--- title: Barack Obama Foreign Travel: Distance Traveled Around the World description: President Obama's meeting in Saudi Arabia Tuesday with its new king marks his 84th visit to a foreign country as president, including repeat visits. By... canonical: https://time.com/3684001/barack-obama-foreign-travel/ author: Pratheek Rebala article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-27T20:38:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-30T11:41:55.832Z article:section: Politics og:title: This Is How Far Barack Obama Has Traveled Around the World og:description: Photos of all 84 of the President's foreign trips. og:url: https://time.com/3684001/barack-obama-foreign-travel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is How Far Barack Obama Has Traveled Around the World twitter:description: Photos of all 84 of the President's foreign trips. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Is How Far Barack Obama Has Traveled Around the World by [Pratheek Rebala](https://time.com/author/pratheek-rebala/) and [Chris Wilson](https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/) Jan 27, 2015 8:38 PM UTC by [Pratheek Rebala](https://time.com/author/pratheek-rebala/) and [Chris Wilson](https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/) Jan 27, 2015 8:38 PM UTC President Obama’s meeting in Saudi Arabia Tuesday with its new king marks his 84th visit to a foreign country as president, including repeat visits. By TIME’s estimation, he has now accumulated over 447,000 frequent flyer miles in international travel since January 2009, including flights returning to the United States. Follow each of those trips below with the arrow buttons and watch those totals accumulate. You can skip to the end by using the left arrow from the first slide. **Methodology** Total miles are calculated as the round-trip distance between Washington, D.C. and a given location. Since the figures don’t account for routes and intermediate stops for refueling, the actual figure is likely to be higher. For trips that include multiple stops, the calculation only factors in the flight from Washington for the first and last leg. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3684001/barack-obama-foreign-travel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3684001/barack-obama-foreign-travel/"},"headline":"This Is How Far Barack Obama Has Traveled Around the World","datePublished":"2015-01-27T20:38:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T11:41:55.832Z","description":"President Obama's meeting in Saudi Arabia Tuesday with its new king marks his 84th visit to a foreign country as president, including repeat visits. By...","url":"https://time.com/3684001/barack-obama-foreign-travel/","keywords":["Barack Obama","Map","interactive"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Pratheek Rebala","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/pratheek-rebala/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Wilson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3684001/barack-obama-foreign-travel/","name":"This Is How Far Barack Obama Has Traveled Around the World"}}]}] ```