The following are the heads of the state who visited India as the chief guests for the Republic Day celebrations in the last ten years
2016: President François Hollande (France)
2015: President Barack Obama (United States)
2014: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (Japan)
2013: King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (Bhutan)
2012: Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (Thailand)
2011: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (Indonesia)
2010: President Lee Myung Bak (South Korea)
2009: President Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan)
2008: President Nicolas Sarkozy (France)
2007: President Vladimir Putin (Russia)
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