List of international prime ministerial trips made by Jawaharlal Nehru

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The following is a list of international prime ministerial trips made by Jawaharlal Nehru during his tenure as the Prime Minister of India from August 1947 to May 1964. The first overseas visit was to the United States in October 1949.

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Map of international trips made by Jawaharlal Nehru as Prime Minister.

Summary of international trips[edit | edit source]

In his sixteen-year long tenure as the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru made 35 international trips, visiting 43 countries, including visits to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's visits by country
Number of visits	Country
1 visit (27)	Austria, Bhutan, British Hong Kong, Cambodia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iran, Japan, Laos, Malaya, Mexico, Netherlands, North Vietnam, Norway, Poland, Sikkim, South Vietnam, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, West Germany
2 visits (12)	Burma, China, France, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Soviet Union, Syria, Yugoslavia
3 visits (2)	Ceylon, Indonesia
4 visits (1)	United States
7 visits (1)	Egypt

1949[edit | edit source]

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
1	United States	Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, Knoxville, San Francisco, Madison	11–15 October 1949	State visit	^[1]

2	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Canada	Vancouver	22–26 October 1949	State visit, addressed the Parliament of Canada	^[1]^[2]

3	Ireland	Curragh Racecourse	1949		^[3]

1950[edit | edit source]

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
4	Indonesia	Jakarta	June 1950

1951[edit | edit source]

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
5	Template:Country data Kingdom of Nepal		16-18 June 1951		^[4]

1952[edit | edit source]

Prime Minister Nehru did not make any international trips in 1952.

1953[edit | edit source]

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
6	Error creating thumbnail: File missing United Kingdom	London	May 1953	Coronation of Elizabeth II	^[4]

7	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Egypt		23–25 June 1953

8	Pakistan	Karachi	25–27 July 1953		^[5]

9	Italy		1953
9	Switzerland	Bürgenstock	1953

1954[edit | edit source]

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
10	File:Flag of Ceylon 1951-1972.svg Ceylon	Colombo	28 April 1954	Colombo Powers' Conference

11	Error creating thumbnail: File missing North Vietnam	Hanoi	October 1954		^[6]
	South Vietnam	Saigon	October 1954		^[6]
	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Laos	Vientiane	October 1954		^[6]
	Cambodia	Phnom Penh, Angkor Wat	October 1954		^[6]
	China	Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Anshan, Hankow, Mukden, Dairen^[7]	19−31 October 1954		^[4]^[8]^[7]
	Template:Country data British Hong Kong	Hong Kong	19−31 October 1954		^[4]^[8]^[7]

12	Burma		December 1954		^[4]
	Thailand		December 1954		^[4]
	File:Flag of Malaya.svg Malaya		December 1954		^[4]
	Indonesia	Bogor	29 December 1954	Bogor Conference	^[9]

1955[edit | edit source]

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
13	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Egypt	Cairo	February 1955
13	France	Paris	February 1955		^[10]

14	Indonesia	Bandung	18−24 April 1955	Bandung Conference

15	Template:Country data Soviet Union	Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Almaty, Ukrainian SSR, Turkmen SSR	7–23 June 1955	State visit	^[11]
	Poland	Warsaw	25–28 June 1955		^[4]^[12]
	Template:Country data Yugoslavia	Zenica, Jablanica, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Dubrovnik	June–July 1955		^[4]
	Czechoslovakia		July 1955		^[4]
	Austria		July 1955		^[4]
	Italy	Rome	July 1955		^[4]
	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Egypt		July 1955		^[4]
	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Saudi Arabia		July 1955	State visit	^[13]

1956[edit | edit source]

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
16	Ireland		June–July 1956		^[4]
	France		June–July 1956		^[4]
	Template:Country data Yugoslavia		June–July 1956		^[4]
	Greece		June–July 1956		^[4]
	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Egypt		June–July 1956		^[4]
	Lebanon		June–July 1956		^[4]
	Template:Country data Syrian Republic		July 1956
	West Germany	Bonn	14 July 1956		^[14]

17	United States	Washington, D.C., Gettysburg	16–20 December 1956	State visit	^[1]

1957[edit | edit source]

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Notes
18	File:Flag of Ceylon 1951-1972.svg Ceylon		May 1957

19	Template:Country data Syrian Republic		June 1957	^[4]
	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Denmark		June 1957	^[4]
	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Finland	Helsinki, Mänttä	June 1957	^[4]
	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Norway		June 1957	^[4]
	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sweden		June 1957	^[4]
	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Egypt		July 1957	^[4]
	Netherlands		July 1957	^[4]
	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sudan	Khartoum	July 1957	^[4]

20	File:Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Japan	Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka	October 1957	^[4]

21	Burma	Rangoon	16−17 October 1957	^[15]

22	Nigeria		1957	^[16]

1958[edit | edit source]

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Notes
23	Template:Country data Kingdom of Sikkim	Gangtok, Nathu La	16 September 1958	^[17]
23	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bhutan		September 1958	^[18]

24	China	Yatung	October 1958

1959[edit | edit source]

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Notes
25	Template:Country data Kingdom of Nepal		11-14 June 1959	^[4]

26	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Iran	Tehran	September 1959	^[19]

1960[edit | edit source]

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
27	Turkey	Istanbul	20–24 May 1960		^[20]
27	Lebanon	Beirut	24 May 1960		^[20]

28	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Egypt	Cairo	17 June 1960		^[21]

29	Pakistan	Karachi, Murree, Nathiagali, Rawalpindi, Lahore	19–23 September 1960		^[5]

30	United States	New York City	26 September 1960	UN General Assembly	^[1]

1961[edit | edit source]

	Country	Areas visited	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
31	Template:Country data Soviet Union		1961		^[4]

32	United States	Newport, New York City, Los Angeles	6–10, 17 November 1961	State visit	^[1]

33	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mexico		14–17 November 1961	State visit	^[1]
33	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Egypt	Cairo	18 November 1961	Meeting with Gamal Abdel Nasser and Josip Broz Tito	^[22]

1962[edit | edit source]

	Country	Date(s)	Purpose	Notes
34	File:Flag of Ceylon 1951-1972.svg Ceylon	1962	State visit	^[23]

35	Nigeria	23–26 September 1962

References[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 "India - Visits by Foreign Leaders - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
↑ "India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and his daughter, Indira Gandhi, visited Vancouver in 1949 (PHOTOS)".
↑ "Narendra Modi in Ireland: Why a small European country is important to India". The Indian Express. 23 September 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
↑ ^4.00 ^4.01 ^4.02 ^4.03 ^4.04 ^4.05 ^4.06 ^4.07 ^4.08 ^4.09 ^4.10 ^4.11 ^4.12 ^4.13 ^4.14 ^4.15 ^4.16 ^4.17 ^4.18 ^4.19 ^4.20 ^4.21 ^4.22 ^4.23 ^4.24 ^4.25 ^4.26 ^4.27 ^4.28 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.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 "Visits to Pakistan by Indian Prime Ministers". Retrieved 15 December 2015.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 "Jawaharlal Nehru, 'Note on Visit to China and Indo-China'" (PDF). 15 November 1954.
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Grantham, Alexander (2012). Via ports : from Hong Kong to Hong Kong (New ed.). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. p. 176. ISBN 9789888083855.
↑ "When India's First Prime Minister Visited China in 1954".
↑ "Colombo Powers Conference".
↑ "Nehru to Visit Paris".
↑ "Nehru's Soviet sojourn". The Hindu. 11 July 2015. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
↑ "Nehru On Visit To Poland".
↑ "Saudis roll out red carpet to Manmohan". The Hindu. 28 February 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
↑ "Nehru Visit".
↑ "Burma: Nehru In Rangoon".
↑ Thakur, A.K.; Mukhopadhayay, D. (2010). Economic Philosophy of Jawaharlal Nehru. Deep & Deep Publications. p. 201. ISBN 9788184502725. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
↑ "Nehru's Visit to Bhutan" (PDF).
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↑ "Sorry for the inconvenience" (PDF). mea.gov.in. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
↑ ^20.0 ^20.1 "Nehru in Beirut".
↑ "Jawaharlal Nehru with Gamal Abdel Nasser on his Visit to Cairo".
↑ "Tito in Cairo for Talk with Nehru, Nasser".
↑ "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.

External links[edit | edit source]

Outgoing Visits – by Ministry of External Affairs
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel by Sumitha Narayanan Kutty and Walter C. Ladwig III

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 "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.

[Economic_Thought-4] 4.00 ^4.01 ^4.02 ^4.03 ^4.04 ^4.05 ^4.06 ^4.07 ^4.08 ^4.09 ^4.10 ^4.11 ^4.12 ^4.13 ^4.14 ^4.15 ^4.16 ^4.17 ^4.18 ^4.19 ^4.20 ^4.21 ^4.22 ^4.23 ^4.24 ^4.25 ^4.26 ^4.27 ^4.28 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.

[:1-5] 5.0 ^5.1 "Visits to Pakistan by Indian Prime Ministers". Retrieved 15 December 2015.

[Indochina-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 "Jawaharlal Nehru, 'Note on Visit to China and Indo-China'" (PDF). 15 November 1954.

[Hong_Kong_University_Press-7] 7.0 ^7.1 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] "Colombo Powers Conference".

[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".

[Saudis_roll_out_red_carpet_to_Manmohan-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".

[google-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] "Sorry for the inconvenience" (PDF). mea.gov.in. Retrieved 30 August 2025.

[Med-20] 20.0 ^20.1 "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.

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