RankRanger: Google Featured Snippets Expand To More European Search Results

A month ago, Pete Meyers from Moz asked if featured snippets are on other Google search results outside of the US. Gary Illyes from Google responded on Twitter saying he believes it is only available in about 10 additional locales.

@dr_pete unless my memory fools me, it's US and 10 additional locale

— Gary Illyes (@methode) March 5, 2016

Yesterday, RankRanger reported that Google has just expanded showing featured snippets to several more European countries including France, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Here is the RankRanger chart:

Here is another chart showing how often the featured snippet box shows by region:

I did email Google to confirm what Gary said above, but did not hear back yet.

Forum discussion at Twitter.