon	Embassy	1949		[1] [14]
Nepal	Kathmandu	High Commission	1993		[3] [12]
Oman	Muscat	Embassy	1987	Countries: Yemen	[1] [11]
Pakistan	Islamabad	High Commission	1950	Countries: Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan	[1] [12]
	Karachi	Consulate-General			[12] [21] [22]
Palestine	Ramallah	Representative office	2007		[3] [11] [23] [24]
Philippines	Manila	Embassy	1961		[1] [14]
Qatar	Doha	Embassy	1997		[3] [11] [25]
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Embassy	1981		[1] [11]
	Jeddah	Consulate-General	1997		[3] [11]
Singapore	Singapore	Embassy	1971	Countries: Brunei	[1] [14] [26] [27]
South Korea	Seoul	Embassy	1987		[1] [14] [28]
Thailand	Bangkok	Embassy	1966	Countries: Cambodia Laos International Organizations: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific	[1] [14] [29]
Turkey	Ankara	Embassy	2012	Countries: Georgia Ukraine	[3] [30]
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	Embassy	1979 [b]		[1] [11] [31]
	Dubai	Consulate-General	1993		[1] [11]
Vietnam	Hanoi	Embassy	2003		[3] [14]

Europe

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Austria	Vienna	Embassy	1995	Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina Czechia Hungary Serbia Slovakia Slovenia International Organizations: United Nations CTBTO Preparatory Commission International Atomic Energy Agency United Nations Industrial Development Organization United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime	[1] [30] [32] [33]
Belgium	Brussels	Embassy	1973	Countries: Luxembourg International Organizations: European Union	[1] [30] [34]
Cyprus	Nicosia	Consulate-General [c]	2019 [d]		[1] [11] [35]
France	Paris	Embassy	1956	Countries: Andorra Monaco Portugal Spain International Organizations: UNESCO UN Tourism	[1] [30] [36]
Germany	Berlin	Embassy	1958 [e]	Countries: Croatia Montenegro North Macedonia   Switzerland	[1] [3] [30] [37]
Italy	Rome	Embassy	1952	Countries: Albania Cyprus Greece Malta San Marino International Organizations: Food and Agriculture Organization International Fund for Agricultural Development World Food Programme	[1] [30] [38]
	Milan	Consulate-General	2016		[3] [30]
Netherlands	The Hague	Embassy	1993	International Organizations: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons	[1] [30]
Poland	Warsaw	Embassy		Countries: Bulgaria	[30] [39]
Romania	Bucharest	Embassy	2024		[30] [40] [41]
Russia	Moscow	Embassy	1957	Countries: Armenia Belarus Moldova Uzbekistan	[1] [30]
Sweden	Stockholm	Embassy	1970	Countries: Denmark Estonia Finland Iceland Latvia Lithuania Norway	[1] [30] [42] [43] [44] [45]
Switzerland	Geneva	Consulate-General			[37] [46] [47]
United Kingdom	London	High Commission	1948	Countries: Ireland	[1] [30] [48] [49]

Oceania

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
Australia	Canberra	High Commission	1949	Countries: Fiji Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Vanuatu	[1] [14]
	Melbourne	Consulate-General	2013		[3] [14]
New Zealand	Wellington	High Commission	2025		[14] [50]

Multilateral organizations

Organization	Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Concurrent accreditation	Ref.
United Nations	New York City	United States	Permanent Mission		Countries: Bahamas	[1] [5] [23]
	Geneva	Switzerland	Permanent Mission	1965	Countries: Holy See International Organizations: World Trade Organization	[1] [30] [23] [46] [51]

Gallery

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  Embassy in Berlin
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  High Commission in Canberra
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  High Commission in Kuala Lumpur
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  High Commission in London
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  Embassy in Moscow
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  Residence of the High Commissioner in Ottawa
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  Embassy in Paris
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  Embassy in Tokyo
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  Embassy in Vienna
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  Embassy in Warsaw
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  Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Closed missions

Africa

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Year closed	Ref.
Libya	Tripoli	Embassy	2009	2011	[52] [53]
Nigeria	Abuja	High Commission	2013	2021	[54]

Asia

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Year closed	Ref.
Afghanistan	Kabul	Embassy	2014	2022	[1] [55]
Iraq	Baghdad	Embassy [f]		2022	[54]

Europe

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Year closed	Ref.f
Germany	Frankfurt	Consulate-General [f]	2007	2021	[54] [56]
Norway	Oslo	Embassy		2022	[54]

Oceania

Host country	Host city	Mission	Year opened	Year closed	Ref.
Australia	Sydney	Consulate-General	1999	2022	[54]

See also

• Foreign relations of Sri Lanka
• List of diplomatic missions in Sri Lanka
• List of heads of missions from Sri Lanka

Notes

1. Accredited as an observer mission.
2. Originally opened as a resident mission; was upgraded into an embassy in 1983.
3. Subordinate to the embassy in Rome.
4. Was closed in 2021; reopened in 2025.
5. Originally opened in Bonn; was moved to Berlin in 1999.
6. To be reopened.

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56. https://www.flickr.com/photos/menik/2262780679

External links

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka - Missions Abroad