Confucius Institutes Around the World – 2023
Confucius Institutes (孔子学院Kǒngzǐ Xuéyuàn) are non-profit public institutions affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China whose stated aim is to promote Chinese language and culture, support local Chinese teaching internationally, and facilitate cultural exchanges.
List of Institutes: Listed by alphabetical order according to country of location.
Afghanistan
Albania
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
- Confucius Institute at the University of Buenos Aires
- Confucius Institute at the National University of La Plata
- Confucius Institute at National University of Cordoba
Armenia
Australia
- Confucius Institute at the University of Western Australia
- Confucius Institute at the University of Melbourne
- Confucius Institute at the University of Adelaide
- Confucius Institue at the University of Queensland
- Confucius Institue at Queensland University of Technology
- Confucius Institute at the University of Sydney
- Confucius Institute at the University of New South Wales
- Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- Confucius Institute at the University of Newcastle
- Confucius Institute at Charles Darwin University
- Confucius Institute at New South Wales Department of Education
- Business Confucius Institute at Victoria University
- Tourism Confucius Institute at Griffith University
- Confucius Institue at La Trobe University
Austria
Azerbaijan
- Confucius Institute at Baku State University
- Confucius Institute at Azerbaijan University of Languages
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
- Republican Confucius Institute of Sinology at Belarusian Statе University
- Confucius Institute at Minsk State Linguistic University
- Science and Technology Confucius Institute at Belarusian National Technical University
- Confucius Institute at Francisk Skorina Gomel State University
- Confucius Institute at Brest State named after A.S. Pushkin University
- Confucius Institute at Belarusian State University of Physical Culture
Belgium
- Confucius Institute in Brussels
- Confucius Institute in Liege
- Confucius Institute at University College West Flanders
- Confucius Institute at Group T-International Engeneering Academy-University of Leuven
- Confucius Institute at ULB
- Confucius Institute at VUB
Benin
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
- Confucius Institute at São Paulo State University
- Business Confucius Institute at FAAP
- Confucius Institute at the Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Confucius Institute at the University of Pernambuco
- Confucius Institute at Federal University of Rio Grand Do Sul
- Confucius Institute at University of Brasilia
- Confucius Institute at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
- Confucius Institute at the State University of Campinas
- Confucius Institute at the State University of Pará
- Confucius Institute at the Federal University of Ceará
- Confucius Institute of Chinese Medicine at the Federal University of Goiás
Bulgaria
- Confucius Institute in Sofia
- Confucius Institute at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
- Confucius Institute at University of Regina
- Confucius Institute at BCIT
- Confucius Institute in Coquitlam
- Confucius Institute in Waterloo
- Confucius Institute in Quebec
- Confucius Institute in New Brunswick
- Confucius Institute in Edmonton
- Confucius Institue at Brock University
- Confucius Institute at Carleton University
- Confucius Institute at Saint Mary’s University
- Confucius Institute at Seneca College
- Confucius Institute at University of Saskatchewan
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
- Confucius Institute at University of Saint Thomas
- Confucius Institute at Catholic University
- Confucius Institute at the University of La Frontera
Colombia
- Confucius Institute in Medellin
- Confucius Institute at the University of Los Andes
- Confucius Institute at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University
Comores
Congo
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
- Confucius Institute at Palacký University
- Confucius Institute at University of Finance and Administration
Denmark
- Confucius Institute at the Royal Danish Academy of Music
- Confucius Institute at International Business Academy, Denmark
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
- Confucius Institute at Technical & Vocational Education and Training Institute of Ethiopia
- Confucius Institute at Addis Ababa University
Fiji
Finland
France
- Confucius Institute at the University of Poitiers
- Confucius Institute at Paris Diderot University
- Confucius Institute of the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris
- Confucius Institute in Brittany
- Confucius Institute in La Rochelle
- Confucius Institute in Alsace
- Confucius Institute in Clermont-Ferrand
- Confucius Institute in Artois
- Confucius Institute at Pays de la Loire
- Confucius Institute at University of Lorraine
- Confucius Institute at University of French Polynesia
- Confucius Institute in Montpellier
- Confucius Institute of Reunion Island
- Neoma Confucius Institute for Business-Rouen
- Confucius Institute Cote d ‘Azur
- Confucius Institute at ESCP Europe
- Confucius Institute at University of Orleans
- Confucius Institute at Pau
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
- Confucius Institute at Free University of Tbilisi
- Confucius Institute at Tbilisi Open Teaching University
Germany
- Confucius Institute at the Free University of Berlin
- Confucius Institute at the University of Duesseldorf
- Confucius Institute in Nürnberg-Erlangen
- Confucius Institute at Frankfurt University
- Confucius Institute at Heidelberg University
- Confucius Institute at the University of Hamburg
- Leiboiz-Confucius Institute Hannover
- Confucius Institute at the University of Leipzig
- Confucius Institute in Munich
- Confucius Institute in Bremen
- Confucius Institute Metropole Ruhr at the University of Duisburg-Essen
- Confucius Institute at Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
- Confucius Institute at the University of Freiburg
- Confucius Institute at Trier University
- Confucius Institute at University of Paderborn
- Academic Confucius Institute at University of Gottingen
- Confucius Institute at Fachhochschule Stralsund University of Applied Sciences
- Audi Ingolstadt Confucius Institute
- Confucius Institute Bonn
Ghana
Greece
- Business Confucius Institute in Athens
- Confucius Institute at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Confucius Institute at University of Thessaly
Guinea
Guyana
Hong Kong
Hungary
- Confucius Institute at Eötvös Loránd University
- Confucius Institute at University of Szeged
- Confucius Institute at University of Miskolc
- Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine at University of Pecs
- Confucius Institute at University of Debrecen
Iceland
India
- Confucius Institute at University of Mumbai
- Confucius Institute at VIT University
- Chinese Language Teaching Center at Lovely Professional University
- Chinese Language Training and Studies Center at O.P. Global University
Indonesia
- Pusat Bahasa Mandarin at University of Al Azhar Indonesia
- Pusat Bahasa Mandarin at Malang State University
- Pusat Bahasa Mandarin at Maranatha Christian University
- Pusat Bahasa Mandarin at Universitas Negeri Surabaya
- Pusat Bahasa Mandarin at Tanjungpura University
- Pusat Bahasa Mandarin at Hasanuddin University
- Confucius Institute at Universitas Sebelas Maret
- Tourism Confucius Institute at Udayana University
Iran
Ireland
- Confucius Institute at University College Cork in Ireland
- Confucius Institute at University College Dublin, Ireland
- Chinese and Regenerative Medicine Confucius Institute at National University of Ireland Galway
Israel
Italy
- Confucius Institute at Sapienza University of Rome
- Confucius Institute at Oriental University of Napoli
- Confucius Institute in Pisa
- Confucius Institute at University of Turin
- Confucius Institute at the University of Bologna
- Confucius Institute at the University of Florence
- Confucius Institute at Ca’ Foscair University of Venice
- Confucius Institute at the University of Padova
- Confucius Institute at the University of Milan
- Confucius Institute at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
- Confucius Institute at University of Macerata
- Confucius Institute at University of Enna “Kore”
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
- Confucius Institute at Ritsumeikan
- Confucius Institute at J. F. Oberlin University
- Confucius Institute at Hokuriku University
- Confucius Institute at Aichi University
- Confucius Institute at Sapporo University
- Confucius Institute at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
- Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute at Hyogo College of Medicine
- Confucius Institute at Waseda University
- Confucius Institute at Okayama Shoka University
- Confucius Institute at Osaka Sangyo University
- Confucius Institute at Fukuyama University
- Confucius Institute at Kogakuin University
- Confucius Institute at Kansai Gaidai University
- Confucius Institute at Musashino University
- Confucius Institute at Yamanashi Gakuin University
Jordan
Kazakhstan
- Confucius Institute at L. N. Gunilyov Eurasian National University
- Confucius Institute at Kazakh National University
- Confucius Institute at K. Zhubanov Aktobe Regional State Univeristy
- Confucius Institute at Karaganda State Technical University
- Confucius Institute at Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages
Kenya
- Confucius Institute at the University of Nairobi
- Confucius Institute at Kenyatta University
- Confucius Institute at Egerton University
- Confucius Institute at Moi University
Korea
- Confucius Institute at Woosuk University
- Confucius Institute at Cheju Halla College
- Confucius Institute at the University of Incheon
- Confucius Institute in Seoul
- Confucius Institute at Woosong University
- Confucius Institute at Yonsei University
- Confucius Institute at Chungnam National University
- Confucius Institute at Dong-A University
- Confucius Institute at Dongseo University
- Confucius Institute at Honam University
- Confucius Institute at Chungbuk National University
- Confucius Institute at Kangwon National University
- Confucius Institute at Keimyung University
- Confucius Institute at Daebul University
- Confucius Institute at Andong National university
- Confucius Institute at Soon Chun Hyang University
- Confucius Institute at Daejin University
- Confucius Institute at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
- Confucius Institute at Kyung Hee University
- Confucius Institute at Wonkwang University
- Confucius Institute at Semyung University
- Confucius Institute at Hanyang University
- Confucius Institute at Jeju National University
Kyrgyzstan
- Confucius Institute at Bishkek State University
- Confucius Institute at Kyrgyz National University
- Confucius Institute at Osh State University
- Confucius Institute at Jalal-Abad State University
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Liberia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Macau
Madagascar
Malaysia
- Kong Zi Institute for the Teaching of Chinese Language at University of Malaya
- Confucius Institute at SEGI University
- Confucius Institute at Universiti Malaysia Sabah
- Confucius Institute at Universiti Malaysia Pahang
- Confucius Institute at University College of Technology Sarawak
Malawi
Malta
Maldives
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
- Confucius Institute in Mexico City
- Confucius Institute at Autonomous University of New Leon
- Confucius Institute at Autonomous University of Yucatan
- Confucius Institute at National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Confucius Institute at Autonomous University of Chihuahua
Moldova
Mongolia
- Confucius Institute at National University of Mongolia
- Confucius Institute at Mongolian State University of Education
- Confucius Institute at Khovd university
Morocco
- Confucius Institute at Mohammed V University
- Confucius Institute at Hassan II University
- Confucius Institue at Abdelmalek Essaadi University
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
- Confucius Institute in Auckland
- Confucius Institute at University of Canterbury
- Confucius Institute at Victoria University of Wellington
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
- Confucius Institute in Islamabad
- Confucius Institute at University of Karachi
- ConfuciusInstitute at University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
- Confucius Institute at University of the Punjab
- Confucius Institute at University of Sargodha
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Peru
- Confucius Institute at Catholic University of Santa Maria
- Confucius Institute at University of Piura
- Confucius Institute at Catholic University of Peru
- Confucius Institute at Ricardo Palma University
Philippines
- Confucius Institute at Ateneo de Manila University
- Confucius Institute at Bulacan State University
- Confucius Institute at Angeles University Foundation
- Confucius Institute at University of the Philippines
- Confucius Institute at Ateneo De Davao University
Poland
- Confucius Institute in Krakow
- Confucius Institute in Opole
- Confucius Institute at Adam Mickiewicz University
- Confucius Institute at the University of Wroclaw
- Confucius Institute at University of Gdańsk
- Confucius Institute at Warsaw University of Technology
Portugal
- Confucius Institute at the University of Lisbon
- Confucius Institute at the University of Minho
- Confucius Institute at Universidade de Aveiro
- Confucius Institute at University of Coimbra
- Confucius Institute at University of Porto
Romania
- Confucius Institute at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
- Confucius Institute at Babeş Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
- Confucius Institute at Transilvania University of Brasov
- Confucius Institute at the University of Bucharest
Russia
- Confucius Institute at Far Eastern National University
- Confucius Institute at Russian State University for the Humanities
- Confucius Institute at Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Confucius Institute at Saint-Petersburg State University
- Confucius Institute at Irkutsk State University
- Confucius Institute at Novosibirsk State University of Technology
- Confucius Institute at Kazan State University
- Confucius Institute at Blagoveshchensk National Pedagogical University
- Confucius Institute at The Kalmyk State University
- Confucius Institute at Tomsk State University
- Confucius Institute at Buryat State University
- Confucius Institute at Ural Federal University
- Confucius Institute at Moscow State Linguistic University
- Confucius Institute at Ryazan State University
- Confucius Institute at Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University
- Confucius Institute at Volgograd State Pedagogical University
- Confucius Institute at Amur State University of Humanities and Pedagogy
- Confucius Institute at Novosibirsk State University
- Confucius Institute at Krasnoyark State Pdeagogical University of V.P. Astafyev
Rwanda
Senegal
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
- Confucius Institute in Bratislava
- Confucius Institute at Comenius University
- Confucius Institute for Business at Matej Bel University
Slovenia
South Africa
- Confucius Institute at Stellenbosch University
- Confucius Institute at the University of Cape Town
- Confucius Institute at Rhodes University
- Confucius Institute at Durban University of Technology
- Confucius Institute at the University of Johannesburg
- Confucius Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the University of Western Cape
Spain
- Confucius Institute in Madrid
- Confucius Institute at the University of Leon
- Confucius Institute at the University of Granada
- Confucius Institute at the University of Valencia
- Confucius Institute at The University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria
- Confucius Institute in Barcelona
- Confucius Institute at University of Castilla-la Mancha
- Confucius Institute at University of Zaragoza
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Tajikistan
- Confucius Institute at Tajik National University
- Confucius Institute at Mining– metallurgical Institute of Tajikistan
Tanzania
- Confucius Institute at the University of Dodoma
- Confucius Institute at the University of Dar es Salaam
Thailand
- Confucius Institute at Chulalongkorn University
- Confucius Institute at Kasetsart University
- Confucius Institute at Khon Kaen University
- Confucius Institute at Mae Fah Luang University
- Confucius Institute at Chiang Mai University
- Confucius Institute at Prince of Songkla University
- Confucius Institute at Mahasarakham University
- Confucius Institute at Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University
- Confucius Institute of Suan Dusit Rajabhat University at Suphanburi
- Confucius Institute at Phuket, Prince of Songkla University
- Confucius Institute of Betong Municipality
- Confucius Institute at Burapha University
- Confucius Institute at Assumption University
- Maritime Silk Road Confucius Insititute
- Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine at Huachiew Chalermprakiet
- Maritime Silk Road Confucius Institute at Phranakhon Rajabhat University
Togo
Trinidad and Tobage
Tunisia
Turkey
- Confucius Institute at Bogazici University
- Confucius Institute at Middle East Technical University
- Confucius Institute at Okan University
- Confucius Institute at Yeditepe University
Ukraine
- Confucius Institute at Luhansk National Pedagogical University
- Confucius Institute at South Ukranian National Pedagogical University
- Confucius Institute at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
- Confucius Institute at Kharkiv State University
- Confucius Institute at Kiev State Linguistic University
- Confucius Institute at Vinnytsia National Technical University
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
- Confucius Institute at University of Liverpool
- Confucius Institute for Scotland in the University of Edinburgh
- London Confucius Institute
- Confucius Institute at UCL Institute of Education
- Conrfucius Institute at the University of Aberdeen
- Confucius Institute at Edge Hill university
- Confucius Institute at De Montfort University
- Business Confucius Institute at the University of Leeds
- Confucius Institute for Dance and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London
- Confucius Institute for Business, London
- Confucius Institute at Lancaster University
- Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine, London
- Confucius Institute at the University of Manchester
- Confucius Institute at the University of Nottingham
- Confucius Institute at the University of Sheffield
- Confucius Institute at Cardiff University
- Confucius Institute at the University of Central Lancashire
- Confucius Institute at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David
- Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow
- Confucius Institute at the University of Southampton
- Confucius Institute at Ulster University
- Confucius Institute for Scotland’s Schools
- Scottish Confucius Institute for Business and Communication at Heriot Watt University
- Confucius Institute at Newcastle University
- Confucius Institute at Bangor University
- Confucius Institute at the University of Hull
- Confucius Institute at Queen Mary University of London
- Confucius Institute at Coventry University
- Confucius Institute at Oxford Brooks University
- Confucius Institute of Science and Technology Innovation at the University of Huddersfi
United States
- Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland
- Confucius Institute at the College of William & Mary
- Confucius Institute at China Institute
- Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas
- Confucius Institute at the University of Iowa
- Confucius Institute at Michigan State University
- Confucius Institute at the University of Oklahoma
- Confucius Institute at the University of Missouri
- Confucius Institute at Bryant University
- Confucius Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles
- Confucius Institute at University of California, Davis
- Confucius Institute at Portland State University
- Confucius Institute at Community College of Denver
- Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University
- Confucius Institue at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Confucius Institute at the University of Pittsburgh
- Confucius Institute at the University of Memphis
- Confucius Institute at Wayne State University
- Confucius Institute at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
- Confucius Institute at the University of Central Arkansas
- Confucius Institute at Valparaiso University
- Confucius Institute at Miami University
- Confucius Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville
- Confucius Institute at Troy University
- Confucius Institute at the University of Utah
- Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona
- Confucius Institute at Xavier University of Louisiana
- Confucius Institute at Houston Independent School District
- Confucius Institute at Broward County Public Schools
- Confucius Institute at East Central Ohio Educational Service Center
- Confucius Institute at Colorado State University
- Confucius Institute at Old Dominion University
- Confucius Institute at Central Connecticut State University
- Confucius Institute at Texas Southern University
- Confucius Institute at Webster University
- Confucius Institute in Atlanta
- Confucius Institute at the University of Akron
- Confucius Institute at the University of Montana
- Confucius Institute at the University of South Carolina
- Confucius Institute at Cleveland State University
- Confucius Institute at the University of Toledo
- Confucius Institute at Alfred University
- Confucius Institute at Stony Brook University
- Confucius Institute at George Mason University
- Confucius Institute at Presbyterian College
- Confucius Institute at Western Michigan University
- Confucius Institute of the State of Washington
- Confucius Institute at the George Washington University
- Confucius Institute at the University of Idaho
- Confucius Institute at the University of Southern Maine
- Confucius Institute at the University at Albany, State University of New York
- Confucius Institute at St. Cloud State University
- Confucius Institute at Middle Tennessee University
- Confucius Institute at Wesleyan College
- Confucius Institute at State College of Optometry, State University of New York
- Confucius Institute in Chicago
- Confucius Institute for Business at State University of New York
- Confucius Institute at Columbia University
- Confucius Institute at State University of New York at Buffalo
- Confucius Institute of Chinese Opera at the State University of New York at Binghamton
- Confucius Institute at Stanford University
- Confucius Institute at the University of Kentucky
- Confucius Institute at the University of Delaware
- Confucius Institute at the University of New Hampshire
- Confucius Institute at Georgia State University
- Confucius Institute at University of Alaska Anchorage
- Confucius Institute at Northern State University
- Confucius Institute at Tufts University
- Confucius Institute at Kansas State University
- Confucius Institute at Alabama A&M University
- Confucius Institute at Temple University
- Confucius Institute at West Virginia University
- Confucius Institute at Southern Utah University
- Confucius Institute at New Jersey City University
- Confucius Institute at Clark County School District
- Confucius Institute at Davis School Disrict
- Confucius Institute at Savannah State University
- Confucius Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Confucius Institute at Northwest Nazarene University
- Confucius Institute at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- New York Confucius Institute for Global Finance at Baruch College
- Confucius Institute at Medga Evers College The City University of New York
- Confucius Institute of Western Kentucky
- Confucius Institute in San Diego at San Diego Global Educational Institute
- Miami Confucius Institute for Business
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
- Confucius Institute in Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies
- Confucius Institute at Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages
Each language is a window that, makes the scope wider to this world.
The list of countries having CI needs to be updated. it shows only 2 CI in Pakistan whereas there are 5 CIs in Pakistan now. Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Islamabad and Sargodha. I am sure same is the case with many other listed countries
Hi, you are right, we just updated all listings, thanks 🙂
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