Port Arthur
Port Arthur, Texas Is the home to a very fast-growing Mardi Gras celebration. It began in 1992.
San Diego
As of 2005, there is a corporate sponsored party in the Gaslamp Quarter of downtown San Diego.
San Luis Obispo
Mardi Gras celebrations have been controversial in recent years, with leaders of this Central California city calling for an end to public celebrations in 2005. Civic and university leaders hope to end the event as a state-wide party destination for students. See San Luis Obispo Mardi Gras controversy.
Caribbean
Mardi Gras  masks, Jacmel, Haiti.
In the Caribbean, Carnival is celebrated on a number of islands: Aruba, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Trinidad and Tobago are some of the celebrants.

Mexico
In Mexico, there are big Carnival celebrations every year in Mazatl which has "The third largest Mardi Gras in the world", and Veracruz, which that include the election of a queen and street parades. There is also a week-long Carnival or Mardi Gras celebration in MeridaYucatan.
Belgium
In Binche the "Mardi Gras" is the most important day of the year and the summit of the Carnival of Binche. Around 1000 Gilles are dancing through the city from 4.00 AM to late hours on traditional carnival songs. In 2003, the Carnival of Binche was proclaimed one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
Italy
Carnival is celebrated in much of Italy. That in Venice is one of the most famous in the world, along with that of Rio and New Orleans. See: Carnival of Venice
Argentina
Carnival is celebrated in several Argentinean cities in the subtropical northeast. Carnival in Buenos Aires is notable for the dancing murga troupes.
Uruguay
Montevideo hosts a large and lively Carnival, especially in its southern barrios.
Panama
Carnival is celebrated in several Panamanian cities such as Las Tablas, Ocu, Chitre, Penonom and Panama City. Carnival in this country is characterized by the soaking of people mainly via the use of water trucks and hoses. The celebrations tend to last through a four day holiday weekend.
Slovenia
In Slovenia is called Kurentovanje. Its from word Kurent and its a name of the mask, made of sheep skin, richly decorated and they make noise with bells attached on hips. Its also traditional to eat doughnuts.
Sweden
In Sweden this is called Fettisdagen. It comes from the word "fett" (fat) and "tisdag" (tuesday). Originally, this was the only day one should eat "Semlor" (Semla) (fat tuesday buns), but these are now found in most grocery stores and bakeries preceding the holiday, and up until easter.
Mardi Gras in popular culture
• Mardi Gras is integral to the plot of the Jem episode "Mardi Gras".
• In the video game Hitman: Blood Money, 47 has to kill three assassins during Carnival in New Orleans.
• New Orleans during Carnival season is a playable level in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2.
• Bam Margera and his friends visit New Orleans in a Season 2 episode of Viva La Bam.
• New Orleans during Carnival is a destination in the 1969 movie "Easy Rider".
• An episode of The Jamie Kennedy Experiment was filmed on Johnny White's Bourbon Street balcony during Carnival.
• The Simpson's Spinoff Showcase, a special episode of The Simpsons, features a segment set at the time of Mardis Gras in New Orleans
• Paul Simon's album, There Goes Rhymin' Simon features a song called 'Take Me to the Mardis Gras'.