United States Department of State

The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. It is administered by the United States Secretary of State.

Operating units

• Bureau of Administration
• Office of Allowances
• Office of Authentication
• Language Services
• Office of Logistics Management
• Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
• Office of Overseas Schools
• Office of Multi-Media Services
• Office of Directives Management
• Office of Commissary and Recreation Affairs
• Office of the Procurement Executive
• Bureau of African Affairs
• Bureau of Arms Control
• Bureau of Consular Affairs
• Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
• Bureau of Diplomatic Security
• Office of Foreign Missions
• Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
• Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
• Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
• Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
• Bureau of Human Resources
• Bureau of Information Resource Management
• Bureau of Intelligence and Research
• Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
• Bureau of International Organization Affairs
• Bureau of Legislative Affairs
• Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
• Bureau of Nonproliferation
• Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
• Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations
• Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
• Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
• Bureau of Public Affairs
• Bureau of Resource Management
• Bureau of South Asian Affairs
• Bureau of Verification and Compliance
• Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
• Counterterrorism Office (which produces the Patterns of Global Terrorism report)
• National Foreign Affairs Training Center (former Foreign Service Institute)
• Office of International Information Programs
• Office of the Legal Adviser
• Office of Management Policy
• Office of Protocol
• Office of the Science and Technology Adviser
• Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
• Office of War Crimes Issues
• Office of Foreign Missions