List of international presidential trips made by Jimmy Carter

Last updated March 04, 2025

This is a list of international presidential trips made by Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. Jimmy Carter made 12 international trips to 25 different countries during his presidency, which began on January 20, 1977 and ended on January 20, 1981.^[1]

Carter visited five continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. He was the first president to make a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa when he went to Nigeria in 1978. His travel included five trips to Europe and three trips to Asia. He also made several trips to the Middle East including Palestine - Gaza Strip to broker peace negotiations. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his peacemaking efforts.^[2] In 1978, he travelled to Panama City to sign a protocol confirming exchange of documents ratifying the Panama Canal treaties.

Summary

The number of visits per country where President Carter travelled are:

One visit to Austria, Belgium, Brazil, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Liberia, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Vatican City, Venezuela, West Germany and Yugoslavia, Palestine (several times including Gaza Strip, Post Presidential).
Two visits to France and Japan
Three visits to Egypt

1977

	Country	Areas visited	Dates	Details
1	United Kingdom	London, Newcastle	May 5–11	Attended the 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.
1	Switzerland	Geneva	May 9	Official visit. Met with President Kurt Furgler. Also met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
2	Polish People's Republic	Warsaw	December 29–31	Official visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek. The visit garnered notoriety among Poles in subsequent years due to Carter's goodwill speech, which was mistranslated as a series of incoherent and anti-Polish remarks.^[3]
2	Imperial State of Iran	Tehran	December 31 – January 1, 1978	Official visit. Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and King Hussein of Jordan. Carter gave his "Island of Stability" speech during this visit.

1978

	Country	Areas visited	Dates	Details
2	India	New Delhi, Daulatpur Nasirabad ^[4]	January 1–3	Met with President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy and Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Addressed Parliament of India.
	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	January 3–4	Met with King Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd.
	Egypt	Aswan	January 4	Met with President Anwar Sadat and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
	France	Paris, Normandy, Bayeux, Versailles	January 4–6	Met with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Prime Minister Raymond Barre.
	Belgium	Brussels	January 6	Met with King Baudouin and Prime Minister Leo Tindemans. Attended meetings of the Commission of the European Communities and the North Atlantic Council.
3	Venezuela	Caracas	March 28–29	Met with President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Addressed Congress and signed maritime boundary agreement.
	Brazil	Brasília Rio de Janeiro	March 29–31	Official visit. Met with President Ernesto Geisel and addressed National Congress.
	Nigeria	Lagos	March 31 – April 3	State visit. Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo.
	Liberia	Monrovia	April 3	Met with President William R. Tolbert, Jr.
4	Panama	Panama City	June 16–17	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 Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, Colombian President Alfonso López Michelsen, Mexican President José López Portillo, Costa Rican Rodrigo Carazo Odio and Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley.
5	West Germany	Bonn, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, Frankfurt	July 14–15	State visit. Met with President Walter Scheel and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Addressed U.S. and German military personnel.
	West Germany	West Berlin	July 15	Spoke at the Berlin Airlift Memorial.
	West Germany	Bonn	July 16–17	Attended the 4th G7 summit.

1979

	Country	Areas visited	Dates	Details
6	France	Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe	January 4–9	Met informally with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister James Callaghan.
7	Mexico	Mexico City	February 14–16	State visit. Met with President José López Portillo. Addressed the Mexican Congress.
8	Portugal	Lajes Field	March 8	Stopped en route to Egypt.
	Egypt	Cairo, Alexandria, Giza	March 8–10	State visit. Met with President Anwar Sadat. Addressed People's Assembly of Egypt.
	Israel	Tel Aviv, Jerusalem	March 10–13	State visit. Met with President Yitzhak Navon and Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Addressed the Knesset.
	Egypt	Cairo	March 13	Met with President Anwar Sadat.
	Portugal	Lajes Field	March 13	Stopped during return to Washington D.C..
9	Austria	Vienna	June 14–18	State visit. Met with President Rudolf Kirchschläger and Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. Met with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev to sign SALT II Treaty.
10	Japan	Tokyo, Shimoda	June 25–29	Attended the 5th G7 summit. State visit. Met with Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira.
10	South Korea	Seoul	June 29 – July 1	State visit. Met with President Park Chung-hee and Prime Minister Choi Kyu-hah.

1980

	Country	Areas visited	Dates	Details
11	Italy	Rome, Venice	June 19–24	Attended the 6th G7 summit. State visit. Met with President Sandro Pertini.
	Vatican City	Apostolic Palace	June 21	Audience with Pope John Paul II.
	Yugoslavia	Belgrade	June 24–25	Official visit. Met with President Cvijetin Mijatović.
	Spain	Madrid	June 25–26	Official visit. Met with King Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez.
	Portugal	Lisbon	June 26–30	Official visit. Met with President António Ramalho Eanes and Prime Minister Francisco de Sá Carneiro.
12	Japan	Tokyo	July 9–10	Official visit. Attended memorial services for former Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira. Met with Emperor Hirohito, Bangla President Ziaur Rahman, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng.

Multilateral meetings

Multilateral meetings of the following intergovernmental organizations took place during Jimmy Carter's presidency (1977–1981).

Group	Year
Group	1977	1978	1979	1980
G7	May 7–8 London	July 16–17 Bonn	June 28–29 Tokyo	June 22–23 Venice
NATO	May 10–11 London	May 30–31 Washington, D.C.	none	none

References

↑ "Travels of President Jimmy Carter". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
↑ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2002". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
↑ Macdonald, Fiona (February 2, 2015). "The greatest mistranslations ever". BBC Culture. BBC. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
↑ Joseph, Joel (November 4, 2010). "How Daulatpur Nasirabad became Carterpuri". The Times of India . Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013. Daulatpur Nasirabad in Gurgaon was a sleepy nondescript village on the outskirts of Delhi but it found a prominent place on the global map after Carter paid a visit to this village...This village has since then been renamed Carterpuri.

External links

Travels of President Jimmy Carter. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.

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[1] "Travels of President Jimmy Carter". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.

[2] "The Nobel Peace Prize 2002". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved February 26, 2016.

[Macdonald_2015-3] Macdonald, Fiona (February 2, 2015). "The greatest mistranslations ever". BBC Culture. BBC. Retrieved May 1, 2024.

[4] Joseph, Joel (November 4, 2010). "How Daulatpur Nasirabad became Carterpuri". The Times of India . Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013. Daulatpur Nasirabad in Gurgaon was a sleepy nondescript village on the outskirts of Delhi but it found a prominent place on the global map after Carter paid a visit to this village...This village has since then been renamed Carterpuri.

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39th President of the United States (1977–1981) 76th Governor of Georgia (1971–1975) Georgia State Senator (1963–1967)
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