List of countries with McDonald's restaurants
This is a listing of countries with McDonald's restaurants. McDonald's is the second largest chain of fast food restaurants in the world, with more than 35,000 outlets worldwide. 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 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which had. The biggest still standing one is probably that at Will Rogers Turnpike.
The list of countries follows the company's own calculation, and contains several non-sovereign territories.
Countries and territories with a McDonald's outlet
Former locations
# | Name of country | Date of first store | Date of closure | Reason for closure |
1 | August 25, 1989 | December 13, 1990 | Closed due to extremely poor sales. | |
2 | September 6, 1997 | May 15, 2013 | Closed due to a dispute in contract and contractual obligations with the franchise owner Sveto Janevski. | |
8 | 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 6 July 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. |