Overseas trips made by Elizabeth II
  United Kingdom
  10 visits or more
  9 visits
  8 visits
  7 visits
  6 visits
  5 visits
  4 visits
  3 visits
  2 visits
  1 visit

Elizabeth II undertook a number of state and official visits over her 70-year reign (1952 to 2022),[1] as well as trips throughout the Commonwealth, making her the most widely travelled head of state in history. She did not require a British passport for travelling overseas, as all British passports were issued in her name.[2]

Elizabeth II was the sovereign of more than one independent state and represented both Canada and the United Kingdom on state visits, though the former on just two occasions. The relevant governor-general usually carried out state visits on the Queen's behalf.

As Queen of Canada

DateCountryCities visitedHost
17–20 October 1957 United States[3][4][5][6][7]Jamestown, Washington, D.C., New York CityPresident Eisenhower
27 June and 6 July 1959 United States[5][7]Massena,[8] ChicagoVice President Nixon, Governor Stratton

As Queen of the United Kingdom

DateCountryCities visitedHost
29 November 1953 Panama Canal Zone
(part of a wider tour, not a state visit)
ColónGovernor John S. Seybold[9]
2930 November 1953 PanamaPanama CityPresident Remón[10]
1 May 1954 Kingdom of LibyaTobrukKing Idris[11]
2426 June 1955 NorwayOsloKing Haakon VII
810 June 1956 SwedenStockholmKing Gustaf VI Adolf[12]
1821 February 1957 PortugalMontijo, Setúbal, Lisbon, Queluz,[13] Caldas da Rainha, Nazaré, Alcobaça, Batalha, Vila Franca de Xira[14]President Lopes
811 April 1957 FranceParis, Lille[15]President Coty
2123 May 1957 DenmarkCopenhagenKing Frederick IX
17–20 October 1957 United States[16][17][18]New York City, Washington, D.C., Williamsburg, VirginiaPresident Eisenhower
2527 March 1958 NetherlandsAmsterdam, Delft, Rotterdam, The Hague[19][20][21]Queen Juliana
26 February  2 March 1961 Kingdom of NepalKathmandu, PokharaKing Mahendra
26 March 1961 Pahlavi IranTehran, Isfahan, Persepolis[22]Shah Mohammad Reza
25 May 1961 ItalyRome, Naples, Venice, Florence, Milan, Cagliari, Turin[23][24]President Gronchi
5 May 1961 Vatican CityPope John XXIII
23 November 1961 LiberiaMonroviaPresident Tubman
18 February 1965 Ethiopian EmpireAddis Ababa, Asmara, Gondar[25]Emperor Haile Selassie
812 February 1965 SudanKhartoum, Al-Ubayyid[26]President Mahi
1828 May 1965 West GermanyBonn, Königswinter, Koblenz, Kaub, Wiesbaden, Munich, Stuttgart, Marbach, Schwäbisch Hall, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Soest, Gütersloh, Hanover, Hamburg[27][28][29][30][31][32]President Lübke
27 May 1965 West BerlinWest Berlin[33]Mayor Brandt
913 May 1966 BelgiumBrussels, Antwerp[34]King Baudouin
511 November 1968 BrazilRecife, Salvador, Brasília, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro[35]President Costa e Silva
1118 November 1968 ChileSantiago, Valparaíso, Pucón[36]President Frei
510 May 1969 AustriaVienna, Salzburg, InnsbruckPresident Jonas
1825 October 1971 TurkeyAnkara, Izmir, Istanbul, Kuşadası, Ephesus, Gallipoli[37]President Sunay
1015 February 1972 ThailandBangkokKing Bhumibol Adulyadej
1314 March 1972 MaldivesMalé, GanPresident Nasir
1519 May 1972 FranceParisPresident Pompidou
1721 October 1972 YugoslaviaBelgrade, Dubrovnik, Zagreb[38][39][40]President Tito
1522 March 1974 IndonesiaBali, Jakarta, Magelang, Yogyakarta[41][42]President Suharto
24 February  1 March 1975 MexicoMexico City, Cozumel, Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Mérida, Tizimín, Veracruz[43]President Echeverría
712 May 1975 JapanTokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Ise[44][45][46]Emperor Hirohito
2528 May 1976 FinlandHelsinki, Turku, JyväskyläPresident Kekkonen
611 July 1976 United StatesPhiladelphia, Washington, New York City, New Haven, Charlottesville, Providence, Boston[47][48]President Ford
812 November 1976 LuxembourgGrand Duke Jean
9 February 1977 American Samoa
(part of a wider tour; not a state visit)
Pago Pago[49]Governor Frank E. Barnett
2226 May 1978 West GermanyBonn, Mainz, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Kiel[50][51]President Scheel
26 May 1978 West BerlinWest Berlin[50][51][52]Mayor Stobbe
1214 February 1979 KuwaitKuwait CityEmir Jaber III
1417 February 1979 BahrainEmir Isa
1720 February 1979 Saudi ArabiaRiyadh, Dhahran[53]King Khalid
2124 February 1979 QatarEmir Khalifa
2427 February 1979 United Arab EmiratesAbu Dhabi, Dubai[53]Sheikh Zayed
28 February  2 March 1979 OmanMuscat,[54] Nizwa[55]Sultan Qaboos
16 May 1979 DenmarkCopenhagen, Aalborg[56]Queen Margrethe II
29 April  2 May 1980  SwitzerlandBerne, Basel, Lausanne, Lucerne, Rütli, Montreux, Veytaux (Chillon Castle), Zurich, Geneva (ICRC)[57] · [58][59]President Chevallaz
1417 October 1980 ItalyRome, Genoa, Naples, Pompeii, Palermo[60]President Pertini
17 October 1980 Vatican CityPope John Paul II
2123 October 1980 TunisiaTunis, Borj El Amri[61]President Bourguiba
2527 October 1980 AlgeriaAlgiersPresident Bendjedid
2730 October 1980 MoroccoRabat, Marrakech, Casablanca[62]King Hassan II
58 May 1981 NorwayOsloKing Olav V
1722 February 1983 Mexico[63]Acapulco, Lázaro Cárdenas, Puerto Vallarta, La Paz[64]President de la Madrid
26 February  6 March 1983 United StatesSan Diego, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Sierra Madre, Duarte, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Sacramento, Stanford, Palo Alto, Yosemite, Seattle[65]President Reagan
2528 May 1983 SwedenStockholm, Gothenburg[66]King Carl XVI Gustaf
2630 March 1984 JordanAmman, Petra, Aqaba[67]King Hussein
2529 March 1985 PortugalLisbon, Évora, Porto[68]President Eanes
1721 February 1986   NepalKathmanduKing Birendra
1218 October 1986 People's Republic of ChinaBeijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Kunming, Guangzhou[69]President Li
2627 May 1987 West GermanyPresident von Weizsäcker[70]
1721 October 1988 SpainMadrid, Seville, Barcelona, Majorca[71]King Juan Carlos I
2527 June 1990 IcelandReykjavíkPresident Vigdís
23 November 1990 GermanyBonn, WeezePresident von Weizsäcker[72]
1426 May 1991 United StatesWashington, Arlington, Baltimore, Tampa, Miami, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston[73]President George H. W. Bush
912 June 1992 FranceParis, Blois, Bordeaux[74]President Mitterrand
1923 October 1992 GermanyBonn, Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden[75]President von Weizsäcker
47 May 1993 HungaryBudapest, Kecskemét, Bugac[76]President Göncz
7 August 1993 BelgiumBrussels (for King Baudouin's funeral)Albert, the Prince of Liège[77]
6 May 1994 FranceCalaisPresident Mitterrand[78]
1720 October 1994 RussiaMoscow, St. Petersburg[79]President Yeltsin
21 October 1994  Finland
(official visit; not state visit)
Helsinki[80] President Ahtisaari
2527 March 1996 PolandWarsaw, KrakówPresident Kwaśniewski
2729 March 1996 Czech RepublicPrague, Brno[81]President Havel
28 October  1 November 1996 ThailandBangkok, Ayutthaya[82]King Bhumibol Adulyadej
11 November 1998 BelgiumYpres[83]King Albert II[84]
1922 April 1999 South KoreaSeoul, Andong[85]President Kim Dae-jung
1619 October 2000 ItalyRome, Milan[86]President Ciampi
17 October 2000 Vatican CityPope John Paul II
30 May  1 June 2001 NorwayOsloKing Harald V
57 April 2004 FranceParis, Toulouse[87]President Chirac
2–4 November 2004 GermanyBerlin, Potsdam,[88] Düsseldorf[89]President Köhler
1617 October 2006 LithuaniaVilnius[90]President Adamkus
1819 October 2006 LatviaRiga[90]President Vike-Freiberga
1920 October 2006 EstoniaTallinn[90]President Ilves
5 February 2007 NetherlandsThe Hague, Amsterdam[91]Queen Beatrix
38 May 2007 United StatesWashington, Richmond, Jamestown, Williamsburg, Lexington, Louisville, Greenbelt[92]President George W. Bush
1112 July 2007 BelgiumBrussels, Ypres, Laeken,[93] Wavre[94]King Albert II
1316 May 2008 TurkeyAnkara, Istanbul, Bursa[37]President Gül
2122 October 2008 SloveniaLjubljana, Kranj[95]President Türk
2324 October 2008 SlovakiaBratislava, Starý Smokovec, Hrebienok, Poprad[96]President Gašparovič
2425 November 2010 United Arab EmiratesAbu DhabiSheikh Khalifa
2528 November 2010 OmanMuscatSultan Qaboos
1720 May 2011 IrelandDublin, Kildare, Cashel, Cork[97]President McAleese
3 April 2014 ItalyRomePresident Napolitano
3 April 2014 Vatican CityPope Francis
57 June 2014 FrancePresident Hollande[1]
23–26 June 2015 Germany[98]Berlin, Frankfurt, Celle[99]President Gauck

See also

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