United States presidential visits to South Asia

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Eight presidents of the United States have made presidential visits to South Asia. The first trip by a sitting president to South Asia was by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959. Of the eight countries in the region, only 4 of them have been visited by a sitting American president: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The other four countries, Bhutan (which has no formal diplomatic relations with the US), the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, have never been visited by a sitting American president.

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Table of visits

PresidentDatesCountriesLocationsKey details
Dwight D. Eisenhower [1] December 7–9, 1959Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan Karachi Informal visit. Met with President Ayub Khan.
December 9, 1959 Flag of Afghanistan (1931-1973).svg Afghanistan Kabul Informal visit. Met with King Mohammed Zahir Shah.
December 9–14, 1959Flag of India.svg  India New Delhi, Agra Met with President Rajendra Prasad and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Addressed Parliament.
Lyndon B. Johnson [2] December 23, 1967Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan KarachiMet with President Ayub Khan.
Richard Nixon [3] July 31 – August 1, 1969Flag of India.svg  India New DelhiState visit. Met with Acting President Mohammad Hidayatullah. Prime Minister is Indira Gandhi
August 1–2, 1969Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan Lahore State visit. Met with President Yahya Khan.
Jimmy Carter [4] January 1–3, 1978Flag of India.svg  India New Delhi, Daulatpur Nasirabad [5] Met with President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy and Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Addressed Parliament of India.
Bill Clinton [6] March 19–25, 2000New Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Mumbai Met with President Kocheril Raman Narayanan. Signed Joint Statement on Energy and the Environment. Addressed the Indian Parliament.
March 20, 2000Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh Dhaka Met with President Shahabuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
March 25, 2000Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan Islamabad Met with President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar and General Pervez Musharraf. Delivered radio address.
George W. Bush [7] March 1, 2006 Flag of Afghanistan (2004-2013).svg Afghanistan Bagram, KabulMet with President Hamid Karzai. Dedicated new U.S. Embassy. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
March 1–3, 2006Flag of India.svg  India New Delhi, HyderabadMet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Signed U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement.
March 3–4, 2006Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan IslamabadMet with President Pervez Musharraf.
December 14–15, 2008 Flag of Afghanistan (2004-2013).svg Afghanistan KabulMet with President Hamid Karzai. Visited U.S. military personnel.
Barack Obama [8] March 27–28, 2010Bagram, KabulMet with President Hamid Karzai. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
November 6–9, 2010Flag of India.svg  India Mumbai, New DelhiParticipated in the US-India Business Council and Entrepreneurship Summit in Mumbai. Held a town hall meeting with Mumbai students. Met with President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Addressed the Indian Parliament. Visited the Humayun's Tomb and the Raj Ghat.
December 3, 2010 Flag of Afghanistan (2004-2013).svg Afghanistan BagramMet with the leaders of the U.S. military and diplomatic missions and visited U.S. military personnel.
May 1–2, 2012KabulMet with President Karzai and addressed U.S. military personnel. Signed a long-term strategic partnership agreement between Afghanistan and United States. Addressed the nation from there regarding the responsible end of the Afghanistan war.
May 25–26, 2014BagramVisited with U.S. troops.
January 25–27, 2015Flag of India.svg  India New DelhiMet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Participated in the Indian Republic Day celebration, becoming the first US President to do so. [9] Addressed an event organized by the US-India Business Council
Donald Trump November 28, 2019 Flag of Afghanistan (2013-2021).svg Afghanistan BagramVisited with U.S military personnel serving in Eastern Afghanistan.
February 24–25, 2020Flag of India.svg  India Ahmedabad, Agra, New DelhiMet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Attend Namaste Trump Event at Sardar Patel Stadium. Visited the Taj Mahal at Agra.
Joe Biden September 8–10, 2023New DelhiAttended the 2023 G20 summit.

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  2. Travels of President Lyndon B. Johnson U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
  3. "Travels of President Richard M. Nixon". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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