List of American military installations

This is a list of military installations owned or used by the Department of Defense both in the United States and around the world. This list details only current or recently closed facilities; some defunct facilities are found at Category:Former military installations of the United States.

Map of US Military Bases within the continental United States
Foreign bases of the United States

A military installation is the basic administrative unit into which the U.S. Department of Defense groups its infrastructure, and is statutorily defined as any "base, camp, post, station, yard, center, or other activity under the jurisdiction ... [or] operational control of the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Defense."[1] An installation or group of installations may, in turn, serve as a base, which DOD defines as "a locality from which operations are projected or supported."[2]

The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024).[2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area.[3] Most of foreign military installations are located in NATO countries, Middle East countries, South Korea, Australia, and Japan.

U.S. officials have been accused of collaborating with oppressive regimes and anti-democratic governments to secure their military bases, from Central America to the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.[4] The Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five current non-democratic U.S. base hosts as fully "authoritarian governments".[4] Military bases in non-democratic states were often rationalized during the Cold War by the U.S. as a necessary if undesirable condition in defending against the communist threat posed by the Soviet Union. Few of these bases have been abandoned since the end of the Cold War.[5]

Several rounds of closures and mergers have occurred since the end of World War II, a procedure most recently known as Base Realignment and Closure. Anti-racist agitation in the early 2020s led to calls for changing bases to remove the names of Confederate figures who fought against the Union during the American Civil War.[6] The Naming Commission was created by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021,[7] and renaming began in December 2022.[8]

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Domestic joint bases

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United States Army

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The following is a list of domestic U.S. Army installations, organized by the U.S. state or territory that hosts it. For consistency, major Army National Guard (ARNG) training facilities are included but armory locations are not.[9] In addition, the abbreviation "USAR" indicates when an installation is affiliated with the U.S. Army Reserve.

See the list of former United States Army installations for inactive domestic U.S. Army installations.

Alabama army bases

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Ohio army bases

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South Carolina army bases

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Tennessee army bases

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Texas army bases

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Utah army bases

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Vermont army bases

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Virginia army bases

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Washington army bases

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West Virginia army bases

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Wisconsin army bases

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Wyoming army bases

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United States Marine Corps

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United States Navy

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California naval bases

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Florida naval bases

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Guam naval bases

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Washington, D.C. naval bases

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United States Air Force

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Maps of the main bases of the USAF in the 2010s, before the transfer of several sites to the USSF.

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Arkansas air force bases

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California air force bases

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Iowa

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Washington air force bases

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Washington, D.C., air force bases

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West Virginia air force bases

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Wisconsin air force bases

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Wyoming air force bases

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United States Space Force

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United States Coast Guard

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Foreign bases and facilities

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Countries with United States military bases and facilities as of 2026

Australia

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Bahamas

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Bahrain

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Belgium

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Bulgaria

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Cameroon

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Canada

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Cuba

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Djibouti

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Germany

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Greece

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Greenland (Denmark)

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Honduras

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Israel

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Italy

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Iraq

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Japan

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Jordan

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Kenya

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Kosovo

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Kuwait

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Marshall Islands

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Poland

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Portugal

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Qatar

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Romania

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Saudi Arabia

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Singapore

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South Korea

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Spain

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Turkey

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See also

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References

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