Walmart Locations by Country

Walmart rings up more than $713 billion in annual revenue, employs roughly 2.1 million people, and draws about 270 million shoppers a week. It is the largest retailer on the planet and the world's largest private employer, and for 13 straight years it was the biggest company of any kind by revenue until Amazon edged past it in 2026. All of that grew from one discount store Sam Walton opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. The company incorporated in 1969, put its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, and now runs more than 10,800 stores across 19 countries, plenty of them under names that look nothing like "Walmart."

Walmart Locations Around The World

The United States

Home turf is still where Walmart towers over everyone. The United States holds 5,207 of its stores, more than the entire rest of the world combined. The core Walmart U.S. business runs 4,606 of them, split into 3,562 supercenters, 672 Neighborhood Markets, and 352 older discount stores. The membership warehouse chain Sam's Club adds 601 clubs across 44 states and Puerto Rico. The domestic operation is the company's largest segment by a wide margin, leaving international sales at roughly 18% of the total. By Walmart's own reckoning, about 90% of Americans live within 10 miles of one of its stores.

Mexico and Central America

Walmart's first step abroad was into Mexico in 1991, and the region is still its biggest bet outside the US. The division, Walmart de Mexico y Centroamerica, runs 3,214 stores in Mexico alone, most of them not called Walmart at all. The workhorse is Bodega Aurrera, a discount format whose express version accounts for nearly 1,500 small stores on its own, alongside Mi Bodega Aurrera, Walmart Supercenters, Sam's Clubs, and Walmart Express. Roughly 940 more stores spread across Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador under banners like Pali, Maxi Despensa, and Paiz. What began in 1991 as a joint venture with the Mexican retailer Cifra became a majority Walmart holding, renamed Walmart de Mexico y Centroamerica in 2010.

Canada

Walmart bought its way into Canada overnight in 1994, acquiring 122 Woolco stores in a single stroke. It now operates 404 locations, 346 of them supercentres and 58 discount stores, run from a home office in Mississauga, Ontario. Canada was also where Walmart proved it could parachute its supercenter model into a new country and make it stick.

China

China has been Walmart's hardest overseas classroom. It entered in 1996 and today counts 334 units, but the mix tells the real story: 277 supercenters and 57 Sam's Clubs. Walmart has been steadily closing supercenters there while leaning on its fast-growing Sam's Club membership clubs and online delivery, a bet that Chinese shoppers want warehouse-club value and speed more than aisles of general merchandise.

Africa

Walmart reached Africa in 2011 by taking a controlling stake in South Africa's Massmart, then bought the rest of it in 2022. The footprint has since pulled back sharply toward southern Africa. Massmart exited markets like Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and Ghana and wound down banners, leaving about 300 stores across eight countries. South Africa holds 270 of them under names such as Game, Builders Warehouse, and Makro, with a scattering more in Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Malawi, and Eswatini.

How Walmart Is Organized

Walmart reports its business in three segments: Walmart U.S., Walmart International, and Sam's Club U.S. Gone is the old separate eCommerce division. Online is now stitched through every segment, with store shelves doubling as pickup and delivery hubs. The formats stretch from supercenters as large as about 180,000 square feet, offering a full grocery store bolted onto general merchandise, down to Neighborhood Markets that stock mostly food. Overseas, the same playbook wears local clothes, from Chile's Lider hypermarkets to India's Best Price wholesale outlets, where Walmart operates purely as a cash-and-carry supplier rather than a consumer chain.

Walmart Locations by Country

Here is where Walmart's store count stands as of its latest reporting, ranked by country.

A Smaller Map Than It Used To Be

The most telling number is not how many countries Walmart is in, but how many it has left. A decade ago the company spanned 27 countries; today it operates in 19. It sold Asda in the United Kingdom, handed off Japan's Seiyu chain, and walked away from Argentina and Brazil, deciding that owning stores in tough markets mattered less than winning the ones it understands. What remains is a company doubling down on the Americas, on Sam's Club, and on turning 10,800 physical stores into the backbone of a delivery network. The map has shrunk, but the machine behind it has only grown denser.