Once widely distributed according to fossil paleontological evidence it is one of the most widespread canid species in the world, with large territories in Central Europe Eastern Europe North Africa and parts of Asia Burma, India Its range is now expanding rapidly in Western Europe.
It survived in remote, often desert areas but it is not a species only adapted to hot countries; it was common in the Paleolithic in the Caucasus and like the hyena and the common genet
In Europe, current populations are centered in 5 areas in Southeast Europe in the Caucasus, southern Greece and the island of Samos and more recently around the Baltic Sea. Its recent expansion.