The ONLY Countries Where LEGO Is NOT Sold

```text Where can you actually buy LEGO—and does a missing store mean there are no sales? Explore 175 countries on an animated map to uncover the difference between local availability, company exits and channel restrictions. Travel through 8 regions, from Iceland's unusual 1955 licensing story to Russia's 2022 corporate exit and South Africa's 2018 Certified Store opening. The surprising part is what each event does—and does not—tell us about the bricks on sale. Research snapshot: 13 October 2026. This is a 175-country review, not a claim to cover every country or territory. We identified documented sales offers or shopping channels in 124 countries; 51 remain unconfirmed. No countrywide zero-sales case was verified among the countries reviewed. Unconfirmed does not mean banned, absent or never sold. Public listings and stated sales channels are evidence of an offer, not independently completed purchases or a guarantee of stock or authenticity. Historical evidence keeps its own date; marketplace restrictions and corporate withdrawal are separate from nationwide availability. Subscribe for more animated map investigations. Selected sources LEGO shopping regions: https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/help-to... LEGO history—Iceland: https://www.lego.com/en-lv/history/article... LEGO statement on shipment suspension, March 2022: https://www.lego.com/en-ae/aboutus/news/20... LEGO's February 2023 reply confirming the July 2022 business closure (company reply on the first page): https://b4ukraine.org/pdf/LEGo.pdf BrickLink marketplace restrictions: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=... LEGO Education 2016 catalogue, printed page 91: https://le-www-live-s.legocdn.com/sc/media... South Africa's 2018 Certified Store opening: https://www.brainwavez.org/culture/feature... Visual resources Map geometry: Natural Earth, public domain: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/ter... Flags: FlagCDN, based on Wikimedia Commons flag vectors: https://flagcdn.com/ Font: Nunito Sans, Copyright 2016 The Nunito Sans Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1: https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/... Equal Earth projection reference: d3-geo, Copyright 2010–2024 Mike Bostock, ISC license: https://github.com/d3/d3-geo/blob/main/LIC... Music "Tech Live" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free... Edited, looped, faded and mixed under narration. ```