ExpressVPN's Biggest Network Expansion: 214 Locations Across 113 Countries

ExpressVPN has pushed out what it calls its biggest network expansion to date: 214 server locations across 113 countries, all live in the standard app. It's a headline number, but the more useful story is where the new coverage lands and what a denser map does — and doesn't — do for your connection.

What's new on the map

The expansion adds locations in places most VPNs simply don't reach — Nuuk (Greenland), Lagos (Nigeria), Doha (Qatar), Valencia (Spain), and Manchester (UK) among them. Just as important is the deeper coverage in markets people actually use most:

• United States — all 50 states
• United Kingdom — 7 cities
• Australia — 7 cities
• Japan — 4 cities

More cities inside a country you already connect to matters more than it sounds. It's the difference between "a US server" and a server in the specific state or metro closest to you, which is what actually moves latency and helps you route around a congested node.

Why more locations help (and where they don't)

ExpressVPN frames three benefits, and they're worth separating from the marketing:

• Lower latency — connecting to a server physically closer to you shortens the round trip. This is the real win of a denser map: proximity, not the raw location count.
• More regional options — switching between nearby cities or regions lets you dodge a congested server or pick the exit that behaves best for a given service.
• Precision for the task — travelling, streaming, gaming, or working remotely each favour a different exit point, and 214 locations give you finer control over which one.

The honest caveat: a bigger number on the box doesn't automatically make your connection faster. Speed is dominated by the distance to the server, the load on it, and your own ISP — so the benefit is real only when the new location is genuinely closer or less crowded than what you were using. The value here is choice and proximity, not the headline figure itself.

The privacy layer hasn't changed

Every new location runs on TrustedServer, ExpressVPN's RAM-only architecture. Because the servers hold nothing on a disk, each reboot wipes them by design — there's no persistent place for data to accumulate. Paired with the no-activity-logs, no-connection-logs policy, that's the part of this announcement that carries the most weight, and it's the piece independent auditors have repeatedly checked: PwC, Cure53, and KPMG have all assessed ExpressVPN's infrastructure and no-logs claims.

For a network expansion, that consistency is the point. Adding 200-plus locations is only reassuring if every one of them is held to the same standard — and here they are.

How to get the new locations

There's nothing to configure. To see the expanded network:

1. Update the ExpressVPN app to the latest version.
2. Open the location picker.
3. Connect to the city, country, or region you want.

Existing users get the new locations through the normal update — no reinstall, no new subscription.

Should you care?

If you already run ExpressVPN, this is a free upgrade to your options: update the app and you'll likely find a closer or quieter exit than the one you've been defaulting to. If you're weighing ExpressVPN against rivals, the takeaway isn't the location count on its own — plenty of providers inflate that — but the combination of broad, city-level coverage with RAM-only, independently audited servers. That pairing is harder to find than a big map.

For the full picture on speed, apps, and pricing, see our ExpressVPN review, and for how it stacks up against the field, our best VPN services in 2026.

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