List of chief guests at Delhi Republic Day parade

Since 1950, India has been hosting head of state or government of another country as the state guest of honour for Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi. During 1950–1954, Republic Day celebrations were organised at different venues (like Irwin Amphitheatre, Kingsway, Red Fort and Ramlila Maidan). It was only starting 1955 when the parade in its present form was organised at Rajpath.^[1] The guest country is chosen after a deliberation of strategic, economic and political interests. During 1950s–1970s, a number of Non-Aligned Movement and Eastern Bloc countries were hosted by India. In 1968 and 1974, India played host to two countries on the same Republic Day.

By continent, the invitations break up as follows:

Continent	Invitations	Countries
Asia	36	Afghanistan, Bhutan (4 times), Brunei, Cambodia (twice), China, Indonesia (thrice), Iran, Japan (twice), Kazakhstan, Laos, Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal (twice), Pakistan (twice), Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore (twice), South Korea, Sri Lanka (twice), Thailand (twice), United Arab Emirates, Vietnam (twice)
Europe	25	Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France (6 times), Greece, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Soviet Union/Russia (4 times), Spain, Yugoslavia (twice), United Kingdom (5 times)
Africa	12	Algeria, Egypt, Mauritius (thrice), Nigeria (twice), South Africa (twice), Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia
South America	5	Argentina, Brazil (thrice), Peru
North America	3	Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, United States
Oceania	1	Australia

By geographic region, the invitations break up as follows:

Region	Invitations	Countries
South Asia	13	Afghanistan, Bhutan (4 times), Maldives, Nepal (twice), Pakistan (twice), Sri Lanka (twice)
Central Asia	1	Kazakhstan
East Asia	4	China, Japan (twice), South Korea
Southeast Asia	16	Brunei, Cambodia (twice), Indonesia (thrice), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore (twice), Thailand (twice), Vietnam (twice)
West Asia	3	Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
North Africa	2	Algeria, Egypt
West Africa	2	Nigeria (twice)
Central Africa	1	Zaire
Southern Africa	6	South Africa (twice), Mauritius (thrice), Zambia
East Africa	1	Tanzania
Eastern Europe	8	Bulgaria, Poland, Yugoslavia (twice), Soviet Union/Russia (4 times)
Western Europe	17	Belgium, Denmark, France (6 times), Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom (5 times)
Northern America	2	United States, Mexico
Caribbean	1	Trinidad and Tobago
South America	5	Argentina, Brazil (thrice), Peru
Oceania	1	Australia

List of chief guests

Year	Portrait	Chief Guest	Country	Designation	Note		Host
1950		Sukarno^[2]	Indonesia	President of Indonesia			Rajendra Prasad
1951		Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah^[3]	Nepal	King of Nepal			Rajendra Prasad
1952	No information available
1953	No information available
1954		Jigme Dorji Wangchuck^[4]	Bhutan	King of Bhutan			Rajendra Prasad
1955		Malik Ghulam Muhammad^[5]	Pakistan	Governor-General of Pakistan	First guest for parade at Rajpath^[6]
1956		Rab Butler	United Kingdom	Chancellor of the Exchequer	Two guests^[7]^{[note 1]}
1956		Kōtarō Tanaka	Japan	Chief Justice of Japan	Two guests^[7]^{[note 1]}
1957		Georgy Zhukov^[9]	Soviet Union	Minister of Defence
1958		Ye Jianying^[10]	China	Marshal of the People's Liberation Army
1959		Philip^[11]^[12]^[13]	United Kingdom	Consort of Queen Elizabeth II	2nd invitation
1960		Kliment Voroshilov^[14]	Soviet Union	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet	2nd invitation
1961		Elizabeth II^[15]	United Kingdom	Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms	3rd invitation^{[note 2]}
1962		Viggo Kampmann^[16]	Denmark	Prime Minister of Denmark	^{[note 3]}
1963		Norodom Sihanouk^[18]	Cambodia	King of Cambodia			Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1964		Louis Mountbatten^[8]	United Kingdom	Chief of the Defence Staff	4th invitation^{[note 1]}
1965		Rana Abdul Hamid	Pakistan	Minister of Food and Agriculture	2nd invitation
1966	No information available^{[note 4]}
1967		Mohammed Zahir Shah^[20]	Afghanistan	King of Afghanistan	^{[note 5]}		Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1968		Alexei Kosygin	Soviet Union	Chairman of the Council of Ministers	3rd invitation	Two guests^[23]	Zakir Husain
1968		Josip Broz Tito	Yugoslavia	President of Yugoslavia		Two guests^[23]
1969		Todor Zhivkov^[24]	Bulgaria	Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1970		Baudouin^[25]^[26]	Belgium	King of Belgium	^{[note 6]}		V. V. Giri
1971		Julius Nyerere^[27]	Tanzania	President of Tanzania
1972		Seewoosagur Ramgoolam^[28]	Mauritius	Prime Minister of Mauritius
1973		Mobutu Sese Seko^[29]	Zaire	President of Zaire
1974		Josip Broz Tito	Yugoslavia	President of Yugoslavia	2nd invitation	Two guests^[30]
1974		Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Sri Lanka	Prime Minister of Sri Lanka		Two guests^[30]
1975		Kenneth Kaunda^[31]	Zambia	President of Zambia			Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
1976		Jacques Chirac^[32]	France	Prime Minister of France
1977		Edward Gierek^[33]	Poland	First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party
1978		Patrick Hillery^[34]	Ireland	President of Ireland			Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
1979		Malcolm Fraser^[35]	Australia	Prime Minister of Australia
1980		Valéry Giscard d'Estaing	France	President of France	2nd invitation
1981		Jose Lopez Portillo^[36]	Mexico	President of Mexico
1982		Juan Carlos I^[37]	Spain	King of Spain
1983		Shehu Shagari^[38]	Nigeria	President of Nigeria			Zail Singh
1984		Jigme Singye Wangchuck^[39]	Bhutan	King of Bhutan	2nd invitation
1985		Raúl Alfonsín^[40]	Argentina	President of Argentina
1986		Andreas Papandreou^[41]	Greece	Prime Minister of Greece
1987		Alan Garcia^[42]	Peru	President of Peru
1988		J. R. Jayewardene^[43]	Sri Lanka	President of Sri Lanka	2nd invitation		Ramaswamy Venkataraman
1989		Nguyễn Văn Linh^[44]	Vietnam	General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
1990		Anerood Jugnauth^[45]	Mauritius	Prime Minister of Mauritius	2nd invitation
1991		Maumoon Abdul Gayoom^[46]	Maldives	President of the Maldives
1992		Mário Soares^[46]	Portugal	President of Portugal
1993		John Major^[46]	United Kingdom	Prime Minister of United Kingdom	5th invitation		Shankar Dayal Sharma
1994		Goh Chok Tong^[46]	Singapore	Prime Minister of Singapore
1995		Nelson Mandela^[47]	South Africa	President of South Africa
1996		Fernando Henrique Cardoso^[46]	Brazil	President of Brazil
1997		Basdeo Panday^[46]	Trinidad and Tobago	Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
1998		Jacques Chirac^[46]	France	President of France	3rd invitation		K. R. Narayanan
1999		Birendra Bir Bikram Shah^[46]	Nepal	King of Nepal	2nd invitation
2000		Olusegun Obasanjo^[46]	Nigeria	President of Nigeria	2nd invitation
2001		Abdelaziz Bouteflika^[46]	Algeria	President of Algeria
2002		Cassam Uteem^[46]	Mauritius	President of Mauritius	3rd invitation
2003		Mohammed Khatami^[46]	Iran	President of Iran			A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
2004		Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva^[46]	Brazil	President of Brazil	2nd invitation
2005		Jigme Singye Wangchuck^[46]	Bhutan	King of Bhutan	3rd invitation
2006		Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud^[46]	Saudi Arabia	King of Saudi Arabia
2007		Vladimir Putin^[46]	Russia	President of Russia	4th invitation
2008		Nicolas Sarkozy^[46]	France	President of France	4th invitation		Pratibha Patil
2009		Nursultan Nazarbayev^[46]	Kazakhstan	President of Kazakhstan
2010		Lee Myung Bak^[48]	South Korea	President of South Korea
2011		Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono^[49]^[50]	Indonesia	President of Indonesia	2nd invitation
2012		Yingluck Shinawatra^[51]	Thailand	Prime Minister of Thailand
2013		Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck^[52]	Bhutan	King of Bhutan	4th invitation		Pranab Mukherjee
2014		Shinzo Abe^[53]	Japan	Prime Minister of Japan	2nd invitation
2015		Barack Obama^[54]	United States	President of the United States
2016		François Hollande	France	President of France	5th invitation^[55]
2017		Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan^[56]	United Arab Emirates	Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
2018		Hassanal Bolkiah	Brunei	Sultan of Brunei		Ten guests (heads of the ASEAN states)^[57]	Ram Nath Kovind
		Hun Sen	Cambodia	Prime Minister of Cambodia	2nd invitation
		Joko Widodo	Indonesia	President of Indonesia	3rd invitation
		Thongloun Sisoulith	Laos	Prime Minister of Laos
		Najib Razak	Malaysia	Prime Minister of Malaysia
		Aung San Suu Kyi	Myanmar	State Counsellor of Myanmar
		Rodrigo Duterte	Philippines	President of the Philippines
		Lee Hsien Loong	Singapore	Prime Minister of Singapore	2nd invitation
		Prayut Chan-o-cha	Thailand	Prime Minister of Thailand	2nd invitation
		Nguyễn Xuân Phúc	Vietnam	Prime Minister of Vietnam	2nd invitation
2019		Cyril Ramaphosa^[58]^[59]	South Africa	President of South Africa	2nd invitation
2020		Jair Bolsonaro^[60]	Brazil	President of Brazil	3rd invitation
2021	No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic^[61]^[62]^{[note 7]}^{[note 8]}
2022
2023		Abdel Fattah el-Sisi^[66]	Egypt	President of Egypt			Droupadi Murmu
2024		Emmanuel Macron^[67]	France	President of France	6th invitation		Droupadi Murmu

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