Where is Bitget restricted?
Bitget is restricted in 31 of the 195 countries we cover: 
Afghanistan, 
Austria, 
Belarus, 
Canada, the 
Central African Republic, 
Cuba, 
Cyprus, 
DR Congo, 
France, 
Germany, 
Guinea-Bissau, 
Haiti, 
India, 
Iran, 
Iraq, 
Italy, 
Japan, 
Kazakhstan, 
Lebanon, 
Libya, 
Malaysia, 
North Korea, 
Russia, 
Singapore, 
Somalia, 
South Sudan, 
Spain, 
Sudan, 
Thailand, the 
United States and 
Yemen.
Most come from the prohibited-countries list in Bitget’s terms of use, last updated on 20 October 2026, which also names 
Hong Kong, every US territory and the Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine. The 16 October 2026 update added Russia and Belarus. Belarus had blocked bitget.com in December 2025, DL News reported, and Onliner, the outlet it cited, later added that Bitget had been removed from the block list. The list is open-ended: it covers “such other locations” as Bitget designates from time to time.
Bitget’s other documents add three countries. Its verification guide lists the countries it does not serve, and that list includes India, Italy and Spain, which the terms do not name. For India, Bitget paused new sign-ups from 6 February 2026, while existing users keep access. Its own notices cover the exits: France and Germany closed to new sign-ups on 16 January 2026, French services ended on 31 March, and Japan has been winding down since 3 August, with positions closed from 31 December 2026. Cuba, Iran and North Korea are also under comprehensive US sanctions (OFAC programmes for Cuba, Iran and North Korea). Cyprus is the one country no Bitget document names: Bitget’s own location check refused it in our geo-access test, covered below.
Bitget gives no reason for most of its list. Seventeen countries are under UN, US, UK or EU sanctions, four are exits or sign-up stops Bitget announced itself, four are EU countries where it has no MiCA licence (three on its own lists, plus Cyprus, refused by its location check), and six, including Canada, Singapore and the United States, are listed without a cause. The groups are below: pick one to see the countries, what applies, when it started and what our test saw.
Where is Bitget limited?
Bitget is limited in 28 countries: the 24 EEA countries where it has no MiCA licence and has not excluded itself, plus 
Australia, the 
Philippines, 
Ukraine and the 
United Kingdom.
For the EEA we rely on Bitget’s own MiCA update of 2 July 2026, which says Bitget EU will offer services in the EU only once it is authorised, and on ESMA’s statement of 17 April 2026 that firms serving EU clients without a licence after 1 July are in breach of EU law. The other four come from regulators and Bitget: ASIC warned in July 2025 that Bitget’s futures are unlicensed in Australia, the Philippine SEC named Bitget among ten unregistered exchanges in August 2025, after which the main internet providers restricted access, as BitPinas reported, the UK relaunch of November 2024 runs on promotions approved by an FCA-authorised firm, with crypto derivatives banned for retail customers, and the terms exclude Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk.
Limited means Bitget still serves the country, but without a licence or with something cut back. The groups are below: pick one to see what is closed, what still works and when it changed.
Where is Bitget available?
Bitget is available in the other 136 of the 195 countries we cover, from 
Brazil, 
Turkey and 
South Korea to most of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Seven of them host a Bitget licence or registration, listed in the licences section below: 
Argentina, 
El Salvador, 
Georgia, 
Mauritius, 
Mexico, 
South Africa and 
Switzerland. The other 129 are available under our coverage rule: no official document from Bitget or a regulator restricts them, and our geo-access test, where it reached, did not block them.
Our test loaded Bitget without a block in 78 of the 136. Available means Bitget serves the country, not that local law allows crypto trading: 
China and 
Bangladesh are on this list because Bitget does not exclude them, whatever their own rules say about using an offshore exchange.
Where do Bitget’s visitors come from?
Bangladesh leads Semrush’s September estimate for bitget.com, and three countries where Bitget is now restricted, the United States, Thailand and India, appear in the top five of at least one estimate.
Semrush counts 10.82 million visits in September 2026, 28.32% of them from Bangladesh, ahead of Thailand at 7.62% and the United States at 4.59%. Similarweb’s own page was behind a search limit when we checked on 16 October, so we used its figures as published by BitRSS: Argentina first in May 2026 at 11.78%, and the United States first in the first quarter at 8.58% of 51.73 million visits.
Several restricted countries rank high, and a visit is not an account. Our test shows why the United States can appear: bitget.com loads there behind a pop-up that lets visitors continue by declaring they are not American, so anyone reading prices counts. Thailand loaded with no barrier from our Thai location, and Japan, India, Germany and Russia were all still open to new users for some or all of the periods measured: Bitget closed German sign-ups in January, Indian in February and Japanese in August 2026, and added Russia only in October. Estimators model traffic from panels and samples, so treat any single share as an estimate.
Bitget geo-access test: what we saw from 127 countries
In our test only a US address got a visible block from Bitget; its IP check flagged 13 countries, all of them recorded as restricted, and everywhere else the pages loaded without a barrier.
We ran the test ourselves on 14 October 2026, with the same method as for every platform. A browser with a VPN connected to one country at a time and loaded Bitget’s home page and its sign-up page, each time in a fresh private window with no cookies. Cookie banners were hidden but never accepted, and bot checks were waited out, never solved. Every run saved the page text, a screenshot and the responses of Bitget’s own location check.
Of the 131 places tested (127 of our 195 countries plus Hong Kong, Macao, Puerto Rico and Taiwan), 56 of the countries went through VPN servers located there and 71 through virtual locations hosted elsewhere, which Bitget treats as the intended country. A virtual location tests Bitget’s own blocking only; it cannot see a block run by a country’s internet providers, as in the Philippines.
BlockedUnited States · Home page
The only visible block: a Restricted IP pop-up from a US address
“Please note that the products and services on Bitget are not intended for users in United States of America.”
BlockedMalaysia · Home page
Malaysia: Bitget's location check returned its prohibited-countries message, but the page showed no pop-up
“Please note that we are unable to provide services in prohibited countries.”
BlockedIndia · Home page
India, through a virtual location: flagged by the same check, though India is not in the terms
“Please note that we are unable to provide services in prohibited countries.”
BlockedCyprus · Home page
Cyprus: flagged by the check, yet Cyprus is on none of Bitget's lists
“Please note that we are unable to provide services in Prohibited Countries.”
No barrierJapan · Sign-up page
Japan is prohibited and closing, but the sign-up page loaded with no notice
No barrierSingapore · Home page
Singapore, on the prohibited list, loaded with no barrier
No barrierFrance · Home page
France, where Bitget ended all services in March 2026, loaded with no barrier
No barrierThailand · Home page
Thailand, prohibited since September 2026, through a virtual location: no barrier
No barrierRussia · Sign-up page
Russia, two days before Bitget added it to its terms: the sign-up page loaded
No barrierUnited Kingdom · Home page
The UK, where Bitget serves spot only, loaded without a notice
No barrierSpain · Sign-up page
Spain is on the list Bitget does not serve, yet its sign-up form loads
“Welcome to Bitget”
No barrierTurkey · Home page
Turkey: the home page loads with no notice
No barrierPhilippines · Home page
Loaded with no barrier; a virtual location cannot see the block philippine internet providers apply
No barrier
Vietnam · Home page
No barrier: the home page loads normally
No barrierMexico · Sign-up page
Mexico: the sign-up form loads with no barrier
“Sign up with Bitget”
No barrier
Ireland · Home page
Ireland: the home page loads with no notice
No barrierAustria · Sign-up page
Austria is a prohibited country in the terms, yet sign-up loads
“Welcome to Bitget”
No barrier
New Zealand · Home page
New Zealand: the page loads with no notice
No barrier
Norway · Home page
Norway: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Finland · Home page
Finland: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Greece · Home page
Greece: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Bulgaria · Home page
Bulgaria: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Croatia · Home page
Croatia: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Latvia · Home page
Latvia: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Estonia · Home page
Estonia: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Egypt · Sign-up page
Egypt: sign-up loads with no notice
No barrier
Lithuania · Home page
Lithuania: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Slovenia · Home page
Slovenia: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Iceland · Home page
Iceland: the home page loads with no notice
No barrierGeorgia · Home page
Georgia: the home page loads with no notice
No barrier
Serbia · Sign-up page
Serbia: sign-up loads with no barrier
No barrierBangladesh · Home page
Bangladesh: the home page loads with no notice
CRYPTORESTRICTIONSThe test does not decide a country’s status on its own: official documents come first, and a page that loads is not permission to use Bitget.
Three patterns stand out. First, Bitget’s door is mostly open: its compliance service answered 13 places with its message that it is “unable to provide services in prohibited countries”, but only the United States saw a pop-up, and the other 12 pages loaded normally. That is the opposite of OKX, whose home page blocked visitors by IP in every listed country it reached. Second, ten restricted countries, among them Japan, France, Singapore and Russia, passed every check, because Bitget applies its lists when you verify your identity: its verification guide says the countries it does not serve cannot be selected there. Third, the check is not the same as the lists: it flagged India, which the terms do not name, and Cyprus, which no Bitget document excludes. Our evidence order puts documents first and the test second, and a country the documents miss but the platform’s own check refuses is recorded as restricted, so Cyprus is restricted while the rest of the EEA without a Bitget exclusion stays limited.
Canada, Germany, Iran, North Korea and four other restricted countries were not tested. The full result for every country, with the exact message where there was one, is below.
All 131 test results, country by country
Bitget licences and registrations
Bitget lists 10 licences and registrations in 8 jurisdictions, none of them in the EU, the United States, Japan or Singapore.
The list comes from Bitget’s licences page, which names the regulator and the permission for each but not the company that holds it, checked on 16 October 2026. Four are licences, five are registrations, mostly for anti-money-laundering supervision, and one is a membership of a Swiss self-regulatory body. The page also lists the United Kingdom, where an FCA-authorised firm approves Bitget’s promotions; that is not a licence, so we count it under the limited countries instead.
Americas
- Argentina: registered with the Comisión Nacional de Valores as a virtual asset service provider.
- Mexico: registered with the Tax Administration Service for a vulnerable activity under the anti-money-laundering rules.
- El Salvador: registered with the National Commission of Digital Assets as a digital asset service provider and with the central bank as a bitcoin service provider.
Asia-Pacific
- Australia: registered with AUSTRAC as a digital currency exchange provider. ASIC says Bitget holds no Australian financial services licence, which its futures would need.
Africa
- South Africa: licensed by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority as a crypto asset service provider and as an over-the-counter derivatives provider.
- Mauritius: licensed by the Financial Services Commission as an investment dealer (full service, excluding underwriting).
Europe and the Caucasus
- Switzerland: a member of an anti-money-laundering self-regulatory organisation recognised by FINMA.
- Georgia: licensed in the Tbilisi Free Industrial Zone for digital asset exchange, wallet and custody services.
Bitget and MiCA in the EU
Bitget has no MiCA licence: its EU company applied to Austria’s Financial Market Authority on 2 July 2026, the day after the transition period ended, and Bitget has excluded five EEA countries itself.
MiCA is the EU’s crypto rulebook, and from 30 December 2024 it required exchanges serving EU clients to hold an authorisation from one member state (our MiCA article covers the rules). Firms already operating under national law could carry on until 1 July 2026 at the latest. Bitget EU’s application was not on ESMA’s register of authorised providers when we checked on 16 October. Its update on the application says only that existing customers of the global platform keep the access their contracts give them, without saying what that is.
Bitget, Binance and MEXC are the three of the 14 centralised platforms in our MiCA dataset without a licence. Bitget EU applied to the same regulator that authorised KuCoin, Austria’s FMA. Austria itself is on the prohibited list of Bitget’s global platform.
Bitget MiCA timeline
Bitget’s exits from the EU started before MiCA’s deadline. France’s AMF put bitget.com on its blacklist on 7 November 2023 and removed it on 9 July 2026, after Bitget had left. Germany followed France onto the prohibited list in January 2026, and Italy and Spain appear on the verification page’s list. Of the 25 EEA countries left, Bitget’s location check refused only Cyprus, which we record as restricted. In the other 24, our test pages loaded with no notice in 22, so nothing at the door tells a visitor that Bitget has no EU licence. We record those 24 as limited until Bitget EU is authorised or Bitget publishes what it offers there.
Is Bitget available in the US?
No: Bitget’s terms exclude the United States and every US territory, and Bitget lists no US licence or US company.
The prohibited list names Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands, as well as nine minor outlying islands. When we loaded bitget.com from a US address on 14 October 2026, it showed a “Restricted IP” pop-up saying its products are not intended for US users, with a box to tick for anyone who is not a US citizen or resident. The block is enforced again at identity verification, where the United States cannot be selected. We found no action by a US federal regulator against Bitget.
Bitget regulator actions and market moves: timeline
Bitget’s record is one of warnings and exits rather than fines. Besides the AMF, Alberta’s securities regulator put Canada Bitget Limited on its caution list on 1 April 2024 as not registered to trade securities or derivatives there. The largest event of 2026 was not a regulator’s: on 24 September about $388 million was taken from Bitget’s hot wallets, and Bitget’s incident report says withdrawals were fully restored on 2 October.
Bitget KYC and identity verification
Bitget requires Level 1 identity verification, a government ID and a face check, before any deposit, trade or withdrawal; an unverified account cannot move funds at all.
Bitget’s verification guide accepts an ID card, passport, driving licence or residence permit, followed by face recognition, and says review usually takes from several minutes to an hour. Users must be 18 or older and can verify one account only. Its verification FAQ gives the daily withdrawal limit once verified, from 3 million USDT at VIP 0 to 20 million at VIP 7, and says resetting a verification leaves the account unable to deposit or trade until it is done again.
The guide also explains the restrictions in practice: users from the countries Bitget does not serve cannot select their country during verification. That list is where India, Italy and Spain appear, so a resident of those countries cannot open a verified account even where the sign-up page loads.
Bitget verification history
Bitget made verification mandatory in 2023. Its announcement of 22 August required Level 1 from every new user from 1 September and gave existing users until 1 October, after which unverified accounts could only withdraw, cancel orders, redeem subscriptions and close positions. From 1 January 2024 verification became a condition for deposits and trading. For how Bitget’s checks compare with other exchanges, see our guide to crypto exchange KYC.
What if Bitget is restricted where you live?
It depends on the country: of the 21 other platforms we track, 14 are available in Thailand and 13 in Malaysia, but only one in Cuba, Iran or North Korea.
A VPN is no route around it. Bitget’s terms forbid using one to get past its location rules, and the restrictions are applied at identity verification, where the country you prove you live in decides. What is left is a platform that is allowed to serve you where you live.
The chart shows how much choice each restricted country has. In the six EU countries where Bitget is restricted, 8 to 12 platforms we track are open, four of them centralised exchanges in each. India, Malaysia and Thailand keep a wide choice too. In the sanctioned countries most platforms are restricted or not yet verified, and in Cuba, Iran and North Korea the only platform recorded as available is KuCoin, under our coverage rule, because its own exclusion list does not name those countries; Bitstamp is limited there.
Each country page lists every platform we track there with its status and sources; start from our country index.
