Although the Philippine diplomatic mission network is wide, there are embassies that are accredited to other nations without Philippine diplomatic posts. The network as of May 2025 consists of 67 embassies, 28 consulates-general, 4 permanent missions to international organizations, and the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) in Taipei, and its 2 extension offices.
Although attempts at initial diplomatic relations were made during the Philippine Revolution and the time of the First Philippine Republic, most nations established diplomatic relations with the Philippines only in the years after the country achieved independence from the United States in 1946.
A number of missions were opened in the first years after independence. In his 1947 State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Manuel Roxas announced that missions in a number of other cities were also opened aside from the embassy in Washington, D.C.;[4] these included the first consulates general in New York City, San Francisco, and Honolulu, as well as consulates in Xiamen and Hong Kong.[5] Additional missions were opened the following year, including the first missions in Europe (in London, Madrid and Rome) and Latin America (in Buenos Aires).[6] By 1952, the Philippine foreign service had grown to encompass missions in 11 countries,[7] and by 1965 grew further to missions in 36 countries worldwide.[8]
The Philippines' diplomatic presence grew significantly during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, spurred in part by the normalization of relations with the Eastern Bloc in the early 1970s.[9] Philippine diplomatic missions were present in 43 countries by 1978,[10] with additional ones opening the following year, particularly in the Middle East.[11] By 1981, there were 63 countries worldwide hosting Philippine diplomatic missions.[12] Several missions, however, would be closed at the tail end of the Marcos presidency and in the years thereafter as part of a series of cost reduction programs.
Another expansion of the country's diplomatic presence took place during the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, with 67 countries hosting Philippine diplomatic missions by the end of her presidency. This, however, was not without controversy: in 2010 Senator Franklin Drilon questioned the need for embassies in countries with small Filipino communities, calling for a review of the Philippines' diplomatic presence worldwide.[13] Arroyo's successor, Benigno Aquino III, then announced two years later the closure of ten posts (seven embassies and three consulates general): Caracas, Venezuela; Koror, Palau; Dublin, Ireland; Stockholm, Sweden; Bucharest, Romania; Havana, Cuba; Helsinki, Finland; Barcelona, Spain; Frankfurt, Germany and Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.[14] These closures have since been largely reversed under Aquino's successors, Rodrigo Duterte and Bongbong Marcos, with the 2019 reopening of the consulate general in Frankfurt,[15] the 2020 reopening of the consulate general in Barcelona,[16] and shortly thereafter the reopening of the embassy in Sweden.[17] In 2024, the embassies in Finland, Ireland and Romania reopened after funding was approved by Congress, alongside the future reopening of the embassy in Cuba.[18] Even missions closed years earlier were reopened, such as the 2018 reopening of the consulate general in Houston 25 years after it was last closed.[19]
Aquino's successors have generally returned to an expansion of the Philippines' diplomatic presence abroad, including the opening of new missions where they did not exist previously. Under Duterte, the Philippines opened its embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark on January 14, 2019, the first new embassy to open since 2012,[20] while the first new consulate to open since 2012 opened in Istanbul, Turkey on January 2, 2020.[21] Under Bongbong Marcos, the first new mission to open during his presidency is the embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, which opened on October 7, 2024.[22]
Other missions likely to be opened include new embassies in Ethiopia,[23] Fiji,[24] Kazakhstan,[23] Panama,[25] and Ukraine,[26] as well as the reopening of embassies in Palau and Peru.[23][27]
^Bhutan is listed only under the consular jurisdiction of the Philippine Embassy in New Delhi. As of 2025, the two countries have yet to establish formal diplomatic relations.
^The Philippine Embassy to the Holy See is located outside Vatican territory in Rome.
^The embassy closed down on 29 April 1975, in the midst of the Fall of Saigon, which marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam.
^The Philippines closed its embassy in East Berlin upon the reunification of Germany in 1990, which saw the dissolution of the Democratic Republic of Germany. A new embassy opened in Berlin in 1999.
^The Philippine embassy to West Germany was previously located in Bonn. Following the reunification of Germany in 1990, the embassy for the unified Germany was still maintained in Bonn, until 1999, which saw the opening of a new embassy in Berlin. However, the chancery in Bonn housed an extension office which remained operational until 2008.
^"State of the Nation Address of President Roxas, January 27, 1947". Official Gazette. 27 January 1947. Retrieved 24 October 2021. Consistent with our new status as a Republic, we have organized a Foreign Affairs Department and a Foreign Service, and established an embassy at Washington and consular offices in a number of places abroad.
^"Official Week in Review: September 21 – September 27, 1973". Official Gazette. October 1973. Retrieved 12 November 2021. The Philippines and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) established formal diplomatic relations it was announced by the Department of Foreign Affairs. The Philippine-East German agreement is the first of four contemplated agreements with socialist countries of Eastern Europe which the President had specifically instructed Secretary of Foreign Affairs Carlos P. Romulo to negotiate.
^"Home". The Official website of the Philippine Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Egypt". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Argentina". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish). Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Embassy of the Philippines; Brasilia - DF, Brazil. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Brazil". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^ abcd"Canada". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa, Canada. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Official Site of the Philippine Consulate General Calgary. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
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^"Home". The Website of Philippine Consulate General of Toronto, Canada. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver, Canada. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Philippines General Consulate - Vancouver, Canada. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Santiago, Chile. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 24 October 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Chile". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Mexico, Mexico. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Mexico". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago, United States of America. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Consulate General of the Philippines - Chicago. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General in Agana, United States of America. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Philippine Consulate General in Agana, Guam. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General in Honolulu, Hawaii. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General in Houston, Texas. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Philippine Consulate General, New York. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Philippine Consulate General in New York. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Manama, Bahrain. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Bahrain". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Bangladesh". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Brunei". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Brunei, Brunei. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Cambodia". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^ abcdefg"China". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Beijing, China. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Philippine Embassy in China. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General Chongqing, China. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General in Guangzhou, China. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General in Hongkong SAR. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General in Macau, Macau. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General in Shanghai, China. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General Xiamen, China. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in New Delhi, India. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"India". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^ ab"Indonesia". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General Manado, Indonesia. Archived from the original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Iran". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Iraq". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Israel". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^ abc"Japan". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General Osaka, Japan. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Jordan". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Amman, Jordan. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Kuwait". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait, Kuwait. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Laos". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Vientiane, Laos. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Lebanon". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 6 September 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Embassy of the Philippines - Kuala Lumpur. Archived from the original on 4 April 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Malaysia". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Myanmar". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
^"Home". The Official website of the Philippine in Muscat, Oman. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Oman". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Embassy of the Philippines, Islamabad, Pakistan. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Pakistan". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Qatar". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Doha, Qatar. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^ ab"Saudi Arabia". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
^"Home". Embassy of the Philippines in Singapore. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Singapore". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Seoul, Korea. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 25 September 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Official Website of Embassy of the Philippines — South Korea (in English and Korean). Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Thailand". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Timor Leste". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Dili, Timor-Leste. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 25 December 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^ ab"Turkey". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 26 March 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Vietnam". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 21 April 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Vienna, Austria. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Austria". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Brussels, Belgium. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Belgium". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Philippine Embassy in Prague, Czech - Velvyslanectví Filipín v České republice (in English and Czech). Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 24 October 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Finland". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Paris, France. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 25 October 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"France". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^ ab"Germany". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Philippine Embassy in Berlin. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Consulate General in Frankfurt, Germany. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Consulate General of the Philippines; Frankfurt. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Greece". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Athens, Greece. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Vatican". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Hungary". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Budapest, Hungary. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Diplomatic List"(PDF). Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Ireland. October 2024. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
^ ab"Italy". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Rome, Italy. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of Philippine Consulate General in Milan, Italy. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Netherlands". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in The Hague, The Netherlands. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Portugal". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Russia". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Embassy of the Philippines Moscow, Russia. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^ ab"Spain". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Madrid, Spain. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". Official Philippine Embassy in Madrid. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in London, United Kingdom. Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^ abc"Australia". Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
^"Home". Embassy of the Philippines; Canberra, Australia. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^"Home". The Official Website of the Philippine Mission to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^ abcdSlomanson, William R. (2011). "Fundamental Perspectives on International Law; Sixth Edition". epdf.pub. p. 87. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022. In 1993, the Philippines announced that it would close its consulates in a number of US cities. It also closed its embassies in Cuba, Jordan, Micronesia, Morocco, Peru, Poland, Romania, Senegal, and Sri Lanka.
^"Bilateral Relations". The Official Website of the Philippine Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Archived from the original on 23 February 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
1 The Manila Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei is the representative office of the Philippines in Taiwan, which functions as an informal diplomatic mission.