# 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. He usually hosts one or two visiting heads of state each year.

## State visits abroad

| Date | Country | Host |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 30 September–3 October 2008 | Ukraine | President Viktor Yushchenko |
| 24–27 March 2009 | Italy | President Giorgio Napolitano |
| 21–23 April 2009 | Netherlands | Queen Beatrix |
| 23–26 March 2010 | Brazil | President Lula da Silva |
| 22–25 March 2011 | Botswana | President Ian Khama |
| 4–6 May 2011 | Poland | President Bronisław Komorowski |
| 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 |
| 2–6 December 2019 | India | President Ram Nath Kovind and Mrs. Savita Kovind |
| 2–4 May 2023 | Estonia | President Alar Karis and Mrs. Sirje Karis |
| 12–14 March 2024 | Mexico | President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Mrs. Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller |
| 19-21 November 2024 | Singapore | President Tharman Shanmugaratnam |

## Number of State Visits by country

| Countries | State Visits |
| Norway | 2 |
| Finland | 5 |
| Denmark | 2 |
| Estonia | 2 |
| Iceland | 3 |
| United Kingdom | 1 |
| United States | 1 |
| Netherlands | 2 |
| Belgium | 2 |
| Soviet Union | 1 |
| Yugoslavia | 1 |
| Germany | 2 |
| Austria | 2 |
| Japan | 2 |
| France | 2 |
| Tanzania | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| China | 2 |
| Mexico | 3 |
| Australia | 2 |
| Spain | 1 |
| Luxembourg | 1 |
| Brazil | 3 |
| Portugal | 2 |
| Canada | 2 |