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Biggest Countries with No McDonald's

What are the most populous countries that don't have a single McDonald's location?
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Hint: All but one of the countries are in Africa or Asia
Establishments on military bases are included
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FlabberBapper
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First submittedDecember 23, 2016
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Population
Country
236 m
Nigeria
175 m
Bangladesh
144 m
Russia
134 m
Ethiopia
112 m
D.R. Congo
92.2 m
Iran
69.9 m
Tanzania
57.2 m
Kenya
Population
Country
54.7 m
Myanmar
51.1 m
Sudan
50.9 m
Uganda
47.2 m
Algeria
43.5 m
Afghanistan
41.4 m
Yemen
38.7 m
Angola
36.8 m
Uzbekistan
Population
Country
35.3 m
Mozambique
34.9 m
Ghana
32.5 m
Madagascar
32.5 m
Ivory Coast
29.6 m
Cameroon
29.6 m
Nepal
27.6 m
Niger
26.6 m
North Korea
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100 Recent Comments
bungie11
+2
Level 27
Feb 8, 2018
I'm sad those countries don't have Mcdonalds because some of the countries on the list I been to.......... Still great quiz! :)
IsleAuHaulte
+10
Level 92
Oct 18, 2019
Yes, I feel terrible for them.
carkey
+41
Level 77
Feb 13, 2020
Why? McDonald's is trash food and ruining the environment. More power to any country that doesn't serve that awful food.
OngKC
+3
Level 47
Apr 11, 2020
Agreed
Gamer1162
+29
Level 59
Dec 1, 2019
The biggest shocker for me is Nigeria.
Quizmaster
+36
Level ∞
Dec 2, 2019
Obviously a market opportunity. I have yet to visit a McDonald's outside the U.S. that hasn't been busy at all hours. I imagine one in central Lagos would be insane.
CapitalAce
+29
Level 56
Dec 3, 2019
The Nigerian government will not allow McDonald's unless the company agrees to source ingredients from within Nigeria. Since the company doesn't work that way, so far no McDonald's in Nigeria.
ADX31
+16
Level 55
Jan 27, 2020
"Since the company doesn't work that way". In fact it does. French McDonalds mainly uses French ingredients, especially the main ones (beef, chicken, potatoes, lettuce, buns, eggs).
tom88
+18
Level 77
Jan 27, 2020
Australian Mcdonalds is constantly advertising how they use Australian beef.
unregistered
+1
Level 50
May 21, 2023
Yep.
JWatson24
+10
Level 71
Jan 26, 2022
I don't know about Nigeria, but that's definitely an issue for Bangladesh. McDonald's has pretty strict standards. It's not necessarily that they don't want to source local ingredients, but rather that it's an issue managing that. For example, they want to be able to trace where exactly ingredients came from and how they are delivered to ensure they are in good shape--something that is difficult in Bangladesh due to the lack of cold storage. Also, high real estate costs would make it difficult to set up in the first place. If anyone's interested where I got that info from, it's here.

That being said, if McDonald's does open in Bangladesh one day, I'm sure it would be very popular. Many fast food chains have established themselves in the country with success, and some of my cousins are crazy for it. If there was a McDonald's, they'd be ecstatic!

Stewart
+4
Level 68
Dec 1, 2019
Fun quiz! Intriguing (though perhaps unsurprising) that everything is Africa or Asia
Quizzer6794
+4
Level 66
Dec 1, 2019
Nice one Flapper! Uzbekistan caught me, never knew how populous it's become.
Arp2600
+10
Level 89
Dec 2, 2019
It's growing fast, but it's been populous for quite some time. It's a surprisingly fertile land, probably the most favorable place for civilization in central Asia. That's why it was so important on the northern silk road (Samarkhand and Bukhara). Tashkent is a large city too. The downside is that they need all the water of the region, which destroyed the Aral sea...
tshalla
+5
Level 78
Dec 2, 2019
Irrigation for cotton production.
xyzzy
+8
Level 72
Dec 2, 2019
Needs a caveat that it includes military bases. The only one in Iraq is on a US base (knockoffs exist, like MaDonal).
FlabberBapper
+4
Level 77
Dec 2, 2019
Sounds like a good suggestion, will do.
CardinalSin
+5
Level 82
Dec 2, 2019
Thank you for this quiz. Gives me a list of countries with such an excellent reason for making a visit.
CaptainUnderpant
+2
Level 81
Aug 25, 2023
To not go to the McDonalds?
prosteven
+7
Level 77
Dec 3, 2019
It would be interesting to have a KFC list .Their in 13 countries that McDs isn't on this list.
Kape6969
+2
Level 66
Jan 28, 2020
It's very odd that my home country of Finland doesn't have a KFC
Thomas1VL
+3
Level 67
Sep 7, 2020
Yeah, my country, Belgium, only got a KFC like 1 or 2 years ago
stubart409
+4
Level 69
Dec 3, 2019
In the immortal words of Liz Lemon: "I want to go there!" Pestilence, disease, penury, corruption, venality, strife; but at least, no McDonalds.
cpgatbyu
+1
Level 88
Dec 3, 2019
There's no accounting for taste.
driehoek25
+6
Level 70
Dec 4, 2019
I tought Kim loved the Big Mac
unregistered
+1
Level 50
May 21, 2023
He does. He has a private maccas
ed1969
+3
Level 74
Dec 27, 2019
Very few of these countries have an obesity problem...coincidence? I think not.
burntofferings4all
+27
Level 52
Jan 27, 2020
Might have something to do with the total lack of food in general as well.
abracadabrant
+3
Level 54
Nov 15, 2022
Ohh, so thats why Madagascar is so skinny. Definitely has nothing to do with the majority of the population being in extreme poverty
Nickelz
+1
Level 69
Apr 25, 2023
These countries also have the highest poor populations, worst food security, need I go on?
svelte
+3
Level 50
Jan 16, 2020
Wait...establishments on military bases? LOL. Great idea to get twenty Big Macs before training!
tom88
+3
Level 77
Jan 27, 2020
Actually not the worst idea. McDonalds food has a lot of calories but if you are training hard it actually makes sense. I'm pretty sure Michael Phelps ate a bunch of McDonalds during the olympics because he's constantly training so hard.
bigbywolf
+1
Level 56
Aug 19, 2021
Michael Phelps ate a bunch of McDonalds? That's quite impressive.
Jeanettemartin
+3
Level 58
Jan 27, 2020
Im surprised Nigeria doesn't have at least one in Lagos...their economy is on the upsurge last I read......
CaoMaru
+12
Level 49
Jan 27, 2020
Please keep Mcdonalds out of these countries.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Jan 28, 2020
Stop buying their food and they won't come or will go away.
CaptainUnderpant
+4
Level 81
Aug 25, 2023
Instructions unclear, I stopped buying their food and Ronald McDonald still lives in my garage.
InterAlia
+1
Level 83
May 10, 2025
It isn't working.
Xoocit
+2
Level 55
Apr 29, 2021
How did I not get North Korea!?
Bengus
+8
Level 60
Oct 11, 2021
No countries should have a M*******'*.
Andyrew787
+3
Level 42
Apr 26, 2022
Iceland has no McDonalds
FlabberBapper
+33
Level 77
Apr 26, 2022
It also has about as many people as a sauna in Hawaii
flipiwin
+2
Level 34
Jun 1, 2022
That hint was terrible, but i still wasn't even close anyway
kapulani3
+1
Level 75
Jun 1, 2022
I thought about Russia but then figured that regardless of current activities, they had become Westernized in so many other things that they must have a McDonalds by now. I give them credit for keeping that invasion out of their country.
brandybuck96
+23
Level 82
Jun 2, 2022
They had McDonalds until very recently, I believe they pulled out after the Ukraine invasion
wkrpnyc
+4
Level 80
Jul 4, 2022
There was McDs in Russia since the 1990s, at least. I went to the one in Moscow in 1992. The corporation pulled out because of the invasion of Ukraine, but I wonder if the physical stores are there, just empty. I heard somewhere (Supersize Me, maybe?) that McDs real business is real estate.
QueenShewana
+1
Level 74
Jun 11, 2023
i came here to check on this - i remember seeing one in moscow about 5 years ago but now you mention it that rings a bell that they pulled out when the ukraine war started.
Djilas
+1
Level 86
Mar 7, 2025
They famously got the first McD already in Soviet Union. A kid interviewed for TV said he likes it because it's clean and people smile 😃
mf3
+4
Level 90
Jun 2, 2022
None in Madagascar, until they develop the McLemur.
HyddenRizz
+2
Level 67
Jun 2, 2022
Isn't the hint in the description wrong?

These are all in Africa or Asia unless I'm dumb (Russia is in Asia AND Europe of course)

Tim000w
+4
Level 74
Mar 7, 2025
Yes, for me it did more harm than good. I had guessed russia already, and I had 4 unanswered questions left. So I figured, I will try some countries in the americas, like Venezuela, since I thought I at least still had that one to get.
FlabberBapper
+1
Level 77
Mar 7, 2025
Russia is seen more as a European country, although the bulk of its land area is in Asia, the bulk of the population is in Europe. Not many people are thinking "Oh! Russia! The Asian country!"
HyddenRizz
+1
Level 67
May 10, 2025
Unfortunately your description doesn't say whether the country is Asian or European, it says "in Asia" which Russia definitely is.
BrunoLP
+4
Level 78
Jun 13, 2022
Kim Jong un must have someone smuggle his Big Macs to North Korea
FlabberBapper
+5
Level 77
Jun 13, 2022
Dennis Rodman
sergeantmalice
+2
Level 56
Jun 14, 2022
Algeria surprised me the most. I guess they just don't like eating rubbish
InterAlia
+1
Level 83
May 10, 2025
You make it sound like they tried, but business was too slow. I suspect the explanation lies elsewhere.
blay
+1
Level 50
Jul 4, 2022
Technically China doesn't have any Mcdonalds since they were sold to a Chinese company in 2017.
Djilas
+4
Level 86
Mar 7, 2025
They're usually franchises everywhere
albbelo
+2
Level 33
Jul 4, 2022
Im shocked! I thought Russia had a lot of Mc Donalds! And they don't have a single one!
explorer97
+9
Level 67
Jul 4, 2022
well, 'had' is a right word. mcdonald's has just left Russia because of war. before March 2022, there were about 800 restaurants
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 78
Jul 4, 2022
Yup
explorer97
+5
Level 67
Jul 5, 2022
In May 2022, McDonald's sold its business in Russia to one of its local franchisees. Today, former McDonald's restaurants are being operated by this franchisee, and the name of this Russian network is 'Vkusno i tochka' ('Tasty and that's it' in English) which has much the same menu as McDonald's. But McDonald's remained the opportunity to return on the Russian market since it has an option to buy its restaurants back within 15 years
SpartanLlama
+2
Level 78
Jul 4, 2022
I forgot it was meant to be biggest countries so at first I was confused why Vatican wasn't on here
kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Jul 4, 2022
Virtually every McDonald's I've ever visited overseas has always been SO much busier and more popular than any McDonald's you would visit in the United States. And it's definitely NOT just tourists going to them - I'm talking about locations in rural parts of France and Italy, small towns in Saudi Arabia, and barrios of the Philippines with 0 foreigners (other than me) in them... and this is in spite of the fact that in the USA McDonald's is very cheap and convenient; overseas it's often one of the more expensive options and they frequently don't have a drive-thru like the US locations always do. Everybody loves McDonald's. Non-Americans most of all.
Becky08
+1
Level 25
Jul 4, 2022
Umm Russia has 770-800 McDonald’s left and Iraq has 1 where is Iraq???
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Jul 4, 2022
Not anymore.
poljaexplorer
+2
Level 46
Jul 6, 2022
It still does. I was there a month ago, saw a fully operational McDonalds in St. Petersburg airport. The number of those and their ownership is another question.
EvanAviator
+4
Level 61
Jul 6, 2022
They are not operated by any McDonalds owned entity
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Jul 9, 2022
Trademark infringing copycats? There are officially 0 McDonald's locations in Russia at this point. But I've seen bootleg knock-off version of American businesses like McDonald's, Burger King, Starbucks, etc. in many different places around the world. Some more obviously fake than others. In Russia, since they previously had hundreds of real McDonald's locations that just closed, it would be pretty easy for them to open them up again without authorization and the Russian government probably is not going to do anything about copyright infringement, either.
JudgeRudy
+1
Level 68
Jul 5, 2022
Helping fight oppression and poverty one Big Mac at a time...
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Jul 9, 2022
Hard to tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but McDonald's actually has done a lot to increase wages, worker safety standards, etc in many of the poorer countries they have opened locations in.
MCdoesgeography
+3
Level 74
Aug 2, 2023
While decreasing the population's health, yey
WhatDoIKnow
+1
Level 31
Jul 12, 2022
Sudan should allow North and/or South Sudan these days
CaptainUnderpant
+3
Level 81
Aug 25, 2023
Huh?
selful
+1
Level 69
Mar 4, 2024
Anyone else surprised to see Mongolia, Laos, Sri Lanka, and Turkmenistan all have McDonald's?
FlabberBapper
+2
Level 77
Mar 4, 2024
They don't, although Sri Lanka does
TrickyTags
+1
Level 67
Jul 5, 2024
Not anymore, I heard. Their stores closed due to some hygiene issues.
WinterPaint8
+2
Level 58
Jan 12, 2025
Surprised Niger (27 million pop) has a McDonald
FlabberBapper
+2
Level 77
Jan 12, 2025
It either does or this quiz needs an update, which I plan on doing in May to match when this was last updated
FreeStater
+2
Level 81
Mar 7, 2025
Depressing that some people live like this.
sumguy
+2
Level 87
Mar 7, 2025
I only missed the most obvious one (North Korea).
UG332
+2
Level 72
Mar 7, 2025
Got 100% and im ony 7
FlabberBapper
+8
Level 77
Mar 7, 2025
You annoy me
Xtrordinary
+5
Level 75
Mar 8, 2025
Hello ony 7, I am Xtrordinary
seechdog
+2
Level 69
Mar 8, 2025
Didn't Bill Gates eat only at McDs when he was in Russia?
thisguy786
+1
Level 40
Apr 4, 2025
Russia is bigger in asia
brhu
+1
Level 45
May 7, 2025
Vatican City has Mcdonalds?
morkfa
+1
Level 33
May 11, 2025
it's the biggest countries in the world, the Vatican is literally THE smallest country
Echoes1983
+1
Level 33
May 10, 2025
Hats off to these countries, for that. Though they have their flaws.
Pontiac
+1
Level 61
May 10, 2025
Russia has a McDonald's since the 1990s when it was still the Soviet Union
labienus
+1
Level 67
May 10, 2025
Kazakhstan also no longer has a McD as they were dependent on the Russian supply chains, but their population is just below the threshold of this quiz
FlabberBapper
+1
Level 77
May 10, 2025
Correct, but it's still not going to be on this quiz cause it doesn't have enough people
labienus
+1
Level 67
May 10, 2025
Kazakhstan also no longer has a McD as they were dependent on the Russian supply chains, but their population is just below the threshold of this quiz
shape816
+2
Level 68
May 10, 2025
Hint is confusing as all of the countries are in Africa or Asia. At least partly.
thisguy786
+1
Level 40
May 23, 2025
Russia has a huge landmass in asia
thisguy786
+1
Level 40
May 23, 2025
It is not just in europe
JohnnyYeet
+1
Level 66
Oct 11, 2025
Russia is very much in Asia, that caveat is misleading
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 78
Nov 21, 2025
Just missed Sudan
Eumenes
+1
Level 64
Apr 8, 2026
Very fun!
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