# United States presidential visits to Northern Europe

Seven United States presidents have made presidential visits to Northern Europe. Richard Nixon became the first incumbent president to visit a Northern European country when he went to Iceland in 1973. The first trips were an offshoot of the general easing of the geo-political tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. To date, every nation in the region has been visited at least twice: Finland (7), Denmark (4), Latvia (3), Estonia (2), Iceland (2), Norway (2), Sweden (2), and Lithuania (2).

## Table of visits

| President | Dates | Countries | Locations | Key details |
| Richard Nixon | May 31 – June 1, 1973 | Iceland | Reykjavík | Met with President Kristján Eldjárn and Prime Minister Ólafur Jóhannesson and French President Georges Pompidou. |
| Gerald Ford | July 29 – August 2, 1975 | Finland | Helsinki | Attended opening session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Met with the Heads of State and Government of Finland, Great Britain, Turkey, West Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Also met with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Signed the Final Act of the Conference. |
| Ronald Reagan | October 9–12, 1986 | Iceland | Reykjavík | Summit meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Also met with President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir. |
| Ronald Reagan | May 25–29, 1988 | Finland | Helsinki | Met with President Mauno Koivisto and Prime Minister Harri Holkeri. |
| George H. W. Bush | September 8–9, 1990 | Finland | Helsinki | Summit meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Issued joint statement on the Persian Gulf crisis. Also met with President Mauno Koivisto. |
| George H. W. Bush | July 8–10, 1992 | Finland | Helsinki | Attended Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe summit meeting. |
| Bill Clinton | July 6, 1994 | Latvia | Riga | Met with the presidents of the Baltic states. |
| Bill Clinton | March 20–21, 1997 | Finland | Helsinki | Summit meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Also met with President Martti Ahtisaari. |
| Bill Clinton | July 11–12, 1997 | Denmark | Copenhagen | Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen. |
| Bill Clinton | November 1–2, 1999 | Norway | Oslo | State visit. Held discussions with Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik Attended commemorative ceremony for former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin; also met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel. |
| George W. Bush | June 14–15, 2001 | Sweden | Gothenburg | Attended U.S.-European Union Summit Meeting. Met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Göran Persson. |
| George W. Bush | November 22–23, 2002 | Lithuania | Vilnius | Met with the presidents of the Baltic states. Gave a historic speech in the Town Hall Square "Anyone who would choose Lithuania as an enemy has also made an enemy of the United States of America." |
| George W. Bush | May 6–7, 2005 | Latvia | Riga | Met with the presidents of the Baltic states. |
| George W. Bush | July 5–6, 2005 | Denmark | Kastrup, Fredensborg, Copenhagen | Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. |
| George W. Bush | November 27–28, 2006 | Estonia | Tallinn | Met with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. |
| George W. Bush | November 28–29, 2006 | Latvia | Riga | Attended the 19th NATO Summit Meeting. |
| Barack Obama | October 2, 2009 | Denmark | Copenhagen | Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Attended the 13th Olympic Congress meeting to lobby for Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. |
| Barack Obama | December 9–11, 2009 | Norway | Oslo | Met with King Harald V and Queen Sonja. Received the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| Barack Obama | December 17–19, 2009 | Denmark | Copenhagen | Attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009. |
| Barack Obama | September 4–5, 2013 | Sweden | Stockholm | Met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Also met with leaders of the Nordic countries. Attended an event honoring Raoul Wallenberg at the Great Synagogue of Stockholm. |
| Barack Obama | September 3–4, 2014 | Estonia | Tallinn | Met with the presidents of the Baltic states. Visited U.S. and Estonian members of the military. Delivered a speech at Tallinn Airport with Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas. |
| Donald Trump | July 15–16, 2018 | Finland | Helsinki | Attended the summit meeting with the Russian President Vladimir Putin. Also met with President Sauli Niinistö. |
| Joe Biden | July 10-12, 2023 | Lithuania | Vilnius | Attended the 2023 NATO Summit, met with the Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda. |
| Joe Biden | July 12-13, 2023 | Finland | Helsinki | Attended the U.S.–Nordic Leaders' Summit. Met with President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Petteri Orpo. |