List of countries with IKEA stores

IKEA is a multinational group of companies that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture (such as beds, chairs and desks), appliances and home accessories. The following List of countries with IKEA stores is arranged by date of first store in each country.

Countries

Country	Debut	First store location[1]	No. of stores	Notes
Sweden	1958	Älmhult[2]	20	Sweden has the world's second largest IKEA (outside Stockholm; 55,221 square meters)[3] after South Korea's Gwangmyeong store at 59,000 square meters which opened in December 2014.[4]
Norway	1963	Slependen	7	First IKEA outside Sweden. Stores: Oslo (Two stores, Slependen and Furuset), Kristiansand, Stavanger, Trondheim and Bergen.[5] The world's largest IKEA is planned to be built in Larvik, Norway. It is rumoured to be in the range of 60,000-80,000 square metres.[6]
Denmark	1969	Ballerup[7] (near Copenhagen)	5	Ballerup store moved to Høje Tåstrup circa 1979. Other stores: Gentofte, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg.
Switzerland	1973	Spreitenbach[8]	9	First IKEA outside Scandinavia.
Germany	1977	Eching[9] (near Munich)	50	IKEA's largest market. Berlin alone has four stores. The Berlin "Landsberger Allee" store is the 2nd largest in Europe with 43000 m2.
Japan	1974 2006 (after withdrawal in 1986)	Kobe (initial) Funabashi (reentry)	8	IKEA withdrew from the market in 1987 because of stagnant sales,[10] then returned in 2006 to Funabashi, Chiba under a distribution partnership with the Mitsubishi Corporation.[11][12]
Australia	1975	Artarmon (near Sydney)	9	There are nine stores in Australia. Rhodes, Tempe and Marsden Park in Sydney, Richmond and Springvale in Melbourne, Logan in Brisbane, and also Perth and Adelaide, although Perth and Adelaide are a franchise owned by CEBAS Pty LTD. IKEA have announced they will open stores in Campbellfield, Melbourne; North Lakes, Brisbane; and Canberra. The planned Campbellfield store will be the largest free-standing store in the Southern Hemisphere totaling 41,000 square metres.[13]
Canada	1975	Dartmouth	12	The first IKEA store in North America opened in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 1975 and closed 13 years later.[14][15] As of 2012, there were twelve stores in five provinces—two in British Columbia (Richmond and Coquitlam), two in Alberta (Calgary and Edmonton), one in Manitoba (Winnipeg), five in Ontario (Burlington, Etobicoke, North York, Ottawa, and Vaughan), and two in Quebec (Boucherville and Montreal).[16] The current Ottawa store, opened on 7 December 2011, was at the time the largest IKEA in Canada—approximately 37,000 square metres.[17] The newest Canadian IKEA is the Winnipeg store, opened on 28 November 2012.[18] On 8 May 2012, IKEA began construction on expanding its current Montreal location into North America's largest IKEA store. Completed in summer 2013, the new IKEA Montreal measures 43,626 square metres.[19] IKEA is re-opening a store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 2017.[20] IKEA is re-opening a store in Quebec City, Quebec, in 2018.[21]
Hong Kong	1975	Kowloon (Tsim Sha Tsui)	3	The first store opened in Hong Kong (then a British colony) in Tsim Sha Tsui, the original store was later relocated. Since 2007, IKEA has had three stores in Hong Kong: Causeway Bay, Kowloon Bay, Shatin, plus a warehouse in Sheung Shui. All are franchises owned by Dairy Farm International Holdings. The Shatin Store was expanded in December 2009. In summer 2010, the Kowloon Bay store was relocated from Telford Plaza to Megabox. With area of 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) it is the largest store in Hong Kong.
Austria	1977	Vösendorf (near Vienna)	7	A new store, the seventh of Austria, was opened in 2008 in Klagenfurt.
Singapore	1978	Bukit Timah	2	Original store moved to Katong in 1984, then to Alexandra Road in Queenstown in 1995. A second store opened in November 2006 in Tampines.
Netherlands	1978	Sliedrecht	13	Groningen store is the 3rd largest in Europe with 42,000 square metres (450,000 sq ft). Newest store opened in February 2015 in Zwolle. The old store in Sliedrecht closed in 2006.
Spain	1980	Las Palmas	20	There are 16 stores on mainland Spain & 4 stores in the Canary Islands & the Balearic Islands.[22]
Iceland	1981	Reykjavík	1	Originally, IKEA started its business in a loft above a grocery store in Reykjavík. Later after having spent a decade in a large warehouse, it reopened (at around 20,000 m2) in Garðabær in October 2006.[23] IKEA's director in Iceland said that they want to open a store in Akureyri in the upcoming years.[24]
France	1981	Bobigny (near Paris)	33	With 7 stores, Paris has more IKEAs than any other city.
Saudi Arabia	1983	Jeddah	3	Stores in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran. The Riyadh and Jeddah stores have been completely rebuilt and relocated in recent years. The store in Dhahran opened in 2008.
Belgium	1984	Zaventem and Ternat (near Brussels)	8	Stores in Anderlecht, Arlon, Ghent, Hasselt, Liege, Mons, Wilrijk and Zaventem. In 2008 the IKEA store in Ternat closed. In 2016 the stores in Hasselt and Mons opened, in October 2016 Ikea bought a piece of land to open a second store in Antwerp. Another new store will open near Kortrijk, but not anytime soon.
Kuwait	1984	Kuwait City	1	Opened in the industrial district of Shuwaikh in 1984; transferred to a significantly larger new facility at The Avenues (a shopping centre) in early 2007.
United States	1985	Plymouth Meeting	44[25]	Built in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania; has since moved to Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. The original IKEA building has since been demolished[26] and is now a Whole Foods Market. In 1992, IKEA acquired the California-based STØR chain, adding 3 of that chain's 4 locations to their US presence; that chain's Houston, Texas location, which operated under franchise agreement, became one of only a few independently franchised IKEA locations in the world.[27] Another store opened in Frisco, Texas in 2005, one of the largest in the world at the time. Most-recent stores opened since 2008 include Tampa, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; Brooklyn, New York; and Centennial, Colorado. The first IKEA in Puerto Rico opened its doors on 2013 in Bayamón[28] and a second store in Ponce is planned for the near future.[29] IKEA announced on 4 December 2013 that a new 389,000 square foot store would begin construction in 2014 in St. Louis, Missouri in the city's Midtown District.[30] New locations in the Miami suburb of Sweetwater, Florida[31] and the Kansas City suburb of Merriam, Kansas[32] opened in Autumn 2014. A 351,000 square foot store is scheduled to open in Spring Valley, Nevada, in June 2016.[33] A new store announcement was for Columbus Ohio, where it will be finished in the summer of 2017. On June 21, 2016, a planned store in Norfolk, Virginia was announced.[34] The most recent announcement came on November 29, 2016, for a store in Live Oak, Texas, a suburb of San Antonio, scheduled to open in 2019.[35]
United Kingdom	1987	Warrington, Cheshire	20	The largest UK stores are in Croydon in London and at Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex, each with a capacity of 37,000 m2.[36] The newest stores were completed in December 2007 in Coventry city centre and at the Holywood Exchange in Belfast.[37][38] In November 2007 a planning application was approved for an 18th store in Southampton, which opened on February 12, 2009.[39][40] Future locations for Ikea stores in the United Kingdom include Greenwich Peninsula, Sheffield, and Exeter.[41] IKEA opened a new 38,000 square metres (410,000 sq ft) store in Calcot, Reading, Berkshire on 14 July 2016.[42][43] Additionally the UK has two Order and Collect points; one in Norwich which opened in November 2015,[44] and one which opened in May 2016 in Aberdeen.[45]
Italy	1989	Cinisello Balsamo (near Milan)	21	The last one opened in Cagliari in 2016. The largest store is located in Carugate, Milan, extending to 38000 m2.
Hungary	1990	Budapest	2	There are two stores in Hungary, one in the capital city Budapest and one in Budaörs. Two other stores are planned, with one in Soroksár[46]
Poland	1991	Janki (near Warsaw)	9	Greater Warsaw has two stores: in Janki and Targówek. There are also stores in Gdańsk, Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków, Poznań, Łódź and Bydgoszcz. A store is being built in Lublin (opening in 2017[47]) and Warsaw (a third one in the city, opening in 2018[48]), while four others are planned in Zabrze,[49] Rzeszów,[50] Częstochowa[51] and Szczecin.[52]
Czech Republic	1991	Budějovická (near Prague)	4	There are two IKEA stores in Prague - one at Zličín and one at Černý Most; both Zličín and Černý most are located at the periphery of Prague and at the endstations of underground line B. The first original store at Budějovická - Prague 4 was abandoned. Outside of Prague there are two locations - in the country's second largest city, Brno, and in Ostrava. There are 3 stores planned within 6 years (Plzeň, Hradec Králové and a third location in Prague).
United Arab Emirates	1991	Dubai	2	The U.A.E.'s stores are located in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The IKEA store in Abu Dhabi was located at the Marina Mall. It was then shifted to Yas Island with shuttle services from Marina Mall and Alwadha Mall.[53] The Dubai store recently moved to the Festival Waterfront Centre.
Slovakia	1992	Bratislava	1	Original store was closed upon the opening of a new store in the Avion Shopping Park. There are two more stores planned in Slovakia, in Košice and Žilina.
Taiwan	1994	Taipei	5	The first store opened in Taipei in 1994, but was closed in 2002. There are currently 5 IKEA stores in Taiwan: Taipei, New Taipei, Taoyuan, Kaohsiung and Taichung. IKEA was initially owned by Jardine Matheson, but is currently owned by Dairy Farm International Holdings.
Finland	1996	Espoo	5	New store in Vantaa in 2003, in Raisio in 2008 and in Tampere in 2010. The Tampere store is the biggest IKEA in Finland. In 2011 a new store opened in Kuopio.
Malaysia	1996	Bandar Utama	2	Re-located to Mutiara Damansara, Selangor, in 2003. The new IKEA store in Mutiara Damansara was the largest in Asia at that time with a shop floor area of approximately 27,000 square metres (290,000 sq ft). The second store in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur has been officially opened on November 19, 2015, which is currently the largest store in Malaysia with a shop floor area of approximately 42,000 square metres (450,000 sq ft).[54][55] In addition, Ikea has also planned to open another IKEA stores in Johor Bahru first before expand to Penang.[56][57]
China	1998	Shanghai	19[58]	There are 3 IKEA stores in Shanghai, stores in Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Nanjing, Dalian and Shenyang. Most recent store opening in Chongqing in 2014.[59] IKEA is also aiming at expanding a second store in Beijing as well as a new store in Wuhan.[60]
Russia	2000	Khimki (near Moscow)	14	Fourth market by revenue after Germany, the U.S. and Sweden. There are 3 IKEA stores in Moscow (Khimki, Teply Stan and Belaya Dacha), 2 stores in St. Petersburg (Parnas and Dybenko), stores in Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Novaya Adygea (in Adygea near Krasnodar), Samara, Omsk and Ufa. The IKEA stores in Russia are in connection with MEGA malls developed by IKEA. 5-6 new openings planned by 2020
Israel	2001	Netanya	3	The second store opened on March 9, 2010, in Rishon LeZion, a suburb of Tel Aviv. The store has an area of 33,000 sq. meter. The store in Netanya was destroyed in a fire on February 5, 2011,[61] and after extensive renovations it was reopened on March 6, 2012.[62] A third store was opened on March, 2014 in Kiryat Ata, one of Haifa's suburbs.[63]
Greece	2001	Thessaloniki	5	The first store opened in Thessaloniki on October 24, 2001. The second store opened in Athens (Airport Retail Park) on April 23, 2004. The third store, also in Athens (Egaleo), opened on March 26, 2008. The fourth store, in Larissa, opened on October 14, 2009. The fifth store, in Ioannina, opened in December 2010.[64] Three more stores are planned by 2013 in Athens (third store, possibly in Elefsina), Heraklion and in the new shopping center Iasmos Park in Komotini.[65]
Portugal	2004	Alfragide (near Lisbon)	4	Second store opened on July 31, 2007 in Matosinhos, with 36,000 square metres (390,000 sq ft),[66] and third store opened on 25 May 2010, in Frielas, Loures, the largest store on the Iberian Peninsula with 39,000 m2. Now the fourth store is open in Braga with 22,000 square metres (240,000 sq ft).
Turkey	2005	Istanbul	5	There are two stores in İstanbul (Bayrampaşa and Ümraniye), one store in İzmir (Bornova), one store in Bursa (Osmangazi) and one store in Ankara (Mamak).
Romania	2007	Bucharest	1	26,000 square metres (280,000 sq ft) store opened on March 21, 2007, in Băneasa "Feeria" Shopping Center.[67] The second store will be opened in 2009, in Iaşi, in Era Shopping Park.[68] Other stores are planned to be opened in Bucharest, Braşov, Cluj-Napoca, Constanţa, Galaţi and Timișoara by 2013.[69]
Cyprus	2007	Strovolos (near Nicosia)	1	22,000 square metres (240,000 sq ft) store opened in September 2007.[70][71][72]
Ireland	2009	Ballymun[73] (near Dublin)	1	The first IKEA store in the Republic of Ireland (and second on the island of Ireland) opened on July 27, 2009. The store was granted planning permission in 2007 with conditions,[74][75] and although the store was completed in February 2009,[76] planning conditions[77] resulted in the delayed opening.[78] Ireland's first small format store, where customers can order and collect products is planned to open in Carrickmines in the summer of 2016.[79]
Dominican Republic	2010	Santo Domingo	3	The first Dominican IKEA store opened 17 February 2010 in Santo Domingo.[80] It is the first IKEA store in Latin America.[81] The owner of the IKEA franchisee for Dominican Republic, Anders Alm, is reported as saying that the new store has created 400 jobs.[82]
Bulgaria	2011	Sofia	2	The Swedish furniture giant IKEA is opening its first store in the Bulgarian capital Sofia on September 20, 2011.[83] IKEA eyes second Bulgarian store in Varna.[84]
Thailand	2011	Bangkok	1	The first IKEA in Thailand opened its door on 3 November 2011, in Bang Phli, Samut Prakan. The store is adjacent to a major interchange where the Bang Na-Bang Pakong Highway and Kanchanaphisek Outer Ring Road intersect, with convenient access from the more affluent eastern suburbs of Bangkok. It is expected to have 43,000 square metres (460,000 sq ft).of retail space as a part of the Mega Bangna Shopping Center.[85][86]
Macau	2012	Nossa Senhora de Fátima	1	In 2012, Macau had its first IKEA merchandise pick up store in Avenida de Venceslau de Morais, customers can head to Hong Kong stores or shop online and pick up their merchandise here. In April 2016, IKEA is interested on enhancing customers experience, the new location of the merchandise pick up is located in Macau Tower [87]
Lithuania	2013	Vilnius	2	The first IKEA store in Lithuania was opened on August 14, 2013 in Vilnius. It has the capacity of 26,000 square metres and is also considered to be one of the best projects in the history of IKEA. The store is located near Vilnius International Airport.[88][89] Second store is planned to be opened in port city of Klaipėda in Autumn 2015.[90]
Egypt	2013	Cairo	1	The first IKEA store in Africa has opened its door on November 26, 2013. The store is located in Cairo Festival City Mall, and it has 34,500 square meters.[91] The mega project owned by Al-Futtaim Group is located in New Cairo, near the Suez Road, Ring Road, Police Academy, and The American International School in Egypt.[92]
Qatar	2013	Doha	1	The first IKEA in Qatar opened its door on March 11, 2013.[93] The store is located in Doha Festival City Mall.
Jordan	2014	Amman	1	The first IKEA in Jordan [94] opened its doors on 6 March 2014.[95] IKEA Jordan store is located on Airport road, after Madaba bridge going to Amman and it is IKEA's largest store in the Middle East with an area of 42,000 square metres and 400 Jordanian employees.
Croatia	2014	Zagreb	1	The first IKEA in Croatia [96] opened its doors on 21 August 2014 and with total area of 38,000 m2 is one of the 5 biggest in Europe and among 10 biggest IKEA stores in the world.[97]
Indonesia	2014	Tangerang (near Jakarta)	1	IKEA just opened a store in Tangerang, Indonesia, under a partnership with Hero Supermarket, Indonesian subsidiary of Dairy Farm International Holdings.[98][99] IKEA opened their doors to Indonesia in October 15, 2014 at Alam Sutera, Tangerang, located in the western suburbs of Jakarta.[100]
South Korea	2014	Gwangmyeong	1	The world's largest IKEA store at 59,000 square meters (640,000 square feet)[4][101] opened near the KTX Gwangmyeong Station, located at the heart of the Seoul Capital Area, on December 18, 2014.[102] The next store opening in Goyang in 2017 will be even larger at 164,000 square meters in gross floor area, breaking the previous world record holder's 131,550 square meters. IKEA plans to have 6 stores in the country by 2020, four in the Seoul Capital Area, one in Daejeon and one in Busan.[103]
Morocco	2016	Casablanca	1	IKEA opened a Moroccan location in partnership with the Kuwait-based Al-Homaizi. The first location is in the New city of Zenata (located in outskirts of Casablanca).[104][105][106]

Planned

Country	Debut	First store location[1]	Notes
Serbia	2017	Belgrade	IKEA has started building a store in Belgrade and plans to open a total of 5 stores across the country.[107]
India	2017	Hyderabad	IKEA plans to open 25 stores, investing about 10,500 crore (US$2 billion) over 15 to 20 years.[108][109] IKEA began constructing its first store in India on 11 August 2016. The 400,000 sq ft store in Hyderabad is being built at a cost of ₹700 crore (US$100 million), and is scheduled to open in autumn 2017.[110][111]
Slovenia	2018	Ljubljana	IKEA has signed an agreement to open its first store in Ljubljana with the size of 35,000 m2 and costs about €80 million.[112][113][114][115]
Bahrain	2018	Salmabad	IKEA is currently building it's first store in Bahrain costing $125 million dollars with 6,200 square meters in floor area and plans on opening in mid 2018.[116]
Latvia	2019	Riga	Two Icelandic entrepreneurs had planned to open an IKEA stores in Latvia once the Lithuania store has been successfully opened.[117][118][119] However, after few studies has been conducted regarding the more suitable next Baltic States to open the next IKEA store after Lithuania, it is announced that the next IKEA store will open in Riga, Latvia instead of Estonia due to small market size in Estonia, despite IKEA's plan to expanding IKEA stores to all 3 Baltic States including Estonia within 2019.[120][121][122]
Estonia	2019	Tallinn	Two Icelandic entrepreneurs had planned to open an IKEA stores in Latvia once the Lithuania store has been successfully opened.[117][118][119] However, after few studies has been conducted regarding the more suitable next Baltic States to open the next IKEA store after Lithuania, it is announced that the next IKEA store will open in Riga, Latvia instead of Estonia due to small market size in Estonia, despite IKEA's plan to expanding IKEA stores to all 3 Baltic States including Estonia within 2019.[121][122][123]
Brazil	TBA	TBA	IKEA showed interests in the past in expanding its stores to Brazil.[124]
Mexico	TBA	TBA	IKEA it has begun market research to open its first store in Mexico.[125]
New Zealand	TBA	TBA	IKEA Australia Managing Director commented on a market in New Zealand and 'there's opportunities there'.[126]
Ukraine	Abandoned	Odessa[127]	IKEA in 2009, has and currently has acquired land for a store in Odessa.[127] A year later it was abandoned because it did not have a strong enough market.[128]

Notes

External links

• Inter IKEA B.V., World-wide IKEA store listing and map