Las Vegas
Nevada
11 venues listed
Las Vegas holds the largest concentration of casino floor space in the Western hemisphere, divided between three distinct districts. The Strip, which…
The world’s casinos, mapped by country, region and city
A reference directory of casino venues with gaming floor figures, venue formats and the entry rules that apply at the door.
Destinations with the most venues
Each destination page lists every venue recorded there, with the regional licensing context that shapes what is on the floor.
Atlantic City
New Jersey
6 venues listed
Atlantic City opened the first casino outside Nevada in 1978, built on a boardwalk resort economy that had been in decline for two decades. For…
Cotai
Macau
6 venues listed
Cotai is reclaimed land between the islands of Taipa and Coloane, built out after 2004 as Macau's answer to the Las Vegas Strip. The integrated…
London
United Kingdom
4 venues listed
London has more casinos than any other British city, split between public venues around Leicester Square and the West End and private members clubs…
Macau Peninsula
Macau
4 venues listed
The peninsula holds Macau's older casinos, including the properties that operated under the pre-2002 monopoly, clustered around the outer harbour and…
Manila
Philippines
4 venues listed
Manila's casinos are concentrated in two places: Entertainment City, a reclaimed bayfront district in Parañaque planned as a cluster of integrated…
Biloxi
Mississippi
3 venues listed
Biloxi anchors the Mississippi Gulf Coast market, licensed in 1990 as dockside gaming and rebuilt on land after Hurricane Katrina destroyed most of…
Philadelphia & Lehigh Valley
Pennsylvania
3 venues listed
Pennsylvania placed its casinos where the population is, rather than in a resort district, so the Philadelphia region has venues in Bensalem, at the…
Reno
Nevada
3 venues listed
Reno was Nevada's original gaming town, drawing visitors from northern California long before the Strip was built, and it still markets itself on…
Largest table operations recorded
| Venue | Location | Table games | Machines |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Venetian Macao | Cotai, Macau | 600 estimate | 1,800 estimate |
| Marina Bay Sands | Singapore | 600 estimate | 2,300 estimate |
| Galaxy Macau | Cotai, Macau | 600 estimate | 1,500 estimate |
| Crown Melbourne | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | 540 estimate | 2,600 estimate |
| Resorts World Sentosa | Singapore | 500 estimate | 2,400 estimate |
| Okada Manila | Manila, Philippines | 500 estimate | 3,000 estimate |
| City of Dreams | Cotai, Macau | 450 estimate | 1,400 estimate |
| Casino de Genting | Genting Highlands, Malaysia | 400 estimate | 3,000 estimate |
| Solaire Resort & Casino | Manila, Philippines | 360 estimate | 1,900 estimate |
| Crown Perth | Perth, Western Australia, Australia | 350 estimate | 2,500 estimate |
Table counts describe installed capacity, not tables open at any given hour. A pit may run a third of its layouts on a quiet weekday morning.
Venues covered in most detail
The Venetian Macao
Cotai, Macau
1,800 slots600 tables2,900 rooms
The Venetian Macao opened in 2007 as the first integrated resort on Cotai and is generally cited as the largest casino in the world by gaming floor…
Bellagio
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
2,300 slots150 tables40 poker3,900 rooms
Bellagio opened on the site of the demolished Dunes in 1998 and set the template for the upmarket Las Vegas resort: a fountain lake across eight…
Marina Bay Sands
Singapore
2,300 slots600 tables20 poker2,560 rooms
Marina Bay Sands opened in 2010 on reclaimed land at the head of Singapore's harbour: three fifty-five-storey hotel towers carrying a 340-metre sky…
Caesars Palace
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
1,300 slots185 tables20 poker3,900 rooms
Caesars Palace opened in 1966 and is the oldest of the large themed resorts still trading on the Strip. Its Roman scheme was unusual at the time for…
Casino de Monte-Carlo
Monte-Carlo, Monaco
100 slots35 tables5 poker
The Casino de Monte-Carlo opened in 1863 and is the building that established the European idea of a casino: a Beaux-Arts palace by Charles Garnier…
The Venetian Resort
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
1,900 slots230 tables25 poker7,000 rooms
The Venetian opened in 1999 on the site of the Sands, and was conceived around convention business as much as leisure: the attached Sands Expo and…
Formats you will meet
A venue’s format is set by the licence it holds, and it predicts the floor better than the brand above the door.
| Format | Venues | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Resort casino | 70 | A gaming floor operated as part of a hotel complex, usually with restaurants, retail, conference space and entertainment venues under the same roof. Resort casinos dominate Las… |
| Urban casino | 33 | A standalone gaming house inside a city, typically without a large attached hotel. European capitals favour this format: the building is often historic, the floor is comparatively… |
| Integrated resort | 20 | A purpose-built complex in which the casino is one element among convention halls, theatres, museums, shopping malls and multiple hotel towers. The model was formalised by… |
| Tribal casino | 9 | In the United States, a casino operated by a federally recognised tribe on tribal land under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988. Tribal properties range from modest bingo… |
| State casino (Spielbank) | 7 | A casino owned or tightly controlled by a regional government, a model used in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Entry rules are stricter than in commercial markets… |
| Locals casino | 4 | A property that targets residents rather than tourists, usually with lower table minimums, larger slot floors, cheaper food and loyalty programmes built around repeat visits. Las… |
From the info library
- How a casino floor is laid out — Sightlines, carpet patterns, machine banks and the placement of cash desks are deliberate decisions. A guide to reading the floor…
- Gambling age and entry rules around the world — Minimum ages range from 18 to 21, and several countries bar their own citizens from their own casinos. What to check before you…
- What a racino is, and why it exists — Racetracks with slot machines became one of the most common casino formats in North America. The reason is legislative, not…
- Macau and Las Vegas compared — The two largest casino markets in the world run on different games, different revenue mixes and different rules. A structural…
- Casino dress codes, region by region — A jacket is expected in Baden-Baden and irrelevant in Las Vegas. What the rules actually are in Europe, Asia, North America and…
- Where the house edge comes from — The advantage is built into the payout table, not into the shuffle. How it is calculated, and why it varies so widely between…