Presidential palace

A Presidential Palace is the official residence of the president in some countries. However, some countries do not call the official residence of their head of state a "palace", or use the building only as a workplace separate from the president's actual home. Some presidential palaces were once the official residences to monarchs in former monarchies that were preserved during those states' transition into republics. The Cumhurbaşkanlığı Sarayı in the Turkish Republic is the world's largest Presidential Palace, four times that of Versailles.^[1]

List

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Africa

Country	Building	Notes	Image
Algeria	El Mouradia, Algiers
Angola	Presidential Palace, Luanda	[2]
Benin	Palais de la Marina, Cotonou	[3]
Botswana	Presidential Palace, Gaborone	[4]
Cape Verde	Palácio Presidencial, Praia
Cameroon	The Unity Palace, Yaoundé
Republic of the Congo	Palais du Peuple, Brazzaville	[5]
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Palais de la Nation, Kinshasa	[6]
Côte d'Ivoire	Presidential Palace, Abidjan
	Presidential Palace, Yamoussoukro
Djibouti	Presidential Palace, Djibouti City	[7]
Egypt	Heliopolis Palace, Cairo
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo Government Building, Malabo
Eritrea	Asmara President's Office, Asmara
Ethiopia	National Palace, Addis Ababa
Gabon	Presidential Palace, Libreville	[8]
Gambia	State House of the Gambia, Banjul
Ghana	The Flagstaff House, Accra
Guinea	Presidential Palace, Conakry
Guinea-Bissau	Presidential Palace, Bissau	[9]
Kenya	State House, Nairobi
Liberia	Executive Mansion, Monrovia	[10]
Madagascar	Iavoloha Palace, Antananarivo
	Ambohitsorohitra Palace, Antananarivo	Ceremonial residence
Malawi	Kamuzu Palace, Lilongwe
Mali	Presidential Palace, Bamako	[11]
Mauritania	Presidential Palace, Nouakchott
Mauritius	State House (Mauritius), Reduit
Mozambique	Palácio da Ponta Vermelha, Maputo
Namibia	State House of Namibia, Windhoek
Nigeria	Nigerian Presidential Complex, Abuja
Rwanda	Urugwiro, Kigali
São Tomé and Príncipe	Presidential Palace, São Tomé	[12]
Senegal	Presidential Palace, Dakar	[13]
Seychelles	State House, Victoria
Sierra Leone	State House, Freetown
Somalia	Villa Somalia, Mogadishu
South Africa	Mahlamba Ndlopfu, Pretoria
South Sudan	Presidential Palace, Juba	[14]
Sudan	Presidential Palace, Khartoum
Tanzania	State House, 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	Presidential Palace, Harare

Americas

Country	Building	Notes	Image
Argentina	Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires	Government Office
	Quinta de Olivos, Buenos Aires	Official Residence
Bolivia	Palacio Quemado, La Paz
Brazil	Palácio da Alvorada, Brasilia	Official residence
	Palácio do Planalto, Brasilia	Official workplace
Canada	24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa
Chile	La Moneda Palace, Santiago de Chile	Official office
	Palacio Presidencial de Cerro Castillo, Viña del Mar	Summer residence
Colombia	Casa de Nariño, Bogotá
Costa Rica	Casa Presidencial, San José	[17]
Cuba	Presidential Palace (former), Havana	Has been a museum since 1959
Dominica	Government House, Roseau
Dominican Republic	National Palace in 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	Los Pinos	Official residence
	National Palace	Official office
Nicaragua	Presidential Palace, Managua	[19]
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.
Uruguay	Executive Tower, Montevideo	Government Office
	Residencia de Suárez, Montevideo	Official Residence
Venezuela	Miraflores Palace, Caracas	Government Office
	La Casona	Official Residence

Asia

Country	Building	Notes	Image
Afghanistan	Arg, Kabul
Armenia	Presidential Palace, Yerevan
Azerbaijan	Presidential Palace, Baku
Bangladesh	Bangabhaban, Dhaka
People's Republic of China	Zhongnanhai, Beijing	Government office
Cyprus	Presidential Palace, Nicosia
East Timor	Presidential Residence, Dili
Georgia	Presidential Palace, Tbilisi
India	Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
Indonesia	Merdeka Palace, Jakarta
	Istana Negara, Jakarta
	Istana Cipanas, Bogor
	Bogor Palace, Bogor
	Gedung Agung, Yogyakarta
	Istana Tampak Siring, Bali
Iran	Sa'dabad Palace, Tehran
Iraq	Radwaniyah Palace, Baghdad
Israel	Beit HaNassi, Jerusalem
Kazakhstan	Ak Orda Presidential Palace, Astana
Republic of Korea	Blue House, Seoul
North Korea	Ryongsong Residence, Pyongyang	Current residence
	Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, Pyongyang	Former residence
Kyrgyzstan	White House, Bishkek
Laos	Presidential Palace, Vientiane
Lebanon	Baabda Palace, Beirut
Maldives	Muliaage, Malé	Former residence
Mongolia	Government Palace, Ulan Bator	Also seat of government
Myanmar	Presidential Palace, Naypyidaw
Nepal	Rastrapati Bhawan, Kathmandu
Pakistan	Aiwan-e-Sadr, Islamabad
Philippines	Malacañang Palace, Manila
Singapore	Istana, Singapore
Sri Lanka	President's House, Colombo
Syria	Presidential Palace, Damascus
	Tishreen Palace, Damascus
Republic of China	Presidential Office Building, Taipei
Tajikistan	Palace of Nations, Dushanbe	[20]
Turkey	Presidential Palace, Ankara
Turkmenistan	Oguzkhan Palace, Ashgabat
Uzbekistan	Ok Saroy Presidential Palace, Tashkent	[21]
Vietnam	Presidential Palace, Hanoi
Yemen	Presidential Palace, Sanaa

Europe

Country	Building	Notes	Image
Albania	Presidential Palace of Tirana
Austria	Hofburg Palace, Vienna
Belarus	Presidential Palace, Minsk	[22]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Presidency Building, Sarajevo
Bulgaria	Presidential Palace, Sofia	[23]
Croatia	Presidential Palace, Zagreb
Czech Republic	Prague Castle, Prague
Estonia	Kadriorg Palace, Tallinn
Finland	Presidential Palace, Helsinki
France	Élysée Palace, Paris
Germany	Bellevue Palace, Berlin
Greece	Presidential Mansion, Athens
Hungary	Sándor Palace, Buda
Iceland	Bessastaðir, Álftanes
Ireland	Áras an Uachtaráin, Dublin
Italy	Quirinal Palace, Rome
Latvia	Riga Castle, Riga
Lithuania	Presidential Palace, Vilnius
Macedonia	Villa Vodno, Skopje
Malta	San Anton Palace, Attard	Official residence
	Verdala Palace, Siġġiewi	Summer residence
Moldova	Presidential Palace, Chișinau	[24]
Montenegro	Blue Palace, Cetinje
Poland	Presidential Palace, Warsaw	Official workplace
	Belweder Palace, Warsaw	Official residence
Portugal	Belém Palace, Lisbon
Romania	Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest
Russia	Moscow Kremlin, Moscow
Serbia	Novi Dvor, Belgrade	[25]
Slovakia	Grassalkovich Palace, Bratislava
Slovenia	Presidential Palace, Ljubljana	Also seat of government
Turkey	Presidential Palace, Ankara
Ukraine	Mariyinsky Palace, Kiev

Oceania

Country	Building	Notes	Image
Fiji	Presidential Palace, Suva	[26]

See also

• Prime ministerial residences

References

1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/11210083/Turkeys-president-moves-into-worlds-biggest-palace-costing-384-million.html
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6. "Photo of Palais de la Nation, Kinshasa, DRC". Panoramio. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
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9. "Guinea-Bissau Opens China-Funded Presidential Palace". Fox News. 6 July 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
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11. "The Presidential Palace, Bamako, Mali". www.myspace.com. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
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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. "The Tajik Presidential Palace in Dushanbe, Tajikistan". photobucket.com. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
21. "Upmarket houses along road- Karimov to feel safer". www.uznews.net. 6 December 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
22. "Stalinist Architecture in Minsk". comtourist.com. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
23. "Presidential Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria". www.travelblog.org. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
24. "Presidential Palace, Chisinau". www.virtualtourist.com. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
25. "Turistička Organisacija Beograda - Novi Dvor" (in Serbo-Croatian). www.tob.rs. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
26. "Guards at the Presidential Palace, Suva". beautifulpacific.com. Retrieved 16 July 2013.

External links

• World's Most Stunning Presidential Palaces - slideshow by The Huffington Post