How many countries have embassies or consulates in the United States?
To answer your question, we went straight to the web site of the U.S. State Department. We figured they ought to know who has an embassy in the country and who doesn’t. We compared several different lists on the State Department’s site, conferring with another site, and did some math to discover that the answer depends on how you count. Either 176, 177, or 179 independent countries have an embassy or consulate in the U.S. We began with the State Department’s list of foreign embassies in the U.S. The list only includes embassies that have web sites so it isn’t complete. In addition, it lists web sites for several countries that do not have their own embassies or consulates in the United States. But the page did lead to a complete list of the 192 independent states of the world. That page lists each sovereign country, including the U.S., and notes wh
