List of countries with McDonald's restaurants
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This is a list of countries with McDonald's restaurants. McDonald's is the largest chain of fast food restaurants in the world,[1] with more than 39,000 outlets worldwide.[2] The majority of McDonald's outlets outside of the United States are franchises.
The biggest temporary McDonald's restaurant in the world was opened during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which had 3,000 square metres (32,000 sq ft).[3][4][5][6] The biggest still standing is the restaurant in Will Rogers Turnpike, Oklahoma.[6]
The list of countries follows the company's own calculation, and contains several non-sovereign territories.
History
The first McDonald's restaurant was opened in 1940 by Dick and Mac McDonald. However, on 15 April 1955, Ray Kroc launched the first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois, featuring a ten-item menu built around a 15-cent hamburger.
Since that time, McDonald's has operated more than 40,000 restaurants worldwide, which has increased over 16 years.[7]
Countries and territories with the first McDonald's outlet
# | Country/territory | Date of first store | First outlet location | Number of maximum operating outlets | Source and date of source | People per outlet | Notes |
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May 15, 1940 Franchise: April 13, 1955 |
San Bernardino, California Des Plaines, Illinois (Franchise) |
13,257[8] | (source: McDonald's United States February 6, 2022) | 25,132 | See McDonald's USA |
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June 3, 1967 | Richmond, British Columbia | 1,400[8] | (source: McDonald's Canada 5 February 2022) | 27,551 | This is the first McDonald's outside of the United States. See McDonald's Canada |
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December 6, 1967 | San Juan | 108 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | 29,583 | First McDonald's in Latin America and in the Caribbean and the first McDonald's in a Hispanophone area. See McDonald's Puerto Rico |
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September 5, 1970 | St. Croix | 6 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | 17,878 | |
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December 8, 1970 | San José, 4th street, between 1st and Central Avenue. | 54 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | 90,852 | Third country (not U.S. possession) where McDonald's opened. See McDonald's Costa Rica |
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May 30, 1971 | Yagoona, New South Wales[9] | 981[10] | (source: Investopedia November 15, 2018) | 26,739 | First outlet in Oceania, first outlet outside the Americas, and the first outlet in the Southern Hemisphere. See McDonald's Australia. Locally known as Maccas. |
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June 10, 1971 | Dededo | 6 | (source: Statista 2016) | 27,372 | First outlet in Micronesia. |
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July 21, 1971 | Tokyo | 2,900[8] | (source: McDonald's Japan 2021) | 43,266 | First outlet in Asia, McDonald's Holdings Company Japan, Inc.[11] locally known as makku (マック). See McDonald's Japan |
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August 21, 1971 | Zaandam | 254[12] | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 69,714 | This was the first outlet in Europe. Opened in 1971 by European Master Franchisees Jan Sybesma McDonald's Europe – Plan to open 15 more stores in the next 4 years. See McDonald's Netherlands |
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September 1, 1971 | Panama City | 57 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | 71,912 | See McDonald's Panama |
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November 22, 1971 (West Germany) December 21, 1990 (former East Germany)[13] |
Munich (West Germany) Plauen (former East Germany) |
1,438[14][15] | (source: McDonald's Germany February 5, 2022) | 57,874 | First outlet in West Germany opened in Munich-Obergiesing in 1971. McDonald's is locally known as Megges. First outlet in the new states of Germany opened in Plauen in 1990 following reunification. See McDonald's Germany |
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June 30, 1972 | Créteil | 1,500[16] | (source: McDonald's France, 2022) | 45,209 | First outlet in Creteil in 1972 even though McDonald's officially recognizes the first outlet in Strasbourg in 1979. In 2019, France was the largest European market for the hamburger chain per investopedia.com. See McDonald's France. |
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July 20, 1972 | San Salvador | 19 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 318,900 | |
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October 27, 1973 | Kungsgatan 4, Stockholm | 191[17] | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 54,461 | First outlet in Scandinavia. See McDonald's Sweden |
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June 6, 1974 | Guatemala City | 95 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 179,894 | See McDonald's Guatemala |
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August 16, 1974 | Willemstad | 5 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | 32,203 | See McDonald's Aruba and Curaçao |
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England: November 13, 1974[18] Wales: December 3, 1984 Scotland: November 23, 1987[19] Northern Ireland: October 12, 1991 |
Woolwich, London (England) Cardiff (Wales) Dundee (Scotland) Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
1,300[8] | (source: McDonald's United Kingdom February 6, 2022) | 51,601 | Includes Isle of Man and Jersey (1 each) England: 1,038 Scotland: 95 Wales: 62 Northern Ireland: 26 See McDonald's UK |
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January 8, 1975 | Paterson Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island (now closed)[20] | 237[17] | (source: World Atlas January 12, 2018) | 31,190 | First outlet in a Chinese-speaking territory. Hong Kong was then a British Crown colony/Dependent Territory; McDonald's would open up a restaurant in China itself 15 years later. See McDonald's Hong Kong |
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August 4, 1975 | Nassau | 3 | (source: Dec. 2012) | 131,787 | First outlet in an independent country of the Caribbean. |
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June 7, 1976 | Porirua Central, Wellington[21] | 166 | (source: 2018) | 28,880 | Founded in New Zealand by Wally and Hugh Morris[22] First South Island restaurants opened at Linwood and Merivale, both Christchurch, on November 3, 1987.[23] See McDonald's New Zealand. |
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October 20, 1976 | Geneva | 167 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 50,419 | See McDonald's Switzerland |
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May 9, 1977 | Grafton Street, Dublin | 95 | (source: RTÉ 2020) | 47,000 | First drive-thru in Europe opened in Nutgrove, Dublin and first McCafé in Europe Grafton Street, Dublin. See McDonald's Ireland |
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July 21, 1977 | Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna | 195 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 45,456 | See McDonald's Austria |
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March 21, 1978 | Brussels | 85 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 153,378 | See McDonald's Belgium |
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February 13, 1979 | Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro | 1,031 | (source: McDonald's, 2021) | 203,828 | First outlet opened in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, in 1979. First outlet opened in South America and first outlet in a lusophone country. Locally known as Méqui. See McDonald's Brazil |
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October 20, 1979 | Liat Towers, Orchard Road | 136 | (source: December 2012) | 41,265 | First outlet in Southeast Asia. All Singaporean McDonald's locations are certified halal. See McDonald's Singapore[24] |
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March 10, 1981 | Gran Vía, Madrid | 550[25] | (source: McDonald's Spain October 18, 2021) | 86,171 | First outlet in the Iberian Peninsula. See McDonald's Spain |
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April 15, 1981 | Vesterbrogade 2D, Copenhagen | 89 | (source: 2018) | 64,596 | See McDonald's Denmark |
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September 27, 1981 | Nicanor Reyes Street, Morayta, Sampaloc, Manila | 655[26] | (source: BusinessWorld February 9, 2021) | 163,938 | See McDonald's Philippines. |
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April 29, 1982 | Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur[27] | 282[17] | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 100,701 | Oldest surviving outlet in a Muslim-majority country. See McDonald's Malaysia |
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November 18, 1983 | Nedre Slottsgate, Oslo | 77 | (source: McDonald's 2022)[28] | 70,458 | See McDonald's Norway |
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January 28, 1984 | Minsheng East Road, Taipei | 413[17] | (source: World Atlas January 12, 2018) | 57,094 | All restaurants were temporarily closed in 1992 during investigations of restaurant bombings in Taiwan; they reopened after investigations had concluded. See McDonald's Taiwan |
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June 29, 1984 | Andorra la Vella | 5 | (source: 2018)[29] | 15,393 | |
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December 14, 1984 | Hämeenkatu 17, Tampere | 67 | (source: McDonald's 2022 [1]) | 82,833 | See McDonald's Finland |
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February 23, 1985 | Bangkok | 240[17] | (source: World Atlas January 12, 2018) | 287,667 | See McDonald's Thailand |
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March 20, 1985 | Bolzano[30] | 640 | (source: McDonald's Italy 2022) | 92,259 | See McDonald's Italy |
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April 4, 1985 | Oranjestad | 4 | (source: 2016) | 26,316 | See McDonald's Aruba and Curaçao |
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July 17, 1985 | Luxembourg City | 10 | (source: 2013) | 57,600 | See McDonald's Luxembourg |
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August 31, 1985 | Caracas | 133 | (source: 2018 website) | 240,451 | See McDonald's Venezuela |
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October 29, 1985 | Mexico City | 402[17] | (source: World Atlas January 12, 2018) | 321,393 | See McDonald's Mexico |
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April 24, 1986 | Guantanamo Bay | 1 | (source: Dec. 2012) | 11,480,000 | Guantanamo Bay; open only to military personnel. Not accessible for Cuban citizens. |
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October 24, 1986 | Istanbul | 253[17] | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 312,980 | First outlet opened in East Thrace; outlets in Anatolia would open later. Also first outlet in the Turkic-speaking world, with Azerbaijan coming second at 1999. See McDonald's Turkey |
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November 24, 1986 | Belgrano, Buenos Aires | 220 | (source: Nov. 2021) | 199,414 | See McDonald's Argentina |
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April 11, 1987 | Rua do Campo, Cathedral Parish, Macau Peninsula | 27 | (source: Dec. 2012) | 23,058 | Then Portuguese territory; Technically first in Portugal land, McDonald's would only open a restaurant in Portugal itself 4 years later. see List of restaurants. |
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March 24, 1988 | Slavija Square, Belgrade | 30 | (source: McDonald's 2020)[31] | 234,067 | First outlet in the Balkans. See McDonald's Serbia |
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March 29, 1988 | Gangnam District, Seoul | 447[25] | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 115,145 | See McDonald's South Korea |
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April 13, 1988 | Budapest[32] | 103 | (source: McDonald's 2019)[33] | 111,341 | First outlet in a communist country, first Warsaw Pact member, thus first outlet behind the Iron Curtain. Locally known as Meki. See McDonald's Hungary |
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January 31, 1990 | Pushkin Square, Moscow | 120+[25] | (source: June 2022) | 2,333,333 | First outlet in the Soviet Union itself, which then disintegrated 23 months after its opening. See McDonald's Russia. All outlets owned by McDonald's Corporation were moved temporarily into split franchise under names My Burger and Tasty and That's It in May 2022. |
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October 8, 1990 | Dongmen, Luohu District, Shenzhen | 3,500 | (source: McDonald's China, 2020) | 400,571 | The most in a market besides the USA. See McDonald's China |
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November 19, 1990 | Santiago | 77 | (source: Dec. 2012) | 234,416 | See McDonald's Chile |
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February 23, 1991 | Sarinah, Jakarta (now closed) | 224 | (source: February 2020) | 1,552,941 | First branch in Sarinah closed in 2020 due to refurbishment of Sarinah itself.[34] See McDonald's Indonesia |
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May 23, 1991 | CascaiShopping, Cascais | 175 | (source: May 2020) | 69,662 | See McDonald's Portugal |
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November 12, 1991 | Athens Syntagma Square | 25 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 448,750 | See McDonald's Greece |
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November 18, 1991 | Montevideo Shopping, Montevideo | 25 | (source: 2021)[35] | 164,619 | See McDonald's Uruguay |
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December 16, 1991 | Fort-de-France | 9 | (source: 2016) | 40,484 | See McDonald's French Antilles |
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March 20, 1992 | Vodičkova street, Prague | 109 | (source: McDonald's CZ, Mar 2022)[36] | 98,181 | First McDonald's outlet to open after the Cold War. See McDonald's Czech Republic |
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April 8, 1992 | 8 | (source: 2016) | 47,838 | See McDonald's French Antilles | |
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June 16, 1992 | Marszałkowska Street, Warsaw in department store "Sezam" | 492[37] | (source: Mcconald's Poland 2022) | 77,472 | See McDonald's Poland |
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November 20, 1992 | Monte Carlo | 2 | ? | 19,348 | |
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December 12, 1992 | Bandar Seri Begawan | 3 | (source: 2018) | 142,899 | See McDonald's Brunei |
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December 18, 1992 | Casablanca | 53 | [38] | 750,553 | First outlet in Africa and the first outlet in the Arab World; McDonald's is now present in all continents except Antarctica. See McDonald's Morocco |
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March 18, 1993 | Saipan | 2 | (source:August 2011) | 27,572 | First outlet opened on the island of Saipan; second outlet opened in 1997 |
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October 14, 1993 | Ayalon Mall, Ramat Gan | 185 | (source: 2016) | 47,092 | First outlet in the Middle East. See McDonald's Israel. |
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December 2, 1993 | Čopova Street, Ljubljana | 23 | (source: McDonald's 2021) | 103,300 | See McDonald's Slovenia |
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December 8, 1993 | Riyadh | 304 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 125,247 | First outlet in the Arabian Peninsula. See McDonald's Saudi Arabia McDonald's Saudi Arabia |
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June 15, 1994 | Kuwait City (now closed) | 77 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 57,458 | Home to the largest McDonald's in the Middle East[39] 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 [40] |
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July 26, 1994 | Nouméa | 2 | (source: 2012) | 140,230 | |
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July 30, 1994 | Salalah | 24 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 201,565 | See McDonald's Oman |
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October 20, 1994 | Cairo | 114 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 937,981 | See McDonald's Egypt |
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December 10, 1994 | Plovdiv | 35 (excl. seasonal restaurants) 40 (including seasonal and mobile restaurants) | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 200,001 | See McDonald's Bulgaria |
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December 15, 1994 | Manama | 23 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 64,913 | See McDonald's Bahrain |
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December 15, 1994 | Riga | 13 | (source: McDonald's 2019)[41] | 147,690 | First outlet in the Baltics. See McDonald's Latvia |
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December 21, 1994 | Dubai[42] | 172 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 56,970 | See McDonald's UAE |
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April 29, 1995 | Tallinn | 10 | (source: McDonald's 2019)[43] | 132,482 | See McDonald's Estonia |
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June 16, 1995 | Bucharest | 84 | (source: McDonald's 2020) | 280,571 | See McDonald's Romania |
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July 7, 1995 | Valletta | 9 | (source: McDonald's 2020, 1 in Malta, 1 in Gozo) | 46,023 | See McDonald's Malta |
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July 14, 1995 | Centro Andino, Bogota | 185 | (source: August 2021) | 605,803 | See McDonald's Colombia |
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October 14, 1995 | Banská Bystrica | 35 | (source: McDonald's SK, Nov 2020) | 181,167 | See McDonald's Slovakia |
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November 11, 1995 | Blackheath, Gauteng | 275[17] | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 252,089 | First outlet in Southern Africa. See McDonald's South Africa |
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December 13, 1995 | Doha | 46 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 62,833 | See McDonald's Qatar |
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December 14, 1995 | Tegucigalpa | 10 | (source: McDonald's 2019) | 842,273 | See McDonald's Honduras |
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December 15, 1995 | Philipsburg | 3 | (source: December 2013) | 13,703 | |
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February 2, 1996 | Zagreb | 38 | (source: McDonals's June 2022)[44] | 102,330 | See McDonald's Croatia |
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March 2, 1996 | Apia | 1 | ? | 196,440 | |
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May 1, 1996 | Suva | 4 | (source: 2001) | 226,376 | See McDonald's Fiji |
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May 3, 1996 | Triesen | 1 | (source: 2018) | 37,810 | See McDonald's Switzerland |
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May 31, 1996 | Vilnius | 17 | (source: 2020) | 199,586 | See McDonald's Lithuania |
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October 13, 1996[45] | Delhi | 300[17] | (source: 2018) | 5,617,241 | First outlet in South Asia. See McDonald's India |
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October 18, 1996 | Lima | 40 | (source: 2014) | 804,250 | See McDonald's Peru |
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November 7, 1996 | Amman | 31 | (source: 2018) | 312,968 | |
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November 21, 1996 | Asuncion | 19 | (source: 2018) | 358,474 | See McDonald's Paraguay |
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November 30, 1996 | Santo Domingo | 31 | ? | 347,419 | Country with the second most locations of McDonald's in the Caribbean, after Puerto Rico. See McDonald's Dominican Republic |
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December 10, 1996 | Tahiti | 6 | ? | 47,167 | |
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December 10, 1996 | Minsk | 25 | (source: McDonald's 2022)[46] | 373,986 |
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May 6, 1997 | The Falls at West Mall | 6 | ? | 228,167 | McDonald's previously had stores in Trinidad (May 6, 1997 – October 25, 2003) but closed due to low sales. Re-opened at The Falls at West Mall in 2011 and has expanded to 5 other locations.[47] |
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May 24, 1997 | Near Lukianivska metro station in Kyiv (suspended) | 101 | (source: December 2019) | 451,612 | All three restaurants in the peninsula of Crimea were closed in 2014. See McDonald's Ukraine, all stores close down temporarily due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.[48] |
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June 12, 1997 | Larnaca | 18 | (source: 2016) | 47,489 | See McDonald's Cyprus |
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August 1, 1997 | Saint Helier | 1 | ? | 100,080 | |
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October 9, 1997 | Centro Comercial Iñaquito (CCI), Quito | 30 | (source: 2020) | 566,667 | See McDonald's Ecuador |
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December 14, 1997 | Saint-Denis | 4 | (source: 2018) | 216,627 | |
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December 15, 1997 | Douglas | 1 | ? | 84,287 | |
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December 18, 1997 | Paramaribo | 3 | (source: 2021) | 192,000 | |
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April 30, 1998 | Chișinău | 6 | (source: 2022) | 710,000 | See McDonald's Moldova |
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July 11, 1998 | Managua | 6 | (source: June 2010) | 1,036,333 | McDonald's outlets ceased operation during the Nicaraguan Civil War and re-established a presence in 1998 after an absence of two decades. During the civil war one continued operating as "Donald's".[49] See McDonald's Nicaragua |
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September 18, 1998 | Beirut | 23 | (source: 2018) | 264,435 | See McDelivery Lebanon, which is currently merged with its official website as local franchisee Miknas Food S.A.L. is gradually reforming their McDonald's store chain |
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September 19, 1998[50] | Lahore | 72 | (source: CNBC) | 115,000 | McDonald's Pakistan |
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October 16, 1998 | Colombo | 7 | (source: March 4, 2013) | 3,062,857 | see McDonald's Sri Lanka |
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February 5, 1999 | Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi | 18 | (source: 2020) | 205,500 | First outlet in the Caucasus. See McDonald's Georgia |
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August 13, 1999 | Westside | 1 | (source: 2018) | 34,571 | See McDonald's Spain |
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November 6, 1999 | Fountains Square, Baku | 19 | (source: 2019)[51] | 657,467 | See McDonald's Azerbaijan |
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February 22, 2000 | Cayenne | 2 | (source: 2016) | 148,356 | See McDonald's French Antilles |
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September 29, 2000 | Pago Pago | 2 | (source: 2008) | 27,821 | |
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July 4, 2001 | Port Louis | 12 | (source: 2021) | 105,324 | |
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May 1, 2003 | Mamoudzou | 1 | (source: 2019) | 270,372 | |
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August 10, 2006 | Baghdad | 1 | (source: 2006) | 38,270,000 | One location in Baghdad for the U.S. Army, but there is also a knockoff called MaDonal. |
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July 20, 2011[52] | Sarajevo | 5 | (source: 2020) | 654,732 | After some 10 years of trying to enter the Bosnian market with no success, McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Bosnia on July 20, 2011. See McDonald's Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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February 8, 2014 | Ho Chi Minh City | 25 | (source: 2022) | 5,620,000 | See McDonald's Vietnam |
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March 8, 2016 | Astana | 22 | (source: McDonald's 2020) | 1,288,571 | First outlet in Central Asia. See McDonald's Kazakhstan |
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Former locations
# | Country/territory | Date of first store | Date of closure | Reason for closure |
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August 25, 1989 | December 13, 1990 | Closed due to extremely poor sales. |
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1971 | 1979 | Closed due to measures adopted by the Iranian government after the Iranian Revolution. There is also a knockoff called Mash Donald's |
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November 10, 1985 | March 9, 1995 | Closed due to a passage of the government law that banned 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. |
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November 21, 1997 | November 30, 2002 | Closed due to poor sales and high prices. McDonald's is trying to reenter the Bolivian market, but with no success so far. |
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April 15, 1995 | October 14, 2005 | Closed due to governmental problems and declining sales. |
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June 1, 2004 | 2007 | A seasonal McDonald's restaurant was opened in Budva, but it was closed due to the lack of a permanent location. |
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September 9, 1993 | October 30, 2009 | Closed due to 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. |
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September 6, 1997 | May 15, 2013 | Closed due to a dispute in contract and contractual obligations with the franchise owner Sveto Janevski. |
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July 6, 1999 | July 6, 2019 | The one and only McDonald's restaurant based in the country was located in Borgo Maggiore. It ceased operations on July 6, 2019, 20 years after its opening, due to its close proximity to restaurants in nearby Italian communities, which resulted in the decline of that restaurant's sales. |
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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 disintegrated 23 months after its opening. In 2022, McDonald's suspended its restaurant operations in Russia due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in March. McDonald's later decided that they will shut down the entire Russian operations permanently citing geopolitical concern. Before its closure, McDonald's had opened 850 restaurants in Russia.[56] The brand relaunched on June 12, 2022 as 'Vkusno & tochka' (Вкусно и точка, Tasty and that's it) by local franchisee Alexander Govor, who acquired the operations in May from McDonald's. Govor had opened 25 McDonald's restaurants in the country. While the menu and equipment remains the same, most of the trademarks were dropped.[57][58] It is expected McDonald's will have an option to reacquire the 850 restaurants in 15 years.[59] |
See also
- Big Mac Index
- Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention
- Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention
- International availability of McDonald's products
- List of countries with Burger King franchises
- List of countries with KFC franchises
- List of countries with Jollibee outlets
- List of sovereign states
- Lists of restaurants
- MaDonal
- List of countries with IKEA stores
- McDonaldization
- McWorld
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