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A presidential palace is the official residence of the president in some countries. Some presidential palaces were once the official residences to monarchs in former monarchies that were preserved during those states' transition into republics. Some other presidential palaces were once the official residencies to governors in former colonies or subnational divisions that were preserved during their transition to independent states.[1]

List

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Africa

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UN member states
Country Building Notes Image
Algeria El Mouradia, Algiers
Angola Presidential Palace, Luanda [2]
Benin Palais de la Marina, Cotonou [3]
Botswana State House, Gaborone [4]
Cape Verde Palácio Presidencial, Praia
Cameroon The Unity Palace, Yaoundé
Republic of the Congo Palais du Peuple [fr], Brazzaville
Democratic Republic of the Congo Palais de la Nation, Kinshasa [5]
Côte d'Ivoire Presidential Palace, Abidjan
Presidential Palace, Yamoussoukro
Djibouti Presidential Palace, Djibouti City [6]
Egypt Abdeen Palace, Cairo
Heliopolis Palace, Cairo
Koubbeh Palace, Cairo
Montaza Palace, Alexandria
Ras el-Tin Palace, Alexandria
Equatorial Guinea Malabo Government Building, Malabo
Eritrea Asmara President's Office, Asmara
Ethiopia National Palace, Addis Ababa
Gabon Presidential Palace, Libreville [7]
The Gambia State House of the Gambia, Banjul
Ghana Jubilee House, Accra
Guinea Presidential Palace, Conakry
Guinea-Bissau Presidential Palace, Bissau [8]
Kenya State House, Nairobi
Liberia Executive Mansion, Monrovia [9]
Madagascar Iavoloha Palace, Antananarivo
Ambohitsorohitra Palace, Antananarivo Ceremonial residence
Malawi Kamuzu Palace, Lilongwe
Mali Presidential Palace, Bamako [10]
Mauritania Presidential Palace, Nouakchott
Mauritius State House, Reduit
Mozambique Palácio da Ponta Vermelha, Maputo
Namibia State House of Namibia, Windhoek
Niger Presidential Palace, Niamey
Nigeria Nigerian Presidential Complex, Abuja
Rwanda Urugwiro, Kigali
São Tomé and Príncipe Presidential Palace, São Tomé [11]
Senegal Presidential Palace, Dakar [12]
Seychelles State House, Victoria
Sierra Leone State House, Freetown
Somalia Villa Somalia, Mogadishu
Somaliland Somaliland Presidential Palace, Hargeisa
South Africa Mahlamba Ndlopfu, Pretoria [13] [[File:Libertas, since 1994 known as Mahlamba Ndlopfu, in 1934 by Gerard Moerdijk designed as official residence in Pretoria for the state of the Union of South Africa. - panoramio.jpg|150px]]
King's House, Durban
Genadendal Residence, Cape Town
South Sudan Presidential Palace, Juba [14]
Sudan Presidential Palace, Khartoum
Tanzania Ikulu, Dar es Salaam
Togo Palace of the Governors, Lomé
Tunisia Carthage Palace, Tunis
Uganda State House, Kampala
State House, Entebbe [15]
Zambia State House, Lusaka [16]
Zimbabwe State House, Harare, State House, Bulawayo current residence
Zimbabwe House, Harare
Blue Roof, Harare former residence

Americas

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Country Building Notes Image
Argentina Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires Government office
Quinta de Olivos, Buenos Aires Province Official residence
Barbados State House, Bridgetown Official residence
Bolivia Casa Grande del Pueblo, La Paz
Brazil Palácio da Alvorada, Brasilia Official residence
Palácio do Planalto, Brasilia Official workplace
Chile La Moneda Palace, Santiago de Chile Official office
Palacio Presidencial de Cerro Castillo, Viña del Mar Summer residence
Colombia Casa de Nariño, Bogotá Official residence
Costa Rica Casa Presidencial, San José [17]
Cuba Presidential Palace, Havana Has been a museum since 1959
Palacio de la Revolucion, Havana
Dominica Government House, Roseau
Dominican Republic National Palace, Santo Domingo
Ecuador Carondelet Palace, Quito
El Salvador Casa Presidencial, San Salvador
Guatemala National Palace, Guatemala City
Guyana State House, Georgetown
Haiti National Palace, Port-au-Prince
Honduras Presidential Palace, Tegucigalpa [18]
Mexico National Palace, Mexico City Official residence
Nicaragua Presidential Palace, Managua [19]
House of Peoples, Managua
Panama Palacio de las Garzas, Panama City
Paraguay Palacio de los López, Asunción
Peru Government Palace, Lima
Suriname Gouvernementsgebouw, Paramaribo
Trinidad and Tobago President's House, Port of Spain
United States White House, Washington, D.C. Official residence
Uruguay Executive Tower, Montevideo Government office
Residencia de Suárez, Montevideo Official residence
Venezuela Miraflores Palace, Caracas Government office
La Casona Official residence

Asia

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Country Building Notes Image
Afghanistan Arg, Kabul Meeting place of the Cabinet of Afghanistan[20]
Armenia President's House, Yerevan
Azerbaijan Zagulba Presidential Residence, Baku Built in 2008
Bangladesh Bangabhaban, Dhaka Built in 1905
China Zhongnanhai, Beijing Headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party
Presidential Palace, Guangzhou Destroyed in 1922, rebuilt as Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall
Presidential Palace, Nanjing Former residence from 1927 to 1949, now a museum
Cyprus Presidential Palace, Nicosia
East Timor Nicolau Lobato Presidential Palace, Dili
India Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi Official residence
Rashtrapati Nilayam, Hyderabad Winter retreat
Rashtrapati Niwas, Shimla Summer retreat
The Retreat Building, Shimla
Indonesia Istana Merdeka, Jakarta
Istana Negara, Jakarta
Istana Cipanas, Cipanas
Istana Bogor, Bogor
Gedung Agung, Yogyakarta
Istana Tampaksiring, Bali
Iran Sa'dabad Palace, Tehran; Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran
Iraq Radwaniyah Palace, Baghdad
Israel Beit HaNassi, Jerusalem
Kazakhstan Ak Orda Presidential Palace, Astana
North Korea Ryongsong Residence, Pyongyang Current residence
Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, Pyongyang Former residence
South Korea Presidential Residence of South Korea, Seoul Current residence
Blue House, Seoul Former residence
Kyrgyzstan White House, Bishkek
Ala Archa State Residence, Bishkek Current residence
Laos Presidential Palace, Vientiane
Lebanon Baabda Palace, Beirut
Maldives Muliaage, Malé Built in 1914, as the royal palace for Crown Prince Izzuddin
Mongolia Government Palace, Ulan Bator Also seat of government
Myanmar Presidential Palace, Naypyidaw Presidential Residence and Office
Nepal Rastrapati Bhawan, Kathmandu
Pakistan Aiwan-e-Sadr, Islamabad
State of Palestine Mukataa
Philippines Malacañang Palace, Manila Official residence and workplace
Singapore Istana, Singapore
Sri Lanka President's House, Colombo
President's Pavilion, Kandy
Syria Presidential Palace, Damascus
Tishreen Palace, Damascus
Taiwan Presidential Office Building, Taipei
Tajikistan Palace of Nations, Dushanbe [21]
Turkey Presidential Compound (Turkey)
Turkmenistan Oguzkhan Palace, Ashgabat
Uzbekistan Ok Saroy Presidential Palace, Tashkent Former residence[22]
Durmen Former residence
Kuksaroy Presidential Palace, Tashkent Current residence
United Arab Emirates Qasr Al Watan, Abu Dhabi Seat of government[23]
Vietnam Presidential Palace, Hanoi
Yemen Presidential Palace, Sanaa

Europe

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Country Building Notes Image
Albania Presidential Palace of Tirana
Austria Hofburg Palace, Vienna
Belarus Presidential Palace, Minsk
Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Building, Sarajevo
Bulgaria Presidential Palace, Sofia
Croatia Presidential Palace, Zagreb
Czech Republic Prague Castle, Prague Main residence
The Lány Chateau, Lány Secondary residence
Estonia Presidential Palace, Tallinn
Finland Presidential Palace, Helsinki
France Élysée Palace, Paris
Germany Bellevue Palace, Berlin Primary residence
Villa Hammerschmidt, Bonn Secondary residence
Georgia Orbeliani Presidential Palace, Tbilisi
Greece Presidential Mansion, Athens
Hungary Sándor Palace, Budapest
Iceland Bessastaðir, Álftanes
Republic of Ireland Áras an Uachtaráin, Dublin
Italy Quirinal Palace, Rome
Latvia Riga Castle, Riga
Lithuania Presidential Palace, Vilnius
North Macedonia Villa Vodno, Skopje
Malta San Anton Palace, Attard Official residence
Verdala Palace, Siġġiewi Summer residence
Moldova Presidential Palace, Chișinău [24]
Montenegro Blue Palace, Cetinje
Poland Presidential Palace, Warsaw Official workplace
Belweder, Warsaw Official residence
Portugal Belém Palace, Lisbon
Romania Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest
Russia Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow Ceremonial residence
Kremlin Senate, Moscow Working residence
Serbia Novi Dvor, Belgrade
Slovakia Grassalkovich Palace, Bratislava Official workplace
Hohenlohe Hunting Lodge Recreational residence
Slovenia Presidential Palace, Ljubljana Also seat of government
Switzerland No official presidential residence. Seat of the government in the Federal Palace of Switzerland.
Ukraine Mariinskyi Palace, Kyiv

Oceania

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Country Building Notes Image
Fiji Government House, Suva [25]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Turkey's president moves into world's biggest palace costing £384 million". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
  2. ^ "Palace (in Angola)". Roctest Group. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  3. ^ "Palace (in Benin)". Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  4. ^ "Entrance to the Presidential Palace, Gaborone, Botswana". www.agefotostock.com. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Photo of Palais de la Nation, Kinshasa, DRC". Panoramio. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  6. ^ "Presidential Palaces Djibouti, Kenya iyo Somalia" (in Somali). somalinet. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  7. ^ "Landmarks in Gabon, Africa". USA Today. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  8. ^ "Guinea-Bissau Opens China-Funded Presidential Palace". Fox News. 6 July 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  9. ^ Executive Mansion in 'Terrible Condition' - Gongloe Raises Alarms, Heritage via AllAfrica.com, 2013-08-29. Accessed 2014-01-29.
  10. ^ "The Presidential Palace, Bamako, Mali". www.myspace.com. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
  11. ^ "Presidential Palace - Picture of Sao Tome Island". tripadvisor.co.uk. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  12. ^ "Presidential Palace Senegal". Wordpress. 2 September 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  13. ^ "Presidential Buildings".
  14. ^ "New Office of the President Opens in Juba". gurtong.net. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  15. ^ "State House of Uganda - History". statehouse.go.ug. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  16. ^ "State House of the Republic of Zambia". statehouse.gov.zm. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  17. ^ "Official website of the Casa Presidencial, Costa Rica" (in Spanish). www.presidencia.go.cr. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  18. ^ "Presidential palace from the hotel - Tegucigalpa". tripadvisor.com. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  19. ^ "Presidential Palace, Managua, Nicaragua - Tripomatic". tripomatic.com. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  20. ^ "3-Day Cabinet Meeting Held in Kandahar". TOLOnews. 24 March 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  21. ^ "The Tajik Presidential Palace in Dushanbe, Tajikistan". photobucket.com. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  22. ^ "Upmarket houses along road- Karimov to feel safer". www.uznews.net. 6 December 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  23. ^ "Qasr Al Watan". Qasr Al Watan. Retrieved 2019-04-21.
  24. ^ "Presidential Palace, Chisinau". www.virtualtourist.com. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  25. ^ "Guards at the Presidential Palace, Suva". beautifulpacific.com. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
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