This is a list of international visits undertaken by Rex Tillerson (in office 2017–2018) [1] while serving as the United States Secretary of State. The list includes both private travel and official state visits. The list includes only foreign travel which the Secretary made during his tenure in the position. [1]
| Country | Locations | Details | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Germany | Cologne, Bonn | Attended a G-20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting. | February 15–17, 2017 |
| 2 |  Mexico | Mexico City | Discussed bilateral relations with President Enrique Peña Nieto and Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray. Was joined by Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly. | February 22–23, 2017 |
| 3 |  Japan | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida. | March 15–17, 2017 |
 South Korea | Seoul | Met with Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn and Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se. Visited the Demilitarized Zone. | March 17–18, 2017 | |
 China | Beijing | Met with Xi Jinping, Foreign Minister Wang Yi and State Counselor Yang Jiechi. | March 18–19, 2017 | |
| 4 |  Turkey | Ankara | Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. | March 30–31, 2017 |
 Belgium | Brussels | Attended a NATO Ministerial Meeting. | March 31, 2017 | |
| 5 |  Italy | Pisa | Attended a G-7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting. | April 9–11, 2017 |
 Russia | Moscow | Met with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin. | April 11–13, 2017 | |
| 6 |  Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Accompanied President Trump. | May 20–22, 2017 |
 Israel | Tel Aviv | May 22–23, 2017 | ||
 Palestinian Authority | Bethlehem | May 23, 2017 | ||
| Italy | Rome | May 23–24, 2017 | ||
 Vatican City | Vatican City | May 24, 2017 | ||
| Italy | Taormina | Accompanied President Trump to the G-7 Economic Summit. | May 25–26, 2017 | |
 United Kingdom | London | Met with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Signed book of condolences for the Manchester terrorist attack. | May 26, 2017 | |
| 7 |  Australia | Sydney | Attended the Australia-U.S. Ministerial Consultations. | June 5–6, 2017 |
 New Zealand | Wellington | Met with Prime Minister Bill English and Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee. | June 6–7, 2017 | |
| 8 | Germany | Hamburg | Accompanied President Trump to the G-20 Summit. | July 5–9, 2017 |
 Ukraine | Kyiv | Met with President Petro Poroshenko. | July 9, 2017 | |
| Turkey | Istanbul | Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. | July 9–10, 2017 | |
 Kuwait | Kuwait City | Met with Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah and senior Kuwaiti officials. | July 10–11, 2017 | |
 Qatar | Doha | Met with Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani. Signed MOU to prevent financing of terrorism. | July 11, 2017 | |
| Saudi Arabia | Jeddah | Met with King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and the Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. | July 11–12, 2017 | |
| Kuwait | Kuwait City | Met with Foreign Minister Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah. | July 12–13, 2017 | |
| Qatar | Doha | Met with Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. | July 13, 2017 | |
| 9 |  Philippines | Manila | Attended the U.S.-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting. | August 5–6, 2017 |
 Thailand | Bangkok | Met with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai. | August 8, 2017 | |
 Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Met with Prime Minister Najib Razak. | August 8–9, 2017 | |
| 10 | United Kingdom | London | Attended a Six-Party Ministerial meeting on Libya. Met with Prime Minister Theresa May. | September 14, 2017 |
| 11 | China | Beijing | Met with President Xi Jinping, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and State Councilor Yang Jiechi. | September 30 – October 1, 2017 |
| 12 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir. Attended the first meeting of the Saudi Arabia-Iraq Coordination Council. | October 21–22, 2017 |
| Qatar | Doha | Met with Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani. | October 22–23, 2017 | |
 Afghanistan | Bagram | Met with President Ashraf Ghani. | October 23, 2017 | |
 Iraq | Baghdad | Met with Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi. | October 23, 2017 | |
 Pakistan | Islamabad | Met with senior Pakistani officials. | October 24, 2017 | |
 India | New Delhi | Met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and foreign minister Sushma Swaraj | October 25, 2017 | |
 Switzerland | Geneva | Met with UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, and International Committee of the Red Cross President Peter Maurer. | October 26, 2017 | |
| 13 | Japan | Tokyo | Accompanied President Trump. | November 5–7, 2017 |
| South Korea | Seoul | November 5–8, 2017 | ||
| China | Beijing | November 8–10, 2017 | ||
 Vietnam | Da Nang, Hanoi | Accompanied President Trump to an APEC Meeting. | November 10–12, 2017 | |
| Philippines | Manila | Accompanied President Trump to ASEAN Summit Meetings. | November 12–14, 2017 | |
 Myanmar | Naypyidaw | Met with State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi and Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing. | November 15, 2017 | |
| 14 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended a NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting and met with EU Foreign Ministers. | December 4–6, 2017 |
 Austria | Vienna | Attended an OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting. | December 7, 2017 | |
 France | Paris | Attended the International Support Group for Lebanon Ministerial Meeting and met with President Emmanuel Macron and Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. | December 8, 2017 | |
| 15 |  Canada | Ottawa | Met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. | December 19, 2017 |
| 16 | Canada | Vancouver | Co-hosted the Vancouver Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. | January 15–17, 2018 |
| 17 | United Kingdom | London | Met with Prime Minister Theresa May, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, and National Security Advisor Mark Sedwill. | January 21–22, 2018 |
| France | Paris | Met with senior French officials and attended the launch of the International Partnership against Impunity for the Use of Chemical Weapons. | January 23–24, 2018 | |
| Switzerland | Davos | Attended the 2018 World Economic Forum. | January 24–26, 2018 | |
 Poland | Warsaw | Discussed bilateral relations with senior Polish officials. | January 26–27, 2018 | |
| 18 | Mexico | Mexico City | Met with President Enrique Peña Nieto and Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray Caso. | February 1–2, 2018 |
 Argentina | Bariloche, Buenos Aires | Met with President Mauricio Macri and Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie. | February 3–4, 2018 | |
 Peru | Lima | Met with President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Foreign Minister Cayetana Aljovin. | February 5–6, 2018 | |
 Colombia | Bogotá | Met with President Juan Manuel Santos and Minister of Foreign Affairs María Ángela Holguín. | February 6, 2018 | |
 Jamaica | Kingston | Met with Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson-Smith. | February 7, 2018 | |
| 19 |  Egypt | Cairo | Met with senior Egyptian officials. | February 12, 2018 |
| Kuwait | Kuwait City | Led the U.S. delegation to the Ministerial meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in Kuwait and participated in the Iraq Reconstruction Conference. | February 12–13, 2018 | |
 Jordan | Amman | Met with King Abdullah II and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi. | February 14, 2018 | |
 Lebanon | Beirut | Met with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri. | February 15, 2018 | |
| Turkey | Ankara | Met with senior Turkish officials. | February 15–16, 2018 | |
| 20 |  Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | Met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Workneh Gebeyehu, and African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat. | March 6–8, 2018 |
 Djibouti | Djibouti | Met With Djiboutian President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf. | March 9, 2018 | |
 Kenya | Nairobi | Met with President Uhuru Kenyatta and Foreign Secretary Monica Juma, and participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the August 7th Memorial Park. | March 9–11, 2018 | |
 Chad | N'Djamena | Met with Chadian President Idriss Deby and Foreign Minister Mahamat Zene Cherif. | March 12, 2018 | |
 Nigeria | Abuja | Met with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama. | March 12, 2018 | |
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