# Presidential palace

A presidential palace is the official residence of the president in some countries. Some presidential palaces were once the official residences to monarchs in former monarchies that were preserved during those states' transition into republics. Some other presidential palaces were once the official residencies of governors in former colonies or subnational divisions that were preserved during their transition to independent states.

## List
### Africa

UN member states :
| Country | Building | Notes |
| Algeria | El Mouradia, Algiers | |
| Angola | Presidential Palace, Luanda | |
| Benin | Palais de la Marina, Cotonou | |
| Botswana | State House, Gaborone | |
| Cape Verde | Palácio Presidencial, Praia | |
| Cameroon | The Unity Palace, Yaoundé | |
| Chad | Pink Palace [fr], N'Djamena | |
| Republic of the Congo | Palais du Peuple [fr], Brazzaville | |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Palais de la Nation, Kinshasa | |
| Djibouti | Presidential Palace, Djibouti City | |
| Egypt | Abdeen Palace, Cairo | |
| Egypt | Heliopolis Palace, Cairo | |
| Egypt | Koubbeh Palace, Cairo | |
| Egypt | Montaza Palace, Alexandria | |
| Egypt | Ras el-Tin Palace, Alexandria | |
| Equatorial Guinea | Malabo Government Building, Malabo | |
| Eritrea | Asmara President's Office, Asmara | |
| Ethiopia | National Palace, Addis Ababa | |
| Gabon | Presidential Palace, Libreville | |
| The Gambia | State House of the Gambia, Banjul | |
| Ghana | Jubilee House, Accra | |
| Guinea | Presidential Palace, Conakry | |
| Guinea-Bissau | Presidential Palace, Bissau | |
| Ivory Coast | Presidential Palace, Abidjan | |
| Ivory Coast | Presidential Palace, Yamoussoukro | |
| Kenya | State House, Nairobi | |
| Liberia | Executive Mansion, Monrovia | |
| Madagascar | Iavoloha Palace, Antananarivo | |
| Madagascar | Ambohitsorohitra Palace, Antananarivo | Ceremonial residence |
| Malawi | Kamuzu Palace, Lilongwe | |
| Mali | Presidential Palace, Bamako | |
| Mauritania | Presidential Palace, Nouakchott | |
| Mauritius | State House, Reduit | |
| Mozambique | Palácio da Ponta Vermelha, Maputo | |
| Namibia | State House of Namibia, Windhoek | |
| Niger | Presidential Palace, Niamey | |
| Nigeria | Nigerian Presidential Complex, Abuja | |
| Rwanda | Urugwiro, Kigali | |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Presidential Palace, São Tomé | |
| Senegal | Presidential Palace, Dakar | |
| Seychelles | State House, Victoria | |
| Sierra Leone | State House, Freetown | |
| Somalia | Villa Somalia, Mogadishu | |
| Somaliland | Somaliland Presidential Palace, Hargeisa | |
| South Africa | Mahlamba Ndlopfu, Pretoria | |
| South Africa | King's House, Durban | |
| South Africa | Genadendal Residence, Cape Town | |
| South Sudan | Presidential Palace, Juba | |
| Sudan | Presidential Palace, Khartoum | |
| Tanzania | Ikulu, Dar es Salaam | |
| Togo | Palace of the Governors, Lomé | |
| Tunisia | Carthage Palace, Tunis | |
| Uganda | State House, Kampala | |
| Uganda | State House, Entebbe | |
| Zambia | State House, Lusaka | |
| Zimbabwe | State House, Harare, State House, Bulawayo | Current residence |
| Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe House, Harare | Current residence |
| Zimbabwe | Blue Roof, Harare | Former residence |

### Americas

| Country | Building | Notes |
| Argentina | Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires | Government office |
| Argentina | Quinta de Olivos, Buenos Aires Province | Official residence |
| Barbados | State House, Bridgetown | Official residence |
| Bolivia | Casa Grande del Pueblo, La Paz | |
| Brazil | Palácio da Alvorada, Brasília | Official residence |
| Brazil | Palácio do Planalto, Brasília | Official workplace |
| Chile | La Moneda Palace, Santiago | Official office |
| Chile | Palacio Presidencial de Cerro Castillo, Viña del Mar | Summer residence |
| Colombia | Casa de Nariño, Bogotá | Official residence |
| Costa Rica | Casa Presidencial, San José | |
| Cuba | Presidential Palace, Havana | Has been a museum since 1959 |
| Cuba | Palacio de la Revolucion, Havana | |
| Dominica | Government House, Roseau | |
| Dominican Republic | National Palace, Santo Domingo | |
| Ecuador | Carondelet Palace, Quito | |
| El Salvador | Casa Presidencial, San Salvador | |
| Guatemala | National Palace, Guatemala City | |
| Guyana | State House, Georgetown | |
| Haiti | National Palace, Port-au-Prince | |
| Honduras | Presidential Palace, Tegucigalpa | |
| Mexico | National Palace, Mexico City | Official residence |
| Nicaragua | Presidential Palace, Managua | |
| Nicaragua | House of Peoples, Managua | |
| Panama | Palacio de las Garzas, Panama City | |
| Paraguay | Palacio de los López, Asunción | |
| Peru | Government Palace, Lima | |
| Suriname | Gouvernementsgebouw, Paramaribo | |
| Trinidad and Tobago | President's House, Port of Spain | |
| United States | White House, Washington, D.C. | Official residence |
| Uruguay | Executive Tower, Montevideo | Government office |
| Uruguay | Residencia de Suárez, Montevideo | Official residence |
| Venezuela | Miraflores Palace, Caracas | Government office |
| Venezuela | La Casona | Official residence |

### Asia

| Country | Building | Notes |
| Afghanistan | Arg, Kabul | Meeting place of the Cabinet of Afghanistan |
| Armenia | President's House, Yerevan | |
| Azerbaijan | Zagulba Presidential Residence, Baku | Built in 2008 |
| Bangladesh | Bangabhaban, Dhaka | Built in 1905 |
| China | Zhongnanhai, Beijing | Headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party |
| China | Presidential Palace, Guangzhou | Destroyed in 1922, rebuilt as Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall |
| China | Presidential Palace, Nanjing | Former residence from 1927 to 1949, now a museum |
| Cyprus | Presidential Palace, Nicosia | |
| East Timor | Nicolau Lobato Presidential Palace, Dili | |
| India | Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi | Official residence |
| India | Rashtrapati Nilayam, Hyderabad | Winter retreat |
| India | Rashtrapati Niwas, Shimla | Summer retreat |
| India | The Retreat Building, Shimla | Summer retreat |
| Indonesia | Istana Merdeka, Jakarta | |
| Indonesia | Istana Negara, Jakarta | |
| Indonesia | Istana Cipanas, Cipanas | |
| Indonesia | Istana Bogor, Bogor | |
| Indonesia | Gedung Agung, Yogyakarta | |
| Indonesia | Istana Tampaksiring, Bali | |
| Iran | Sa'dabad Palace, Tehran; Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran | |
| Iraq | Radwaniyah Palace, Baghdad | |
| Israel | Beit HaNassi, Jerusalem | |
| Kazakhstan | Ak Orda Presidential Palace, Astana | |
| North Korea | Ryongsong Residence, Pyongyang | Current residence |
| North Korea | Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, Pyongyang | Former residence |
| South Korea | Presidential Residence of South Korea, Seoul | Current residence |
| South Korea | Blue House, Seoul | Former residence |
| Kyrgyzstan | White House, Bishkek | |
| Kyrgyzstan | Ala Archa State Residence, Bishkek | Current residence |
| Laos | Presidential Palace, Vientiane | |
| Lebanon | Baabda Palace, Beirut | |
| Maldives | Muliaage, Malé | Built in 1914, as the royal palace for Crown Prince Izzuddin |
| Mongolia | Government Palace, Ulan Bator | Also seat of government |
| Myanmar | Presidential Palace, Naypyidaw | Presidential residence and office |
| Nepal | Rastrapati Bhawan, Kathmandu | |
| Pakistan | Aiwan-e-Sadr, Islamabad | |
| State of Palestine | Mukataa | |
| Philippines | Malacañang Palace, Manila | Official residence and workplace |
| Singapore | Istana, Singapore | |
| Sri Lanka | President's House, Colombo | |
| Sri Lanka | President's Pavilion, Kandy | |
| Syria | Presidential Palace, Damascus | |
| Syria | Tishreen Palace, Damascus | |
| Taiwan | Presidential Office Building, Taipei | |
| Tajikistan | Palace of Nations, Dushanbe | |
| Turkey | Presidential Compound (Turkey) | |
| Turkmenistan | Oguzkhan Palace, Ashgabat | |
| Uzbekistan | Ok Saroy Presidential Palace, Tashkent | Former residence |
| Uzbekistan | Durmen | Former residence |
| Uzbekistan | Kuksaroy Presidential Palace, Tashkent | Current residence |
| United Arab Emirates | Qasr Al Watan, Abu Dhabi | Seat of government |
| Vietnam | Presidential Palace, Hanoi | |
| Yemen | Presidential Palace, Sanaa | |

### Europe

| Country | Building | Notes |
| Albania | Presidential Palace of Tirana | |
| Austria | Hofburg Palace, Vienna | |
| Belarus | Presidential Palace, Minsk | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Presidency Building, Sarajevo | |
| Bulgaria | Presidential Palace, Sofia | |
| Croatia | Presidential Palace, Zagreb | |
| Czech Republic | Prague Castle, Prague | Main residence |
| Czech Republic | Lány Castle, Lány | Secondary residence |
| Estonia | Presidential Palace, Tallinn | |
| Finland | Presidential Palace, Helsinki | |
| France | Élysée Palace, Paris | |
| Germany | Bellevue Palace, Berlin | Primary residence |
| Germany | Villa Hammerschmidt, Bonn | Secondary residence |
| Georgia | Orbeliani Presidential Palace, Tbilisi | |
| Greece | Presidential Mansion, Athens | |
| Hungary | Sándor Palace, Budapest | |
| Iceland | Bessastaðir, Álftanes | |
| Republic of Ireland | Áras an Uachtaráin, Dublin | Formerly the seat of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (British viceroy) |
| Italy | Quirinal Palace, Rome | |
| Latvia | Riga Castle, Riga | |
| Lithuania | Presidential Palace, Vilnius | |
| North Macedonia | Villa Vodno, Skopje | |
| Malta | San Anton Palace, Attard | Official residence |
| Malta | Verdala Palace, Siġġiewi | Summer residence |
| Moldova | Presidential Palace, Chișinău | |
| Montenegro | Blue Palace, Cetinje | |
| Poland | Presidential Palace, Warsaw | Official workplace |
| Poland | Belweder, Warsaw | Official residence |
| Portugal | Belém Palace, Lisbon | |
| Romania | Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest | |
| Russia | Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow | Ceremonial residence |
| Russia | Kremlin Senate, Moscow | Working residence |
| Serbia | Novi Dvor, Belgrade | |
| Slovakia | Grassalkovich Palace, Bratislava | Official workplace |
| Slovakia | Hohenlohe Hunting Lodge | Recreational residence |
| Slovenia | Presidential Palace, Ljubljana | Also seat of government |
| Switzerland | No official presidential residence. | Seat of the government in the Federal Palace of Switzerland |
| Ukraine | Mariinskyi Palace, Kyiv | |

### Oceania

| Country | Building | Notes | Image |
| Fiji | Government House, Suva | | |
| Palau | Capitol of Palau Executive Building | | |