Editing Lions Clubs International (section)

== Expansion ==

[[Image:HK Lion International at the Peak of HK island.jpg|thumb|International Lions Club Hong Kong.|left]]
[[File:Lions Club Involvement Map.svg|thumb|right|300px|Map showing Lions Clubs involvement around the globe.]]
[[File:Chicago February 1970.tif|thumb|Lions International Building visible in Chicago in 1970.]]
The organization expanded internationally on 12 March 1920, when a club opened in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. In 1937 the club expanded to San Juan in Puerto Rico.<ref name="Puerto Rico Office of Historian 1949">{{cite book | author=Puerto Rico. Office of Historian | title=Tesauro de datos historicos: indice compendioso de la literatura histórica de Puerto Rico, incluyendo algunos datos inéditos, periodísticos y cartográficos | publisher=Impr. del Gobierno de Puerto Rico|issue=v. 2 | year=1949 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVRnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA153| language=es | access-date=4 January 2020 | page=153}}</ref> Currently Lions Clubs operate in more than 200 countries and have over 1.4 million members.<ref name="factsheet">{{cite web |url=http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/common/pdfs/pr799.pdf |title=PR799 EN Fact Sheet |access-date=2014-04-08 |date=May 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140704204750/http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/common/pdfs/pr799.pdf |archive-date=July 4, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

[[Saudi Arabia]] was one of the last countries without a Lions Club. The first Chartered Club in Saudi was founded by a [[Filipinos|Filipino]] group from [[Batangas]] in the year 2019. The club was named '''''Batangas-Saudi 101 Lions Club'''''.