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Countries hosting an American diplomatic mission US Embassy US Interests Section in Swiss Embassy American Institute in Taiwan
Benjamin Franklin established the first overseas mission of the United States in Paris in 1779. In the period following the American Revolution, George Washington sent a number of close advisers to the courts of European potentates in order to garner recognition of American independence with mixed results, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Francis Dana and John Jay [1]. Much of the first fifty years of the Department of State concerned negotiating with imperial European powers over the territorial integrity of the borders of the United States as known today.
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the State Department was concerned with expanding commercial ties in Asia, establishing Liberia, foiling diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy and securing its presence in North America. The Confederacy had diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Papal States, Russia, Mexico and Spain, and consular missions in Ireland, Canada, Cuba, Italy, Bermuda, Nassau and New Providence and Texas.[1]
America's global preeminence became evident in the twentieth century, and the State Department was required to invest in a large network of diplomatic missions to manage its bilateral and multilateral relations.[2]
Listed below are American embassies and other diplomatic missions around the world. The US has coined some of its consulates as "American Presence Posts", to provide chiefly consular services.
Europe
North America
 Antigua and Barbuda
 Barbados
 Bahamas
 Belize
 Canada
 Costa Rica
 Cuba
 Dominican Republic
 El Salvador
 Grenada
 Guatemala
 Haiti
 Honduras
 Jamaica
 Mexico
- Mexico City (Embassy)
- Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (Consulate General)
- Guadalajara, Jalisco (Consulate General)
- Monterrey, Nuevo León (Consulate General)
- Tijuana, Baja California (Consulate General)
- Hermosillo, Sonora (Consulate)
- Matamoros, Tamaulipas (Consulate)
- Mérida, Yucatán (Consulate)
- Nogales, Sonora (Consulate)
- Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas (Consulate)
- Acapulco, Guerrero (Consular Agency)
- Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur (Consular Agency)
- Cancún, Quintana Roo (Consular Agency)
- Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila (Consular Agency)
- Cozumel, Quintana Roo (Consular Agency)
- Ixtapa, Guerrero (Consular Agency)
- Mazatlán, Sinaloa (Consular Agency)
- Oaxaca, Oaxaca (Consular Agency)
- Piedras Negras, Coahuila (Consular Agency)
- Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco (Consular Agency)
- Reynosa, Tamaulipas (Consular Agency)
- San Luis Potosí, SLP (Consular Agency)
- San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato (Consular Agency)
 Nicaragua
 Panama
 Trinidad and Tobago
South America
Middle East
Africa
Asia
Oceania
Multilateral Organisations
See also
References
- ^ Confederate States of America
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