This is a list of Doraemon releases outside of Japan. Doraemon is a popular Japanese manga and anime series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and published by Shogakukan.

Asia

Region	Manga first published	Television series first broadcast	Language	Local name(s)
Hong Kong	First introduced as 叮噹 by the children's magazine Children's Paradise (兒童樂園) in 1976. According to Shogakukan, this was the first release of Doraemon outside Japan. The 45-volume manga series was officially published in 1992.	1982	Cantonese	多啦A夢 (Doh La A Mung). Originally introduced under the name 叮噹 (Ding Dong).
Mainland China	1992	1991	Mandarin Chinese	哆啦A梦 (Duo La A Meng). Previously known as 小叮当 (Xiǎo Dīng Dāng) ("Little Bell", referring to Doreamon's bell around his neck.) or 机器猫 (Jī Qì Māo) "Robotic Cat".
India	No official release	First broadcast in 1991 on STAR TV as 叮噹. First broadcast on a local broadcaster by Hungama TV in 2005.	Hindi (also Mandarin Chinese in 1991)	Doraemon
Indonesia	First published and translated in Indonesian in 1994 by Elex Media Komputindo	First broadcast in 1991 by RCTI	Indonesian	Doraemon
South Korea	1994	2001	Korean	도라에몽 (Revised Romanization: Doraemong)
Malaysia	1993	1992	Malay, Chinese (publications)	Doraemon (Malay, pronounced [do.re.mon]), 小叮当 (Chinese)
Philippines	Doraemon was first published by JLINE COMICS CENTER and translated in tagalog in 2007	2000	Tagalog, Cebuano, Waray, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Chavacano and Bicolano	The character Jaian is known as Damulag (literally "big person" or "big kid" in Filipino). Doraemon is pronounced as "do-REI-mon".
Singapore	1997	1992	Chinese (publications), English (broadcasts)	哆啦A梦 (Chinese), Doraemon (Malay). The previous Chinese name 小叮当 is also used.
Taiwan	1970s as 小叮噹 (unlicensed, introduced after publication in Hong Kong). Licensed publication in 1993.	1996	Mandarin Chinese	哆啦A夢. Previously known as 小叮噹.
Thailand	1970s (unlicensed), 1994 (licensed)	1982	Thai	โดราเอมอน, โดเรมอน
Vietnam	1992 (unlicensed), 1996 (licensed)	2000	Vietnamese	Đôrêmon

The Doraemon 2005 series will be aired on Nickelodeon in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia in August 2009.

Europe

Country	First Published in	First Broadcast in
Cyprus	1994
France		2003 by Fox Kids
Portugal		Sometime in the 1990s by Canal Panda in Spanish with subtitles and by RTP1 dubbed in Portuguese
Italy	2005	1982
Russia		1990 with Japan Foundation
Spain	1994	1993 by Euskal Telebista, Canal Sur, TVG and other autonomical televisions (FORTA)

• In Italy, there are several popular theme songs, including DORAEMON gatto spaziale (Doraemon the space cat) sung by Oliver Onions and "A me mi piacerebbe un robot che farebbe i compiti miei"(Me would like a robot to do my homework, with intended grammatical mistakes), sung by Nora Orlandi .
• In Spain, Doraemon is translated into five languages including Euskera, Catalan and Galician in addition to Spanish. The first Doraemon film was televised in 2000.

Middle East

The Old 1970s Doraemon TV series was broadcast from 1995 for some years on a few TV channels. However it has no great popularity, except with local otaku who have an interest in Japan.

Doraemon in Arabic: ("Abqoor" عبقور, which means a mini Brilliant)

• Algeria
• Libya
• Oman
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• Tunisia
• United Arab Emirates

North America

In North America, Viz Media is the master licensor for the series. There is a Doraemon webpage that can be seen on the "shows" section of their website. Unfortunately, like all other Fujiko Fujio properties, it never had an English release. They also had plans to publish the manga in English in the early 1990s, but it was never released in time, and the license was eventually dropped.

South America

In some Latin American countries, the show was called El Gato Cósmico (The Cosmic Cat) and the cat's name was Cósmico (Cosmic), yet sometimes named Doraemon.

Doraemon has been broadcast until the present in

• Argentina,
• Chile,
• Costa Rica,
• Dominican Republic,
• Colombia under the Gato Cósmico title and Mexican Spanish dubbing, and
• Ecuador broadcasted by Ecuavisa

Doraemon was broadcast for some years from 1982 in

• Brazil,
• Bolivia,
• Panama,
• Puerto Rico, and
• Venezuela.

References

• 小学館：藤子・F・不二雄ワンダーランド ぼくドラえもん, vol. 9
• Doraemon's tagalog version