Amazon Affiliate Program Countries: The Complete 2026 List
Here’s something that trips up most people who run Amazon affiliate links: Amazon’s help page says it runs Associates programs in “seventeen locations,” but the signup list it actually publishes names 19 separate marketplaces. Either count lands on the same hard truth, your single Amazon.com tag earns nothing on almost every click from the other countries. The Amazon affiliate program countries you’re actually allowed to earn in are spread across the world, and they don’t share one account.
We build Affilytics to optimize affiliate income by sending every click to the right regional store, so we’ve spent a lot of time mapping exactly where Amazon’s own cross-border tooling helps and where it quietly stops.
If you want the bigger picture first, here’s how geo-routing affiliate links works before we get into the country-by-country detail.
This guide is the full country list, who can sign up from where, how payouts actually work across regions, and where Amazon’s Global Program and OneLink fall short.
How Many Countries Have an Amazon Affiliate Program?
Section titled “How Many Countries Have an Amazon Affiliate Program?”Amazon gives two answers that don’t quite match, so let’s be precise up front. Its help page says it operates the Associates Program in seventeen locations around the world. But the signup list on that same page enumerates 19 individual marketplaces. The gap is how Amazon counts: “locations” groups some storefronts together, while the signup list breaks them out one by one.
Rather than pick a number and paper over the difference, this table lists every marketplace Amazon actually names, so you can see exactly where you can earn. The marketplaces group into four rough regions: the Americas, Europe, the Middle East plus India, and Asia plus Australia. Two columns nobody else combines: whether a marketplace sits in Amazon’s one-account Global group, and whether OneLink can redirect to it.
| Country | Marketplace (amazon.tld) | In the one-account Global group? | OneLink redirect-eligible? | Needs its own Associates account? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | amazon.com | No (it’s the home account) | Yes (origin) | No (this is your base) |
| Canada | amazon.ca | Yes | Yes | No |
| United Kingdom | amazon.co.uk | Yes | Yes | No |
| Germany | amazon.de | Yes | Yes | No |
| France | amazon.fr | Yes | Yes | No |
| Italy | amazon.it | Yes | Yes | No |
| Spain | amazon.es | Yes | Yes | No |
| Netherlands | amazon.nl | No | Yes | Yes |
| Sweden | amazon.se | No | Yes | Yes |
| Poland | amazon.pl | No | Yes | Yes |
| Japan | amazon.co.jp | No | Yes | Yes |
| Singapore | amazon.sg | No | Yes | Yes |
| Australia | amazon.com.au | No | Yes | Yes |
| Saudi Arabia | amazon.sa | No | Yes | Yes |
| UAE | amazon.ae | No | No | Yes |
| India | amazon.in | No | No | Yes |
| Mexico | amazon.com.mx | No | No | Yes |
| Brazil | amazon.com.br | No | No | Yes |
| China | amazon.cn | No | No | Yes |
The Global group is Canada plus the EU5 (UK, Spain, Germany, France, Italy). OneLink-eligible means the US plus 13 destinations.
One quick clarification so you don’t go down the wrong path: the Amazon Influencer Program is a separate thing. Amazon’s Influencer Program runs in only 7 countries (US, Canada, India, Germany, France, Spain, Italy). Don’t conflate it with the online Associates program covered here.
Does One Amazon Account Cover Every Country?
Section titled “Does One Amazon Account Cover Every Country?”Short answer: no. This is the single biggest misconception I see, and Amazon spells it out in its own words.
Here’s the spine fact, quoted directly: one account covers Canada and the EU5; everything else needs a separate account. Amazon writes, “We have simplified the process for you to earn across the Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France and Italy Associates programs, by making it possible using a single store ID. However for the rest of the countries, you will need an Amazon Associates account in each country for which you want to monetize the traffic.”
So read that back. Six countries ride on one store ID. Every other marketplace on the list, Japan, Australia, India, Mexico, and the rest, wants its own account before you can earn a cent there.
Creators routinely don’t know this. One creator on r/Affiliatemarketing asked the question straight out: do I need to sign up for Amazon US separately? The answer is yes for most regions, and there’s a catch. Each new Amazon Associates account has to refer at least three qualifying sales within 180 days of signing up, or Amazon closes it. So signing up for all seventeen “just in case” is bad advice. Every account you open starts its own 180-day clock.
Before you spread yourself across regions, it helps to know what your international traffic is actually worth so you only chase the programs that pay off. Once you know it’s worth chasing, here is how to route cross-border traffic to the right store so every region’s clicks actually pay you.
Amazon’s Two Cross-Border Tools: The Global Program and OneLink
Section titled “Amazon’s Two Cross-Border Tools: The Global Program and OneLink”Amazon does give you two ways to bridge the gap. People blur them together a lot, so it’s worth being clear on what each one actually does.
The first is the Global Program, sometimes called “Earn Globally.” It’s the one-account mechanism from the last section: a single Amazon.com account that earns across the core six, Canada plus the EU5, on one store ID. That’s the scope. It does not stretch to Japan, India, or anywhere outside that group.
The second is OneLink. In Amazon’s words, OneLink is Amazon’s geo-redirection solution to help you monetize international traffic. When an international visitor clicks your link, OneLink sends them to their local Amazon storefront instead of leaving them on amazon.com.
So how do the two relate? One is about which accounts can earn on a single ID. The other is about where the visitor lands.
A few honest facts about OneLink, pulled straight from Amazon’s docs:
- It’s free, the only tier, and included with your Amazon Associates membership. No click-volume limit.
- It redirects international visitors to their local Amazon storefront, so they buy in their own currency and language with their existing Amazon account.
- It covers the US plus 13 redirect destinations, grouped as Canada and the EU5 plus seven more (Japan, Singapore, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Sweden, Australia).
For a lot of creators, that’s genuinely useful and it costs nothing. The trouble is where it stops.
Where OneLink Quietly Breaks
Section titled “Where OneLink Quietly Breaks”OneLink reads as all upside in Amazon’s docs. In practice, there are four places it falls down, and a creator can lose commission without ever noticing.
The first is the worst kind of failure, the silent one. The geo-redirect can fire correctly while the US tracking ID stays attached, so the visitor lands on the right storefront but the sale attributes to the wrong account. One creator on r/Affiliatemarketing documented exactly this: the redirect to amazon.co.uk worked, but the link still carried their original US ID, which made it useless for earning UK commissions. Treat that as one documented case, not proof of a systemic bug, but it’s a real failure mode.
The second is shorteners. Amazon states plainly that shortened links created by third-party link shorteners are not redirected. If you’ve wrapped your Amazon links in your own shortener, OneLink skips them.
The third is coverage. OneLink does not cover Mexico, Brazil, India, China, or the UAE, even though Amazon runs Associates programs in several of those. A creator whose traffic is India-heavy asked the obvious question on r/Affiliatemarketing, “does OneLink work for India?”, and the answer is no.
The fourth is by design: OneLink is Amazon-only. It moves visitors between Amazon storefronts and nowhere else. If you also promote Walmart, Target, or any non-Amazon program, OneLink does nothing for those links.
That silent tag-drop is the one to worry about, because a redirect that “looks” fine hides the loss. A dropped tag is invisible unless something is watching for it, which is exactly the attribution-loss failure that continuous link-health monitoring is built to catch. If you’re weighing your options here, we’ve also written up OneLink alternatives that cover more countries.
How Payouts Work Across Amazon’s Country Programs
Section titled “How Payouts Work Across Amazon’s Country Programs”Once you’re earning across more than one of the Amazon affiliate program countries, payouts get their own kind of messy. Simple to state, annoying to live with.
First, earnings follow the local program’s rate card, not your home country’s. Amazon’s example is clear: if a UK shopper clicks a US link and buys on amazon.co.uk after the redirect, the associate earns the commission rate based on the UK Associates program. Each marketplace has its own category rates, and they change often, so I’m not going to print numbers that rot. Amazon publishes a standard commission rate card you can check for the current per-category percentages, and each country program keeps its own version.
Second, every program pays out separately. In Amazon’s words, your earnings need to qualify for the minimum earnings threshold in each country’s program before you get paid. So:
- You clear each country’s threshold on its own. Earning a little in five regions can mean getting paid in none of them yet.
- Each program pays in its local currency, which means you’re juggling balances across several currencies at once.
- Converting and moving that money costs FX and transfer fees.
This is where real friction shows up. Each marketplace has its own payout rules, and creators run into rejected payout rails: one creator reported that Amazon Germany couldn’t pay out to their Revolut account. The common workaround is a multi-currency service like Wise or Payoneer to cut the conversion fees.
How to Serve Every Country From One Link
Section titled “How to Serve Every Country From One Link”Here’s the cleaner way to think about the whole fragmentation problem. Instead of stitching together accounts, tools, and currencies per region, you route one link by the visitor’s country to the right destination.
A creator on r/Affiliatemarketing described the mechanic well: one tracking link that routes a visitor to “Costco US, Costco CA, Costco UK, etc.” by geo. That’s the exact move OneLink can’t make, because OneLink only knows how to send people between Amazon storefronts.
This is the main thing we built Affilytics for. A geo-routed smart link (go.affilytics.io/{slug}) sends each click to the right regional destination based on the visitor’s country, and unlike OneLink it isn’t marketplace-locked: a routing rule can point to any Amazon storefront and to non-Amazon programs (Walmart, Target, a higher-paying network) too. Creating the link is a manual step. You make the slug, set the country rules, and swap the raw link in your content for it. Discovery doesn’t auto-convert anything.
If you want the deeper version, here’s how geo-routing affiliate links works end to end, and a walkthrough of how to create a geo-routed smart link when you’re ready to build one.
Route Around the Fragmentation Once
Section titled “Route Around the Fragmentation Once”The country fragmentation isn’t going away. Amazon will keep running separate programs in separate currencies, and OneLink will keep stopping at the edge of its own ecosystem. The fix is to route around it once and stop fighting it per region.
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How many countries have an Amazon affiliate program?
Section titled “How many countries have an Amazon affiliate program?”Amazon says it operates the Associates Program in seventeen locations around the world, spanning the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and India, and Asia and Australia. Each location is its own program with its own signup page, so the single list covers a lot of ground but is not one shared account.
Does one Amazon Associates account work in every country?
Section titled “Does one Amazon Associates account work in every country?”No. Amazon’s Global Program lets one Amazon.com account earn across Canada and the EU5 (United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, Italy) using a single store ID. For every other marketplace, Amazon says you need a separate Associates account in each country you want to monetize.
Which countries does Amazon OneLink support?
Section titled “Which countries does Amazon OneLink support?”OneLink redirects across the US plus 13 destinations: the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Sweden, and Australia. It does not cover Mexico, Brazil, India, China, Türkiye, or the UAE, even though Amazon runs programs in several of those, and it only moves visitors between Amazon storefronts.
Can I get paid from multiple Amazon country programs?
Section titled “Can I get paid from multiple Amazon country programs?”Yes, but each country program has its own minimum payout threshold and pays in its local currency, so you have to clear each threshold separately. Holding earnings across several regions creates FX and transfer friction, and many creators route payouts through Wise or Payoneer to cut the fees.
Is the Amazon Influencer Program available in the same countries?
Section titled “Is the Amazon Influencer Program available in the same countries?”No. The Amazon Influencer Program is a separate program with a narrower footprint, available in only seven countries: the US, Canada, India, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. Don’t conflate it with the online Associates program, which runs in far more locations.