# What is the address of your countries leader? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205 "2008-07-21T00:12:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/21 "2008-07-21T11:56:33Z")
When I worked in Switzerland, I lived next door to the then Prime Minister in an ordinary house in an ordinary street. The odd thing was, they listed professions in the Swiss White Pages. So he was listed as Herr Whateverhisnamewas, Prime Minister, along with his address and phone number. ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/22 "2008-07-21T16:11:43Z")
The address of the office of the German Chancellor is Willy-Brandt-Strasse 1 10557 Berlin The building is not designed as a residence for the Chancellor, but for offices and ceremonial occasions, so the Chancellor frequently spends his/her spare time in his/her private home. Just in case, however, there is (IIRC) a relatively modest flat for the leader in the complex. The German Federal President resides at Bellevue Palace Spreeweg 1 10557 Berlin ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/23 "2008-07-21T16:23:34Z")
Well, if we’re including _office_ addresses… Office of the Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0A2 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/24 "2008-07-21T16:29:49Z")
[QUOTE=Dervorin] His office address: Room No. 152 South Block, New Delhi 110 001 India [/QUOTE] Makes him sound like a filing cabinet 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/25 "2008-07-21T20:36:13Z")
[QUOTE=Švejk] The Dutch Prime Minister has a house in The Hague put at his disposal, the Catshuis, which is [here](http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.090347,4.285113&spn=0.000618,0.001169&t=h&z=20). I’m not sure about the exact address, but I guess it’s on the Johan de Wittlaan. [/QUOTE] Not to be culturally insensitive, but the name of the building makes it sound like the Dutch PM has his very own official brothel. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/26 "2008-07-21T22:10:36Z")
New Zealand’s Prime Minister has the official address of: Premier House Tinakori Road Wellington. Interesting trivia: between 1935 and 1975 it was a children’s dental clinic and became known to generations of Wellington children as “The Murder House”. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/27 "2008-07-21T22:15:32Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz] Misspellings and grammatical errors are one of my endearing qualities. SSG Schwartz [/QUOTE] Sorry, that thread title is more grating than endearing. Should be “Country’s” I don’t have many spelling pet peeves but using “Countries” When you mean “Country’s” is one of them. One refers to more than one country. The other refers to something that belongs to a country. Edit: No disrespect meant to the OP. I know having your errors pointed out can be a little deflating. I apologise for that. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/28 "2008-07-21T22:17:10Z")
[QUOTE=Apollyon] New Zealand’s Prime Minister has the official address of: Premier House Tinakori Road Wellington. [/QUOTE] It’s quite a lovely looking old house. When I was in Wellington I lived for a short time just up the road from it. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/29 "2008-07-21T23:02:26Z")
So are you looking for the official residence or the secret underground bunker address? They all have them you know. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/30 "2008-07-22T02:53:57Z")
Now that you have all this information, **SSG Schwartz** …just what do you plan on doing with it, hmm? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/31 "2008-07-22T02:58:18Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] So are you looking for the official residence or the secret underground bunker address? They all have them you know. [/QUOTE] Well, in Canada’s case, there’s the [Diefenbunker](http://www.diefenbunker.ca/): 3911 Carp Road Carp, Ontario, Canada K0A 1L0 It’s now a museum. Oh, you mean the _current_ one? Well _CRASH_ whaa—? arrgh! mpph mg lurgle mphh _thud_ _slam_ :: crickets :: ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/32 "2008-07-22T03:28:00Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] Now that you have all this information, **SSG Schwartz** …just what do you plan on doing with it, hmm? [/QUOTE] Sending my resume, of course. 😉 SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/33 "2008-07-22T07:29:06Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Oh, you mean the _current_ one? Well _CRASH_ whaa—? arrgh! mpph mg lurgle mphh _thud_ _slam_ [/QUOTE] The current one is probably in CFB Northbay. Declan ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/34 "2008-07-22T11:59:12Z")
[QUOTE=Apollyon] New Zealand’s Prime Minister has the official address of: Premier House Tinakori Road Wellington. Interesting trivia: between 1935 and 1975 it was a children’s dental clinic and became known to generations of Wellington children as “The Murder House”. :eek: [/QUOTE] Maybe it was, but the Murder House \*I \*went to in Wellington was at the top of Cuba street and eternally painted industrial green with bad cartoons on the windows. Even though me and my class-mates were in the gentle care of the trainee dental technicians between 1970 -78, we never went to Premier House. Must have just been the posh kids from the western suburbs. Looking it up on the map (No.160, by the way) we used to get rather drunk in town and stagger up Murphy Road and past the Prime Minister’s pad on our way to the botanic gardens to look at the glowworms. We were usually singing something … impolite. Good times. Hope we didn’t wake you up **Cuncator**. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/35 "2008-07-22T13:21:46Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] The Prime Minister of Australia can be reached by mail at: Parliament House, Canberra A.C.T. 2600 Australia [/QUOTE] Correct addressing (Australian addresses capitalise the suburb/town [and country if req.] and have the state abbreviation and postcode on the same line) is: The Hon Kevin Rudd MP Prime Minister Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA - I’m a postal nerd (sorry) Psst, **Martini** and others from o’er the Ditch - is it really true that - in the early days of his Prime Ministership at least - David Lange’s home phone number was in the phone book? ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/36 "2008-07-22T13:41:06Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] Psst, **Martini** and others from o’er the Ditch - is it really true that - in the early days of his Prime Ministership at least - David Lange’s home phone number was in the phone book? [/QUOTE] I’m not from Auckland (were Lange was originally from) or Wellington (where the Capital is), but I’ve heard the same story from people in NZ and have no reason to doubt that it’s true (it was, and to an extent still is, that sort of country). I’ll ask my Dad tomorrow- he used to be a Journalist in NZ at the time, so he’s more likely to know whether or not Lange’s phone number was actually in the Phone Book like everyone else’s… ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/37 "2008-07-22T15:50:24Z")
Home: Governor and Mrs. Ted Strickland 358 North Parkview Avenue Bexley, Ohio 43209 614-644-7644 Work: Governor Ted Strickland Governor’s Office Riffe Center, 30th Floor 77 South High Street Columbus, OH 43215-6108 Phone: (614) 466-3555 Fax: (614) 466-9354 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/38 "2008-07-22T16:05:12Z")
However, out country leader’s website is [www.whitehouse.gov](http://www.whitehouse.gov). Definitely not .com. Google that one at your own, NSFW risk. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/39 "2008-07-22T16:07:03Z")
Victor von Doom, PhD Castle Doom, 1 Doom Plaza Doomstadt, Latveria ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-address-of-your-countries-leader/457205/40 "2008-07-22T16:10:17Z")
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