List of international trips made by prime ministers of India

The following is a list of international prime ministerial trips made by prime ministers of India in chronological order.

Map of international trips made by prime ministers of India (as of December 2025). Does not include split countries like Soviet Union, Sudan, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, but past prime ministers did vist the parent country.

Summary of prime ministers with number of countries visited

List of prime ministers with number of countries visited

	Prime minister	Tenure	Number of countries visited
1	Jawaharlal Nehru	1947–1964	46
2	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1964–1966	8
3	Indira Gandhi	1966–1977, 1980–1984	69
4	Morarji Desai	1977–1979	15
5	Charan Singh	1979–1980	0
6	Rajiv Gandhi	1984–1989	41
7	V. P. Singh	1989–1990	4
8	Chandra Shekhar	1990–1991	2
9	P. V. Narasimha Rao	1991–1996	39
10	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	1996, 1998–2004	32
11	H. D. Deve Gowda	1996–1997	6
12	Inder Kumar Gujral	1997–1998	6
13	Manmohan Singh	2004–2014	46
14	Narendra Modi	2014–present	79

Jawaharlal Nehru

Main article: List of international prime ministerial trips made by Jawaharlal Nehru

Map of international trips made by Jawaharlal Nehru as Prime Minister.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
1	Egypt	Cairo	5–10 October 1964	Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement countries	[1]
	Pakistan	Karachi	October 1964		On his way back from Cairo, the Prime Minister made a brief halt at Karachi and had discussions with the President of Pakistan [1]
2	Nepal	Kathmandu, Janakpur	23–25 April 1965		[2]
3	Soviet Union	Moscow	11–19 May 1965		[2]
4	Canada	Ottawa, Montreal	June 1965		[2]
	United Kingdom	London	17–25 June 1965	Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference	[2]
5	Yugoslavia	Belgrade	July 1965		[2]
6	Burma	Yangon	20–23 December 1965		[2]
7	Soviet Union	Tashkent	4–10 January 1966	Tashkent Declaration	Shastri died of a heart attack in Tashkent on 11 January 1966. [2]

Indira Gandhi

Main article: List of international prime ministerial trips made by Indira Gandhi

In her sixteen-year-long tenure as the prime minister, Indira Gandhi made 52 international trips, visiting 69 countries, including visits to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

Map of international trips made by Indira Gandhi as Prime Minister.

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Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's visits by country

Number of visits	Country
1 visit (47)	Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, Fiji, Finland, Greece, Guyana, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Mozambique, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Sikkim, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Vatican City, Venezuela, West Germany, Zambia, Zimbabwe
2 visits (13)	Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Burma, Cyprus, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Nepal, Romania, Tanzania
3 visits (4)	Mauritius, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, United Arab Republic
5 visits (3)	France, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia
6 visits (1)	United States
9 visits (1)	Soviet Union

Morarji Desai

Main article: List of international prime ministerial trips made by Morarji Desai

Charan Singh

Charan Singh did not make any international visit as prime minister.

Rajiv Gandhi

Main article: List of international prime ministerial trips made by Rajiv Gandhi

V. P. Singh

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
1	Namibia	Windhoek	March 1990	Namibian Independence Day celebrations	[3]
2	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	1–4 June 1990	1st G-15 summit	[3]
3	Maldives	Malé	22–24 June 1990	State visit	[3]
4	Soviet Union	Moscow	July 1990	State visit	[3]

Chandra Shekhar

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
1	Maldives	Malé	22–24 November 1990	6th SAARC summit	[3]
2	Nepal	Kathmandu, Janakpur, Biratnagar	13–15 February 1991	State visit	[3]

P. V. Narasimha Rao

Main article: List of international prime ministerial trips made by P. V. Narasimha Rao

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Main article: List of international prime ministerial trips made by Atal Bihari Vajpayee

H. D. Deve Gowda

	Country [4]	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
1	Zimbabwe	Harare	3–5 November 1996	6th G-15 summit	[5]
2	Italy	Rome	15–17 November 1996	World Food Summit	[5]
3	Bangladesh	Dhaka	6–7 January 1997		[5]
4	Mauritius	Port Louis	February 1997		[5]
5	Switzerland	Davos	February 1997	World Economic Forum
6	Russia	Moscow	24–26 March 1997		[5]

Inder Kumar Gujral

	Country [4]	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
1	Maldives	Malé	12–14 May 1997	SAARC summit
2	United States	New York City	22 September 1997	Met with US President Bill Clinton at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City	[6]
3	Egypt	Cairo	24–25 October 1997
	Uganda	Kampala	26–27 October 1997
	South Africa	Johannesburg, Durban	28–31 October 1997
4	Bangladesh	Dhaka	14–15 January 1998		[7]

Manmohan Singh

Main article: List of international prime ministerial trips made by Manmohan Singh

In his ten-year-long tenure as the prime minister, Manmohan Singh made 71 international trips, visiting 46 countries including the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

Map of international trips made by Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visits by country

Number of visits	Country
1 visit (28)	Belgium, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Laos, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
2 visits (7)	Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, South Korea
3 visits (3)	Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand
4 visits (5)	China, France, Germany, South Africa, United Kingdom
5 visits (1)	Japan
9 visits (1)	Russia
10 visits (1)	United States

Narendra Modi

Main article: List of international prime ministerial trips made by Narendra Modi

As of December2025, Narendra Modi has made 97 international trips, visiting 79 countries, including visits to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

Map of international trips made by Narendra Modi as Prime Minister (as of November 2025).

As of December 2025 ^[update] :

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  India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visits by country

Number of visits	Country
1 visit (43)	Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Greece, Guyana, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Kuwait, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Rwanda, Seychelles, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Vatican City, Vietnam
2 visits (17)	Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Oman, Qatar, South Korea, Switzerland
3 visits (5)	Indonesia, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Uzbekistan
4 visits (5)	Bhutan, Brazil, South Africa, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom
5 visits (2)	Nepal, Singapore
6 visits (2)	China, Germany
7 visits (2)	Russia, United Arab Emirates
8 visits (2)	France, Japan
10 visits (1)	United States

See also

• List of international trips made by prime ministers of the United Kingdom
• List of international trips made by presidents of the United States

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
3. "Annual Reports Prior to 1999 : Annual Report 1990-91". Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
4. Narayanan Kutty, Sumitha; Ladwig III, Walter C. (March 2025). "Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India's Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel". International Studies Quarterly. 69 (1) sqae144. doi: 10.1093/isq/sqae144 .
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
6. "India - Visits by Foreign Leaders - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
7. "Annual Reports Prior to 1999 : Annual Report 1998-1999". Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2022.

External links

• Outgoing Visits – by Ministry of External Affairs
• Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel by Sumitha Narayanan Kutty and Walter C. Ladwig III