List of international prime ministerial trips made by Jawaharlal Nehru

The following is a list of international prime ministerial trips made by Jawaharlal Nehru during his tenure as the Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964.

List

Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
United States	Washington DC New York City Chicago Knoxville, Tennessee San Francisco Madison, Wisconsin	11–15 October 1949	State visit	[1]
Canada	Vancouver	22–26 October 1949	State visit	[1][2]
Ireland	Curragh Racecourse	1949		[3]
Indonesia	Jakarta	June 1950
Nepal		16-18 June 1951		[4]
United Kingdom	London	May 1953	Coronation of Elizabeth II	[4]
Egypt		23–25 June 1953
Pakistan	Karachi	25–27 July 1953		[5]
Italy		1953
Switzerland	Bürgenstock	1953
Ceylon	Colombo	28 April 1954	Colombo Conference
Indonesia	Bogor	29 December 1954	Colombo Powers Conference	[6]
China	Beijing Shanghai Nanjing Guangzhou Anshan Hankow Mukden Dairen [7]	19−31 October 1954		[4][8][7]
British Hong Kong	Hong Kong
North Vietnam	Hanoi	October 1954		[9]
South Vietnam	Saigon	October 1954		[9]
Laos	Vientiane	October 1954		[9]
Cambodia	Phnom Penh Angkor Wat	October 1954		[9]
Burma		December 1954		[4]
Thailand		December 1954		[4]
Indonesia	Jakarta	December 1954		[4]
Malaya		December 1954		[4]
Egypt	Cairo	February 1955
France	Paris	February 1955		[10]
Indonesia	Bandung	18−24 April 1955	Bandung Conference
Soviet Union	Moscow Yekaterinburg Almaty Ukrainian SSR Turkmen SSR others	7–23 June 1955	State visit	[11]
Yugoslavia	Zenica Jablanica Belgrade Sarajevo Dubrovnik	June–July 1955		[4]
Poland	Warsaw	25–28 June 1955		[4][12]
Czechoslovakia		June–July 1955		[4]
Austria		June–July 1955		[4]
Italy	Rome	June–July 1955		[4]
Egypt		June–July 1955		[4]
Saudi Arabia		1955	State visit	[13]
Syria		June 1956
West Germany	Bonn	14 July 1956		[14]
Ireland		June–July 1956		[4]
France		June–July 1956		[4]
Yugoslavia		June–July 1956		[4]
Greece		June–July 1956		[4]
Egypt		June–July 1956		[4]
Lebanon		June–July 1956		[4]
United States	Washington, D.C. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania	16–20 December 1956	State visit	[1]
Ceylon		May 1957
Syria		June 1957		[4]
Denmark		June 1957		[4]
Finland	Helsinki Mänttä	June 1957		[4]
Norway		June 1957		[4]
Sweden		June 1957		[4]
Egypt		July 1957		[4]
Netherlands		July 1957		[4]
Sudan	Khartoum	July 1957		[4]
Japan	Tokyo Hiroshima Osaka	October 1957		[4]
Burma	Rangoon	16−17 October 1957		[15]
Nigeria		1957		[16]
Sikkim	Gangtok Nathu La	16 September 1958		[17]
Bhutan		September 1958		[18]
Tibet	Yatung Paro	October 1958
Nepal		11-14 June 1959		[4]
Iran	Tehran	September 1959		[19]
Turkey	Istanbul	20–24 May 1960		[20]
Lebanon	Beirut	24 May 1960		[20]
United Arab Republic	Cairo	17 June 1960		[21]
Pakistan	Karachi Murree Nathiagali Rawalpindi Lahore	19–23 September 1960		[5]
United States	New York City	26 September 1960	UN General Assembly	[1]
Soviet Union		1961		[4]
United States	Newport, Rhode Island New York City Los Angeles	6–10, 17 November 1961	State visit	[1]
Mexico		14–17 November 1961	State visit	[1]
United Arab Republic	Cairo	18 November 1961	Meeting with Nasser and Tito	[22]
Ceylon		1962	State visit	[23]
Nigeria		23–26 September 1962

See also

• List of international prime ministerial trips made by Indira Gandhi

Footnotes

1. "India - Visits by Foreign Leaders - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
2. "India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and his daughter, Indira Gandhi, visited Vancouver in 1949 (PHOTOS)".
3. "Narendra Modi in Ireland: Why a small European country is important to India". The Indian Express. 23 September 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
4. Misra, O. P. (1 January 1995). Economic Thought of Gandhi and Nehru: A Comparative Analysis. India: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd. pp. 60–61. ISBN 9788185880716. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
5. "Visits to Pakistan by Indian Prime Ministers". Retrieved 15 December 2015.
6. "Colombo Powers Conference".
7. Grantham, Alexander (2012). Via ports : from Hong Kong to Hong Kong (New ed.). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. p. 176. ISBN 9789888083855.
8. "When India's First Prime Minister Visited China in 1954".
9. "Jawaharlal Nehru, 'Note on Visit to China and Indo-China'" (PDF). 15 November 1954.
10. "Nehru to Visit Paris".
11. "Nehru's Soviet sojourn". The Hindu. 11 July 2015. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
12. "Nehru On Visit To Poland".
13. "Saudis roll out red carpet to Manmohan". The Hindu. 28 February 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
14. "Nehru Visit".
15. "Burma: Nehru In Rangoon".
16. Thakur, A.K.; Mukhopadhayay, D. (2010). Economic Philosophy of Jawaharlal Nehru. Deep & Deep Publications. p. 201. ISBN 9788184502725. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
17. "Nehru's Visit to Bhutan" (PDF).
18. "PM's foreign visits may be a record of sorts". Retrieved 15 December 2015.
19. http://mea.gov.in/Portal/ForeignRelation/India_Iran_Bilateral_brief.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
20. "Nehru in Beirut".
21. "Jawaharlal Nehru with Gamal Abdel Nasser on his Visit to Cairo".
22. "Tito in Cairo for Talk with Nehru, Nasser".
23. "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Two Day State Visit to Sri Lanka Arrives in Colombo on Friday the Thirteenth". dbsjeyaraj.com. Retrieved 15 December 2015.