In which city is Telegram headquartered?

Telegram is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The company’s development team has been based in Dubai since 2017, and the city serves as Telegram’s operational center.

Telegram’s corporate arrangements can make this answer seem less straightforward. The company is registered through entities in multiple jurisdictions, including the British Virgin Islands and Dubai. Its distributed data centers are also located in different countries, so the location of its servers is not the same as the location of its headquarters.

Another common mix-up is Berlin. Telegram’s team temporarily treated Berlin as its headquarters in 2014, but immigration and residence-permit difficulties led the organization to move elsewhere. Telegram later established its base in Dubai, where its development team remains based.