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The first American consulate in Japan was opened at the temple of Gyokusen-ji, Shimoda, Shizuoka under Consul General Townsend Harris.Gyokusen-ji is also the location of a small number of foreign graves dating from as early as 1854 marking the final resting place of U.S. forces personnel that died while serving as part of Commodore Matthew Perry's 'Black Ship' fleet.
U.S. Department of State Facilities and Areas of Jurisdictions. The United States has the second largest number of active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, [1] including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries, as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023 [2]).
The Embassy of the United States of America ... the new address for contact information and instead listed the official address as "U.S. Embassy Moscow 55,75566° N ...
The embassy is the oldest diplomatic mission of the United States. [2] Benjamin Franklin and some of the other Founding Fathers were the earliest U.S. ambassadors to France . [ 2 ] The chancery building is located at 2 Avenue Gabriel [ fr ] , on the northwest corner of the Place de la Concorde , in the 8th arrondissement of Paris .
The United States Department of State announced in January 2009 that it was choosing among nine architectural firms, all "modern" and "upmarket", to replace the ageing embassy headquarters. [27] In March 2009, the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations announced that four architectural firms had been selected for the ...
This is a list of foreign diplomatic missions located in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States. As of November 2024, the area hosts 41 consulates-general from 41 countries (Mexico has two). 38 are located in the city of San Francisco; there is one each in Palo Alto, Burlingame, and San Jose.
The Embassy of the United States, Beirut is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America located in the capital city of Beirut, Lebanon. After the American embassy in Baghdad , the embassy is anticipated to grow to be the second-largest in the world and take up a 43 acres (17 ha) site.
The Embassy of the United States of America in Berlin (German: Botschaft der Vereinigten Staaten in Berlin) is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the Federal Republic of Germany. It started in 1797, with the appointment of John Quincy Adams to Berlin, the capital of Prussia.