How to Check Whether Binance Is Available in Your Country

In short. Check three places: Binance's own list of prohibited countries, the licensed or registered list published by your local financial regulator, and the features your account shows once you have logged in and completed identity verification. If any one of them says no, treat the answer as no. Keep the two platforms apart as well: Binance.com and Binance.US are run by separate legal entities, and neither accounts nor product lines carry over from one to the other.

1. Binance.com and Binance.US are not the same platform.

A note on names: "Binance" below means the brand as a whole, while "Binance.com" and "Binance.US" mean the specific platforms. Don't picture Binance as one exchange with a single worldwide account system. The Binance.US Terms of Use state that Binance.US services are provided by BAM Trading Services Inc. They describe BAM Trading and Binance Holdings Limited as separate entities that share common majority ownership but are not part of the same corporate or management structure, and say BAM Trading has a license agreement with Binance Holdings Limited.

For a user, that means two sets of accounts and two user agreements. An account opened on one side cannot be used on the other, and each site decides which coins it lists and which features it offers, so go by what each official site says.

2. Three ways to check whether Binance is available where you live.

Regulatory status changes, and a fixed country list goes stale quickly. Run these three checks yourself:

1. Binance's own list of prohibited countries: List of Prohibited Countries. The list gets revised, so read the page as it stands now.
2. The licensed or registered list published by your local financial regulator: go to the regulator's official website and see whether Binance, or its local entity, is on the list.
3. The features Binance shows for your region once you log in: go by what your account actually displays after you complete identity verification.

If any one of the three says no, treat the answer as no. Don't go looking for a way around it.

3. Where a referral code does nothing: the program's regional exceptions.

Being able to register does not mean a referral code will do anything for you. The referral program has regional rules of its own, set out on the Binance help-center page Binance Referral Program - Additional Notes. That page was updated in September 2026 and lists six exceptions:

• Hong Kong: inviting a Hong Kong resident generates no commission, either for the person who invites or for the person invited.
• European Economic Area (EEA): from July 1, 2026, users whose accounts are registered in an EEA member state cannot take part in the referral program in any role and do not receive referral commission.
• Singapore: from November 18, 2022, Singapore residents cannot take part as a referrer or as a referee.
• Japan: from August 1, 2023, residents of Japan cannot take part as a referee.
• United Kingdom: from October 8, 2023, UK retail users may not receive any trading incentives.
• Turkey: the retail referral program ended on September 19, 2024.

The list covers the referral program only. Whether you can trade in one of these regions is still a question for the three checks above. What Binance talks about in the list is commission. The fee discount that comes with a referral code is paid out of the share of commission passed to the referee, so an account in one of these regions gets no discount from entering a code, whichever site the code came from, this one included. That last step is our own inference, and Binance does not put it that way.

4. Mainland China: the notice currently in force.

The document currently in force is a notice on further preventing and handling risks related to virtual currencies, numbered Yinfa [2026] No. 42 (official text in Chinese). It was issued on February 6, 2026, took effect the same day, and repealed the 2021 notice Yinfa [2021] No. 237. Its Item (1) states that overseas entities and individuals may not illegally provide virtual-currency-related services to parties inside mainland China in any form.

Items (18) and (19) apply to individuals as well as institutions. Item (18) says that domestic entities and individuals who assist an overseas party while knowing, or having reason to know, that it is illegally providing such services into mainland China are to be held liable under the law. Item (19) says that where any entity or individual invests in virtual currencies or related financial products in a way that violates public order and good morals, the civil act is invalid and the resulting losses are borne by that party; conduct suspected of disrupting financial order or endangering financial security is handled by the authorities under the law. How these items apply to an individual's own conduct is a question for the official text and a licensed lawyer.

5. Staying within the rules where you live.

If the three checks above still leave you unsure:

• Ask a lawyer licensed where you live. Rules on identity verification, tax and cross-border transfers for crypto differ from place to place.
• If Binance isn't permitted where you live, use a platform on your local regulator's licensed or registered list. Getting around a restriction may be against the law where you live, and the account may be frozen.

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