There are a lot of McDonald's restaurants in the world[1] . To be exact, 34,392 -- at least once the fast food chain opens its first ever location in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City[2] . Vietnam will be the 116th country in the world to be home to a McDonald's eatery.


To mark the occasion, The Guardian developed an interactive map[3] , seen below, which shows how the number of McDonald's locations changed between 2007 and 2012.


It certainly illustrates McDonald's staggering global presence. But the number of locations hasn't risen everywhere: In Japan, it fell.


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