List of countries with McDonald's restaurants

thumb|400x400px|Countries with current and former [[McDonald's locations]]

McDonald's is one of the largest chains of fast-food restaurants in the world, with more than 40,000 outlets worldwide. The majority of McDonald's outlets are franchises.

The list of countries follows the company's own calculation and contains several non-sovereign territories. Today, there are over 13,000 McDonald's restaurants in the United States, over 7,700 in mainland China, and over 3,000 in Japan. Its home country and the two largest foreign markets make up more than half of McDonald's stores worldwide. In addition, there are also over 1,600 McDonald's restaurants in France, over 1,500 in Canada and the United Kingdom, almost 1,400 in Germany, over 1,200 in Brazil, over 1,000 in Australia, over 800 in the Philippines and Italy, and over 700 in India. featuring a ten-item menu built around a 15-cent hamburger.

The company expanded outside the United States beginning in 1967, in Canada as well as the US territory of Puerto Rico. In the early 1970s, within a few short years, McDonald's expanded further overseas by opening stores in Japan, Australia, Western Europe (Netherlands, West Germany, France and Sweden) and Central America (Costa Rica, Panama and El Salvador). By this time, there were over 1,600 McDonald's restaurants.

McDonald's opened its first restaurant in South America in 1979 in Brazil as well as the first in Southeast Asia in Singapore (followed by the Philippines and Malaysia in the early 1980s). It later expanded into Eastern Europe and the communist world in 1988 (Yugoslavia and Hungary). In 1992 it opened its first restaurant in Morocco, becoming the first in Africa and the Arab World and meaning that McDonald's for the first time had operations in every inhabited continent of the world. Today, McDonald's has operated more than 40,000 restaurants worldwide.

Notable stores

The largest McDonald's store in the world is the World's Largest Entertainment McDonald's in Florida. The biggest temporary McDonald's restaurant in the world was opened during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, which was by area. The northernmost McDonald's restaurant in the world is located in Tromsø, Norway (previously held by Rovaniemi, Finland after the restaurant in Murmansk, Russia, was closed in 2022), and the southernmost in the world is located in Invercargill, New Zealand.

Countries and territories with at least one McDonald's outlet

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"

!Country/territory

!width=100 data-sort-type="date"|Date of first store

!First outlet location

!data-sort-type="number" |No. of operating outlets

!Source and date of source

!data-sort-type="number" |Population per outlet

!class=unsortable| Notes

! 1

| United States

|data-sort-value=" May 15, 1940"|May 15, 1940 Franchise: April 15, 1955

| San Bernardino, California Des Plaines, Illinois

| 13,697

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| 25,483

| First outlet. See McDonald's USA

! 2

| Canada (details)

| June 3, 1967

| Richmond, British Columbia

| 1,520

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| 1,076

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| 28,364

| First outlet in Micronesia. See McDonald's Guam & Saipan

! 8

| Japan

| July 21, 1971

| Ginza Mitsukoshi, Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo

| 3,025

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025) locally known as and . See McDonald's Japan

! 9

| Netherlands

| August 21, 1971

| Zaandam

| 266

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025) December 21, 1990

| Munich Plauen

| 1,382

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025) Wales: December 3, 1984 Scotland: November 23, 1987 Northern Ireland: October 12, 1991

| Woolwich, London Cardiff Dundee Belfast

| 1,505

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| 266

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| 176

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025) First South Island restaurants opened at Linwood and Merivale, both Christchurch, on November 3, 1987. See McDonald's New Zealand.

! 21

| Switzerland

| October 20, 1976

| Geneva

| 188

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

! 27

| Spain

| March 10, 1981

| Gran Vía, Madrid

| 659

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| 138,337

| Licensed to Alliance Global Group. See McDonald's Philippines.

! 30

| Malaysia

| April 29, 1982

| Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur

| 372

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| 16,751

|See McDonald's Andorra

! 34

| Finland

| December 14, 1984

| Hämeenkatu 17, Tampere

| 90

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| 805

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| 123

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025) See McDonald's Indonesia

! 51

| Portugal

| May 23, 1991

| CascaiShopping, Cascais

| 220

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| 38,087

! 59

| Brunei

| December 13, 1992

| Mission Hill Road, Bandar Seri Begawan

| 7

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025) See McDonald's Kuwait The first McDonald's in Kuwait closed after 25 years of service due to an expired contract between McDonald's and the Touristic Enterprises Company

See McDonald's Kuwait

! 66

| New Caledonia

(territory of France)

| July 26, 1994

| Nouméa

| 4

| (source: McDonald's New Caledonia 2025)

| 74,473

| See McDonald's New Caledonia

! 67

| Oman

| July 30, 1994

| Salalah

| 35

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| 222

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| 114

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| Delhi

| 757

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

! 94

| Ukraine

| May 24, 1997

| Near Lukianivska metro station in Kyiv

| 135

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025) The 2 restaurants in Donetsk and the only one in Luhansk were also permanently closed after the War in Donbas intensified in late 2014. All restaurants in Ukraine were temporarily closed down due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; they reopened in September that same year. The restaurant in Kherson was destroyed during the Russian occupation and the restaurant in Melitopol remains closed as the city is under Russian control since March 2022. See McDonald's Ukraine

! 95

| Cyprus

| June 12, 1997

| Larnaca

| 23

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025) See McDonald's Nicaragua

! 103

| Lebanon

| September 18, 1998

| Beirut

| 23

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| Lahore

| 70

| (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2025)

| Marigot

| 1

| (source: McDonald's Saint-Martin)

| 31,496

! 113

| Western Sahara

| August 10, 2017

| Laayoune

| 1

| (source: Publico)

| 610,813

Former locations

This is a list of sovereign states around the world where McDonald's previously operated restaurants in.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="clear:both;"

! #

! width=110|Country/territory

! width=110 data-sort-type="date"|Date of first store

! width=110 data-sort-type="date"|Date of closure

! class=unsortable|Reason for closure

! width=110|Number of stores

! 1

| Barbados

| August 25, 1989

| December 13, 1990

| Closed due to extremely poor sales.

| 1

! 2

| Bermuda

| November 10, 1985

| March 9, 1995

| Closed after the passage of a government law banning franchised restaurants in the territory. The McDonald's restaurant was located on a US Naval Air Station and was thus exempt from the law. When the base closed in 1995, the restaurant was required to do likewise.

| 1

! 3

| Bolivia

| November 21, 1997

| November 30, 2002

| Closed due to poor sales and high prices. McDonald's has since attempted to reenter the Bolivian market, but with little to no success.

| 8

! 4

| Jamaica

| April 15, 1995

| October 14, 2005

| Closed due to political issues and declining sales.

| 11

! 5

| Montenegro

| June 1, 2004

| data-sort-value="May 31, 2007"|May 2007

| A seasonal McDonald's restaurant was opened in Budva but was later closed due to the lack of a permanent location.

| 1

! 6

| Iceland

| September 9, 1993

| October 31, 2009

| Closed due to the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis. All former McDonald's restaurants were renamed locally as Metro, which served the same menu as McDonald's along with domestic products.

| 3

! 7

| North Macedonia

| September 6, 1997

| May 14, 2013

| Closed due to a dispute in contract and contractual obligations with the franchise owner Sveto Janevski. McDonald's has since attempted to reenter the Macedonian market, with little success.

| 7

! 8

| San Marino

| July 6, 1999

| July 6, 2019

| The one and only Sammarinese McDonald's restaurant was located in Borgo Maggiore. It ceased operations on July 6, 2019, 20 years after its opening, due to its close proximity to (and ultimately insurmountable competition from) restaurants in nearby Italian communities, which resulted in a great decline of sales.

| 1

! 9

| Russia (details)

| January 31, 1990

| May 16, 2022

| First restaurant was opened in Pushkin Square, Moscow in 1990. It was the first outlet in the Soviet Union itself, which then dissolved in December 1991 after its opening. In March 2022, McDonald's suspended all operations in Russia due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. McDonald's later chose to permanently shut down all McDonald's operations in Russia, citing geopolitical concern. Before its closure, McDonald's had opened 850 restaurants in Russia. The brand was relaunched on June 12, 2022, as Vkusno i tochka (Вкусно и точка, "Tasty, period") by local franchisee Alexander Govor, who acquired the operations in May from McDonald's. While the menu and equipment remains the same, most of the trademarks were dropped. It is expected McDonald's will have an option to reacquire the 850 restaurants in 15 years.

| 850

! 10

| Belarus

| December 10, 1996

| November 27, 2022

| In November 2022, it was announced that McDonald's would be suspending operations in Belarus, and did so on November 27, and claimed the Russian fast food chain Vkusno i tochka (Вкусно и точка, Tasty, period) would take its place. Instead, the restaurants began operating under the sign, "We are open!". On April 18, 2023, the restaurant chain was renamed Mak.by.

| 25

! 11

| Bosnia and Herzegovina

| July 20, 2011

| December 31, 2022

| Closed "until further notice" due to McDonald's having its license to operating in the country revoked. The restaurants were later rebranded as Bash.

| 6

! 12

| Kazakhstan

|March 8, 2016

|January 5, 2023

|Suspended due to supply restrictions that buying burger patties from Russia was prohibited due to Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since August, the network had operated under different names, based on the names of company employees. On November 23, they were rebranded to I'm.

| 24

! 13

| Sri Lanka

| October 16, 1998

| March 25, 2024

| On March 25, 2024, all 12 outlets were temporarily closed until further notice as a result of McDonald's terminating its agreement with its Sri Lankan franchisee, Abans Plc, after being ordered by the Colombo High Court not to use the McDonald's branding. There were also allegations of poor hygiene. McDonald's Corporation and International Restaurant Systems (Private) Limited have mutually agreed to end their franchise relationship in Sri Lanka. The companies reached a legal settlement that both parties found agreeable.

List of countries with McDonald's restaurants

Notable stores

Countries and territories with at least one McDonald's outlet

Former locations

See also

Notes

References

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