List of state visits made by Carl XVI Gustaf

Since acceding to the throne of Sweden in 1973, Carl XVI Gustaf has made a number of state and official visits.[1] He usually hosts one or two visiting heads of state each year.

State visits abroad

Date[1] Country[1] Host[1]
8–10 October 1974 Norway King Olav V
19–21 December 1974 Finland President Urho Kekkonen
10–12 April 1975 Denmark Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik
10–12 June 1975 Iceland President Kristján Eldjàrn
8–10 July 1975 United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II
2–30 April 1976 United States President Gerald Ford
25–28 October 1976 Netherlands Queen Juliana
15–18 March 1977 Belgium King Baudouin I
7–15 June 1978 Soviet Union Chairman Leonid Brezhnev
11–15 September 1978 Yugoslavia President Josip Broz Tito
10–17 March 1979 West Germany President Walter Scheel
6–9 November 1979 Austria President Rudolf Kirchschläger
14–18 April 1980 Japan Emperor Hirohito
16–19 June 1980 France President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
9–14 February 1981 Tanzania President Julius Nyerere
20–24 February 1981 Saudi Arabia King Khalid
14–23 September 1981 China Government of China
17–23 January 1982 Mexico President José López Portillo
26 March–6 April 1982 Australia Governor-General Sir Zelman Cowen
22–25 March 1983 Spain King Juan Carlos I
22–25 August 1983 Finland President Mauno Koivisto
21–23 September 1983 Luxembourg Grand Duke Jean I
2–7 April 1984 Brazil President João Figueiredo
29 September–5 October 1986 Portugal President Mário Soares
1–6 November 1986 Egypt President Hosni Mubarak
23–26 June 1987 Iceland President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
14–19 March 1988 Canada Governor General Jeanne Sauvé
13–16 February 1989 New Zealand Governor-General Sir Paul Reeves
18–21 September 1989 Jordan King Hussein I
8–10 April 1991 Italy President Francesco Cossiga
2–4 May 1991 Vatican City Pope John Paul II
27–30 May 1991 Hungary President Árpád Göncz
7–9 April 1992 Ireland President Mary Robinson
22–24 April 1992 Estonia President Lennart Meri
9–11 September 1992 Latvia President Anatolijs Gorbunovs
15–16 October 1992 Lithuania President Vytautas Landsbergis
27–29 April 1993 Germany President Richard von Weizsäcker
7–9 June 1993 Norway King Harald V and Queen Sonja
22–24 September 1993 Poland President Lech Wałęsa
11–16 October 1993 India President Shankar Dayal Sharma and Mrs. Vimala Sharma
16–18 May 1995 Czech Republic President Václav Havel
12–15 March 1996 Malaysia Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Jaafar
28–30 August 1996 Finland President Martti Ahtisaari
2–5 December 1996 Chile President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
18–20 February 1997 South Africa President Nelson Mandela
3–6 November 1998 Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano
26–19 April 1999 Greece President Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
9–11 November 2000 Bulgaria President Petar Stoyanov
8–11 May 2001 Belgium King Albert II
8–11 November 2001 Russia President Vladimir Putin
3–5 April 2002 Slovakia President Rudolf Schuster
5–7 November 2002 Mexico President Vicente Fox
25 February–1 March 2003 Thailand King Bhumibol Adulyadej
8–10 April 2003 Romania President Ion Iliescu
26–28 August 2003 Finland President Tarja Halonen
2–6 February 2004 Vietnam President Trần Đức Lương
7–9 February 2004 Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
15–17 June 2004 Slovenia President Janez Drnovšek
7–9 September 2004 Iceland President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
7–12 November 2005 Australia Governor-General Michael Jeffery
30 May–1 June 2006 Turkey President Ahmet Necdet Sezer
17–22 July 2006 China President Hu Jintao
24–27 October 2006 Canada Governor General Michaëlle Jean
26–31 March 2007 Japan Emperor Akihito
9–11 May 2007 Denmark Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik
20–22 November 2007 Austria President Heinz Fischer
5–7 May 2008 Portugal President Cavaco Silva[2]
30 September–3 October 2008 Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko[3]
24–27 March 2009 Italy President Giorgio Napolitano[4]
21–23 April 2009 Netherlands Queen Beatrix[5]
23–26 March 2010 Brazil President Lula da Silva[6]
22–25 March 2011 Botswana President Ian Khama [7][8]
4–6 May 2011 Poland President Bronisław Komorowski[9][10][11]
30 May–1 June 2012 South Korea President Lee Myung-bak
16–18 April 2013 Croatia President Ivo Josipović
25–26 March 2014 Latvia President Andris Bērziņš
2–4 December 2014 France President François Hollande
3–5 March 2015 Finland President Sauli Niinistö
7–9 October 2015 Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaitė
8–10 June 2016 Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema
5–8 October 2016 Germany President Joachim Gauck and Mrs. Daniela Schadt
3–6 April 2017 Brazil President Michel Temer and Mrs. Marcela Temer
22–24 May 2017 Indonesia President Joko Widodo and Mrs. Iriana Joko Widodo
22–24 May 2019 Ireland President Michael D Higgins and Mrs. Sabina Higgins
14–15 June 2019 South Korea President Moon Jae-in
2–6 December 2019 India President Ram Nath Kovind and Mrs. Savita Kovind[12]
17-17 November 2022 Jordan King Abdullah II and Queen Rania
2–4 May 2023 Estonia President Alar Karis and Mrs. Sirje Karis[13]
5 May 2023 United Kingdom King Charles III[14]
12–14 March 2024 Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Mrs. Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller[15]
19-21 November 2024 Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam
June 2025 Finland President Alexander Stubb, first lady Suzanne Innes-Stubb and Former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt
1 October 2025 Belgium NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte[16]
18 November 2025 Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney[17]

Number of State Visits by country

Countries State Visits Notes
Finland 6 1974, 1983, 1996, 2003, 2015, 2025
Belgium 3 1977, 2001, 2025
Canada 3 1988, 2006, 2025
Iceland 3 1975, 1987, 2004
Mexico 3 1982, 2002, 2024
Brazil 3 1984, 2010, 2017
Germany 3[a] 1979, 1993, 2016
Norway 2 1974, 1993
Denmark 2 1975, 2007
Estonia 2 1992, 2023
United Kingdom 2 1975, 2023
Netherlands 2 1976, 2009
Austria 2 1979, 2007
Japan 2 1980, 2007
France 2 1980, 2014
China 2 1981, 2006
Australia 2 1982, 2005
Portugal 2 1986, 2008
Jordan 2 1989, 2022
South Korea 2 2012, 2019
United States 1 1976
Soviet Union 1 1978
Yugoslavia 1 1978
Tanzania 1 1981
Saudi Arabia 1 1981
Spain 1 1983
Luxembourg 1 1983
Holy See 1 1991
Hungary 1 1991
Czech Republic 1 1995
Malaysia 1 1996
Chile 1 1996
South Africa 1 1997
Mozambique 1 1998
Greece 1 1999
Bulgaria 1 2000
Slovakia 1 2002
Thailand 1 2003
Romania 1 2003
Vietnam 1 2004
Brunei 1 2004
Slovenia 1 2004
Turkey 1 2006
Ukraine 1 2008
Botswana 1 2011
Croatia 1 2013
Bhutan 1 2016
Indonesia 1 2017
Singapore 1 2024
Egypt 1 1986

See also

Notes

  1. ^ One was made to West Germany before the unification of Germany.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "State Visits". Swedish Royal Court.
  2. ^ Royal Swedish Court (Swedish), May 2008 archives : several articles about state visit to Portugal : Gala dinner Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Royal Swedish Court (Swedish), October 2008 archives : several articles about state visit to Ukraine
  4. ^ Royal Swedish Court (Swedish), March 2009 archives : several articles about state visit to Italy
  5. ^ Royal Swedish Court (Swedish), April 2009 archives : several articles about state visit to Netherlands : Gala dinner
  6. ^ Royal Swedish Court (Swedish), March 2010 archives : several articles about state visit to Brazil
  7. ^ Royal Swedish Court (Swedish), State visit in Botswana, Day 1
  8. ^ State visit in Botswana, Day 2
  9. ^ Royal Swedish Court (Swedish), State visit in Poland, Day 1
  10. ^ State visit in Poland, Day 2
  11. ^ State visit in Poland, Day 3
  12. ^ Visit of the King and Queen of Sweden to India (2-6 December 2019).
  13. ^ [https://www.kungahuset.se/english/archive/press-releases/2023-03-21-state-visit-to-estonia/ State Visit to Estonia.
  14. ^ "Officiella program". Swedish Royal Court (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  15. ^ url=https://www.kungahuset.se/arkiv/nyheter/2024-03-12-statsbesok-till-mexiko
  16. ^ https://www.nato.int/en/multimedia/multimedia/photos/2025/10/01/the-king-of-sweden-visits-nato
  17. ^ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/swedish-royal-family-canada-state-visit-9.6982815
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