Ambassadors from the United States

1. ^ ^{a b} The U.S. Ambassador to Spain—resident in Madrid—is also accredited to Andorra.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} One ambassador, accredited to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, is resident at Bridgetown, Barbados.
3. ^ The United States does not currently maintain diplomatic relations with Bhutan.
4. ^ ^{a b} In 1989 the military government of Burma changed the name of the nation to Myanmar, but the United States government—and other Western governments—do not accept the name and still refer to the country as Burma in official usage. See Myanmar.
5. ^ The US has not had an ambassador to Burma since 1990.
6. ^ The United States has had no ambassador in Bangui since 2002. The embassy is currently operating with a chargé d’affaires and a minimal staff. Source: U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of State, CIA World Factbook
7. ^ ^{a b} One ambassador—resident in Antananarivo—is accredited to Madagascar and Comoros.
8. ^ At the present time, the U.S. Embassy in Brazzaville has no website. Source U.S. Department of State.
9. ^ The United States does not currently maintain diplomatic relations with Cuba. U.S. interests in Cuba are handled by the U.S. Interests section of the Embassy of Switzerland in Havana.
10. ^ The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is not recognized by the United Nations, the United States, nor any other country aside from Turkey.
11. ^ ^{a b c d e} One ambassador—resident at Suva—is accredited to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu. Source U.S. Embassy Suva.
12. ^ ^{a b} One ambassador—resident in Libreville—is accredited to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe. Source: U.S. State Department
13. ^ ^{a b} One ambassador—resident at Dakar—is accredited to Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.
14. ^ The United States does not currently maintain diplomatic relations Iran. U.S. interests in Iran are handled by the U.S. Interests section of the Embassy of Switzerland in Tehran.
15. ^ ^{a b} The U.S. Ambassador to Rome is also accredited to San Marino. The U.S. Embassy in Florence handles matters concerned with San Marino.
16. ^ The United States does not currently maintain diplomatic relations with North Korea. American citizens who travel to North Korea do so at their own risk and in some cases in violation of U.S. and/or UN sanctions.
17. ^ The US presence in Kosovo consists of an Office headed by a Chief of Mission.
18. ^ Ambassador Joseph Palmer II ended his mission in Libya on November 7, 1972. A series of Chargés d’Affaires maintained the embassy until 1980. Chargé William L. Eagleton was recalled on February 8, 1980, and the Tripoli embassy was closed on May 2, 1980. Source: U.S. State Department.
19. ^ The United States established an Interests Section in Tripoli on February 8, 2004. It became the U.S. Liaison Office on June 28, 2004, with Greg Berry as the Principal Officer. The Liaison Office was upgraded to a full embassy on May 31, 2006, with Charles O. Cecil as chargé d’affaires. As of December 2006, no ambassador has yet been appointed. Source: U.S. State Department, U.S. State Department.
20. ^ ^{a b} One ambassador—resident in Berne—is accredited to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
21. ^ ^{a b} One ambassador—resident at Colombo—is accredited to Maldives and Sri Lanka.
22. ^ ^{a b} One ambassador is accredited to Mauritius and Seychelles—resident in Port Louis, Mauritius.
23. ^ The United States has no formal diplomatic relations (exchange of ambassadors) with Monaco. The U.S. Consul General in Marseille, France, under the authority of the U.S. Ambassador to France, is formally accredited to Monaco. Source: Department of State: Background notes on Monaco, U.S. consulate in Marseille.
24. ^ ^{a b} One ambassador—resident in Wellington— is accredited to New Zealand and Samoa.
25. ^ ^{a b} One ambassador—resident in Manila—is accredited to the Philippines and Palau. Source: CIA World Factbook.
26. ^ ^{a b c} One ambassador—resident in Port Moresby—is accredited to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.
27. ^ The United States has no diplomatic relations with Somalia. The last ambassador to Somalia was James Keough Bishop when the embassy in Mogadishu was closed on January 5, 1991. Source: U.S State Department.
28. ^ The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum was closed on February 7, 1996. Timothy Michael Carney was the last ambassador to Sudan. The embassy was reopened on May 23, 2002, with Jeffrey Millington as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim. There has been no U.S. ambassador in Khartoum since then. Source U.S. Department of State.
29. ^ Ambassador Margaret Scobey was recalled February 2005 in protest of Rafik Hariri assassination. Ref: U.S. Department of State press release, Background notes on Syria, BBC News.
30. ^ The previous ambassador to Turkmenistan, Tracey Ann Jacobson is now commissioned to Tajikistan. A new ambassador to Turkmenistan has not yet been appointed. Source: United States Embassy in Ashgabat.
31. ^ The ambassador to the U.K. is known as the “Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s.”
32. ^ The United States does not recognize Western Sahara, nor does the US recognize Moroccan claims to sovereignty over Western Sahara. Sources: Western Sahara, Foreign relations of Western Sahara, Foreign relations of Morocco.

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