List of countries with McDonald's franchises

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Countries with McDonalds stores
Countries with McDonalds stores

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[edit] List of countries

Badge issued to celebrate the opening of the first McDonald's in Belarus, which by the company's calculation was its 100th country
Badge issued to celebrate the opening of the first McDonald's in Belarus, which by the company's calculation was its 100th country

[edit] By year

  1. (1940) United States
  2. (1967) Canada - 1 June
  3. (1967) Puerto Rico - 10 November
  4. (1970) United States Virgin Islands - 4 September
  5. (1970) Costa Rica - 28 December
  6. (1971) Guam 10 June
  7. (1971) Japan - 20 July - with the opening of an outlet in Tokyo the company established a presence in Asia for the first time.
  8. (1971) Netherlands – 21 August - the first MacDonald's in Europe.
  9. (1971) Panama – 1 September
  10. (1971) West Germany – 22 November
  11. (1971) Australia – 30 May - with the opening of an outlet in the Sydney suburb of Yagoona the company established a presence on the third new continent in the span of six months.
  12. (1972) France – 30 June – including the possessions of Martinique 16 December 1991, Guadeloupe 8 April 1992, Réunion 14 December 1997, French Guiana 22 February 2000.
  13. (1972) El Salvador - 20 July
  14. (1973) Sweden – 27 October
  15. (1974) Guatemala – 6 June
  16. (1974) Netherlands Antilles 16 August - Aruba (then part of the Netherlands Antilles) 4 April 1985, Sint Maarten 15 December 1995
  17. (1974) United Kingdom – 1 October - England 1 October 1974, (Powis Street, Woolwich, London) Wales 3 December 1984, Scotland 23 November 1987, (Reform Street, Dundee) Northern Ireland 14 October 1991,
  18. (1975) Hong Kong - 8 January at Paterson Street
  19. (1975) Nicaragua - McDonald’s outlets ceased operation during the Nicaraguan civil war and re-established a presence on 11 July 1998 after an absence of two decades.
  20. (1975) The Bahamas – 4 August
  21. (1976) New Zealand – 7 June
  22. (1976) Switzerland - 20 October
  23. (1977) Ireland – 9 May (Grafton Street, Dublin)
  24. (1977) Austria – 21 July
  25. (1978) Belgium 21 March
  26. (1979) Brazil – 13 February - with the opening of an outlet in Rio de Janeiro the company established a presence on the continent of South America for the first time.
  27. (1979) Singapore – 20 October at Liat Towers, Orchard Road.
  28. (1981) Spain - 10 March
  29. (1981) Denmark - 15 April
  30. (1981) Philippines – 27 September
  31. (1982) Malaysia – 29 April - with the opening of an outlet in Kuala Lumpur.
  32. (1983) Norway – 18 November
  33. (1984) Taiwan (Republic of China) – 28 January
  34. (1984) Andorra – 29 June
  35. (1984) Finland – 14 December
  36. (1985) Thailand – 23 February
  37. (1985) Luxembourg – 17 July
  38. (1985) Venezuela – 31 August
  39. (1985) Italy - 15 October
  40. (1985) Mexico – 29 October
  41. (1986) Cuba - 24 April - available only in Guantanamo Bay and inaccessible to Cuban citizens.
  42. (1986) Turkey – 24 October
  43. (1986) Argentina – 24 November
  44. (1987) Macau - 11 April
  45. (1988) Serbia – 24 March - the first outlet opened in Belgrade
  46. (1988) South Korea – 29 March
  47. (1988) Hungary – 30 April
  48. (1990) Kazakstan - 1 May[citation needed]
  49. (1990) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - 31 January - (in Russian SFSR, now Russia)
  50. (1990) People's Republic of China - 8 October - in Shenzhen [1]
  51. (1990) Chile – 19 November
  52. (1991) Indonesia – 23 February
  53. (1991) Portugal - 23 May
  54. (1991) Greece - 12 November
  55. (1991) Uruguay - 18 November
  56. (1992) Czechoslovakia - 20 March (in what is now the Czech Republic)
  57. (1992) Poland - 17 June
  58. (1992) Monaco - 20 November
  59. (1992) Brunei - 12 December
  60. (1992) Morocco – 18 December - with the opening of an outlet in Casablanca the company had expanded into Africa and had a presence on all continents except Antarctica.
  61. (1993) Northern Mariana Islands 18 March
  62. (1993) Iceland - 3 September
  63. (1993) Israel - 14 October[2][3]
  64. (1993) Slovenia – 2 December
  65. (1993) Saudi Arabia – 8 December
  66. (1994) Kuwait – 15 June
  67. (1994) New Caledonia - 26 July
  68. (1994) Oman – 30 July
  69. (1994) Egypt – 20 October
  70. (1994) Bulgaria – 10 December
  71. (1994) Bahrain – 15 December
  72. (1994) Latvia – 15 December
  73. (1994) United Arab Emirates – 21 December
  74. (1995) Estonia – 29 April
  75. (1995) Romania – 16 June
  76. (1995) Malta - 7 July
  77. (1995) Colombia – 14 July
  78. (1995) Slovakia – 13 October
  79. (1995) South Africa – 11 November
  80. (1995) Qatar – 13 December
  81. (1995) Honduras – 14 December
  82. (1996) Croatia – 2 February
  83. (1996) Samoa – 2 March
  84. (1996) Fiji – 1 May
  85. (1996) Liechtenstein – 3 May
  86. (1996) Lithuania - 31 May
  87. (1996) India – 13 October
  88. (1996) Peru – 18 October
  89. (1996) Jordan – 7 November
  90. (1996) Paraguay – 21 November
  91. (1996) Dominican Republic - 30 November
  92. (1996) Belarus - 10 December; the company claimed this as McDonald's "100th country" although this calculation included many non-sovereign territories
  93. (1996) French Polynesia - 10 December - in Tahiti
  94. (1997) Ukraine - 28 May
  95. (1997) Cyprus - 12 June
  96. (1997) Macedonia - 6 September
  97. (1997) Ecuador - 9 October
  98. (1997) Isle of Man - 15 December
  99. (1997) Suriname - 18 December
  100. (1998) Moldova - 30 April
  101. (1998) Lebanon – 18 September
  102. (1998) Pakistan – 19 September
  103. (1998) Sri Lanka – 16 October
  104. (1999) Georgia - 5 February
  105. (1999) San Marino – 6 July
  106. (1999) Gibraltar - 13 August
  107. (1999) Azerbaijan - 6 November
  108. (2000) American Samoa - 29 September
  109. (2001) Mauritius - 4 July
  110. (2004) Montenegro - June - the first outlet opened in Budva

[edit] Former locations

  1. (1997-2002) Bolivia [1]
  2. (1996 - six months) Barbados [2]
  3. (1994-2003) Trinidad and Tobago [3]
  4. (1985-1995) Bermuda [4]
  5. (1995-2005) Jamaica [5]

[edit] Countries without McDonald's locations

Ask Yahoo! compared the United States Department of State's list of independent states to a list of franchises on the McDonald's website, and derived that the following countries don't have McDonald's locations.[6]


LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (14 out of 35 countries)

EUROPE (4 out of 48 countries)

THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (7 out of 19 countries)

ASIA (16 out of 30 countries)

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (46 out of 48)

OCEANIA (10 out of 14)

[edit] Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention

In Thomas L. Friedman's 1999 book The Lexus and the Olive Tree the following theory was presented: "No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's". While that statement was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, his point was that due to globalization, countries that have made strong economic ties with one another have too much to lose to ever go to war with one another. While the observation may be true, the conclusions to be drawn are unclear. The global expansion of McDonald's restaurants is a relatively recent phenomenon when put into the context of the history of warfare, and, with a few notable exceptions, has proceeded into relatively stable markets.

The veracity of the observation itself depends upon a flexible interpretation of the term "war". Some conflicts that provide possible counterexamples include the 1989 United States invasion of Panama, the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and the Kargil War along with ongoing skirmishes between factions of India and Pakistan over the Kashmir region. Furthermore, it could be argued that conflict between separatist groups that aspire to nationhood amounts to a type of warfare against what they consider to be foreign governments, thereby pitting the Basque region against the nation of Spain, for example. Additionally, the erstwhile practice of giving Declarations of War at the commencement of a conflict is not generally observed anymore; for example, the United States has not declared war upon another country since World War II, but unquestionably has fought several war-sized police actions since then (a declaration of war for the Korean War was made retroactively, 50 years later). The appearance of McDonald's does not end an existing state of war: the states of Lebanon and Israel have been under a state of war since 1973, with South Lebanon occupied until May 2000 and a significant flareup in 2006, which did not hinder the establishment of McDonald's franchises in Israel and Lebanon in 1993 and 1998, respectively. However, neither country's army has fought each other since both countries have had Mcdonalds.

See also: Golden Arches#The Golden Arches theory

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "McDonald's to open store in SW China city", People's Daily, July 20, 2005, retrieved December 8, 2005
  2. ^ McDonald's Israel, retrieved January 11, 2006
  3. ^ Israelis begin week-long observance of Passover, CNN, April 10, 1998, retrieved January 11, 2006

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