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United States presidential visits to South Asia

United States presidential visits to South Asia

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Eight presidents of the United States have made presidential visits to South Asia. The first trip by a sitting president to South Asia was by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959. Of the eight countries in the region, only 4 of them have been visited by a sitting American president: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The other four countries, Bhutan (which has no formal diplomatic relations with the US), the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, have never been visited by a sitting American president.

The eight countries of South Asia.

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    Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian Archived 2011-12-05 at the Wayback Machine
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    Travels of President Lyndon B. Johnson U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
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    "Travels of President Richard M. Nixon". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    "Travels of President Jimmy Carter". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    Joseph, Joel (November 4, 2010). "How Daulatpur Nasirabad became Carterpuri". The Times of India. Archived from the original on May 25, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013. Daulatpur Nasirabad in Gurgaon was a sleepy nondescript village on the outskirts of Delhi but it found a prominent place on the global map after Carter paid a visit to this village...This village has since then been renamed Carterpuri.
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    "Travels of President William J. Clinton". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    "Travels of President George W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    "Travels of President Barack Obama". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
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    "Obama attends India's Republic Day". BBC News. 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
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